{"id":22148,"date":"2025-05-08T13:52:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=22148"},"modified":"2025-05-08T16:24:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:24:54","slug":"sens-rick-scott-jeff-merkley-introduce-legislation-targeting-global-use-of-forced-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/sens-rick-scott-jeff-merkley-introduce-legislation-targeting-global-use-of-forced-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sens. Rick Scott, Jeff Merkley Introduce Legislation Targeting Global Use of Forced Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON DC<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Today, Senators Rick Scott and Jeff Merkley introduced the bipartisan <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rickscott.senate.gov\/services\/files\/1AD122D8-EFA8-407C-BBFD-394E09AC2E55\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">No Funds for Forced Labor Act<\/a> <\/em>to require the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive director at international financial institutions to oppose projects that use forced labor practices, specifically in Communist China\u2019s Xinjiang region, known for forced labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Senador Rick Scott <\/strong>said, \u201cAmong its many human rights abuses, Communist China has a proven and disgusting record of genocide and forced labor of Uyghurs and other minority groups. This is a human rights crisis, and the United States will not be complicit. I was proud to lead an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rickscott.senate.gov\/2021\/12\/sen-rick-scott-applauds-bipartisan-passage-of-uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">esfuerzo<\/a> with Secretary of State Marco Rubio during his time in the Senate to ensure that goods made with Uyghur forced labor do not enter the United States\u2019 supply chain. Our bill, the <em>No<\/em> <em>Funds for Forced Labor Act<\/em>, will take another step in ensuring American tax dollars are not spent to support these gross abuses by Communist China.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Senador Jeff Merkley<\/strong> said, \u201cYour tax dollars should never inadvertently fund forced labor. This bipartisan bill builds off my <em>Ley de prevenci\u00f3n del trabajo forzoso uigur<\/em> and ensures the United States is not complicit in horrific human rights abuses. We need to send a strong message against slave labor wherever this evil appears.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0\u2014 Today, Senators Rick Scott and Jeff Merkley introduced the bipartisan No Funds for Forced Labor Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive director at international financial institutions to oppose projects that use forced labor practices, specifically in Communist China\u2019s Xinjiang region, known for forced labor. Senator Rick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":18847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[43,38,112],"class_list":["post-22148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-bipartisan-actions","tag-foreign-policy-and-national-security","tag-human-rights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sens. 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