Amendment to preserve the US contribution to UNICEF
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 reduced the rescission from the International Organizations and Programs account so that UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, received the full contribution Congress had already appropriated.
A yes vote kept UNICEF's money. A no vote let it be cancelled.
The Senate rejected the amendment 48-51 on July 17, 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)