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Defense and Foreign Policy

What this site holds on defense and foreign policy, taken from every part of it: the chapters of Project 2025 assigned to this subject, the actions recorded against those proposals, every order, presidential document, agency rule and public law whose own title carries one of this subject's words, and the measures the chamber voted on that the site already groups under it.

In plain English

This page is about defense and foreign policy.

It gathers what the site holds on it. Parts of the book. Orders and rules. Laws. Votes in Congress.

Most things are here because a word from a short list is in the title. That list is at the foot of the page.

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proposals
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actions recorded
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executive orders
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other documents
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agency rules
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public laws
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measures voted on

What Project 2025 proposes

Every proposal indexed from chapter 4 (Department of Defense), chapter 6 (Department of State), chapter 7 (Intelligence Community), chapter 8 (Media Agencies), chapter 9 (Agency for International Development) and chapter 20 (Department of Veterans Affairs). A proposal in another chapter that touches this subject is not here.

What has happened against those proposals

Actions this site has already recorded against the proposals above, with the note that says how far each one goes. Nothing new is matched here: every pairing is the one on the proposal's own page.

Partly matches

Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8243

  • Prohibit intelligence agencies from monitoring domestic disinformation: partly matches. The order bars every federal department, agency, officer, employee and agent from acting or using federal resources in a way that would unconstitutionally abridge the speech of American citizens, in terms that name the government's work against misinformation, disinformation and malinformation, and it directs the Attorney General to investigate such activity over the previous four years. Being government-wide, it reaches the intelligence agencies. The fit breaks down in that it prohibits conduct that abridges speech rather than monitoring as such, so watching domestic speech without acting on it is not addressed. The order names no intelligence agency and creates no rule specific to the intelligence community, which is where the chapter asks the prohibition to sit.
Recorded against 3 proposals here

Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8339

  • Dismantle the agency's diversity structures and dismiss staff who promote them: partly matches. Executive Order 14151, signed January 20, 2025, orders every agency head within sixty days to terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI and DEIA offices and positions, naming Chief Diversity Officer positions, along with all equity action plans, equity related grants or contracts, and all DEI or DEIA performance requirements for employees, contractors and grantees, and to report to the Office of Management and Budget every such position, program and expenditure in existence on November 4, 2024 plus the contractors and grantees involved. Where the fit breaks down: the order is government-wide and reaches USAID only by that route, never naming the agency or its structures. The diversity scorecard and dashboard the chapter asks be canceled are not mentioned, there is no directive on what the chapter calls the LGBTQ plus agenda, and the order ends positions and programs rather than dismissing staff or debarring implementers and grantees.
  • Address what the chapter calls woke culture in the intelligence agencies: partly matches. Executive Order 14151 directs every agency head to terminate, within 60 days and to the maximum extent allowed by law, all diversity, equity and inclusion offices and positions, all equity action plans and equity related grants and contracts, and all such performance requirements, and bars those factors from federal employment practices and performance reviews. Because it runs to the whole executive branch it reaches the intelligence agencies. The fit breaks down on aim and addressee. The order names no intelligence agency, is not directed at intelligence leadership, and closes offices, positions and programs rather than addressing the culture the chapter describes, and the passage quoted sits among recommendations for empowering the Director of National Intelligence, which the order does not touch.
  • Divert CIA resources away from what the chapter calls social engineering: partly matches. Executive Order 14151 terminates diversity, equity and inclusion offices, positions, programs and equity related grants and contracts across the executive branch, which moves resources away from the activities the chapter describes, and its section 2(a) requires federal employment practices, including performance reviews, to reward individual initiative, skills, performance and hard work and never to consider those factors, which touches the promotion criteria the chapter raises in the same passage. It is not addressed to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, names no intelligence agency or directorate, and says nothing about rewarding officers who accept high risk or about the risk aversion the chapter treats as the other half of the problem.
Partly matches

Holding Former Government Officials Accountable for Election Interference and Improper Disclosure of Sensitive Governmental Information

