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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fono joint conference committee last Friday agreed to the government’s budget of more than $500 million for fiscal year 2022 — which begins Oct. 1, 2021 — as submitted by the Lemanu Administration without making any changes to the original language of the proposed...

![Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean (left) and House Speaker Savali Talavou Ale during last Friday’s Fono Joint Budget Committee conference for final discussion and passage of the government’s fiscal year 2022 budget plan. [photo: FS] Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean (left) and House Speaker Savali Talavou Ale](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fono_leaders.jpg?itok=F-D_FKoH)