On December 6, 2021, the White House announced another “whole-of-government approach” to comprehensively address a problem, releasing the first-ever United States Strategy on Countering Corruption (the Strategy). This follows President Joe Biden’s June 3 national security memorandum, which identified corruption as a core national security interest and directed an interagency review to develop a presidential strategy to combat corruption within 200 days. The Strategy seeks to “identify and rectify persistent gaps in the fight against corruption.” The release was made days before President Biden hosted the Summit for Democracy on December 9 and 10 with leaders from government, civil society, and the private sector from around the world.
The White House announcement and Strategy highlight corruption’s negative effect on the country’s citizens, business environment, and equality. The Strategy focuses on “the transnational dimensions” of corruption, “recognizing the ways in which corrupt actors have used the U.S. financial system and other rule-of-law based systems to launder their ill-gotten gains.” The Strategy takes a broad view of bribery and attempts to address corruption from “small-town hospital administrator[s]” as well as “globe-trotting kleptocrat[s]” and “autocratic leaders.”
The Strategy, a 38-page document, focuses on “five mutually-reinforcing pillars,” each supported by several strategic objectives and lines of effort (LOEs). Government agencies working toward...
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