HR260-119

What This Bill Does

The House-engrossed No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act directs the Secretary of State to develop and implement, within 180 days after enactment, a strategy discouraging foreign governments and nongovernmental organizations from assisting the Taliban. The strategy must include support for Afghan women and girls without supporting the Taliban and efforts to relocate eligible, fully vetted, at-risk Afghans and Afghan allies from inside or outside Afghanistan to the United States or third countries. This is a required strategy, not a new visa category, guaranteed admission, or specified appropriation. The House text states a policy of reviewing US assistance to outside providers of aid to the Taliban; it does not itself impose the mandatory aid suspension or reconstruction-fund rescission found in the later Senate substitute.

The preferred House text is substantively identical to the referred-to-Senate version. The February 2026 Senate-reported XML displays that House text as struck material followed by a six-section substitute. This analysis distinguishes the preferred House proposal, the introduced baseline, and the Senate-only changes rather than treating all extracted paragraphs as concurrently operative or describing any of these proposals as enacted law.

Who Benefits and How

The House Foreign Affairs and Appropriations Committees and Senate Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees receive recurring information about assistance potentially reaching the Taliban and the safeguards protecting US-funded programs. Federal taxpayers gain oversight of cash transfers and Afghan Fund disbursement controls, although reporting alone does not establish recovered money or measured savings. Afghan women and girls are explicit intended beneficiaries of the strategy, and eligible, fully vetted, at-risk Afghan relocation applicants and Afghan allies gain an express planning and implementation requirement. Cash-assistance recipients and implementing organizations receive some protection from unnecessary identification because the House replaces the introduced list of individual partners and recipients with a general description of their types; an explicit concealment requirement appears only in the Senate substitute. Intended humanitarian beneficiaries may benefit from reduced diversion, but that outcome depends on implementation.

Who Bears the Burden and How

The Department of State bears the strategy, investigation and reporting workload, including a 30-day report concerning changes to Rewards for Justice bounties involving Sirajuddin, Abdul Aziz and Yahya Haqqani, terrorism designations, government engagements and new attack-related information. That report must be unclassified but may have a classified annex; the bill does not itself restore a bounty or make a designation. The Department of the Treasury must consult on Afghan Fund reports covering Da Afghanistan Bank, trustee selection, release conditions and anti-diversion controls. Foreign aid providers that support the Taliban face diplomatic scrutiny and review of US assistance, but the House version does not automatically terminate their aid. Neither cash-transfer reporting nor the hawala definition prohibits use of those money-transfer networks.

Compared with introduction, the House gives State more time, limits recurring reports to five years, uses a to-the-extent-possible qualification for specified information, and removes mandatory consultation with the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The Senate substitute would instead immediately suspend all foreign assistance to a country or nongovernmental organization determined by State to have assisted the Taliban, without an express exception in that provision, and rescind remaining unobligated Afghanistan reconstruction balances in listed accounts. Such restrictions could affect humanitarian organizations and their recipients as well as intended Taliban-related funding channels.

Key Provisions

• Section 2 requires a 180-day outside-assistance report and a strategy developed and implemented within 180 days; the strategy report is due on completion, followed by an implementation report within 180 days and every 180 days thereafter for five years.
• The House adds support for Afghan women and girls and relocation efforts for eligible, fully vetted, at-risk Afghans and Afghan allies. It also adds a separate 30-day Haqqani-network and Rewards for Justice report covering changes and engagements since September 1, 2021.
• Section 3 requires a 90-day report on US-funded direct cash assistance from August 1, 2021 through 30 days after enactment, covering payment methods, currency exchange, hawala transfers and oversight; hawala means a network-based money-transfer system.
• Section 4 requires an Afghan Fund report within 90 days, then every 180 days for five years, with Treasury consultation and information about Taliban influence at Da Afghanistan Bank, trustee vetting, release conditions and controls against misuse.
• House changes from introduction extend the outside-assistance deadline from 30 to 180 days and cash/Fund deadlines from 60 to 90 days, replace indefinite recurring reporting with five-year periods, and remove USAID consultation duties.
• Senate substitute Sections 2-4 omit the explicit Afghan-relocation strategy requirement, add immediate aid suspension upon State's determination, require concealment of cash-recipient personally identifiable information, and rescind unobligated Afghanistan reconstruction funds for Treasury deficit reduction. No numerical rescission amount is stated and obligated balances are not rescinded.
• The Senate account list includes security assistance, Economic Support Fund, migration/refugee assistance, disaster assistance, global health and other named programs. It repeats CERP and the Drug Enforcement Administration, including an inconsistent DFC abbreviation; these drafting repetitions do not justify counting balances twice. Senate Section 5 expresses a nonbinding position against normalizing relations absent counterterrorism, hostage, women's-rights and minority-rights conditions.