Trump can shorten a criminal post unit that contributed to catching El Chapo: Report

President Donald Trump's budgetary proposal in 2026 could remove the Task Forces (Ocdetf) of organized crime drosing, a federal program that has played a key role in combating transnational drug trade, and was significantly involved in the study, which led to the arrest of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

An e -mail of an budget analyzing of the Ministry of Justice (DOJ) to a counterpart from Ocdetf said that the budget of the unit for the 2026 financial year is “carried out” and the office is dissolved according to Bloomberg.

“This Ministry of Justice will continue our law enforcement efforts against transnational criminal organizations to make America secure again,” a DoJ officer told Newsweek.

Newsweek Also turned into the White House to get a comment.

Why is it important

The obsessive -compulsive disorder has collected more than 2 billion US dollars of pleasant proceeds in the past two financial years and has decayed from criminal networks.

The unit currently has thousands of open investigations, and it is unclear whether the probes end or are subject to the office if the office is dissolved.

What to know?

The Trump government presented its budget budget for the 2026 financial year on May 2 and proposed a reduction in discretionary non-defense expenses by 22.6 percent or $ 163 billion below the current level. The “thin” budget proposal would reduce most domestic expenses and at the same time increase national security expenses to 1.01 trillion dollars, an increase of 13 percent in the previous year, said Axios.

The White House budget plan would also assign more money to enforce immigration.

The administration recommends a reduction of 33.2 billion US dollars for the DOJ budget. The removal of Ocdetf was not expressly mentioned in the public budget documents of the Trump administration.

Critics argue that the proposal contradicts the rhetoric of the administration about the reinforcement of drug cartels. Ocdetf has coordinated the company between DEA, FBI, IRS and Homeland Security and focused on first-class drug networks and money laundering operations.

Ocdetf's merger center in Virginia houses secret service and financial data with which investigators and prosecutors build profiles on individuals and criminal networks. The center was closed in the e -mail of the Doj budget analyst.

The proposed removal of Ocdetf also appears in contradiction to Trump's “Operation Take Back America”, a platform that aims to remove drug cartels and criminal organizations. The deputy attorney of General Todd Blanche said that the company would use Ocdetf resources in a memo of March 6th.

What people say

Blanche, in a memo on March 6th: “The Operation Take Back America requires that Ocdetf falls to existing resources to counter the priorities of the Ministry of Justice: to stop the illegal immigration, to eliminate cartels and TCOs and to end illegal trade in dangerous drugs and people.”

Office of Management and Budget proposal: “The administration undertakes to put an end to fatal drug trafficking, which begins with secure limits and commitment to law and order.”

What happens next

The more comprehensive domestic cuts of the Trump government have already prompted the legislators, including Senator Patty Murray, the top democrat of the appropriation committee, to “remove the president programs that help the working Americans”.

The fate of hundreds of ongoing obsessive -compulsive disorders and the future of its intelligence center remains unsolved, since the legislator supports or rejects the administration's proposal.

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