Major reform on how America gives money to other countries like Israel, Ukraine, and Sudan is breezing through the House with Democratic and Republican support.
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Over the years, US lawmakers of many stripes have embraced the value proposition of foreign assistance. While their precise motivations have varied, ensuring US international aid is transparent, accountable, and effective has been vital to this long-running bipartisan support.
For as long as US foreign aid has enjoyed bipartisan support on Capitol Hill, lawmakers have sought to ensure this assistance is transparent, accountable, and effective. Thanks, in part, to passage of the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act (FATAA) in 2016, US agencies involved in implementing US foreign assistance have been at the forefront in implementing requirements related to the timely publication of project-level data and in the development, implementation, and use of evaluations. Signed into law in 2019, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act (Evidence Act) sought to integrate the use of evidence including data and evaluation into decision-making across the federal government.