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In the wake of the House taking leadership to deliver a desperately needed infusion of emergency supplemental funding, the State, Foreign Operations allocation reported out of the House Appropriations Committee is stunningly low.

Escalating conflict is driving record levels of gender-based violence, displacement and hunger in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), threatening to push the country to the brink of catastrophe without urgent international action.

InterAction and 50 Member CEOs, some of whom have organizations that work in Gaza, urge President Biden to take decisive and actionable steps to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

InterAction deeply appreciates the House’s passage of $9.2 billion in global humanitarian funding as part of supplemental appropriations, which provides urgent food, water, and shelter to people around the world.

While the administration continues to speak forcefully about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, it also continues to provide the very bombs responsible for burying civilians in rubble and hindering aid delivery.

“Could the Trump administration implement these ideas mentioned in Project 2025? Yes," said Tom Hart, the president of InterAction. “Should they? That is an entirely different question.”

Gaza has evolved into one the world’s most dangerous places for humanitarians to provide aid. As of March 20, 2024, at least 196 humanitarians have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war.

As humanitarian organizations operating in Gaza, it is our experience that the humanitarian response in Gaza, including U.S. funded humanitarian assistance, has been consistently and arbitrarily denied, restricted, and impeded by the Israeli authorities.