Disrupt Fentanyl Trafficking Act of 2023
This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to develop and submit a strategy to use existing authorities to target, disrupt, or degrade threats to national security that are caused or exacerbated by fentanyl trafficking. The strategy must be submitted in an unclassified form, but it may include a classified index.
Additionally, DOD must seek to enhance cooperation with defense officials of Mexico to target, disrupt, and degrade transnational criminal organizations within Mexico that traffic fentanyl.
Congress recognizes that fentanyl trafficking across US borders is a long-term threat to national security.
The bill aims to improve interagency communication and intelligence sharing to enhance the interdiction of fentanyl at US borders.
The strategy developed by the Secretary of Defense will outline how existing authorities will be used to target, disrupt, or degrade threats posed by fentanyl trafficking.
The bill seeks to enhance cooperation with defense officials of the Government of Mexico to target, disrupt, and degrade transnational criminal organizations involved in fentanyl trafficking.
