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Combating Cartels on Social Media Act of 2025

Introduced: September 16, 2025 Introduced by: Ciscomani, Juan Republican · Arizona See on congress.gov

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Jan 16, 2025

Referred to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.

Jan 16, 2025

Introduced in House

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.

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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.

What's happening now January 16, 2025

Referred to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.

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Committees of jurisdiction 5

Counterterrorism and Intelligence Subcommittee
House of Representatives · subcommittee of Homeland Security Committee
Energy and Commerce Committee
House of Representatives
Foreign Affairs Committee
House of Representatives
Homeland Security Committee
House of Representatives
Judiciary Committee
House of Representatives

Lobbying activity 2

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

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Cosponsors 6

Vasquez, Gabe

New Mexico · Dec 19, 2025

Landsman, Greg

Ohio · Dec 16, 2025

McDonald Rivet, Kristen

Michigan · Dec 16, 2025

Gillen, Laura

New York · Oct 28, 2025

Vindman, Eugene Simon

Virginia · Sep 16, 2025

Houlahan, Chrissy

Pennsylvania · Jan 16, 2025

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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/

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"H.R. 488: Combating Cartels on Social Media Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-488/.

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H.R. 488, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-488/.

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