BBB Act

Subjects: International Affairs


<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2709 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2709

  To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to deliver a 
 report on the economic effects of the withdrawal of the United States 
         Armed Forces from Afghanistan, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 19, 2023

 Mr. Donalds (for himself, Mrs. Harshbarger, Mr. Nehls, Mr. Crawford, 
    Mr. Fry, Mr. Gosar, Mrs. Boebert, and Mrs. Luna) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 
and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to deliver a 
 report on the economic effects of the withdrawal of the United States 
         Armed Forces from Afghanistan, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Big Biden Blunder Act'' or the ``BBB 
Act''.

SEC. 2. INQUIRY INTO THE EFFECTS OF THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE UNITED STATES 
              ARMED FORCES FROM AFGHANISTAN ON INFLATION.

    (a) Report on the Relationship Between Equipment Abandoned in 
Afghanistan and Inflation.--
            (1) Study.--The Comptroller General of the United States 
        shall conduct a study on the economic effects of the withdrawal 
        of the United States Armed Forces from Afghanistan. Such study 
        shall include a determination of whether destroying, 
        surrendering, or abandoning equipment and property of the 
        United States in Afghanistan during such withdrawal had any 
        inflationary effects in the United States.
            (2) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United 
        States shall submit to Congress a report that includes the 
        findings of the study conducted under paragraph (1).
    (b) Request for President To Transmit a Statement About the 
Relationship Between Equipment Abandoned in Afghanistan and 
Inflation.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the President is requested to transmit to Congress a written 
statement containing the opinion of the President regard the extent to 
which destroying, surrendering, or abandoning equipment and property of 
United States in Afghanistan during the withdrawal of the United States 
Armed Forces from Afghanistan had any inflationary effects in the 
United States.
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