Justine Greening, the International Development Secretary, believes that enabling the country to raise more tax enable to UK Government to scale back aid payments.
The administration and other advocates of aid are trying to maintain support for an international plan to scale back aid gradually, and do so in a way that gives the Afghan government and other institutions plenty of time to adapt.
Unless Congress votes to provide extra money, state officials said, some states may cut off applications in the next month or two and scale back aid for weatherization and summer cooling.
The administration and other advocates of aid are trying to maintain support for an international plan, agreed to last year among the major donor countries to Afghanistan, to scale back aid gradually so that the Afghan government and other institutions have plenty of time to adapt.
Scaling back such aid would have been offset by pledges of $12 billion in support of Egypt's government by wealthy Arab states, such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
In December, Reuters reported, "Upton has called for opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, scaling back government aid for renewable energy and voiced opposition to requiring electric utilities to use alternative energy for some of their power generation".
But amid a financial crisis, the Legislature and the governor, Mark V. Parkinson, a Democrat, began scaling back the amount of aid in 2009.
But just before Christmas, White House officials decided to scale back the aid package to a year and a half of spending, seek 30 Blackhawks immediately, and cut financing for some development programs by about half, officials said.
But perhaps most interesting is what they are not asking them to do: they are not asking the Iranians to curtail their sponsorship of Hezbollah, or to scale back their aid to Assad, or to release any of the American citizens held in their country's prisons, including Jason Rezaian, a correspondent for the Washington Post.
The suspicions have intensified efforts by some members of Congress to scale back American aid to Pakistan, or cut it entirely, as lawmakers described Pakistan as a duplicitous ally undeserving of the billions of dollars it receives each year from Washington.
If the demand for matching dollars is so great that it threatens to overwhelm the fund, the city will have to scale back the aid.
