Skip to main content
H.R. 488 119th Congress House

Combating Cartels on Social Media Act of 2025

Official title: To require the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of State to implement a strategy to combat the efforts of transnational criminal organizations … Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To require the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of State to implement a strategy to combat the efforts of transnational criminal organizations to recruit individuals in the United States via social media platforms and other online services and assess their use of such platforms and services for illicit activities.

Introduced: January 16, 2025 Introduced by: Juan Ciscomani Republican · Arizona See on congress.gov
Crime and Law Enforcement Computer security and identity theftCongressional oversightDrug trafficking and controlled substancesFirearms and explosives
More subjectsShow fewer subjects
Fraud offenses and financial crimesHuman traffickingIntellectual propertyIntergovernmental relationsInternet, web applications, social mediaOrganized crimeRight of privacySmuggling and trafficking
Sign in to write a letter Sign in to watch
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jan 16, 2025
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jan 16, 2025
Introduced in House
Jan 16, 2025
Referred to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.
 Ask about this bill AI · grounded in the bill text

Have a question about what this bill does? Ask in plain English; the answer is drawn from the bill's actual text and official record, and it'll tell you when something isn't in the text rather than guess.

AI answers can be imperfect; always confirm against the full bill text.

What's happening now January 16, 2025

Referred to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Combating Cartels on Social Media Act of 2025

This bill requires the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, and State to combat the use of social media by transnational criminal organizations to recruit individuals in the United States for illicit activities. 

Specifically, the departments must jointly assess and implement a strategy to combat the use of social media platforms, messaging services, and other interactive digital platforms by these organizations to recruit individuals to engage in or support unlawful activities in the United States, Mexico, or otherwise near a U.S. international border.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • S 150 Combating Cartels on Social Media Act of 2025
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 5
 Lobbying activity 2

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

Bodies those filers lobbied

A filing lists the bills it worked on and the parts of government it contacted in separate sections, so these are the bodies those filers named anywhere in the filing, not a per-bill breakdown.

 Cosponsors 6
All 6 Democratic 6
D
Vasquez, Gabe
New Mexico · Dec 19, 2025
 D
Landsman, Greg
Ohio · Dec 16, 2025
 D
McDonald Rivet, Kristen
Michigan · Dec 16, 2025
 D
Gillen, Laura
New York · Oct 28, 2025
 D
Vindman, Eugene Simon
Virginia · Sep 16, 2025
 D
Houlahan, Chrissy
Pennsylvania · Jan 16, 2025
Cite this page click to expand
APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 488: Combating Cartels on Social Media Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-488/
MLA
"H.R. 488: Combating Cartels on Social Media Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-488/.
Bluebook (legal)
H.R. 488, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-488/.
Markdown link
[H.R. 488: Combating Cartels on Social Media Act of 2025](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-488/)
Report a problem