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8343

  • Revoke the clearances of former officials who speak to the press: partly matches. The order directs the Director of National Intelligence, with the Director of the CIA, to revoke the current or active clearances of 49 named former intelligence officials, among them former Directors of National Intelligence and of the CIA, over a public letter they signed during the 2020 campaign, and of John Bolton over a memoir the order says treated sensitive information recklessly. That is the President stripping clearances from former senior intelligence officials for speaking publicly, the action the chapter asks for. The fit breaks down in that the order reaches a closed list of named people on two specific grounds rather than establishing that any former official who discusses their work in the press or on social media without the current Director's prior clearance loses their clearance, and it says nothing about keeping former officials subject to the Hatch Act.
Partly matches

Protecting the American People Against Invasion

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8443

  • Enforce visa sanctions on countries that refuse deportees: partly matches. Section 13 directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security to cooperate and effectively implement the sanctions provided by section 243(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to the maximum extent permitted by law, to ensure that diplomatic efforts and negotiations with foreign states include those states' acceptance of nationals subject to removal, and to eliminate documentary barriers, dilatory tactics and other restrictions preventing prompt repatriation, with a state's failure or delay in verifying identity counted in applying the sanction. The rest of the passage is not carried out: the order names no country, does not say whether a sanction should cover immigrant visas, non-immigrant visas or all visas, sets no condition that a sanction remain in force until the country accepts every national pending removal and commits to future acceptance, and qualifies the direction with the phrases as appropriate and to the maximum extent permitted by law.
Partly matches

Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8455

  • End climate policies in foreign aid and support oil and gas: partly matches. Section 3(e) of Executive Order 14162 revokes and rescinds the U.S. International Climate Finance Plan immediately and directs the Office of Management and Budget to issue guidance within 10 days for the rescission of all frozen funds. Section 3(f) requires the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, with the heads of the other departments and agencies that fund work abroad, to report within 30 days on their actions to revoke or rescind policies implemented to advance that plan. That is the rescission of climate policies from foreign aid programs the chapter asks for. The rest of the proposal is absent. The order does not direct support for the responsible management of oil and gas reserves in the developing world, and it says nothing about the agency's collaboration with or funding of the foundations, corporations, international institutions and nongovernmental organizations the chapter names.
Closely matches

Securing Our Borders

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8467

  • Reimplement Remain in Mexico and safe third country agreements on day one: closely matches. Section 6 of the order, signed January 20, 2025, directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General, to resume the Migrant Protection Protocols in all sectors along the southern border and to return aliens described in section 235(b)(2)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to the territory they came from. Section 8 directs the Secretary of State to pursue international agreements, naming section 208(a)(2)(A), the provision under which safe third country agreements are made. The fit breaks down in that resumption is ordered as soon as practicable rather than done on the day, the order concludes no safe third country agreement itself, and returning people to Mexico depends on Mexico accepting them, which the order does not address. None of the five candidates offered for this proposal touched the subject.
Partly matches

Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8615

  • Remove the word gender and related terms from agency materials: partly matches. Executive Order 14168 directs every agency to remove all statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications and other internal and external messages that promote or otherwise inculcate gender ideology and to stop issuing them, to use the term sex and not gender in all applicable federal policies and documents when administering sex based distinctions, and to ensure that grant funds do not promote gender ideology. That is the removal of material the chapter asks for, and it reaches the U.S. Agency for International Development as an executive agency. It is government wide and names neither the agency nor its websites, it turns on material that promotes gender ideology rather than on the vocabulary the chapter lists, which includes gender equality, gender equity, gender aware and gender sensitive, and it neither renames the Office of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment nor rescinds the presidential memorandum on gender in the program cycle.
Recorded against 4 proposals here

Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8619

  • Cut USAID back to its 2019 budget level: partly matches. Addresses the chapter's subject of scaling the agency back, by a different route. The chapter asked for a return to at least the 2019 budget level and deep cuts to the international affairs account, which requires Congress; this order pauses and reviews existing assistance under executive authority.
  • Cut funding to any partner that engages with Chinese entities: partly matches. The review standard is alignment with the President's foreign policy generally. The chapter's proposal was narrower and specific: ending funding to any partner engaging with Chinese entities.
  • Freeze work on treaties the Senate has not ratified: partly matches. Executive Order 14169 orders an immediate pause on new obligations and disbursements of foreign development assistance pending reviews conducted under guidelines provided by the Secretary of State, with the Office of Management and Budget enforcing the pause through its apportionment authority. That answers the freeze on foreign assistance disbursements, contracts and payments pending review that the chapter asks for in the same passage. It does not reach the sentence quoted. Nothing in the order concerns unratified treaties or international agreements, and the pause runs across every agency with development assistance programs rather than being a freeze ordered inside the State Department.
  • Give the USAID Administrator authority over all foreign assistance: same subject, different route. Executive Order 14169 settles who coordinates foreign assistance, which is the question the proposal turns on, and settles it the other way. Reviews of each foreign assistance program are ordered under guidelines provided by the Secretary of State, determinations to continue, modify or cease a program require his concurrence, and any new foreign assistance program or obligation must be approved by him or his designee. The chapter would place that coordinating role with the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, holding the additional title of Director of Foreign Assistance with the rank of Deputy Secretary. The order creates no such title or rank, and it is a pause and review order rather than a standing grant of authority over all foreign assistance.
Partly matches

Hiring Freeze

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8247

  • Halt CIA hiring immediately to prevent burrowing in: partly matches. The memorandum of January 20, 2025 freezes the hiring of federal civilian employees throughout the executive branch from noon that day, so that no position vacant at that moment may be filled and no new position created, whatever the source of an agency's funding. That is a day one halt on hiring into vacant career posts, the route by which the chapter says outgoing political personnel burrow in. Three things break the fit. The freeze does not apply to positions related to national security, which covers much of the agency the chapter is writing about. It expressly does not limit the appointment of noncareer officials. And it names no intelligence agency, being an instruction from the President to all agencies rather than a step taken by the Deputy Director the chapter would have act.
Partly matches

Restoring Accountability for Career Senior Executives

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8481

  • Fire suspected leakers and strip their pensions: partly matches. The memorandum of January 20, 2025 names unauthorized disclosure of executive branch deliberations first among the conduct for which career Senior Executive Service officials should be held accountable, and directs any agency head who becomes aware of such an official to take all appropriate actions, up to and including removal. That answers the firing half of the proposal for senior career officials government wide. It reaches only the Senior Executive Service, not the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Central Intelligence Agency workforces the chapter names, it concerns disclosure of deliberations rather than of classified information, and it carries none of the rest: no referral for prosecution, no removal of pension benefits, and no bar on retiring while an investigation is open.
Partly matches

The Mexico City Policy

January 24, 2025 · 90 FR 8753

  • Reinstate and widen the Mexico City Policy on abortion: partly matches. The memorandum of January 24, 2025 revokes the January 28, 2021 memorandum, reinstates the January 23, 2017 Mexico City Policy, and directs the Secretary of State, with Health and Human Services, to implement a plan extending the reinstated requirements to global health assistance furnished by all departments and agencies. It also directs the Secretary of State to ensure that no taxpayer money funds organizations or programs supporting or participating in coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization. Where it falls short of the proposal: it does not name the United Nations Population Fund or block its funding, and its extension reaches global health assistance rather than all foreign assistance including humanitarian aid. It says nothing about subgrantees and subcontractors or about removing the exemptions for United States based nongovernmental organizations and international organizations. The State Department rule Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance, published January 27, 2026 and effective February 26, 2026, later carried the policy into an award term binding foreign NGOs, United States NGOs, public international organizations, foreign governments and parastatals.
Recorded against 2 proposals here

Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness

January 27, 2025 · 90 FR 8757

  • Reverse the policy allowing transgender people to serve: closely matches. The chapter asked that policies allowing transgender individuals to serve be reversed. This order directs revision of the medical standards that govern service on those grounds.
  • Expel servicemembers with gender dysphoria: partly matches. The chapter went further than reversing the service policy: it asked that those with gender dysphoria be expelled from service. This order directs a change to medical standards; what follows for serving members is not established by the order alone.
Closely matches

Reinstating Service Members Discharged Under the Military's COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate

