Center for American Progress (CAP) officials are espousing the benefits of the Biden administration’s decision to make global anti-corruption a prime focus of national security initiatives.
The Biden administration recently released its initial National Security Study Memorandum targeting a whole-of-government approach to fight corruption. Additionally, a recent CAP report also issued comprehensive guidelines establishing how the world’s leading democracies can address the growing problem of kleptocracy and illicit finance.
“President Biden’s actions show the world how committed his administration is about mobilizing government resources to combat the scourge of corruption and dirty money,” Katrina Mulligan, acting vice president for National Security and International Policy at CAP, noted via a statement. “Corruption is a grave threat to the vitality and resilience of democracies everywhere and an affront to the democratic values that the Biden administration has emphasized in its domestic and foreign policies. As CAP advocated in a recent report, the United States should make the fight against corruption a national security priority, even as it seeks to strengthen our democratic institutions and live up to our democratic principles at home.”
Mulligan said the Biden administration memo sends an important message to the nation’s partners and allies in expressing the United States is prepared to lead global anti-corruption efforts, consistent with American values.