Since the founding days of this country, America has recognized the power that whistleblowers hold in the fight against fraud, waste, and abuse. In order to fully protect whistleblowers, we must strengthen whistleblower laws, close existing loopholes in whistleblower legislation, ensure Congressionally mandated awards are being paid out in a timely manner, and create new whistleblower protections for burgeoning sectors, such as Artificial Intelligence.
National Whistleblower Center has laid out Seven Major Campaigns for 2025, each of which are essential to safeguarding whistleblowers across America’s workforce. This year, we are leveraging the power of our grassroots supporter base to enact necessary changes in our whistleblower legislative framework. Learn more about each of the campaigns below and take action by contacting your Representatives, Senators, and the White House.
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(1) Fully Implement the AML and Sanctions Whistleblower Program.
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(2) Strengthen the False Claims Act and Protect its qui tam provision from attack.
Secondly, we must protect the qui tam provision from judicial attack. For over 160 years, the Constitutionality of the provision has been upheld by courts across the country. Recently, a District Court in Florida ruled the provision to be in violation of the Appointments Clause in the Constitution. We must urge our Representatives and Senators to take a stand for the FCA and the Constitutionality of America’s most effective anti-corruption tool.
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(3) Call for the Passage of the AI Whistleblower Protection Act.
As social media companies emerged as major players in media consumption and communication tools, Congress sat back, failing to implement an oversight structure that would protect the public interest and delaying the implementation of whistleblower protections for employees in the sector.
Now, having grown unfettered by meaningful regulation, social media companies flaunt massive financial backing and lobbying power in Washington. Meta, for example, employs 66 lobbyists — one for every eight members of Congress, making it nearly impossible to regulate the industry. We cannot make the same mistake with Artificial Intelligence whistleblowers. The burgeoning sector holds unmatched implications for Americans’ privacy and data security.
As AI companies compete and race to develop the next big product or groundbreaking technology, financial gain is pursued over the safety of the products released and unleashed on the public, superseding respect for Americans’ rights. We have already done a severe injustice for AI Whistleblowers who have spoken out against abuse of power and opaque business practices. In May 2025, Senator Grassley introduced the AI Whistleblower Protection Act, a critical piece of legislation that would offer anti-retaliation protections to AI employees and outline clear reporting guidelines. This urgently needed bill must pass into law. We urge our supporters to contact their Representatives and Senators today to call for the passage of this bill.
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(4) Stop Repeal by Delay.
In addition, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Whistleblower Office has suffered from a long-standing funding crisis which has delayed the payment of large whistleblower awards, leaving whistleblowers who are owed their awards out to dry for years. Stopgap solutions have been passed in 2021 and again in December of 2024, but these midnight hour solutions are not sustainable. The current band-aid solution is set to expire, once again, in March of 2025. We demand that Congress pass the CFTC Fund Improvement Act 2500, a permanent funding solution to the ongoing crisis.
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(5) Close the Major Loophole in Airline Safety Whistleblower Law.
We demand that this loophole be redressed through a clarifying amendment which inserts the preliminary reinstatement protection outlined in section (b)(2)(A) into the Act’s enforcement sections outlined in sections (b)(5) and (b)(6)(A). Additionally, we demand that President Trump sign an Executive Order mandating that OSHA abide by the legally-mandated timeline for investigation outlined in AIR21.
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(6) Protect Federal Whistleblowers.
We must allow federal whistleblowers to pursue their claims in federal court when they are faced with administrative inaction. We urge for the passage of the Congressional Whistleblower Protection Act to ensure that federal whistleblowers can exercise their rights in federal court.
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(7) Make National Whistleblower Day Permanent.
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