National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2027

What this does

This is a fiscal year 2027 appropriations act for the State Department, foreign assistance, and international security programs, combined with a separate division that rewrites federal voter registration and voter identification law. It runs 78 sections across two divisions and is too large to lay out provision by provision, so this covers the major components. Division A funds the State Department and related foreign affairs agencies. It provides $9,761,523,000 for the Department of State's core diplomatic and consular operations, $3,350,000,000 for global health programs, and $5,533,800,000 for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and research, including a $1,250,000,000 contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. It provides $5,000,000,000 for international humanitarian and refugee assistance, $6,752,500,000 for the Foreign Military Financing Program, which funds grants for foreign governments to buy U.S. defense equipment, and $6,890,170,000 for National Security Investment Programs supporting Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states. It permanently rescinds $1,000,000,000 in unobligated international disaster assistance funds, $458,100,000 from consular and border security programs, and $385,000,000 from the Millennium Challenge Corporation. General provisions bar State Department funds from being used, directly or indirectly, to pressure U.S. technology and social media companies to restrict lawful online speech, and bar funds from being used for training or programming built around concepts such as an individual being inherently racist or oppressive because of race or sex, or the United States being systemically racist or sexist. Division B, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, rewrites federal election law nationwide. It requires anyone registering to vote in a federal election to present documentary proof of United States citizenship, such as a passport, a REAL ID-compliant document showing citizenship, or a certified birth certificate, though an applicant who cannot produce such a document may still register by signing a sworn citizenship attestation for a state or local official to evaluate. It separately requires a photo identification to cast a ballot in a federal election in person, or a copy of one, or a Social Security number plus an affidavit, to vote by mail. States must submit their voter rolls to the Department of Homeland Security's SAVE system to identify noncitizens and remove them after notice and a chance to prove citizenship. It creates new federal crimes for an election official who registers an applicant without proof of citizenship, or a federal employee who materially assists a noncitizen in registering or voting, and expands the law's private right of action to cover such registrations. Absent uniformed services voters are exempt from both the citizenship documentation and photo ID requirements. The requirements take effect on enactment.