Let's cap credit-card interest rates, take the fight to Big Pharma, end exploitative forced labor, and rid politics of corporate money once and for all.
End exploitative forced labor.
Occurrences
Evidence
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Hawley's office reported that President Trump signed his child-exploitation measure into law, providing DHS $108.5 million to hire 200 investigators and analysts.
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Hawley said the House passed his Faster Labor Contracts Act and added: The Senate needs to pass my bill and get this done.
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Public Law 117-78 established U.S. policy to strengthen forced-labor import prohibitions and created a Xinjiang-related rebuttable presumption barring covered goods.
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Axios reported Hawley planned legislation requiring large corporations to audit overseas supply chains for forced labor and face major penalties for noncompliance.
Assessments
Hawley did not deliver the broad promised outcome of ending exploitative forced labor. The strongest same-term enacted result is his 2026 child exploitation and trafficking enforcement measure, which provided DHS funding for investigators and analysts and gives him candidate credit for a related anti-exploitation outcome. However, that law focuses on child exploitation/trafficking rather than forced labor broadly. Earlier forced-labor supply-chain law and proposals show relevant policy activity, but the major forced-labor import law predates the 2024 reelection term and the later Hawley-specific forced-labor supply-chain proposal is not shown as enacted. Overall, the record supports meaningful but limited partial delivery, not full fulfillment.