U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett Files Bill Empowering Trump to Enlist 'Privately Armed and Equipped Actors' to Confront Cartels - Tennessee Star

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U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett Files Bill Empowering Trump to Enlist 'Privately Armed and Equipped Actors' to Confront Cartels - Tennessee Star

U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN-02) on Thursday filed legislation that would empower President Donald Trump to issue letters of marque and reprisal, allowing privately armed and equipped individuals and organizations to confront criminal cartels. According to a press release from Burchett's office, the Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act of 2025 would give the Trump administration authority, "to commission privately armed and e…

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Visits: 6 Republican Congressman Tim Burchett announced that he is preparing a bill that authorizes the Donald Trump government to hire mercenaries and send them to fight the cartels. Through his X account, Burchett said on February 12 that he will present this initiative in the Lower House of Congress to give more legal tools to Trump to fight these organizations, which are already considered as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, the object of “t…