Unlikely bipartisan Senate duo seeks to permanently ban ex-lawmakers from lobbying

‘Our founders never intended public service to become a training ground for a lifetime of lobbying,’ Sen. Rick Scott noted

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A bipartisan Senate duo are pushing a proposal to permanently prohibit former lawmakers and elected officers of Congress from lobbying.

Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts have teamed up on a measure called the “Banning Lobbying And Safeguarding Trust Act,” or “BLAST Act.”

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Sen. Rick Scott, a Republican from Florida, in the Senate Subway during a vote at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Friday, March 14, 2025.(Allison Robbert/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“When politicians use their time in public office to cash in after they leave government, the American people lose. Trust in our institutions is at an all-time low, and the revolving door between Capitol Hill and K Street is a big part of that. We need to restore the American people’s trust in their government, and that’s why I’m proud to introduce this bipartisan bill to put government clearly back on the side of the people,” Scott said in a statement.

“Our founders never intended public service to become a training ground for a lifetime of lobbying. Senator Warren and I are working to end this practice once and for all,” he added.

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The proposal for a permanent lobbying ban on lawmakers would go further than current law, according to Warren’s office.

“Under current law, former members of Congress are allowed to lobby their former colleagues in Congress after a ‘cooling off’ period — one year for former members of the House of Representatives and two years for former senators,” her office said.

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“It’s simple: Members of Congress should spend their time in Washington serving the American people, not preparing to cash in big time with a cushy lobbying career after they leave office,” Warren said in a statement. “It’s long past time to close the revolving door that’s corrupted our government and destroyed public trust in elected officials. This bipartisan bill is an important push to get that done.”

Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.

Washington law enforcers to be boosted for America 250, DOJ announces

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WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Friday announced a planned “summer surge” of law enforcement into Washington, D.C., ahead of events surrounding the U.S. 250th anniversary celebration.

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‘Creeps need not apply’: How a team of bipartisan women plan to change Capitol Hill’s culture of harassment

2026-05-15 2:29 PM ET / CNN

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When Rep. Emilia Sykes met with Democratic leaders about the pervasiveness of sexual harassment on Capitol Hill, she made one thing very clear to Hakeem Jeffries: this could not just be a women’s issue.

“This could all be eliminated and we wouldn’t even be here if these members were not abusing their power, and so we need to get to the root cause,” the Ohio Democrat said. “We cannot do this alone.”

Not even 10 years on from Congress’ last attempt to reform the process for reporting sexual harassment on Capitol Hill, leaders from the Republican and Democratic Women’s Caucuses have been tasked with overhauling the process again. Two of them — Sykes and Florida Republican Rep. Kat Cammack — sat down exclusively with CNN to detail their goals, provide insight into a forming strategy and even acknowledge the limitations of that work.

“We have seen where this is a bipartisan problem, which is why it is requiring a bipartisan solution. And if you are a creep on Capitol Hill, we’re here to say that creeps need not apply,” Cammack said.

The congresswoman promised that “we’ll see additional repercussions for members that have acted inappropriately,” but, she added, “we want to see this stop before it ever gets to that point.”

The plan, they say, is to work quickly, a challenge in a body that is only six months out from a contentious midterm election and already struggling to pass bipartisan legislation.

They are aiming to devise a series of reforms that could move more expeditiously through the House administration committee and pass as a resolution. They also are entertaining a wide variety of options that they hope can shape the culture that has made Capitol Hill such a breeding ground for harassment.

One idea being considered, Cammack said, is new disclosure requirements for members who have ever settled sexual harassment claims or had cases brought against them.

And while it is against House rules for a members of Congress to enter into relationships with their own staff, there is no such rule barring a member of Congress from having relationships with staff from other offices. The pair argued this can blur boundaries and is ripe for abuse.

“As a matter of judgment, it’s not a great idea,” Sykes said. “It just creates so many potential issues, and I can understand folks tend to meet their spouses and their partners in their workplace, but there has to be a level of judgment and thoughtfulness so you’re not putting yourself or someone else in harm’s way.”

Currently, staffers facing harassment and seeking help can turn to a long list of entities from the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights to the Office of Employee Advocacy to the House Ethics Committee. But the processes of each, the lawmakers argued, are ill-defined and often not well-publicized among the staffers who may need to access them.

When allegations reach the House and Senate Ethics Committees, the lawmakers pointed out, cases can languish for months and even years before any hope of resolution.

