Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has introduced legislation to restore the DOJ's shuttered Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.
The program was the largest anti-crime task force in the country and despite objections from Democrats and Republicans in Congress, the Trump administration disbanded it in 2025.
Whitehouse and other supporters say the program helped to arrest fentanyl traffickers, seize hundreds of tons of narcotics and confiscate billions of dollars in dirty money.
The senator say the administration's decision to shut down the crime-fighting program was a gift to cartels and fentanyl traffickers.
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