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Yes: 426 • No: 425
HR8595119th CongressWALLET
Making appropriations for national security, Department of State, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes.
Sponsored By: Representative Diaz-Balart, Mario [R-FL-26]
Passed House
Summary
This bill focuses on funding for diplomacy, national security, and foreign assistance while adding new voter documentary proof and photo ID rules. It packages multi-year appropriations and program rules for the Department of State, global health, regional security programs, and election eligibility verification into one measure.
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Bill Overview
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43 provisions identified: 22 benefits, 10 costs, 11 mixed.
Big boost for global democracy programs
If enacted, $2.175 billion would be reserved for democracy programs. Funds for the National Endowment for Democracy could move ahead even if other laws or NED rules would limit them. Foreign governments could not screen or approve U.S. implementers or participants, and the Secretary could withhold partner names in new deals with hostile or undemocratic governments.
Big funding for U.S. embassies
The bill would provide $865.6 million to maintain and renovate diplomatic buildings, including the Harry S. Truman Building. The money would be available until September 30, 2031. Up to $25,000 could be used for overseas representation. Funds could not buy furniture, furnishings, or generators for other agencies.
Counter China and build economic resilience
If enacted, at least $400 million would fund efforts to counter PRC influence, with up to 10% held for fast opportunities. At least $1.8 billion would support the Indo‑Pacific Strategy. Up to $1.5 billion could go to an America First Opportunity Fund to respond to crises, engage partners, and counter threats through 2029. An Economic Resilience Initiative would back strategic infrastructure, critical minerals, and digital connectivity, with transfers to Ex‑Im, the Development Finance Corporation, and TDA. Funds would also support Great Lakes regional peace and economic integration, including mining sectors, and boost commercial diplomacy training and mission work.
Global health and disaster aid funding
If enacted, $3.35 billion would fund global health work through September 30, 2029. Up to $200 million could be moved fast to fight a severe international disease outbreak, with up to $50 million kept in an emergency reserve. $5.0 billion would fund disaster relief and refugee help until spent, including at least $6.5 million for refugees resettling in Israel. The State Department would be able to surge crisis staff and would have to collect direct feedback from people served and fund impact evaluations.
Major security aid for key allies
If enacted, at least $3.3 billion in grants would go to Israel, sent within 30 days, with at least $250.3 million for purchases in Israel. Egypt would get at least $1.425 billion if the Secretary certifies it sustains the U.S. partnership and the 1979 peace treaty. Jordan would get at least $1.65 billion, including big budget support and military aid. Taiwan would get at least $500 million in military financing and $4 million for training, with deliveries prioritized and loan support allowed. At least $108 million would fund conflict prevention and stabilization activities.
Minimum funding for food, water, education
If enacted, the bill would set floors for key programs: $691.5 million for basic education, $203.25 million for higher education, $274.313 million for biodiversity, $89.063 million to fight wildlife trafficking, $720 million for food security (with $175 million for agricultural research and $72 million for Innovation Labs), $105.625 million to combat human trafficking, and $338.25 million for water and sanitation (half in sub‑Saharan Africa). The Secretary could lower a floor by up to 20% only for unforeseen emergencies and must report it.
More money to fight fentanyl abroad
If enacted, at least $175 million would fight the flow of fentanyl, its precursors, and other synthetic drugs into the United States. The funds would support law‑enforcement teamwork, capacity building, and international coalitions. Aid for Latin America and the Caribbean would be steered to programs that counter narcotics, protect democracy and human rights, counter authoritarian threats, and cut large migration and trafficking flows.
More police training and defense stocks
If enacted, funds could support community‑based police training on human rights, rule of law, anti‑corruption, and community policing. Security programs would have to increase combat casualty care training and gear compared with last year and offer it with lethal aid unless standards are already met. Up to $900 million could stock the Special Defense Acquisition Fund through September 30, 2029.
Stronger security for U.S. embassies
If enacted, $1.12364 billion would fund worldwide security upgrades and construction for diplomatic posts until spent. Embassy Security funds could also fix gaps at temporary facilities and upgrade soft targets like schools, residences, and places of worship used by U.S. staff and families, after consulting Congress.
More funding for student exchanges
The bill would provide $647 million for educational and cultural exchanges. At least $287.8 million would go to the Fulbright Program. Program fees from English teaching, advising, and exchange visitors could be added to this account and would stay available until spent. The State Department would consult Congress within 30 days on how it plans to split the funds by program.
