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Terminate Unaccountable Spending, Abuse, Deception, and Fraud Act
To terminate the United States African Development Foundation.
Summary
This bill would eliminate the United States African Development Foundation, a federal agency that provides development assistance to African countries. The bill repeals the African Development Foundation Act and removes references to the foundation from three other federal statutes to conform with its elimination. No new provisions or alternative funding mechanisms are established by the bill.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT] (R-UT)
Actions (2)
- Jan 29, 2026 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. · senate
- Jan 29, 2026 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 29, 2026
Mr. Lee introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
A BILL
To terminate the United States African Development Foundation.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Terminate Unaccountable Spending, Abuse, Deception, and Fraud Act”.
SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF THE UNITED STATES AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION.
(a) Repeal.—The African Development Foundation Act (title V of Public Law 96-533; 22 U.S.C. 290h et seq.) is repealed.
(b) Conforming Amendments.—
(1) Trade and development act of 2000.—Section 127(b) of the Trade and Development Act of 2000 (19 U.S.C. 3737(b)) is amended by striking paragraph (4).
(2) Foreign assistance act of 1961.—Section 620(q)(2) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2370(q)(2)) is amended by striking “the African Development Foundation Act,”.
(3) Global food security act of 2016.—Section 4(8) of the Global Food Security Act of 2016 (22 U.S.C. 9303(8)) is amended by striking “the United States African Development Foundation,”. <all>
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