“Today if a woman was harassed or, God forbid, assaulted, if there was a situation, she wouldn’t really know where to go. The training is woefully inadequate, and she would wonder, ‘Who do I talk to, where do I go?’” Cammack said. “On top of that, there is this real fear, and it is a credible fear of retaliation. People work so very hard to get to Capitol Hill, they work endless hours and they feel like if they report that they will be retaliated against.”

Another area ripe for reform, they argue, is training, which they say is especially inadequate for lawmakers.

For Cammack and Sykes, who represent a younger generation of women on Capitol Hill, the issue is personal. Each said they have personally had to call out harassment.

“I think what you’ll find from Rep. Cammack and I is that we will call it out in the moment,” Sykes said. “But we are also members of Congress, and we have the confidence and the ability to do so. But that’s unique for us.”

“I can’t tell you how many times as a southerner I have had to bless someone’s heart,” Cammack said, noting that hill staffers can’t always do that.

“They are dealing with a real power dynamic imbalance,” she added.

The bipartisan task force, announced this week by Jeffries and House Speaker Mike Johnson, comes as Congress is still reeling after Reps. Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican, and Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat, resigned under threat of expulsion amid sexual misconduct allegations.

Additionally, Reps. Cory Mills of Florida and Chuck Edwards of North Carolina are facing ethics investigation for allegations of misconduct. Both men deny they have done anything wrong.

“In the case of Representative Mills, being from my home state, I have … been open about how I feel that he has abused his authority, and so for me this is not a partisan issue. It is truly an issue of right or wrong,” Cammack said.

But Sykes and Cammack argue that while due process is important and ethics investigations can be a significant part of that process, there does come a point at which members need to call out one another.

“It’s really important for us to police ourselves,” Sykes said. “Where there is smoke there is usually fire and so that’s the responsibility of every member of Congress.”

CNN’s Emily Condon contributed to this report.

Pentagon rush to counter drone threat may be undermining safety standards, Army explosive safety specialist warns

2026-05-15T12:04:00-0400 / CBS News

Washington — As the U.S. military races to adapt low-cost, expendable drones for battlefield use, an Army explosive safety specialist warned that the Defense Department’s rush to innovate may be outpacing basic explosive safeguards, raising the risk of accidents.

The assessment was tucked inside a memo obtained by CBS News detailing how a mini-drone had detonated, causing injuries to an Army Special Forces soldier.

In a March memorandum, a civilian U.S. Army employee — with more than 20 years of experience in uniform and as a civilian employee evaluating and monitoring safety experience in the service — cautioned that while U.S. Army Special Forces units are adept at improvising solutions in the field, the broader drive to counter unmanned aerial threats has imposed pressures that could undermine long-established safety standards.

“We fully understand Special Forces’s ability to innovate and create tactical solutions to accomplish a mission set or task,” the memo states, but it goes on to say that the safety specialist believes that the Defense Department “is in such a rush to solve future and enduring threats related to unmanned aerial systems” that “basic explosive safety principles are being ignored,” and “will ultimately lead to a greater risk associated with mishaps or accidents.”

Drones have been used for decades by the U.S. military, particularly during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the Russia-Ukraine conflict has dramatically expanded the battlefront for drone warfare, and what has emerged is the understanding that the U.S. military will need to find a way to quickly and cheaply scale up its production of lethal drones.

Late last year, the Pentagon requested information from the defense industry to gauge its “willingness and ability” to make roughly 300,000 drones, following President Trump’s executive order calling for more unmanned aircraft systems to be produced.

The March assessment was written by an explosive safety specialist with the command safety office at Fort Polk in Louisiana, where the Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center is located.

The memorandum was sent by the specialist to the director of safety at U.S. Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

The warning appeared in a letter detailing an incident in which a small explosive device attached to a drone detonated inside a building at the Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center.

Army Col. Allie Scott of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command told CBS News that the comments from the safety investigator in the memorandum appear to be his opinion and not based in fact.

Scott confirmed the authenticity of the memo and research of the safety report and said the soldier involved in the blast returned to duty shortly after sustaining the injuries from the blast.

CBS News reached out to the explosive safety specialist and the office he works for at Fort Polk but no reply was returned. CBS News also contacted the U.S. Army’s Combat Readiness Center at Fort Novosel, Alabama, which serves as the central authority for safety, risk management and accident prevention.

A spokesperson for the center told CBS News it did not receive a request to investigate the incident, explaining that for an incident to be investigated by Army center, it must “meet the threshold in regard to a dollar value of damages to equipment and/or a permanent injury or death.”