Support for women’s businesses abroad
The bill would set aside $150 million to expand economic programs for women and girls. It would back women‑owned enterprises, property and inheritance rights, access to financial services, and access to capital.
Stricter voter ID and proof
This bill would require you to show documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register for federal elections. For in‑person voting, you would need a valid physical photo ID to get a ballot, or you could cast a provisional ballot and have up to 3 days to show ID or an approved affidavit. For mail or other non‑in‑person ballots, you would need to include a copy of a valid photo ID or give the last four digits of your Social Security number plus a state affidavit saying you tried to get ID. States would be encouraged to offer free digital scanners in government buildings to copy IDs. A uniform affidavit for those without documents would be created.
Limits on global family planning funds
Family planning and reproductive health funding from this bill would be capped at no more than $461 million. The bill would bar funds for abortion as a method of family planning, for involuntary sterilization, and for related research. No money would go to the United Nations Population Fund. Funds under listed accounts would also have to follow the "Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance" rule published January 27, 2026.
Cuts to unused consular and aid money
The bill would permanently pull back prior‑year unobligated funds: $458.1 million from Consular and Border Security Programs, $1.0 billion from International Disaster Assistance, and $385 million from the Millennium Challenge Corporation. It would not pull back any amounts that Congress had marked as emergency spending.
Countering Russia: funding and bans
At least $300 million would go to programs that counter Russian influence, including support for partner security forces. At the same time, the bill would bar funds from assisting Russia’s central government and oppose actions that recognize Russian control of Ukrainian land. Some Foreign Military Financing tied to this effort would remain available until September 30, 2028.
Peace Corps funding and tighter limits
The bill would provide $410.5 million for the Peace Corps through September 30, 2028, including $7.8 million for its Inspector General. The Director could transfer up to $5 million to a foreign currency account. Representation costs would be capped at $104,000 and entertainment at $4,000. None of these funds would be allowed to pay for abortions. The Peace Corps would need to consult Congress before opening, closing, or suspending offices or country programs, except when there is substantial risk to volunteers or staff.
Big payments and new rules for global banks
The bill would fund U.S. payments to development banks, including $503.973 million for the World Bank’s IDA and $139.575 million for the Global Environment Facility. It would provide $43.61 million for the Asian Development Fund, $32.417 million paid‑in to the African Development Bank plus up to $856.175 million in callable capital, $67.5 million for the EBRD, and $30 million each for the Inter‑American Investment Corporation and IFAD. It would add $50 million for Treasury international assistance, which could cover loan guarantee costs. At the same time, payments would be barred if a U.S. executive director’s total pay exceeds federal limits. U.S. representatives would be directed to push human‑rights and anti‑corruption checks, public beneficial‑ownership data, and to oppose lending that benefits the People’s Republic of China or comprehensively sanctioned countries. Treasury would report within 120 days on prior‑year funding to those countries and certify certain conditions before some Inter‑American Development Bank funds are used.
Limits on government‑funded online speech actions
The bill would bar funds for activities meant to deplatform, deboost, demonetize, suppress, or otherwise penalize lawful online speech in the U.S., or to induce platforms or foreign governments to do so. Agencies would have to file unclassified reports within 60 days and then every 120 days until September 30, 2027, listing covered grants and contracts. Separately, counter‑propaganda funds could only target foreign actors abroad and could not label U.S. independent news media as disinformation, censor U.S. content, or steer advertisers away from U.S. outlets.
Stronger anti‑corruption and rights checks
Foreign officials and their immediate family members would be denied entry to the U.S. if there is credible information they took part in major corruption or gross human‑rights abuses. U.S. payments to the United Nations would pause until the U.N. pledges not to use immunities to shield serious crimes like terrorism or corruption. The bill would also bar any funds from supporting or justifying torture. Sanctions could not be lifted for people with credible child‑trafficking allegations unless the Secretary of State certifies, 60 days in advance, that doing so is needed for U.S. national security.
Limits on U.S. financing that hurts producers
The bill would stop U.S. funds and export finance from helping build or expand foreign export production of a commodity if it would likely be in surplus and would cause substantial injury to U.S. producers. The Export‑Import Bank Board could allow an exception only if benefits to the U.S. outweigh the harm and it notifies Congress. It would still allow certain food‑security work, research that mainly helps U.S. producers, and projects in some low‑income or post‑conflict countries.
