; (2) only about 19 percent of assistance in 2020 was reported as including key components to address gender equality issues within projects that have a primary focus other than gender equality across all sectors; and (3) an even smaller amount of aid funding finds its way to local, women-led and feminist organizations and grassroots gender equality movements, and in 2020, the United States only disbursed $1,000,000 to women’s rights organizations and institutions, and as of 2021, in the past 10 years has not disbursed more than $10,000,000 in a year; Whereas a feminist foreign assistance policy in the United States would promote gender equality and focus on the experience of women and people who experience multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, such as gender-based violence, lack of access to sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice, lack of access to education, and the burden of unpaid care responsibilities; Whereas the long-lasting impacts of the COVID–19 pandemic highlighted the need to take a feminist approach to foreign policy with many impacts disproportionately affecting women and girls, including— (1) the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) finds that over 90 percent of students were affected by pandemic-related school closures, that approximately 1,500,000,000 students had their learning disrupted, and that approximately 11,000,000 girls were put at risk for permanently dropping out of school by the pandemic; (2) the economic impact of the pandemic has had a disproportionate effect on women, and the 780,000,000 women who rely on informal employment lost on average 60 percent of their prepandemic income in the first month of the pandemic; (3) on average, the ratio of women’s employment to population dropped more than that of men due to the COVID–19 pandemic according to the International Labour Organization