Mercedes Schlapp, senior fellow at the American Conservative Union, told Newsmax on Wednesday that President Donald Trump and the recently passed “one big, beautiful bill” are helping to stamp out the scourge of human trafficking.

Schlapp spoke to Newsmax live from Washington, D.C., where she’s appearing at an international summit on human trafficking hosted by the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

“We’re united in this fight against this modern-day slavery,” Schlapp said on “Wake Up America.” “We have to remember, human trafficking is a form of terrorism. They are abusing, they are sexually exploiting children. We’ve met survivors, and you hear these stories of girls and boys as young as 10 years old who are being sex trafficked. If we really want to work together, both Democrats and Republicans, to solve a problem, it has to be to end human trafficking.

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