Amendment to protect Feed the Future food-security funding
House Bill, H.R. 4 (Senate amendment)
What it did
During Senate debate on the Rescissions Act of 2025, Democratic senators offered amendments to protect specific humanitarian accounts from the clawback. This amendment would have removed the rescission of Feed the Future, the United States program for global food security and child nutrition in the poorest countries. A yes vote kept that money.
A no vote let it be cancelled.
The Senate rejected the amendment 48-51 on July 16, 2025.
At the time of this vote, the Lancet projection stood at 4.5 million additional deaths of children under five by 2030 from the aid cuts as a whole.
Result: Rejected 48-51
At the time of this vote: Lancet projection: 14,000,000 additional deaths by 2030 from the USAID cuts, including 4,500,000 children under five; WFP: 58,000,000 people at risk of losing food assistance in 2025
The humane vote: Yes (YEA)