Four Chapters Designated by Order, Three Bills That Never Moved, One Hearing Still Unrecorded

The architecture in force is executive. Executive Order 14362, “Designation of Certain Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists,” was signed on 24 November 2025. On 13 January 2026 the State Department designated the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and SDGT and its leader Muhammad Fawzi Taqqosh as an SDGT, in a statement attributed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling it “a first step in support of President Trump’s commitment to eliminate the capabilities and operations of Muslim Brotherhood chapters that pose a threat to the United States.” The same day OFAC designated the Egyptian and Jordanian branches as SDGTs. Further Treasury actions followed on 21 January, 12 March, 19 May — the flotilla release warning that such operations “represent a significant compliance risk for financial institutions” — and 23 July. A Sudanese designation appears on CNN Arabic’s topic page with no date attached, which is why the count is four only conditionally.

Congress has produced three vehicles and no law. S.2293, the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025, sits in the Senate. H.R.3883, the Muslim Brotherhood Is a Terrorist Organization Act of 2025, exists “to require the Secretary of State to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization” — a requirement the Secretary has already met four times without it. H.R.4397 was introduced by Representative Mario Diaz-Balart on 15 July 2025, referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and its bill-status record was last updated on 7 May 2026. The Judiciary subcommittee on Federal Courts convened its Brotherhood hearing on Wednesday; the title recovered in every retrieval is truncated at “Hidden in Plain Sight: Confronting —,” and the specialist tracker Legis1 reported on 1 August that the committee’s own site had not confirmed a date. No transcript, witness account or wire copy from the sitting had reached this desk by publication.

The primary record on the most recent Treasury action is itself split. The OFAC release designating a senior Egyptian Brotherhood official together with three individuals and three entities carries 23 July 2026, a Thursday. Steptoe’s weekly sanctions update logs it as 24 July. ANI filed on 24 July describing sanctions imposed “on Thursday.” ConservativeHQ dates it “Friday, July 23, 2026,” which is wrong on the weekday. None of the summaries retrieved names the designees. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, an advocacy institution with a declared position on proscription, reads the action as Washington “taking the fight to the group’s support infrastructure in the United Kingdom” — a geographic characterisation that is not a Treasury finding and cannot be tested without the SDN entries themselves.

Assessment: An executive order ends when an administration does; a statute does not. That is the only material difference between the two tracks, and it explains why designation advocates keep filing bills that duplicate powers already exercised. It also explains the sequencing: Treasury needs no vote, names individuals, and moves monthly, while the legislation has been static for over a year. Readers should treat Wednesday’s hearing as an event with no established output until a transcript exists — pre-hearing reporting on a boycott is not coverage of a hearing. And a designation count that rests on an undated topic page belongs in a footnote, not a graphic.