
You've heard the US scrapped its drug-fighting programs. Here's the truth
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When it comes to counternarcotics, there are better and worse law enforcement programs. We will keep the good ones and cut the bad ones
F. Cartwright Weiland serves as Senior Bureau Official, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
Here's the truth. As soon as the foreign assistance pause and review began, the State Department moved rapidly to evaluate and greenlight critical programs. In the weeks since, almost 700 separate projects administered by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) have been reviewed, refined, and ultimately unlocked. Many of these are joint programs with the Department of Homeland Security, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Customs and Border Protection, which obtain funding for their joint programs from the State Department. Most of these relate to narcotrafficking, but some funding equips foreign law enforcement officials to confront other threats no less important.