Beltway Briefing

Force’s murder led to the passing of the act that bears his name, cutting non-humanitarian US aid to the Palestinian Authority until it stops paying terrorists and their families.

The reason for last week’s press conference was the introduction of the “Taylor Force Martyr Payment Prevention Act,” a follow-up bill that would authorize the US Treasury to designate foreign banks that engage in money-laundering, and to forbid them from transacting business in the United States if they facilitate payments to terrorists or knowingly provide financial services to Hamas.

“The original Taylor force bill was bipartisan, and this one in the House already is starting out as bipartisan,” Rep. Lamborn told Mishpacha. “We have a Democratic co-sponsor — Juan Vargas of California. And we anticipate getting a lot more. We’ve just started the process, and any reasonable person is going to say, ‘Hey, we shouldn’t use US taxpayer dollars to reward the killing of innocent civilians,’ and that’s exactly what this bill will do.

“This bill takes it one further step from the original bill by bringing in financial institutions. So, by making sure that any financial institution that facilitates the payment of terrorists after they’ve killed Jews, by passing this bill, they can’t have a US correspondent account, and they’ll be designated as a terrorist organization. And if they do business with Hamas in particular, they’ll be penalized.”