SHIELD Against CCP Act
Sponsored By: Senator John Cornyn
Introduced
Summary
Establishes a new DHS Working Group to coordinate U.S. defenses against threats tied to the Chinese Communist Party. The group would focus on terrorism, cybersecurity, border and transportation risks and how those threats exploit immigration, trade, drug trafficking, and illicit finance.
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- Creates a Director who reports to the Secretary and requires dedicated staff, including at least one employee for privacy law compliance. The group would be stood up within 180 days and can accept detailees from other federal agencies.
- Reviews DHS efforts in four domains: immigration exploitation, predatory economic and trade practices including forced labor, trafficking of fentanyl and drug precursors, and illicit financial activity by Chinese money laundering organizations.
- Must account for program resources, identify policy and process gaps, and avoid duplicating existing DHS work. It requires annual assessments for five years with unclassified reports posted publicly and it sunsets after seven years.
- Coordinates threat information with federal, state, local, and tribal partners and the National Network of Fusion Centers and disseminates findings back to those partners.
- Adds oversight and technology steps by requiring a Comptroller General review within one year and directing DHS leaders to pursue research, development, and operational testing of technologies within one year.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
DHS threat assessments, sharing, and testing
This bill would make the Working Group examine many CCP-related threats. That includes misuse of immigration processes (identity theft, visa fraud, unlawful border crossings, smuggling, trafficking). It would cover counterfeit and pirated goods, forced labor, customs fraud, and intellectual property theft. It would also examine support for drug trafficking (including fentanyl by border, mail, or express consignments) and illicit finance and money laundering. The Working Group would review DHS programs and list resources and program effectiveness. It would build on past DHS reviews to find gaps. The bill would require information sharing with the DHS intelligence office, federal and state partners, Tribes, and fusion centers. DHS would, if practicable, research and operationally test security technologies within one year. The Secretary would give an unclassified assessment to Congress within 180 days and then yearly for five years, post the unclassified report publicly, and may include a classified annex. The Secretary would brief committees within 30 days of each filing.
New DHS working group and staff
This bill would require DHS to create a Working Group on threats tied to the Chinese Communist Party within 180 days. The Secretary would appoint a Director who reports to the Secretary. DHS would have to provide enough staff and at least one employee focused on privacy law compliance. The Working Group could accept detailees from intelligence or other federal agencies, with or without reimbursement. The bill would define which congressional committees and key terms apply. All activities would have to follow constitutional, privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties rules and not infringe lawful free speech by U.S. persons.
GAO review of Working Group
This bill would require the Comptroller General (GAO) to report to Congress within one year on how the Working Group was implemented. The report would assess whether the new requirements were carried out.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
John Cornyn
TX • R
Cosponsors
John Fetterman
PA • D
Sponsored 5/6/2025
James Lankford
OK • R
Sponsored 5/6/2025
Ruben Gallego
AZ • D
Sponsored 5/6/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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