NARCO Act of 2025

The NARCO Act of 2025 would significantly expand and reorganize the authorities of the State Department’s Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL). The bill moves the INL Assistant Secretary to report to the Under Secretary for International Security Affairs and replaces existing subcategories with a broad, enumerated set of duties aimed at monitoring, coordinating, and expanding U.S. international narcotics and transnational crime efforts. Key elements include expanded oversight of narcotics production and trafficking, illicit finance, and related criminal activity; enhanced foreign police training and capacity-building with vetting requirements; a major emphasis on rewards programs to incentivize information and interdiction; extensive cross-agency coordination; and new data-tracking and congressional reporting requirements. The bill explicitly preserves other agencies’ authorities and does not intend to limit domestic security or intelligence work outside the State Department.