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AttemptedImmigration / Drug Cartels

Pass the NARCOS Act to designate nine specific Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations under U.S. law so the U.S. can pursue their financiers and Chinese suppliers in court.

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AttemptedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 80%

ATTEMPTED is correct and not overstated. Graham led a genuine, individual legislative effort that failed: on 2023-03-29 he was the LEAD SPONSOR who introduced S.1048, the "Ending the NARCOS Act of 2023," which named nine specific Mexican cartels and expressly targeted "the Chinese entities who send them chemicals to produce these poisons," and he publicly championed it. But the promise's core goal — PASSING the NARCOS Act — was not achieved: the bill was read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence and went no further (no committee vote, no floor vote, never enacted); the 118th Congress ended with it dead. This is more than a single vote (real individual leadership), so it clears the bar for ATTEMPTED, but it is not CHAMPIONED (reserved for a led effort that actually advanced/succeeded — this one never advanced past referral) and not FULL (the Act never passed). It is also not PARTIAL for this specific legislative promise: cartels were designated FTOs in Feb 2025, but by executive action (EO 14157 / State Department), not by passing the NARCOS Act and not as Graham's legislative accomplishment.

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