The blast occurred when a Special Forces soldier assigned to the Army’s 3rd Special Forces Group attempted to disconnect the device during troubleshooting, resulting in minor injuries, including lacerations to the arm and face and a concussion. Photographs included in the memo, taken inside a cluttered workspace, show a damaged drone and scattered equipment on a table, underscoring how close the incident came to causing more serious harm.

The investigator believes the detonation may have been triggered either by static electric charge or hazards of electromagnetic radiation to ordnance, possibly caused by an improperly secured relay switch that allowed current to pass through the drone’s carbon fiber frame.

The device involved, an XM183″MiniBlast” pyrotechnic cartridge, was made by Houston-based PR Tactical Corporation, which specializes in producing pyrotechnic explosives for U.S. military training exercises.

Contacted by CBS News, Fred Laughlin of PR Tactical Corporation said the company would not comment before seeing the full report.

The XM183 “MiniBlast” cartridge is designed to replicate the sights and sounds of combat on the modern battlefield. Used during unit exercise, the round is part of a broader system of battlefield effects simulators intended to immerse soldiers in realistic conditions without the use of live munitions.

The memorandum noted that the XM183 “MiniBlast” cartridge has been assessed as having a medium-level hazard risk because it can produce dangerous fragments or shrapnel and can accidentally ignite or detonate.

It also noted that the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command had not provided a “full material release” for the XM183 “MiniBlast.”

Under Army regulations, a “full material release” is the formal determination that a material is safe for use, capable of meeting its operational requirements and sustainable through the Army’s logistical system when it’s employed under approved conditions.

Murkowski vs Trump: Senator sides with Democrats on Iran after series of breaks with president

May 15, 2026 12:25pm EDT / Fox News

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The Senate was two votes away from taking a step toward handcuffing President Donald Trump’s war authorities in Iran this week.

It’s the closest Senate Democrats have come to trying to reassert Congress’ authority on the matter, and was nearly successful thanks to one Senate Republican known for an independent streak: Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.

That vote, in particular, came after Congress had sprinted past the 60-day deadline to either authorize or halt Trump’s war. Murkowski argued that she hoped the administration would give more clarity on next steps, but so far hadn’t received such information.

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, voted with Democrats to handcuff President Donald Trump’s war authorities in Iran. It’s not the first time she’s broken with the president.(Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“So I felt that it was now time to advance a discharge so that we can discuss our responsibilities through the War Powers Act,” Murkowski said. “So it’s — we’re in a different place than we were last time we voted on this.”

Many of her votes for or against any given piece of legislation are determined by a simple principle: how will this vote affect Alaska?

“Senator Murkowski approaches every decision thoughtfully, always asking what is best for Alaska,” Joseph Plesha, a spokesperson for Murkowski, told Fox News Digital. “When she believes a policy advances those priorities, she supports it, regardless of party or politics.”

That style of decision-making was on full display last year, when Murkowski cast the deciding vote for the president’s “big, beautiful bill,” his most significant legislative accomplishment of his second term to date.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks during the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on July 11, 2023, in Washington, D.C.(Jemal Countess/Getty Images for JDRF)

But at the time, Murkowski described the decision as “agonizing,” and one that she came to only after securing a spate of wins for Alaska.

“I had to look on balance, because the people in my state are the ones that I put first,” Murkowski said. “We do not have a perfect bill by any stretch of the imagination. My hope is that the House is going to look at this and recognize that we’re not there yet.”

Murkowski had hoped that the Senate and House would go into conference to iron out a better product, but that never came. After the upper chamber advanced the package, the House passed it several hours later to adhere to Trump’s July 4 deadline.

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Just a few weeks later, she bucked Trump and Republicans on a package designed to claw back billions in funding to public broadcasting and “woke” international aid programs.

Murkowski, an appropriator, argued that instead of legislating, “what we’re getting now is a direction from the White House and being told, ‘This is the priority we want you to execute on it. We’ll be back with you with another round.’”

“I don’t accept that,” she said at the time.

She also went against Trump’s actions in Venezuela earlier this year, joining Democrats on a successful procedural vote that was ultimately later struck down after a heavy lobbying campaign from the White House and top Trump officials flipped key votes against the war powers resolution.

Similar to her reasoning on the Iran war powers vote, Murkowski contended that while the administration argued that the Venezuelan government was complying after the capture of Nicolás Maduro, there had been “no meaningful end state” given by Trump officials.

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, speaks to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 3, 2025.(Graeme Sloan/Getty Images)

And on the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, Murkowski once again went against the president.

