To authorize the Secretary of State to withdraw from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Federal funds previously made available to such organization.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8232.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 8232, a bill to authorize the Secretary of State to withdraw from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Federal funds previously made available to such organization” on September 6, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on July 11, 2024”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 6, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60586

  CBO publication date

  September 6, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8232, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8232

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MAST, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 76, May 2, 2024, Page H2835):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 The single subject of this legislation is: Direct the Secretary of State to retrieve any funds that have been transfered to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 2, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  246 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8232, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8232

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a0d7d360e83863c1284e26a9c1251e270a86bc0f02ee0bcdc7799073542dbe2b

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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