# H.R. 4423 (119th): No New Burma Funds Act

No New Burma Funds Act This bill requires the U.S. Executive Director at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) to advocate and vote for a continued pause on IBRD disbursements and new financing commitments to Burma unless the Department of the Treasury determines this is not in the national interest. The IBRD is one of the two major lending facilities of the World Bank and provides loans, guarantees, risk management products, and advisory services to middle-income countries and some creditworthy low-income countries. The World Bank paused disbursements and new financing to Burma after a 2021 military coup in that country.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: coup_accountability. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: foreign_policy. Category: war_peace. Lane tag: prudential.
Lane: funds_suspension. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: multilateral_lending. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: national_interest_waiver. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: good. A yea supports the bill. A nay is the penalized direction when the tag is scored as a protection. A yea on a credit tag is a credit.
Roll 307: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill directly withholds multilateral financing from a regime that took power by military coup, which restrains a named injustice and defends civil legitimacy. The Treasury waiver and the foreign-policy character of the measure keep it from being a settled moral verdict, so confidence is moderate.
Theological note: The bill bears on the Christian duty to restrain oppressive power and not lend aid to rulers who seized government by force. Its relevance lies in general equity and the accountability of rulers. The national-interest waiver and the foreign-policy judgment involved are prudential matters, so the bill should be weighed with humility rather than treated as a settled moral verdict.

## Recorded votes

Roll 307: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Yea 385 · Nay 0 · Other 46.

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