No Brotherhood Chapter Has Been Designated Since 16 March, and the Senate List Names Thirty-One
Executive Order 14362 was signed on 24 November 2025 and has produced four designated chapters in 264 days. The legislative text behind the campaign enumerates at least thirty-one jurisdictions.
The architecture is on the primary record. Trump signed Executive Order 14362, “Designation of Certain Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists,” on 24 November 2025. On 13 January 2026 Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced, “as a first step,” terrorist designations against the Lebanese, Jordanian and Egyptian chapters; the accompanying fact sheet designated the Lebanese chapter as both an FTO and an SDGT and its secretary general, Muhammad Fawzi Taqqosh, as an SDGT. On 9 March the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood — described by State as the Sudanese Islamic Movement and its armed wing, the al-Baraa Bin Malik Brigade — was designated SDGT, with FTO status effective 16 March. Nothing has followed. The Senate bill running parallel to the executive track, S.2293, enumerates chapters in at least thirty-one jurisdictions, from Algeria and Bahrain through Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Between those two numbers sits a strategy document. The White House counterterrorism strategy released on 6 May identifies the Brotherhood as “the root of all modern Islamist terrorism” and promises “to crush the organization everywhere it operates” — quotations that reach us through the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, an advocacy institute that campaigned for designation, and that nobody appears to have checked against the primary text. The other side of the ledger is equally quiet. An Egyptian Brotherhood official, unnamed in Al Jazeera’s 13 January report, said the group rejected the designation and would “pursue all legal avenues to challenge” it. Seven months on there is no public reporting that anything was filed anywhere. Jordan, meanwhile, keeps enforcing its own 23 April 2025 ban, under which Interior Minister Mazen Farraya ordered assets confiscated and offices closed “even if set up under the guise of other entities.”
Assessment: Four chapters in 264 days against a promise to act everywhere is either evidentiary friction or a decision, and the distinction is checkable. FTO packages have to survive review; the chapters not yet touched sit in Kuwait, Bahrain and the Emirates, where designation would name organisations inside states Washington needs for everything else it is doing in the Gulf this month. That is the likelier explanation, and it is the one no press release will offer. Distrust the strategy quotations until the primary text is pulled — an advocacy institute rendering a document it lobbied for is not the document. And read the missing Egyptian lawsuit as capacity data, not restraint.