The Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025 was introduced last week by six Republican senators, and in the House by by Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-Fla.) and Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), co-chairs of the Friends of Egypt Caucus.

The bill, which seeks to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group, updates one that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) first introduced in 2015 and repeatedly since. This time, he has been joined by Republican Senate colleagues Ashley Moody (R-Fla.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Dave McCormick (R-Pa.).

As McCormick told me, the “Hamas Terrorists ... proudly call themselves ‘one of the wings of the Muslim Brotherhood’ ... which has aided and abetted some of the worst actors in the world for decades.” Indeed, the U.S. has considered Hamas a Foreign Terrorist Organization since October 1997.

The findings in the bill include the statement that "Muslim Brotherhood branches have sought to destabilize and undermine United States allies and partners throughout the Middle East, including in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, and have been outlawed as a terrorist group by the governments of those countries."

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