This bill asks the Government Accountability Office—a watchdog agency that investigates how the government spends money—to study whether the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 affected prices in America. Specifically, it wants to know if leaving behind, destroying, or giving up military equipment there had anything to do with inflation (the rising cost of goods and services that Americans experienced). The bill also requires the President to send Congress a written report explaining their view on whether these actions in Afghanistan contributed to higher prices at home. Essentially, this is a request to investigate whether decisions made during the Afghanistan withdrawal played any role in the inflation problems Americans faced in the years following the pullout.

BBB Act

Donalds, Byron

Big Biden Blunder Act or the BBB Act This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to conduct a study on the economic effects of withdrawing U.S. Armed Forces from Afghanistan, including whether destroying, surrendering, or abandoning equipment in Afghanistan had any inflationary effect in the United States. The bill also requests that the President transmit a written statement to Congress on the extent to which destroying, surrendering, or abandoning equipment in Afghanistan had any inflationary effect in the United States.