Nearly 200,000 Afghans were resettled in the U.S. under Operation Allies Welcome...

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A program to relocate Afghans who worked alongside U.S. service members during two decades of war is being targeted by the White House for shutdown by the fall. No more funding for Operation Enduring Welcome was allotted in President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2026 budget proposal released Friday. Advocacy groups fear that hundreds of thousands of Afghans awaiting resettlement in the U.S. could be shut out if the program is defunded.

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The State Department has relocated more than 190,000 Afghans to the U.S. in the last four years under Enduring Welcome, according to the White House’s budget proposal. The White House’s proposed budget will head to Congress, which will hold committee hearings to hash out a final budget to be voted on later this year. Some lawmakers, like New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker, have pushed back against the moves to shut down the program.

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The program to grant parole and settlement to Afghans has stretched across multiple agencies. In May 2024, the Department of Homeland Security largely concurred with its inspector general’s report, which found gaps in its ability to monitor parole expiration and remove those with derogatory information in their backgrounds. In May, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem terminated temporary protected status for more than 8,000 Afghan nationals already in the U.S., including some who assisted the U.S. in the war. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., sent a letter calling Noem’s decision a “historic betrayal of promises made” that undermines the values Americans fought for in Afghanistan.

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