Saving Lives and Taxpayer Dollars Act
Sponsored By: Representative Meeks
Introduced
Summary
Would prioritize delivering U.S.-procured aid goods to beneficiaries before they spoil. This bill would add rules to the Foreign Assistance Act requiring expedited funding and delivery, bar destruction of perishable and nonperishable aid unless all donation or sale options are exhausted, and mandate annual reports to Congress on expired, spoiled, or destroyed items.
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- Beneficiaries overseas: Increases the chance food, medicine, vaccines, and medical devices reach intended recipients before expiration by pushing for donation or expedited delivery.
- U.S. agencies and implementing partners: Would require the State Department, the Department of Agriculture, and USAID to release funds quickly to move commodities and to document efforts before any destruction.
- Congress and taxpayers: Agencies must send annual reports to appropriations and foreign affairs committees listing each spoiled or destroyed commodity, efforts made to save it, its purpose, locations of intended recipients, value, and disposal costs.
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Deliver foreign aid before it spoils
If enacted, this would make food, medicine, vaccines, and medical devices reach people before they expire. Agencies and aid partners would have to donate or deliver items, not destroy them. Destruction would be allowed only after every effort to sell, donate, or otherwise make them available. If an aid partner holds the goods, State, USDA, or USAID would quickly release needed funds to deliver them. Within 90 days of enactment, and each year after, State would report any expired, spoiled, or destroyed items to Congress.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Meeks
NY • D
Cosponsors
Frankel, Lois
FL • D
Sponsored 7/17/2025
Meng
NY • D
Sponsored 7/17/2025
Amo
RI • D
Sponsored 7/17/2025
Jacobs
CA • D
Sponsored 7/17/2025
Nadler
NY • D
Sponsored 7/17/2025
Williams (GA)
GA • D
Sponsored 7/17/2025
DelBene
WA • D
Sponsored 7/21/2025
McGovern
MA • D
Sponsored 7/29/2025
Jackson (IL)
IL • D
Sponsored 7/29/2025
Dean (PA)
PA • D
Sponsored 7/29/2025
Brownley
CA • D
Sponsored 8/5/2025
McBride
DE • D
Sponsored 8/26/2025
Jayapal
WA • D
Sponsored 8/26/2025
Goldman (NY)
NY • D
Sponsored 9/3/2025
Olszewski
MD • D
Sponsored 9/9/2025
Fletcher
TX • D
Sponsored 9/19/2025
Pettersen
CO • D
Sponsored 10/3/2025
Smith (WA)
WA • D
Sponsored 10/10/2025
Cherfilus-McCormick
FL • D
Sponsored 11/4/2025
Moulton
MA • D
Sponsored 11/4/2025
Tlaib
MI • D
Sponsored 11/4/2025
Pocan
WI • D
Sponsored 11/4/2025
Cohen
TN • D
Sponsored 11/10/2025
Beyer
VA • D
Sponsored 11/12/2025
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
Sponsored 11/12/2025
Hayes
CT • D
Sponsored 11/17/2025
Carson
IN • D
Sponsored 11/17/2025
Lieu
CA • D
Sponsored 11/17/2025
Torres (CA)
CA • D
Sponsored 11/17/2025
Quigley
IL • D
Sponsored 11/18/2025
Titus
NV • D
Sponsored 11/25/2025
McCollum
MN • D
Sponsored 11/25/2025
McClellan
VA • D
Sponsored 11/25/2025
Craig
MN • D
Sponsored 12/1/2025
Horsford
NV • D
Sponsored 12/1/2025
Lynch
MA • D
Sponsored 12/9/2025
Bell
MO • D
Sponsored 1/8/2026
Levin
CA • D
Sponsored 3/12/2026
DeGette
CO • D
Sponsored 4/2/2026
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