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119-s-2457119th Congress

Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Senator Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]

Introduced

Summary

Creates dedicated domestic terrorism units across DHS, DOJ, and the FBI. The bill would also require coordinated training, reporting, and civil rights compliance to focus federal efforts on extremist violence, especially White supremacist and neo-Nazi threats.

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  • Federal agencies: Would establish a DHS Domestic Terrorism Unit, a DOJ Domestic Terrorism Office led by a Domestic Terrorism Counsel, and an FBI Domestic Terrorism Section. Each office must include at least one civil rights and civil liberties compliance employee and provide annual anti-bias training.
  • State, local, Tribal, and uniformed services: Would require training on domestic terrorism and the risk of White supremacist and neo-Nazi infiltration. It would create an Interagency Task Force within 180 days and require a joint report within one year.
  • Communities and hate-crime response: Would authorize a federal hate-crimes nexus program, expand the Community Relations Service to assist affected communities, and expand FBI hate-crimes liaison duties. DOJ, DHS, and the FBI must publish biannual reports with disaggregated data on investigations, arrests, prosecutions, convictions, and weapons recoveries.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

New federal domestic terrorism units

If enacted, the bill would create domestic terrorism offices at DHS, DOJ, and the FBI. Those offices would begin upon enactment and terminate 10 years later. Each office would have enough staff, at least one civil-rights and civil-liberties compliance employee, and yearly anti-bias training. The FBI would also assign a hate-crimes liaison or special agent to every field office to investigate hate crimes with a domestic terrorism nexus.

Task force on infiltration risks

If enacted, the bill would require the Attorney General, FBI Director, Homeland Security Secretary, and Defense Secretary to form an interagency task force within 180 days. The task force would analyze White supremacist and neo‑Nazi infiltration of uniformed services and federal law enforcement. Not later than one year after establishment, the agency heads would submit a joint report to Congress, with the unclassified portion posted publicly and a classified annex only if necessary.

Public reporting and community coordination

If enacted, the bill would require DHS, DOJ, and the FBI to file a joint report within 180 days and every six months for 10 years. Reports would list assessments, investigations, incidents, arrests, indictments, prosecutions, convictions, and weapons recoveries and would include a specific focus on White supremacist activity. The first report would include incidents or attempted incidents since April 19, 1995. The bill would also create a DOJ Domestic Terrorism Executive Committee that must meet at least four times a year and hold at least four local community forums each year.

Community help and free-speech protections

If enacted, the bill would let the Justice Department’s Community Relations Service help communities when DOJ brings a hate-crime charge that has a domestic terrorism nexus. CRS help would be mediation, outreach, and community support, not direct cash. The bill would also state that nothing in the Act may be read to allow violating First Amendment rights.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]

IL • D

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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