; and (B) is not funding entities described in paragraph (7) for purposes of providing assistance described in such paragraph, a justification for not funding such entities, including whether funding such entities is prohibited under United States law. (b) Additional consultation In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary of State shall consult with, and consider credible information from, individuals described in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) and entities described in paragraph (7) of such subsection. (c) Assistance The Secretary of State and Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development shall provide assistance, including cash assistance, to support entities described in paragraph (7) of subsection (a) that the Secretary and Administrator determine are effectively providing assistance described in such paragraph, including entities that have received funding from the United States Government for such purposes before the date of the enactment of this Act. (d) Sense of congress It is the sense of Congress that an appropriate amount of the additional amount made available under the heading Economic Support Fund in title II of division B of the Further Continuing and Security Assistance Appropriations Act, 2017 ( Public Law 114–254 ) should be made available to carry out subsection (c). 6. Refugee admissions of nationals and residents of Iraq or Syria (a) In general Aliens who are, or were, a national and a resident of Iraq or Syria, and who share common characteristics that identify them as targets of persecution on account of membership in a religious or ethnic minority in that country, in particular being survivors of genocide, crimes against humanity, or war crimes, or being the surviving spouse or child of an individual who was killed by a perpetrator of such a crime— (1) are deemed to be of special humanitarian concern to the United States