Whereas the founding principles of the United States include the freedom of religion and the freedom of expression; Whereas the United States, in its support of and membership in the United Nations and other international institutions, has been party to the promotion and sustainment of global religious freedom; Whereas the United States established the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (in this resolution referred to as USCIRF ) to defend the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad; Whereas the USCIRF has identified 71 foreign countries with active blasphemy laws as of 2017; Whereas the United States continues to deliver significant sums of foreign aid to countries with actively enforced blasphemy laws; Whereas the Department of State in 2006 created a framework to organize United States foreign aid around strategic objectives that include, among others, governing justly and democratically, humanitarian assistance, and investing in people; Whereas sending foreign aid to countries with, and that enforce, blasphemy laws does not support the strategic objectives of foreign aid laid out by the Department of State; Whereas before suspending a significant amount of foreign aid to Pakistan in 2018, the United States provided Pakistan $777,000,000 in foreign aid during fiscal year 2016, despite Pakistan having some of the strictest enforcement of blasphemy laws in the world; Whereas in its 2017 Annual Report, the USCIRF stated it was aware of at least 40 individuals sentenced to death or serving life sentences for blasphemy in Pakistan as of the date of the report; Whereas Saudi Arabia receives significant United States aid in the form of arms sales, despite the 2017 USCIRF Annual Report stating, Saudi courts continue to prosecute and imprison individuals for dissent, apostasy, and blasphemy, and a law classifying blasphemy and the promotion of atheism as terrorism has been used to target human rights defenders, among others