National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill funds fiscal year 2026 national-security, State Department, and related-program accounts and carries many foreign-assistance riders. It requires departments and agencies funded by the Act to provide quarterly accountings to the Appropriations Committees of unobligated and obligated but unexpended balances. It sets conditions for embassy security, construction, interim facilities, soft-target security upgrades, and consultation with Congress, while barring use of funds to move the U.S. embassy in Israel away from Jerusalem or open another U.S. diplomatic facility in Jerusalem outside the embassy.
The bill restricts assistance to the governments of Cuba, North Korea, and Iran; suspends most assistance to governments whose elected head is deposed by military coup unless democratic government returns or the Secretary waives the restriction for national security; requires a multi-year foreign-assistance effectiveness strategy and beneficiary feedback collection; and preserves long-standing abortion, involuntary-sterilization, and biomedical-research funding restrictions. It adds detailed oversight for West Bank-Gaza assistance, requiring State certification that GAO can access financial information, and provides at least $94 million for global internet freedom programs. It also directs U.S. policy at the International Monetary Fund to seek repayment before private or multilateral creditors and carries restrictions or conditions involving Palestinian Authority entities, Israel, UNRWA, UN bodies, EcoHealth Alliance, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Green Climate Fund, and other named recipients or programs.
Who Benefits and How
State Department embassy-security staff benefit from construction, local-guard, interim-facility, and soft-target security authorities. Congressional appropriations committees benefit from quarterly balances reports, prior consultation, and notification procedures. Democracy promotion NGOs, internet-freedom technology developers, religious-freedom programs, women's economic empowerment organizations, and international basic education programs benefit where the bill preserves or directs funding. Government of Israel officials benefit from Jerusalem embassy restrictions and several assistance-protection provisions. U.S. businesses operating abroad and commercial-diplomacy users benefit from foreign-assistance and diplomacy programs that support U.S. strategic interests.
Who Bears the Burden and How
State Department and USAID program managers must comply with quarterly reporting, construction consultation, foreign-assistance strategy, monitoring, beneficiary feedback, and country- or program-specific restrictions. Governments of Cuba, North Korea, Iran, coup-installed governments, Palestinian Authority entities, Hamas-linked entities, and foreign governments refusing extradition can lose or face restrictions on U.S. assistance. West Bank-Gaza assistance recipients face GAO-access certification and financial-oversight conditions. International family-planning organizations, foreign NGOs providing abortion services, UNRWA, the United Nations Secretariat, EcoHealth Alliance, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Green Climate Fund, and Clean Technology Fund face funding restrictions or prohibitions. U.S. executive directors at international financial institutions must pursue specified voting or repayment positions.
Key Provisions
- Requires quarterly accountings of unobligated and unexpended balances by funded departments and agencies.
- Provides embassy-security and construction authorities while requiring congressional consultation and notification.
- Bars direct assistance or Export-Import Bank support for the governments of Cuba, North Korea, and Iran.
- Restricts assistance to governments installed by military coup unless statutory conditions or waivers apply.
- Requires a multi-year strategy to improve foreign-assistance effectiveness and collect beneficiary feedback.
- Prohibits funding for abortion, involuntary sterilization, and related biomedical research under specified foreign-assistance accounts.
- Requires West Bank-Gaza assistance certification giving GAO access to financial information.
- Provides at least $94 million for global internet freedom programs.
- Directs U.S. IMF policy to seek repayment before private or multilateral creditors.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Provides fiscal year 2026 national-security, State Department, foreign-assistance, embassy-security, humanitarian, development, democracy, global-health, internet-freedom, and multilateral-account appropriations with extensive restrictions on coups, abortion and sterilization activities, assistance to hostile governments, West Bank-Gaza oversight, UNRWA, IMF repayment policy, embassy construction, foreign-assistance effectiveness, and congressional reporting.
Key Policy Areas
Appropriations, Foreign Assistance, National Security, Diplomacy, Human Rights, Congressional Oversight
Primary Purpose
Provides fiscal year 2026 national-security, State Department, foreign-assistance, embassy-security, humanitarian, development, democracy, global-health, internet-freedom, and multilateral-account appropriations with extensive restrictions on coups, abortion and sterilization activities, assistance to hostile governments, West Bank-Gaza oversight, UNRWA, IMF repayment policy, embassy construction, foreign-assistance effectiveness, and congressional reporting.
