By September 30, 2024, the Biden administration must determine if Egypt’s government met the human rights benchmarks Congress attached to $320 million of the $1.3 billion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Foreign Military Financing (FMF) for Egypt. For its first three years, the administration withheld a portion of the conditioned FMF, but for the last two years, members of Congress, unsatisfied by the administration’s decisions, withheld even more of the conditioned aid. Congress also needs to decide if it will continue providing FMF to Egypt for FY25, how much, and what amount (if any) it will condition.
MEDC’s latest fact sheet, “Human Rights Conditions on U.S. Military Aid to Egypt Under the Biden Administration,” provides an overview of the human rights conditions in U.S. military assistance to Egypt and what decisions the Biden administration and Congress have made since President Biden came to office.
This fact sheet is also available in a PDF version. View on earlier version of this fact sheet for FY19–23 here.
