Title 22 › CHAPTER 38 — DEPARTMENT OF STATE › § 2704
The Secretary of State can pay subsistence expenses, even if section 5702 of title 5 would normally limit that. This covers two groups: special agents on authorized protective missions (whether at their duty station or away) and members of the Foreign Service and Department employees who must spend unusually long amounts of time traveling. The same authority is available to the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development for their agencies. The rule about long travel (the second group) applies to those agencies only when the people are Foreign Service members or agency employees doing security-related work overseas.
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22 U.S.C. § 2704
Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse
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Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102