KABUL, Afghanistan, April 15 (UPI) -- Afghanistan faces a budget shortfall of about 20 percent of its expenditures, which could lead to a suspension of government workers’ salaries.
Alhaj Muhammad Aqa, director general of the country’s treasury, said the government has $400 million less than the $2.5 billion it was projected to spend in 2014. It comes at a time when foreign funding is drying up and the U.S. Congress approved only half of the $2.1 billion President Barack Obama requested in financial assistance for Afghanistan.