Saving Lives and Taxpayer Dollars Act
Sponsored By: Senator Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced
Summary
Stops routine destruction of U.S. foreign assistance commodities and makes agencies try to deliver them to intended recipients. It requires expedited funding to move food, medicine, family planning supplies, and vaccines before they spoil and limits when destruction is allowed.
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- Families and vulnerable populations — Aims to increase availability of food, medicine, family planning products, and vaccines for people in disasters, refugee camps, or underserved health settings. Findings note expanded family planning can prevent up to 30 percent of annual maternal deaths and save about 1.4 million children under age five.
- Agencies and implementers — Directs the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Administrator of USAID to release funds quickly to deliver or donate commodities before spoilage and bars destruction unless all feasible sale or donation options are exhausted.
- U.S. farmers and the economy — Notes U.S. global health investments supported about 600,000 U.S. jobs and roughly $104 billion in economic activity from 2007 to 2022.
- Congress and accountability — Requires a report within 90 days and then annually detailing expirations, spoilage or destruction, delivery efforts, reasons delivery failed, beneficiary locations, market value, and costs of destruction.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Prevent destruction of U.S. foreign aid
If enacted, the bill would require U.S.-procured foreign aid items—like medicines, vaccines, medical devices, and food—to be made available to intended beneficiaries before they spoil or expire. It would bar destroying these items unless every feasible effort to sell or donate them has been exhausted. The Secretary of State, Secretary of Agriculture, or USAID Administrator would have to release funds quickly when needed to deliver or donate items at risk of spoiling. Reports to Congress would be due within 90 days of enactment and then annually, listing spoilage or destruction, delivery efforts, locations, value, and destruction costs.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
NH • D
Cosponsors
Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
HI • D
Sponsored 7/10/2025
Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
DE • D
Sponsored 7/29/2025
Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
VA • D
Sponsored 7/29/2025
Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
ME • R
Sponsored 9/11/2025
Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
WA • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA]
CA • D
Sponsored 9/30/2025
Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
AK • R
Sponsored 11/4/2025
Andy Kim
NJ • D
Sponsored 11/4/2025
Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
CO • D
Sponsored 11/6/2025
Tammy Duckworth
IL • D
Sponsored 12/2/2025
Chris Van Hollen
MD • D
Sponsored 12/2/2025
Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
NJ • D
Sponsored 1/28/2026
Sen. Alsobrooks, Angela D. [D-MD]
MD • D
Sponsored 2/3/2026
Roll Call Votes
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