The NARCO Act of 2025 reorganizes how the State Department's Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs operates by expanding their responsibilities and establishing clearer priorities for combating drug trafficking, transnational crime, and terror-related criminal activity. The bill shifts the Assistant Secretary's reporting line to the Under Secretary for International Security Affairs and mandates that at least 20 percent of the bureau's annual budget go toward rewards and bounties programs for capturing criminals and interdicting drugs, with up to $25 million available annually for designated criminal activities. The legislation also requires the bureau to coordinate extensively with other federal agencies including the FBI, DEA, Defense Department, and intelligence community to align priorities, establish better monitoring and evaluation metrics for programs, and create a publicly searchable database of all programming spending and outcomes. The bill limits funding for foreign justice system strengthening to no more than 10 percent of grant funds and requires annual certification to Congress that U.S. enforcement personnel abroad are complying with ethics requirements.
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