Source: Responsible Statecraft
by William Hartung & Ashley Gate
“On February 10, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order that directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to pause the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The FCPA was the first law in modern history to ban a country’s own citizens and companies from bribing foreign officials. Citing the law as one of the ‘excessive barriers to American commerce abroad’, President Trump has instructed the attorney general to (at her discretion) ‘cease the initiation of any new FCPA investigations or enforcement actions.’ … This move by the Trump administration to pause enforcement of the foreign bribery law now and allow it to be put on the shelf later risks a revival of the pre-1970s period, when bribery was a routine practice among major U.S. arms contractors.” (02/25/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/foreign-corrupt-practices-act/