Aid to Mexico tied to drugs and water
Half of Title IV aid for Mexico would be held back until the Secretary of State certifies progress over the last 12 months against fentanyl and other synthetic drugs, criminal groups, extraditions, and cooperation. Separately, aid to Mexico would pause until the Secretary certifies Mexico is delivering treaty water owed to the United States and reports any shortfalls. If Mexico fails on water deliveries, withheld funds could be moved to the North American Development Bank for U.S. border water storage projects. The water rule would not apply to counternarcotics funds.
Aid to Nigeria tied to anti‑violence steps
All Title III and IV funds for Nigeria’s central government would be held until the Secretary of State certifies that Nigeria is preventing and responding to violence, holding perpetrators accountable, supporting victims and displaced people, and enabling safe return and reconstruction. Funds would be provided on a cost‑matching basis to the maximum extent practicable for prevention, humanitarian, and justice activities.
Iran aid and IRGC limits
The bill would bar funds to implement any Iran nuclear agreement that violates the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015. It would also block funds to entities under U.N. or U.S. sanctions related to Iran. The IRGC would remain designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization; no funds could be used to revoke that designation.
New guardrails on who gets U.S. aid
Most aid would be blocked for any central government that refuses to extradite people the U.S. seeks for the most serious crimes, with some humanitarian and security exceptions. Aid would be barred for governments in default on U.S. loans for more than one year unless the President finds it serves the national interest. Funds would be restricted for governments that supply lethal equipment to states that support terrorism, for governments that grant terrorists sanctuary or support terrorism, and for the Taliban. Military education and training would require reimbursement under the cited law. Direct government‑to‑government aid over $7 million would require prior consultation and notification, with suspensions if there is credible misuse and a ban on using funds to pay debt to certain international banks or to China.
No funding for global climate funds
The bill would bar U.S. contributions to the Green Climate Fund, the Clean Technology Fund, and any Loss and Damages Fund, and it would not pay compensation for climate‑related loss or damage. It would also bar funds to implement the Paris Agreement or to support a carbon tax.
Tighter limits on Palestinian aid
The bill would bar assistance to the Palestinian Authority under a listed law, with a narrow national‑security waiver that lasts no more than six months at a time and not beyond 12 months after enactment. It would bar funds for salaries of Palestinian Authority staff in Gaza and block assistance to Hamas, Hamas‑controlled entities, and the PLO, with a narrow certified exception for a power‑sharing government. It would also bar aid for a Palestinian state unless the Secretary of State certifies strong commitments to peace with Israel and counterterrorism, while allowing aid to help reforms that meet those tests. No money could support the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation.
Tighter limits tied to China
This bill would bar assistance to the government of China and the Chinese Communist Party, and block funds that directly support forced labor or grave abuses. It would ban funding for projects that support China’s Belt and Road Initiative or dual‑use infrastructure. It would also stop funds for PRC‑developed tech unless the State Department decides it would not harm U.S. national security. No money would go to listed labs such as the Wuhan Institute of Virology or EcoHealth Alliance, or to gain‑of‑function research.
Limits and conditions on Lebanon aid
Funds would be barred for Lebanon’s ISF or LAF if either is controlled by a designated foreign terrorist group. After consultation, some aid could still support stability in areas affected by the Syria conflict. Foreign Military Financing for the LAF would be limited to professionalizing the force, border security, counterterrorism, and carrying out U.N. Resolution 1701, and a spend plan would be required before using those funds.
More Cuba democracy aid and tougher rules
If enacted, at least $35 million would support democracy and civil society in Cuba. $35 million would fund U.S. broadcasting to Cuba, with daily programming reaching all provinces. The State Department would list countries and groups that pay Cuba for coerced medical labor; if listed two years in a row, aid to them would be barred unless payments stop.
New rules for exchange visitors and vetting
If enacted, the Exchange Visitor Program could only be changed by formal rulemaking after at least 30 days of consultation. The State Department would have to consult Congress before starting or changing partner‑vetting programs and could limit or end awards based on vetting. At least $15 million would fund forensic help to fight human trafficking. Up to $50 million in expired Diplomatic Programs funds could be moved for extraordinary protection of foreign missions and officials.