Policy Domains
House resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- State Department embassy-security staff
- Congressional appropriations committees
- Democracy promotion NGOs
- Internet-freedom technology developers
- Religious-freedom programs
- Women economic empowerment organizations
- International basic education programs
- Government of Israel officials
- U.S. businesses operating abroad
Identified Costs
- State Department program managers
- USAID program managers
- Governments of Cuba
- Government of North Korea
- Government of Iran
- Coup-installed governments
- Palestinian Authority entities
- West Bank-Gaza assistance recipients
- International family-planning organizations
- Foreign NGOs providing abortion services
- UNRWA administrators
- United Nations Secretariat officials
- EcoHealth Alliance administrators
- Wuhan Institute of Virology administrators
- Green Climate Fund administrators
- U.S. executive directors at international financial institutions
Legislative Progress
ReportedMr. Diaz-Balart, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following …
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 177.
The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Congressional Appropriations Committees, Counter-narcotics programs, Department of State
Positive-direction: Congressional Appropriations Committees, Counter-narcotics programs, Foreign operations agencies, Office of International Religious Freedom, State Department, State Department aviation programs, State Department employees serving abroad, State Department fragile states programs, US Marine Corps embassy security
Negative-direction: Department of State, Department of State and agencies under Title I, Export-Import Bank, Federal agencies administering foreign assistance, Federal agencies funded by this Act, State Department Middle East programs, State Department and Treasury, State Department and USAID, State Department and USAID financial management, State Department and USAID program managers, State Department and foreign ops agency employees, State Department and foreign ops officials, State Department bureaus managing foreign assistance, State Department commercial diplomacy, State Department facilities, State Department foreign assistance programs, State Department leadership, State Department public affairs, State Department public diplomacy programs, US executive directors at IFIs
Azerbaijan, Countries in default on US loans, Countries non-compliant with child abduction convention
Positive-direction: Azerbaijan, DRC and Rwanda economic development, Egyptian government, Foreign civilian police forces, Government of Israel, Latin American countries cooperating on security priorities, US strategic economic partners, US strategic partners
Negative-direction: Countries in default on US loans, Countries non-compliant with child abduction convention, Countries not meeting democracy/migration criteria, Countries supplying arms to state sponsors of terrorism, Countries supporting Russian annexation, Countries supporting terrorism, Foreign governments receiving US assistance, Foreign governments receiving direct US assistance, Foreign governments refusing extradition, Governments established by military coup, Governments of Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Hamas, Palestinian Authority, Russian government, Taliban government
Afghan women and girls education programs, Burmese civil society organizations, Conflict prevention and stabilization programs
Positive-direction: Afghan women and girls education programs, Burmese civil society organizations, Conflict prevention and stabilization programs, Democracy promotion NGOs, Digital security NGOs, Foreign operations implementers, International basic education programs, NGOs operating in restricted countries, National Endowment for Democracy, Religious freedom advocacy organizations, Women economic empowerment organizations
Negative-direction: EcoHealth Alliance, Foreign NGOs providing abortion services, Humanitarian aid organizations operating in Gaza, International family planning organizations, NGOs receiving foreign assistance funding, West Bank-Gaza assistance recipients
Clean Technology Fund, Global Partnership for Education, Green Climate Fund
Positive-direction: Global Partnership for Education
Negative-direction: Clean Technology Fund, Green Climate Fund, International Monetary Fund, International Organizations receiving US contributions, Multilateral development programs, UN Human Rights Council, UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency), United Nations Population Fund, United Nations Secretariat and affiliated offices
Drug interdiction contractors, Economic development contractors, Police training contractors
Burmese ethnic minority communities, Taxpayers, Women entrepreneurs in developing countries
Global health programs (malaria, TB, child survival), Global health security programs
Development Assistance recipients, Foreign agricultural development projects
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "gao"
- → Government Accountability Office
- "imf"
- → International Monetary Fund
- "state"
- → Department of State
- "unrwa"
- → United Nations Relief and Works Agency
- "usaid"
- → United States Agency for International Development
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