USA FIRST Act

Unobligated Spending Adjustment to Focus Investment on Relief and Support for Taxpayers Act or the USA FIRST Act

This bill transfers unobligated funds previously appropriated to the U.S. Agency for International Development to the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) for general disaster relief for major disasters declared by the President. The DRF is managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the activities it funds pursuant to major disaster declarations include domestic disaster response, recovery, and mitigation.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1370 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1370

    To transfer unobligated funds from the United States Agency for 
         International Development to the Disaster Relief Fund.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 14, 2025

Mr. Brecheen (for himself, Mr. Norman, and Mr. Donalds) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
    To transfer unobligated funds from the United States Agency for 
         International Development to the Disaster Relief Fund.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Unobligated Spending Adjustment to 
Focus Investment on Relief and Support for Taxpayers Act'' or the ``USA 
FIRST Act''.

SEC. 2. TRANSFER OF UNOBLIGATED FUNDS TO THE DISASTER RELIEF FUND.

    (a) In General.--Any unobligated covered funds shall be transferred 
to the Disaster Relief Fund to carry out the Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) 
with respect to major disasters declared under section 401 of the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5170).
    (b) Covered Funds Defined.--In this section, the term ``covered 
funds'' means any unobligated funds previously appropriated to the 
United States Agency for International Development, as of the date of 
enactment of this Act.
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