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Directs the State Department and President to identify Muslim Brotherhood branches, mandate terrorism designations and sanctions, and bar or revoke visas for members.
The bill strengthens U.S. tools to identify, bar, and financially isolate Muslim Brotherhood–linked entities to reduce security risks, but does so with broad definitions and mandatory sanctions that heighten risks of wrongful exclusion, harm to humanitarian and civil-society actors, diplomatic and economic spillovers, and administrative strain.
Taxpayers and the general public: the bill makes it easier to identify, bar entry, revoke visas, and impose sanctions on individuals and organizations tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, reducing the risk that persons the U.S. views as extremist can travel to or operate in the United States.
U.S. financial and diplomatic authorities (Treasury, State) and the public: the bill enables blocking of assets and restricting U.S. interactions with designated entities, cutting off financial and material pathways that could support terrorism or malign networks.
Federal and state officials and Congress: the bill clarifies statutory definitions and findings for use by the Executive Branch and requires regular unclassified reporting to Congress, giving agencies a clearer legal basis and improving oversight and transparency of designation and sanction decisions.
Immigrants and families (including tenuously connected individuals): people could be rendered inadmissible or have visas revoked based on a Presidential determination, raising a high risk of wrongful exclusion, family separation, and hardship for persons who are not violent or criminal actors.
Students, humanitarian workers, nonprofits, and diaspora organizations: broad, organization‑wide definitions and sanctions (including application to 'branches' or affiliates) could sweep in legitimate civic or aid actors, disrupting education, travel, aid delivery, and civil-society operations abroad.
U.S. economic interests and allied civilians/businesses: expedited or broad designations, asset freezes, and secondary effects could produce economic spillovers and strain diplomatic relations with countries and organizations implicated by the definitions.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Official title: Require the President to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, to direct the Secretary of State to submit a report to Congress regarding such designation, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 15, 2025 by Rafael Edward Cruz · Last progress July 15, 2025
Requires the State Department and the President to identify the Muslim Brotherhood and its branches, produce regular unclassified reports listing branches, and impose mandatory terrorism designations and sanctions on the Muslim Brotherhood and any branch the report finds meets designation criteria. Amends the Anti‑Terrorism Act to expand existing prohibitions to cover the Muslim Brotherhood, creates new statutory definitions, and requires mandatory immigration inadmissibility and immediate visa revocation for anyone the President determines is a “Muslim Brotherhood member.”