January 27, 2025 · 90 FR 8761

Recorded against 2 proposals here

Restoring America's Fighting Force

January 27, 2025 · 90 FR 8763

  • Abolish diversity offices and end critical race theory programs: closely matches. Section 4 orders the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security for the Coast Guard, to abolish every DEI office and any vestige of one, including sub-offices, programs, elements and initiatives, which is the abolition of offices and staff the chapter asks for. Section 6 bars the Department and the Armed Forces from promoting divisive concepts as defined in Executive Order 13950 and bars hiring anyone to teach them, and section 5 orders an internal review documenting past DEI actions. The fit is not exact in wording or scope: the order never uses the chapter's terms Marxist indoctrination or critical race theory, works instead through the divisive concepts definition carried over from 2020, and adds gender ideology, which this proposal does not raise.
  • Audit military academy courses and end tenure for their professors: partly matches. Section 6(c) directs the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to review the leadership, curriculum and instructors of the United States Service Academies and other defense academic institutions, and requires those institutions to teach that America and its founding documents remain the most powerful force for good in human history. That is the audit of course offerings the chapter asks for, conducted against the order's own definition of divisive concepts rather than the chapter's terms. The rest of the proposal is untouched: the order says nothing about ending tenure for academic staff and nothing about placing instructors under the rules that govern other Department of Defense contracting personnel. Executive Order 14190, the candidate closest by title, reaches only K-12 schooling and never mentions the academies.
Partly matches

The Iron Dome for America

January 27, 2025 · 90 FR 8767

  • Restore offensive capabilities in space: partly matches. The order directs the Secretary of Defense to plan for proliferated space-based interceptors capable of boost-phase intercept and for capabilities to defeat missile attacks before launch and in the boost phase, which places weapons in orbit and reaches past interception of incoming warheads. That overlaps part of what the chapter asks for. The purpose is different and the rest is missing: the architecture ordered is a homeland missile defense shield against ballistic, hypersonic and cruise missiles, not the space control capability against an adversary's space assets that the chapter has in mind, there is nothing about extending space control to cis-lunar space, and nothing about the overclassification the chapter also raises.
Partly matches

To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes

January 29, 2025 · 139 Stat. 3

  • Enforce visa sanctions on countries that refuse deportees: partly matches. Section 3(c) adds a new subsection (e) to section 243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act giving a state attorney general or other authorized state officer standing to sue the Secretary of State in federal district court for injunctive relief over a violation of the requirement in subsection (d) to discontinue granting visas, with the court instructed to expedite the case and financial harm above $100 counted as harm. The sanction the chapter wants enforced becomes enforceable by states rather than resting on the Secretary's own decision. The Act leaves the sanction itself unchanged: it requires no country to be sanctioned, sets no scope for the visa categories covered, and fixes no duration.
Recorded against 2 proposals here

Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy

March 14, 2025 · 90 FR 13043

  • Defund and abolish the broadcasting agency if it is not reformed: partly matches. Executive Order 14238 names the United States Agency for Global Media among seven entities whose non-statutory components and functions shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law, and whose statutory functions and associated personnel shall be reduced to the minimum presence and function required by law, with the Office of Management and Budget directed to reject funding requests inconsistent with that. That is the defunding the chapter contemplates, done by executive order. It does not disestablish the agency, which was created by statute and would take an act of Congress, and it is not conditional in the way the chapter's recommendation is: the chapter asks first for reform top to bottom and would defund only if the agency's aim did not change, while the order sets no condition and gives no reason tied to what the agency broadcasts.
  • Consolidate overlapping foreign language broadcasting services: same subject, different route. Executive Order 14238 acts on the size of the same agency. It eliminates the non-statutory components and functions of the United States Agency for Global Media and reduces its statutory functions and personnel to the minimum required by law, which reaches the surplus services the chapter says are unnecessary. It goes a different way from the proposal. Consolidation, the cornerstone the chapter names, would merge overlapping foreign language broadcasting into fewer services, while the order cuts back across the agency without merging anything, names no service or language, and says nothing about the fiscal responsibility and transparency the chapter asks be restored.
Partly matches

Reforming Foreign Defense Sales To Improve Speed and Accountability

April 9, 2025 · 90 FR 15631

  • End the informal congressional review of arms sales: partly matches. The order is aimed at the delay the chapter wants removed. It directs the Secretaries of State and Defense to send Congress a joint letter proposing higher statutory notification thresholds for foreign military sales and direct commercial sales, and directs the Secretary of State to work with Congress to review notification processes so that notified cases are adjudicated in time. It also orders priority partner and priority end-item lists and a single electronic tracking system. What the proposal asks for is not done: tiered review, the informal preview of prospective transfers with Congress, is never mentioned and is not ended, no days are removed from the process by the order itself, and the route is through Congress and statutory thresholds rather than by dropping a State Department practice that is not written into law.
Partly matches

