# Selby Tucker Policy Advisor for Budget and Tax at the Office of Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Email signature: > Selby Tucker > Policy Advisor - Budget and Tax > Office of Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders > 870-672-3268 | [email protected] ## The 6/6/2023 Foreign Asset Investment Request Tucker emailed Eric Munson (Chief Deputy Treasurer) and Autumn Sanson (Chief Compliance Officer, Arkansas State Board of Finance) on 6/6/2023 10:10 AM, cc Joseph Givens (Governor's office): > Per our conversation the other day, I think you would be the right people to ask – BUT feel free to re-direct me, as necessary. Could you all please provide us with a list of all investments the state has in foreign assets? > A-He binder, Tucker to Munson + Sanson cc Givens, 6/6/2023 10:10 AM Munson's 1:18 PM same-day response transmitted Steven Kilgore's compiled data showing Treasury foreign-asset exposure as of 5/31/2023: $9.4 billion US (97.3%) and $262 million non-US (2.7%) of approximately $9.7 billion total portfolio. Israel sovereign debt: $44,186,568 (1.0% of total foreign exposure, 0.46% of total portfolio). Other foreign holdings: Canada ($99M commercial paper + $13M), Ireland ($49M commercial paper), Great Britain ($24M), Cayman Islands, Singapore. ## Significance The exchange is the wiki's first documentation of executive-branch oversight inquiry on Treasury foreign holdings. Tucker's 6/6/2023 request preceded the October 2023 Walther $10M Israel Bonds purchase announcement by four months and the post-October 7 multi-state Israel Bonds purchase wave by five months. The Governor's office was tracking foreign exposure prior to the major Israel Bonds purchase activity wave. Tucker is also documented in SBOF distribution lists 2023-2024 as `[email protected]`, indicating she received SBOF agenda materials alongside other state-government members. Whether the 6/6/2023 foreign-asset inquiry was driven by general portfolio-oversight interest or by specific Israel Bonds policy attention is not documented; the inquiry's timing places it in the Lowery interregnum, prior to Walther's appointment. The substantive content of the data Munson transmitted is documented at [[treasury-foia-r2-9-23-25]] under "Sub-batch 3: Selby Tucker (Governor Sanders office) Foreign Asset Investment Request." ## Cross-references [[treasury-foia-r2-9-23-25]] source page [[eric-munson]] Chief Deputy Treasurer who responded to Tucker's request [[steven-kilgore]] Investment Accounting Director who compiled the foreign-asset data [[autumn-sanson]] Chief Compliance Officer addressed in Tucker's original request [[joseph-givens]] Governor's office staffer cc'd on Tucker's request