{"id":17201,"date":"2025-03-05T10:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T10:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17201"},"modified":"2025-03-05T10:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T10:21:16","slug":"us-aid-cut-to-create-sh52-billion-deficit-in-kenyas-2024-2025-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17201","title":{"rendered":"US Aid Cut to Create Sh52 Billion Deficit in Kenya&#8217;s 2024\/2025 Budget."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Untitled-3-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17202\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya&#8217;s 2024\/2025 fiscal budget is set to suffer a <strong>Sh52 billion shortfall<\/strong> following the <strong>United States&#8217; decision to cut USAID funding<\/strong>, Treasury Cabinet Secretary <strong>Mbadi<\/strong> has confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reduction in funding is expected to impact key sectors, including <strong>health, education, and food security<\/strong>, raising concerns about service delivery and economic stability. The government is now exploring alternative funding measures to bridge the gap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya&#8217;s 2024\/2025 fiscal budget is set to suffer a Sh52 billion shortfall following the United States&#8217; decision to cut USAID funding, Treasury Cabinet Secretary Mbadi has confirmed. The reduction in funding is expected to impact key sectors, including health, education, and food security, raising concerns about service delivery and economic stability. The government is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Untitled-3-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17203,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17201\/revisions\/17203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}