July 30, 2025
“I’ve worked on a lot of bipartisan issues—in the AI space, on pensions, on, frankly, the things that people care about back home.”
View Husted’s remarks here.
WASHINGTON – Sens. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) joined Common Ground with Bret Baier to discuss their bill, the Enhancing Detection of Human Trafficking Act.
Husted’s bipartisan, bicameral bill would direct the Department of Labor (DOL) to train its employees to identify human trafficking and refer suspected trafficking crimes to law enforcement.
Key quotes from Husted include:
“It would require the Department of Labor to train its employees to spot signs of human trafficking. Remember, they’re out there every day inspecting manufacturing sites, construction sites, agricultural sites, and they can be the eyes and ears on the ground to help give leads to law enforcement.”
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“When you have strong bipartisan support on an issue that is a problem, right at the beginning, I’m confident that there will be support for the bill.”
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“If you spent time doing ride-alongs with children’s services workers or law enforcement, you just see the human tragedy. It’s gut-wrenching, and we need to do more about it.”
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“I’ve worked on a lot of bipartisan issues—in the AI space, on pensions, on, frankly, the things that people care about back home.”
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“You just focus on working people. That’s what we do in Ohio. That’s why I like the Big, Beautiful Bill—cutting taxes on tips, eliminating taxes on overtime, a child tax credit of [$2,200]. All of those things matter to working people. And so, if you focus on them, you bring everybody else along pretty easily in my state.”
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“People expect us to get the job done. They don’t like the squabbling. They don’t like it when we play games.”
This bill builds on Husted’s work across the aisle for issues that matter to working families in Ohio. Husted leads bipartisan bills to boost American energy, to protect innocent Americans from data and identity theft or fraud at the hands of AI scammers and to safeguard American data from a Communist China AI bot.