One of President Donald Trump’s most significant foreign policy achievements is getting bipartisan support from Congress; a bipartisan group of lawmakers is introducing the Abraham Accords Expansion Act of 2026, obtained exclusively by the Washington Reporter, which both supports Trump’s historic successes with the diplomatic agreement and wants to see it expanded.
Rep. Craig Goldman (R., Texas), one of the co-chairs of the House Abraham Accords Caucus, introduced the legislation alongside every co-chair of the bipartisan House Abraham Accords Caucus.
Goldman’s legislation comes as Trump continues working to remake the world in his image, and the Middle East has been no exception. The legislation wants the Special Presidential Envoy for the Abraham Accords to expand members of the Abraham Accords into regions like Central Asia and South Caucasus nations. That would drastically expand the impact of Trump’s diplomatic win, which already saw Israel normalize relations with Arab nations like the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Morocco during his first term.
The Abraham Accords further expanded already during Trump’s return to the White House when Kazakhstan announced its intention to formally join the Accords in 2025.
“Through the Abraham Accords, America has expanded its influence across the world,” Goldman explained. “Not only does greater coordination benefit Americans, but it also counters the influence of our adversaries like Iran. Greater stability in the Middle East and Asia will come with greater U.S. leadership in the world, and the addition of more nations into the Accords.”
Reps. Ann Wagner (R., Mo.), Brad Schneider (D., Ill.), and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.). Reps. Mike Lawler (R., N.Y.), Joe Wilson (R., S.C.), Buddy Carter (R., Ga.), Don Bacon (R., Neb.), Dan Newhouse (R., Wash.), Maria Elvira Salazar (R., Fla.), Rudy Yakym (R., Ind.), Randy Weber (R., Texas), Addison McDowell (R., N.C.), Gus Bilirakis (R., Fla.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R., Pa.), Claudia Tenney (R., N.Y.), Darrell Issa (R., Calif.), Mark Messmer (R., Ind.), Derrick Van Orden (R., Wis.), Pete Stauber (R., Minn.), Donald Davis (D., N.C.), Josh Gottheimer (D., N.J.), Jimmy Panetta (D., Calif.), Jared Moskowitz (D., Fla.), Daniel Goldman (D., N.Y.), and Lois Frankel (D., Fla.) joined Goldman as cosponsors.
While Goldman is only a freshman lawmaker, he’s proven remarkable effective as a co-chair of the caucus. As a co-chair, he wrote to his GOP colleagues urging more to join, and 30 have done so since his letter. One-quarter of lawmakers in the House are now in the Abraham Accords Caucus.
The bipartisan legislation quickly won plaudits from national security experts, like Tyler Stapleton, the Senior Director of Government Relations, Foundation for Defense of Democracies Action.
“The Abraham Accords have catalyzed a monumental shift in regional integration across the Middle East,” Stapleton explained. “Continued normalization between Israel, its neighbors, and countries beyond has already yielded shared economic opportunities, trade harmonization, and security assistance. The Abraham Accords Expansion Act would widen the aperture of potential participants in these growing normalization efforts and establish a special envoy within the U.S. government to coordinate and facilitate the implementation of multilateral cooperation agreements. FDD Action strongly endorses the legislation and encourages all members to support its passage.”
