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Statement on Emergency Funding for Antidrug Activities

October 28, 1998

I am making an additional $732 million in emergency funding available to support antidrug activities and drug interdiction. These funds were provided in the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, which I signed into law on Wednesday, October 21st.

Of the total amount I am making available, funds are distributed as follows:

  • Department of Agriculture: $23,000,000
  • Department of Defense: $42,000,000
  • Department of Justice: $20,200,000
  • Department of State: $232,600,000
  • Department of Transportation: $133,700,000
  • Department of the Treasury: $277,500,000
  • Office of National Drug Control Policy: $1,200,000
  • Federal Drug Control Programs: $2,000,000

NOTE: H.R. 4328, the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, was assigned Public Law No. 105-277.

William J. Clinton, Statement on Emergency Funding for Antidrug Activities Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/225320

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