PACT is deeply disappointed to learn that Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) is blocking incorporation of the STOP CSAM Act into the National Defense Authorization Act, reportedly due to concerns about holding technology platforms accountable when they recklessly promote or facilitate child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

PACT issued the following statement regarding the nomination of Barbara Hale Thornhill to serve as Director of the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office), with the rank of Ambassador-at-Large.

In late November, the United Nations General Assembly, representing 193 countries, adopted a consensus declaration reaffirming its resolve to end human trafficking, which “constitutes a serious crime and a grave offense to human dignity…” The United States refused to sign the document, citing concerns that some references suggested a “one-world globalist approach.”

President Trump’s recent Executive Order, “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence,” is a gift to Big Tech and an insult to parents, families, and states, which have been clamoring for the government to enact common-sense legislation, as tech companies continue to release largely untested, and sometimes dangerous, technologies into homes and schools nationwide.

Congress has overwhelmingly passed the bill to release the Epstein files. For far too long, survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell have spoken out, only to be met by institutional silence and inaction.