HR260-119

What This Bill Does

The No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act makes Taliban-related aid oversight a recurring State Department obligation. It declares U.S. policy to oppose foreign countries and nongovernmental organizations providing foreign assistance or material support to the Taliban, especially when those countries or organizations receive U.S. foreign assistance. It requires the Secretary of State to identify foreign countries and NGOs that support the Taliban, describe how the Taliban used that support, and develop a strategy to discourage such support while helping Afghan women and girls and relocating eligible, fully vetted at-risk Afghans and Afghan allies. It requires implementation reports every 180 days for five years and a separate report on the status and rationale for terminating Rewards for Justice bounties on Sirajuddin Haqqani, Abdul Aziz Haqqani, Yahya Haqqani, and other Haqqani Network members.

Who Benefits and How

House Foreign Affairs Committee staff, House Appropriations Committee staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, Senate Appropriations Committee staff, State Department oversight officials, USAID oversight officials, Treasury officials, Afghan women and girls, at-risk Afghan allies, Afghan minority communities including Hazaras, U.S. taxpayers, and national-security officials benefit from detailed reporting on Taliban support channels, hawala cash-transfer controls, Afghan Fund safeguards, Haqqani Network engagements, and the transfer of unobligated Afghanistan reconstruction balances to deficit reduction.

Who Bears the Burden and How

The Secretary of State, State Department Afghanistan policy staff, USAID program officials, Treasury officials, foreign countries receiving U.S. assistance, NGOs receiving U.S. assistance, Afghan cash-assistance implementing partners, hawala money brokers, Afghan Fund trustees, Da Afghanistan Bank, Taliban officials, Haqqani Network members, and Afghanistan reconstruction program administrators must respond to recurring reports, strategy implementation, funding reviews, anti-diversion controls, possible aid reductions, bounty-status scrutiny, Afghan Fund conditions, and rescission of unobligated reconstruction funds.

Key Provisions

• Requires the Secretary of State to identify foreign countries and NGOs that provide assistance or material support to the Taliban.
• Directs the State Department to develop, implement, and report on a strategy discouraging foreign support to the Taliban while supporting Afghan women and vetted at-risk Afghans.
• Requires reports on U.S.-funded direct cash assistance in Afghanistan, including payment methods, currency exchange, hawalas, oversight, Taliban access prevention, and personal-information protection.
• Requires recurring Afghan Fund reports on Taliban influence at Da Afghanistan Bank, trustee vetting, release conditions, decision rules, and anti-diversion controls.
• Rescinds unobligated Afghanistan reconstruction balances from named funds and transfers them to the Treasury for deficit reduction.
• Provides a Sense of Congress against normalizing relations with the Taliban unless it expels terrorist groups, stops hostage-taking and persecution, and repeals edicts against women, girls, and minorities.