Funds the State Department and foreign aid programs for fiscal year 2024

§1What it does

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This bill would provide funding for fiscal year 2024, the federal budget year that ran from October 2023 through September 2024, to the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and related international programs.^2,3 The money would cover diplomatic operations, U.S. payments to international organizations, economic and security aid to other countries, and agencies such as the Peace Corps and the Export-Import Bank, along with rules on how the funds may be used.³ Before passing it, the House adopted floor amendments that, among other things, barred using the bill's funds to carry out the Paris climate agreement or the Biden administration's climate executive orders, to remove Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps from the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations, or to move the U.S. embassy in Israel out of Jerusalem.³

§2Status

§3How Congress voted

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