Stricter money handling for foreign aid
New bilateral aid deals would have to state that U.S. assistance is tax‑exempt or will be reimbursed. If a foreign government taxes U.S. aid in 2027 and does not repay by September 30, 2028, the U.S. would withhold 200% of those taxes from 2028 funds, with a small de minimis exception. Money from this bill would not stay available past the fiscal year unless the bill says so, though the Secretary of State could extend certain State‑designated funds by one year with notice. The bill would define “program, project, and activity” for oversight and stop agencies from pledging future‑year funding unless they follow the report’s rules.
Stricter rules for foreign mining aid
Title III funds could not support mineral extraction projects until the Secretary of State certifies that comparable mining is allowed in parts of the U.S. as it was before 2023. This restriction would not apply to U.S. entities. U.S. representatives at international financial institutions would be told to oppose extraction projects in countries that hide company payments or lack independent audits and public agreement disclosure, unless the aid helps build those transparency systems.
Stricter vetting of West Bank and Gaza aid
For fiscal year 2027, the State Department would need to certify 30 days before first obligating West Bank and Gaza funds that auditors can access U.S. financial records. It would require vetting to block aid to anyone tied to terrorism and would bar funds to honor terrorists or to schools named after them. Security aid would be withheld until the Secretary reports on benchmarks, compliance, and steps to end torture. Annual audits of grantees would be required, and up to $1.4 million could support Inspector General work. Separately, any entity that fails for 90 days to give requested oversight information to U.S. Inspectors General about Gaza programs, the October 7, 2023 attacks, or support to sanctioned groups would lose funding from this and prior Acts.
Tighter oversight of foreign aid spending
If enacted, country and program amounts listed in the bill’s tables would become minimums, with limited deviation rules and notifications. The President would have to notify Congress before using Enterprise Funds and submit plans before distributing assets or shifting to private equity. NGOs and contractors would need to provide records for audits, and many reports would be posted online within 45 days unless exempt. Agencies would face stricter reprogramming and operating‑plan rules, and State must use separate local‑currency accounts and give spend plans for named programs. State would also certify that bureaus handling funds meet grants and financial rules or submit a fix plan.
More places to get passports
The bill would provide $533 million to cut passport backlogs and visa wait times. The State Department could let State officials and the U.S. Postal Service collect and keep the passport execution fee. In fiscal year 2027, qualifying public libraries could also serve as acceptance facilities and keep the execution fee if they follow State rules. This could make it easier to find a nearby place to apply.
Repatriation loans for Americans abroad
If enacted, $3.75 million would cover the cost of repatriation loans for U.S. citizens abroad. Up to $7.2486 million in loan principal could be obligated under this program.
Enforce Iran sanctions and curb nukes
If enacted, funds would back efforts to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapons capability and to enforce related sanctions. The Secretary of State, with Treasury, would report on sanctions status within 180 days.
Funding for global internet freedom
If enacted, at least $78.375 million would fund programs that promote internet freedom worldwide.
More fee income for diplomacy programs
If enacted, up to $5 million in program fees and up to $15,000 from Blair House reimbursements would be credited to Diplomatic Programs. These amounts would stay available until spent.
More flexibility for Food for Peace
For fiscal year 2027, Food for Peace aid would not be limited by other statutory constraints in this bill or any other law. Title I funds would still require the usual notifications to Congress and could not go to terrorism supporters or serious human rights violators.
More support for religious freedom
If enacted, at least $50 million would fund programs for international religious freedom. The Ambassador‑at‑Large would oversee these funds and focus on countries of particular concern. Humanitarian aid would also serve persecuted ethnic and religious minorities, including genocide victims.
Wider exemptions for democracy and humanitarian aid
The bill would expand exceptions to a standing aid restriction so certain help can proceed. These exceptions would cover democracy support, non‑proliferation aid, Trade and Development Agency projects, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation and Export‑Import Bank financing, and humanitarian assistance.
More flexible use of State aircraft
State‑funded aircraft could be reassigned to other programs and regions if the Secretary of State reports they are no longer needed where first used and notifies Appropriations. Recipient countries would, when practical, cover operations and maintenance costs, including fuel. In 2027, small unmanned aircraft under 55 pounds would be exempt from a listed statutory restriction.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Diaz-Balart, Mario [R-FL-26]
FL • R
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
house vote • 7/15/2026
On Motion to Recommit
Yes: 209 • No: 216
house vote • 7/15/2026
On Passage
Yes: 217 • No: 209