WASHINGTON—The State Department has called on Beijing to end its eradication campaign against Falun Gong ahead of July 20, the date that marked the start of the persecution in 1999.
“For over 26 years, the CCP has waged a campaign of repression against practitioners of Falun Gong and their families,” a department spokesperson told The Epoch Times.
“We again call on the CCP to end its campaign to eradicate Falun Gong.”
Additionally, an unknown number of people have been killed for their organs to fuel the regime’s lucrative transplant industry, according to independent investigations. A 2019 independent tribunal in London found that Falun Gong practitioners were the primary source of organs.
Both federal bills are awaiting action in the Senate.
“You need to get a vote on it,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) told The Epoch Times’ sister media outlet NTD, about the legislation.
He said it’s “despicable” that organ harvesting is happening.
“We’ve got to tell the Chinese government that we’re not going to stand for this,” Scott said.

“Communist China has been able to get away with a campaign of widespread evil,” Rubio said in 2024. “The U.S. will not tolerate these practices.”
Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) described forced organ harvesting as being “beyond human comprehension.”
“This is worse than anything I’ve ever heard of,” he told The Epoch Times on July 15. “To have people in prison—objectors, prisoners of conscience, political prisoners—and this regime has got their blood types, their tissue types, and somebody orders an organ, and they go in there and force that person to give up an organ, and he loses his life.
Repression on US Soil
Repression targeting Falun Gong practitioners in other countries, most notably in the United States, has escalated recently, driven by a 2022 instruction from Chinese regime leader Xi Jinping, whistleblowers have said.That plot was foiled by undercover FBI agents.

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), who previously chaired the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said such aggression is inherent to the regime’s nature.
“They hate Falun Gong. They hate the people that talk about what was China like before [communist rule],” he told NTD.
The regime’s efforts to export repression makes it all the more important for the West to understand the Falun Gong issue, said Levi Browde, executive director of the Falun Dafa Information Center.
“The Falun Gong issue is no longer just about stopping terrible human rights abuses in China. It is also a test case for how Western democracies can maintain their sovereignty and national security in the face of the CCP’s relentless and increasingly sophisticated transnational repression,” he said in a statement.
Ahead of a Falun Gong rally in Washington on July 17, Rep. Johnny Olszewski (D-Md.) said he’s thankful for anyone “taking the time to call out and peacefully stand up against” the abuses the regime is perpetrating.
“It’s both the right thing to do from a human rights perspective” and for “ensuring American interest in the long term,” he told NTD.

Lawmakers are increasingly looking to trade as a potential weapon to address Beijing’s human rights violations.
“Everything should be about human rights,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) told NTD.
Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) agreed, calling trade “the greatest weapon we have with an export economy like China.”
Where there’s a will, there’s a way, Smith told The Epoch Times.
If, because of human rights, Chinese exports aren’t finding markets in the United States, the regime will be forced to change, he said.