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S. 1854

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To amend the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2016 to require the information on the ForeignAssistance.gov website to be searchable.
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Committee
Latest Action · June 7, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Congress
118th (2023–2025)
Introduced
June 7, 2023
Cosponsors (2)
0D 2R
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This bill amends a 2016 law to improve how the federal government displays foreign aid information on its ForeignAssistance.gov website. Currently, the site publishes foreign aid data, but this legislation requires that data to be searchable and organized by specific categories including recipient country or region, funding agency, managing agency, sector, award amount, appropriations account, fiscal year, and implementing partners. The changes affect the State Department and other federal agencies that administer foreign aid programs, as well as members of Congress and the public who use the website to track how U.S. foreign aid money is spent. The bill does not authorize new spending but rather enhances transparency of existing foreign aid programs. There is no specific implementation timeline mentioned in the legislation.

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