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Official title: To establish in the Department of Homeland Security a working group relating to countering terrorist, cybersecurity, border and port security, and transportation security threats posed to the United States by the Chinese Communist Party, and for other purposes.
Introduced January 23, 2025 by Dale Strong · Last progress March 11, 2025
The bill improves DHS coordination, threat assessments, and privacy safeguards to strengthen border and supply-chain security, but it increases federal costs and raises risks of greater scrutiny, information-sharing, and potential trade enforcement actions while being limited by a seven-year sunset.
Federal, state, and local government partners will receive coordinated, regular DHS assessments of CCP-linked threats, improving their threat awareness and response planning.
Border communities, transportation workers, and law enforcement will gain a dedicated DHS body focused on coordinating border, port, and transportation security, potentially reducing illicit trafficking and supply-chain vulnerabilities.
Federal programs will be required to include at least one privacy-compliance employee and civil-liberties protections, reducing the risk of unlawful surveillance of U.S. persons.
Immigrants and lawful travelers may face increased scrutiny and delays in visa and immigration processes due to broad investigative authority.
Immigrants, local governments, and state governments could see personally identifiable information shared more broadly through fusion centers and information-sharing, raising privacy risks despite the bill's compliance requirement.
Small businesses, financial institutions, and importers could face more aggressive enforcement or trade frictions if the bill's broad framing of CCP involvement leads to conflating private actors with state-sponsored threats.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires DHS to create a working group within 180 days to assess and coordinate DHS actions against CCP-linked terrorism, cyber, border, trade, trafficking, and illicit-finance threats.
Creates a Department of Homeland Security working group to evaluate and coordinate DHS efforts to address national security, law enforcement, border, transportation, and cybersecurity threats linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The working group must be stood up within 180 days, have a director reporting to the DHS Secretary, include privacy-compliance staff, and review DHS programs, resources, gaps, and interagency coordination focused on CCP tactics including trafficking, counterfeit goods, forced labor, illicit finance, fentanyl distribution, and immigration exploitation. The working group must produce assessments and reports on DHS activities, account for resources and program effectiveness, build on past reviews to avoid duplication, and recommend policy, procedural, and operational changes to better detect and counter CCP-linked threats across terrorism, cyber, border/port, and transportation security domains.