Restoring America's Maritime Dominance

April 9, 2025 · 90 FR 15635

  • Treat NATO as an Arctic alliance: partly matches. Section 18 of Executive Order 14269 directs the Secretary of Defense, with the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Commandant of the Coast Guard, to develop within 90 days a strategy to secure arctic waterways and enable American prosperity in the face of evolving arctic security challenges. It treats the Arctic as a theater needing a defense strategy, which is the neglect the chapter describes, and it is aimed at keeping those waterways usable. NATO has no part in it. The order builds a single national strategy inside a maritime policy order, says nothing about the alliance acknowledging an Arctic role, and does not address commercial access to Arctic shipping lanes or the fees the chapter raises.
Same subject, different route

Transparency Regarding Foreign Influence at American Universities

April 23, 2025 · 90 FR 17541

  • Extend counterintelligence law to foreign spying at universities: same subject, different route. Executive Order 14282 treats foreign money on American campuses as a national security problem and directs the Secretary of Education, working with the Attorney General, to enforce the foreign funding disclosure requirement of section 117 of the Higher Education Act, to require disclosure of the true source and purpose of the funds, to conduct audits and investigations, and to withhold federal grant funds from institutions that do not comply. It goes at foreign penetration of universities by a different route than the one asked for. It amends no statute and leaves the Counterintelligence Enhancement Act of 2002 untouched, it concerns disclosure of money rather than espionage, and it gives the work to the Education Department and the Attorney General rather than to the National Counterintelligence and Security Center or the FBI, whose role and resources the chapter would expand.
Partly matches

Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media

May 1, 2025 · 90 FR 19415

  • End public funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting: partly matches. Executive Order 14290, signed May 1, 2025, instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board to cancel direct funding to NPR and PBS to the maximum extent allowed by law and to decline future funding, to revise the 2025 Community Service Grants provisions so station grantees cannot pass federal money to either, and directs every agency to identify and terminate its own direct or indirect funding of the two. Where it falls short of the proposal: it does not end public funding of the Corporation itself. The Corporation's appropriation is made by Congress and the order leaves it standing, directing only where the money may go once received. The chapter asks the President to stop the funding even over opposition in his own party in Congress, which is a legislative act the order does not perform.
Partly matches

Keeping Promises to Veterans and Establishing a National Center for Warrior Independence

May 9, 2025 · 90 FR 20369

  • Strengthen access to care outside VA facilities: partly matches. Executive Order 14296 of May 9, 2025 directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to report a plan to reduce wait times for Veterans Health Administration appointments and to develop a strategy to improve health care delivery that prioritizes reducing access times, including options for treating veterans at selected military treatment facilities with reimbursement. It expands where a veteran may be seen outside a VA hospital and attacks the wait times that drive eligibility. The fit breaks down because Community Care means the VA paying a provider in the community, and the order routes care to Defense Department facilities instead. It does not change Community Care eligibility, its access standards, its provider network or how it pays, and it creates none of the new arrangements the chapter asks for.
Recorded against 2 proposals here

Creating Schedule G in the Excepted Service

July 17, 2025 · 90 FR 34753

  • Place political appointees in posts that need no Senate vote: partly matches. The order creates Schedule G in the excepted service for noncareer positions of a policy-making or policy-advocating character that are normally subject to change at a presidential transition, and provides that civil service rules do not apply to removals from them. That builds a route for placing appointees in posts that require no Senate vote, which is what the chapter asks for. The fit breaks down in that the order names no State Department position: its only agency-specific instruction is to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. It does not increase the number of appointees at the State Department, does not name senior advisors or deputy assistant secretaries, and says nothing about having them in place on the first day.
  • Create more non-career appointee positions at the department: partly matches. Executive Order 14317 of July 17, 2025 creates Schedule G in the excepted service for noncareer positions of a policy-making or policy-advocating character that normally change at a presidential transition, a category the order says did not previously exist, and directs the Office of Personnel Management to write the implementing regulations. Its implementation section addresses the Secretary of Veterans Affairs directly on how to make those appointments. That is the personnel agency providing a new authority to appoint noncareer political staff, which is what the chapter asks for. The fit breaks down because Schedule G is an excepted service schedule, not the noncareer Presidential Appointment positions the chapter names, it is government-wide rather than an authority granted to the department, and it sets no number, so nothing indexed raises the count of political appointees at Veterans Affairs.
Recorded against 2 proposals here

