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“State Department foreign aid leaders should coordinate aid plans and budgets, help set broad aid strategies, and help divide funding across regions and issue areas.”
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“Congress should have to be consulted and notified before USAID is reorganized, merged into another agency, or made smaller.”
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“The Secretary of Agriculture should have to keep running FEWS NET, or a replacement program, to provide objective evidence about possible or existing famine and flood situations that could worsen food insecurity.”
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“USAID should lose unused money for operating costs such as administration, staffing, oversight, and management of foreign aid programs.”
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“Federal money should no longer be used for the USAID Administrator's current legal authorities, which would immediately stop USAID from operating its foreign aid, development, global health, and humanitarian programs through those authorities.”
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“Money needed for the new State Department foreign aid role in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 should come from funds already authorized for the Secretary of State, without creating a separate new funding stream for that role.”
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“The Department of Agriculture should take over USAID's job of running Food for Peace programs, including the related grants, loans, contracts, permits, licenses, assets, and liabilities.”
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“The Secretary of Agriculture should have to consult the Secretary of State from time to time when using title II Food for Peace authorities for international food aid decisions.”
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“The State Department's senior foreign aid official should also handle human rights and humanitarian issues, including matters involving prisoners of war and missing U.S. service members.”
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“If USAID job tasks move to another agency, the State Department Inspector General should be able to oversee those job tasks and use temporary staffing powers during the transition.”
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“State Department foreign aid leaders should coordinate overseas aid, development finance, trade, treasury, and export finance work with other U.S. agencies and finance institutions.”
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“After Food for Peace work moves to USDA, existing laws and regulations that name USAID or the USAID Administrator should be read as naming the Secretary of Agriculture or the USDA office chosen to handle the work.”
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“Ending USAID's status as a separate federal agency should require Congress to pass a law, and federal agencies should not use federal money to shut it down, break it apart, or fold it into another department.”
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“USAID money that Congress already approved should be canceled if it has not yet been legally committed to a specific grant, contract, agreement, or other purpose.”
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“The State Department should have a senior foreign aid director chosen by the President and confirmed by the Senate, with a 90-day limit on acting service and extra approval before major job actions in that office.”
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“The State Department should add a top foreign aid official, an oversight director, and an office to manage foreign assistance across the department.”
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“A senior State Department official should steer foreign aid budgets, strategy, coordination, evaluations, and results reports across State, USAID, and other agencies involved in U.S. foreign assistance.”
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“The Secretary of Agriculture should be able to use the same existing legal powers that USAID had, or could have used, to carry out Food for Peace work.”
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“USAID property, assets, debts, and other financial responsibilities should move to the Secretary of State, except for unused USAID funds that are canceled.”
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“The Secretary of State should tell the House and Senate foreign affairs committees within 30 days, and then once a year for five years, whether federal agencies are avoiding the use of federal money to end USAID's separate agency status.”
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“Congress should formally state that changes to USAID should follow existing law, protect U.S. influence overseas, prevent rival countries from filling gaps left by the United States, and support U.S. safety and prosperity.”
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“The Secretary of State should be able to send Congress a plan to reorganize USAID, including a plan that could eliminate USAID and move its work to the State Department or other agencies.”
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