Congress funds $26 billion for foreign aid and family planning limits
H.R. 8595 — National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2027 · Filed by Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) · Introduced Apr 30, 2026 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill gives $26 billion to the State Department for 2027. The money pays for embassies, refugee help, and global health programs. It also funds military aid to other countries. The bill sets rules on family planning assistance the U.S. can give.
Who it affects
People in developing countries who get U.S. health aid are affected. The State Department, foreign governments, and overseas aid groups are affected.
One thing to notice
The bill puts limits on family planning assistance to other countries. These limits may change what health services are available overseas.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Apr 30, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 547”
- Jul 15, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 217 - 209 (Roll no. 247)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
86 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 89 reports from Mar 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $35,559,629 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 8 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 99% of bills with any report.
Mario Diaz-Balart, who sponsored the bill, received $862,784 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Rtx Corporation and Affiliates — $3,860,000 in 1 report
- General Motors Company — $3,460,000 in 1 report
- General Dynamics Corp — $3,420,000 in 1 report
- Altria Client Services LLC — $3,200,000 in 1 report
- American Chemistry Council — $2,570,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- family planning assistance — Help for people to decide if and when to have children
- developing countries — Nations still building their economies and services
- embassies — Offices where the U.S. government works in other countries
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (50,012 characters) on Jun 8, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Mar 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 24, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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