To rescind certain budget authority proposed to be rescinded in special messages transmitted to the Congress by the President on June 3, 2025, in accordance with section 1012(a) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974

July 24, 2025 · 139 Stat. 467

  • End the two-year advance funding that shields public broadcasting from oversight: partly matches. The Rescissions Act of 2025 rescinds the amounts made available for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for fiscal year 2026 by Public Law 118-47 and for fiscal year 2027 by Public Law 119-4. Those are the advance appropriations the chapter objects to, and Congress canceled them instead of letting them stand beyond its reach, which is the oversight point the chapter makes. It ends two particular advance appropriations, not the practice. No provision changes the authority under which the Corporation is funded two years ahead, so a later appropriation could be made the same way. The two paragraphs name no dollar figure, and the laws they reach into are not indexed on this site, so the amounts rescinded are not recorded here.
  • Resize humanitarian aid back to short-term emergency relief: same subject, different route. The Rescissions Act of 2025 cuts the portfolio the proposal is about: $800,000,000 from Migration and Refugee Assistance, $496,000,000 from International Disaster Assistance and $43,000,000 from the Complex Crises Fund, with food aid programs held out of the disaster assistance cut. It makes the portfolio smaller, but not in the way the chapter asks. The accounts it cuts are the emergency relief side of the portfolio rather than the longer term work the chapter would move away from, nothing in the Act repurposes the portfolio toward short term relief or addresses the 2020 merger of food and non-food emergency relief into a single bureau, and these are rescissions enacted by Congress rather than a resizing carried out by the agency.
Partly matches

Combating Gender Ideology in Foreign Assistance

January 27, 2026 · 91 FR 3332

  • Remove the word gender and related terms from agency materials: partly matches. The State Department's final rule of January 27, 2026 adds an award term, Combating Gender Ideology in Foreign Assistance, to grants, cooperative agreements and voluntary contributions, imposing requirements relating to gender ideology on foreign and United States nongovernmental organizations, international organizations, foreign governments and parastatals, and incorporating the term into awards as new funds are added. Contracts and grants are among the places the chapter asks that the language be removed. The rule conditions what a recipient may do with the money rather than removing terms from the agency's own websites, publications and policies, it is a State Department rule rather than an act of the agency the chapter addresses, and this site holds the rule's summary rather than the text of the award term, so what the term requires word for word cannot be checked here.
Partly matches

Making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes

February 3, 2026 · 140 Stat. 173

  • Encourage more Arab states to join the Abraham Accords: partly matches. Section 6611 adds a section 1015 to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act requiring the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to establish an Abraham Accords Office headed by a director, sited within two years in a country the Department of State identifies as having signed the Abraham Accords Declaration, to give technical assistance on regulatory oversight to partners in those countries and help interested parties there deal with the agency, with a report to Congress within three years. It builds on the Accords by attaching a standing federal benefit to having signed them. It does not do what the passage asks: it is addressed only to countries that have already signed, it encourages no further state to join, it names neither Saudi Arabia nor any other prospective party, it says nothing about the partnership with Saudi Arabia or about Chinese influence, and it is a drug regulatory measure carried out by the Food and Drug Administration rather than a diplomatic one.
Partly matches

To amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and for other purposes

April 30, 2026 · 140 Stat. 811

  • Retain Section 702 surveillance as an essential tool: partly matches. Signed April 30, 2026, the law moves the repeal date of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which contains Section 702, from April 30, 2026 to June 12, 2026, so the authority stayed in force rather than lapsing. Public Law 119-84 of April 18, 2026 had set the April 30 date in the same way. Congress kept the tool, which is what the chapter asks. The fit breaks down in that both laws are extensions of weeks that change only dates and cross references: neither settles the authority for the long term, and neither addresses the oversight board report the chapter asks Congress to review or the reforms against partisan abuse of the surveillance statute that the chapter raises alongside.

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