1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Stop UN Support for Assad Act of 2019 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The United States, which has been the biggest donor to the United Nations (UN) Humanitarian Response in Syria, has provided more than $6,000,000,000 for UN Syria programming since 2011, including over $435,000,000 in fiscal year 2018 alone. (2) During the past eight years of conflict, the Assad regime has repeatedly weaponized access to United Nations aid in prolonged and unlawful sieges of civilians as part of a widespread starve or surrender campaign, with the United Nations estimating 975,000 Syrians under siege at the peak of this strategy. (3) The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported repeated failures to deliver aid to the hardest-hit areas due to such obstructions by the Assad regime. (4) On February 12, 2018, former U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford wrote of UN aid in Syria that it is clear the aid is not neutral and is being used as a weapon by the Syrian government. . (5) The United Nations continues to procure goods and services from several entities that have close ties to the Assad regime, despite their role in supporting the Assad regime’s gross human rights violations and international crimes—including torture, sexual violence, the targeting of medical facilities, weaponized mass starvation, enforced disappearance, and forced displacement—for which the United Nations itself has found the Assad regime culpable. (6) A 2016 study of the UN Report of Procurement showed that UN operations in Syria delivered $4 million to Syria’s state-owned fuel industry, $5 million to blood banks operated by the Syrian Arab Army for the benefit of its troops, and $8.5 million to charities co-opted by members of the Assad family. (7) International NGOs working with the United Nations are forced to select local partners, many of which are controlled by the Assad family and inner circle, from a government-approved list, therefore allowing