In the coming days I plan on reintroducing the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Act which has been significantly informed by survivor input and includes a survivor empowerment approach to victim services.
Smith plans to reintroduce a bill to strengthen anti-trafficking programs.
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Under the constant threat of Russian aggression, interference, and disinformation, and with the prospect of EU membership hanging in the balance, there is much at stake for our partners in Moldova and for the United States in a region that is critical to our national interests.
Ending these overnight, ending these immediately would cause a humanitarian catastrophe far greater than what we've already seen.
We need a special envoy to really take this issue and focus on it, bring all the disparate elements together.
Since Russia's full-scale invasion our FMF budget for Moldova has increased tenfold.
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