UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 80
- Latest action
- Mar 27, 2025
What it does
The UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act of 2025 would restore U.S. funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) by repealing prior legislation that halted such funding and rescinding a 2025 executive order ending U.S. support to certain UN organizations. It directs the Secretary of State to resume funding to UNRWA under existing authorities and consistent with lifesaving humanitarian aid waivers, while requiring quarterly reports to Congress on UNRWA’s implementation of accountability and transparency recommendations from an independent review led by Catherine Colonna through 2028. The bill affirms UNRWA’s critical role in…
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Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- André Carson
- Adelita Grijalva
- Al Green
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Ayanna Pressley
- Becca Balint
- Bennie Thompson
- Betty McCollum
- Bonnie Watson Coleman
- Chellie Pingree
- Chris Deluzio
- Danny Davis
- Debbie Dingell
- Deborah Ross
- Delia Ramirez
- Diana DeGette
- Donald Beyer
- Dwight Evans
- Eleanor Norton
- Emanuel Cleaver
- Emily Randall
- Gabe Amo
- Gregorio Casar
- Gwen Moore
- Henry Johnson
- Ilhan Omar
- Jahana Hayes
- James McGovern
- Jamie Raskin
- Janice Schakowsky
- Jared Huffman
- Jennifer McClellan
- Jesús García
- Jill Tokuda
- Joaquin Castro
- Joe Courtney
- John Garamendi
- John Larson
- Jonathan Jackson
- Judy Chu
- Kweisi Mfume
- Lateefah Simon
- Lauren Underwood
- Linda Sánchez
- Lloyd Doggett
- Madeleine Dean
- Mark DeSaulnier
- Mark Pocan
- Mark Takano
- Mary Scanlon
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