She teed up her resistance to the voter ID and citizenship verification legislation early, weeks before Republicans launched a campaign on the Senate floor to debate the doomed bill.

Murkowski noted that when congressional Democrats “attempted to advance sweeping election reform legislation in 2021, Republicans were unanimous in opposition because it would have federalized elections, something we have long opposed.”

“Not only does the U.S. Constitution clearly provide states the authority to regulate the ‘times, places, and manner’ of holding federal elections, but one-size-fits-all mandates from Washington, D.C., seldom work in places like Alaska,” she said.

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Perhaps Murkowski’s biggest break from Trump came as he was exiting office shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, riots on Capitol Hill.

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Murkowski was one of a handful of Republicans who voted to convict Trump.

“If months of lies, organizing a rally of supporters in an effort to thwart the work of Congress, encouraging a crowd to march on the Capitol, and then taking no meaningful action to stop the violence once it began is not worthy of impeachment, conviction, and disqualification from holding office in the United States, I cannot imagine what is,” Murkowski said in a statement at the time.

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

CNN follows family of detainee who died while in ICE custody

2:21 PM EDT, Fri May 15, 2026 / CNN

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The death of Jose Ramos is one of nearly 50 detainee deaths since President Donald Trump returned to office last year. A CNN investigation reviewed autopsies, court records, and interviews, identifying more than a dozen deaths that could be linked in part to substandard care and understaffing. CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez follows the family of one detainee who died after being detained at the Adelanto ICE Processing Facility in California.

In response to “teen takeovers,” Pirro threatens to charge parents if their teens violate local curfew

May 15, 2026 12:48 PM EDT / CBS News

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The top federal prosecutor in the nation’s capital announced on Friday her office is planning to target parents if their teenagers violate the local curfew, in a move aimed at curbing the growing problem of “teen takeovers.”

“Law-abiding taxpayers should no longer have to pay for parental neglect,” D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said at a news conference on Friday. The presser was planned in order to update the media about the results of President Trump’s law enforcement surge that launched last summer to reduce violent crime in the city.

“Parents: Do your job. Or we will do ours,” she said.

Teen takeovers have become a frequent nuisance in Washington, D.C., particularly in popular parts of the city like the Navy Yard waterfront. At times, these flash mob-style gatherings involving large groups of teens have escalated, prompting D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to impose a series of juvenile curfews in the Navy Yard area of 11 p.m. for those under the age of 18.

Pirro said her office intends to enforce local statute 22-811 against parents — contributing to the delinquency of a minor — in an effort to combat the problem. Her office is restricted from prosecuting the teens themselves for curfew violations, which are handled by the local attorney general’s office.

“That does not preclude me from bringing charges against the parents,” Pirro told reporters.

国立健保集团综合诊疗所临床医学研究组副处长王琪慧助理教授（右）说，医疗小组护理模式，可让医护人员更了解病人状况，也确保护理的连贯性。左为保健卫生部首席卫生经济师司的高级经济师王炜婷。 （陈渊庄摄）

保健卫生部追踪逾6万4000名于2014年至2016年，加入“医疗小组护理模式”的综合诊疗所患者，发现他们每年的基层医疗服务开销增加至少80元，但由于住院、专科门诊和急诊等费用减少约440元，整体医疗开销反而平均减少约360元。

医疗小组护理模式（Teamlet Care Model），属团队护理的一种。与以往患者到政府综合诊疗所看病时，由医生随机接诊的方式不同，这种模式由一个固定的小组，共同照顾慢性疾病患者。

国立健保集团综合诊疗所临床医学研究组副处长王琪慧助理教授说，团队成员会包括三类医护人员，分别负责诊断、制定治疗方案的医生，由护士担任的护理经理，以及经过培训，掌握预防护理知识的护理协调员。

王琪慧说，病人每次复诊时，会由同一个医疗小组持续跟进，因此小组更了解病人状况，也确保护理的连贯性。

社会统筹部长兼保健卫生部长王乙康，星期五（5月15日）在新加坡基层医疗大会上致辞时说，健卫部的一项研究发现，在这类护理模式下，慢性病患者更能定期接受建议的健康筛查与复诊，长期而言并发症也较少。

虽然基层医疗费用略有增加，但因住院与专科求诊次数减少，整体节省的医疗开支足以抵消相关费用。王乙康认为，私人全科诊所同样可通过团队合作方式，提升护理质量，这也是政府设立基层医疗护理网络（Primary Care Network, 简称PCN） 的原因。

健卫部首席卫生经济师司的高级经济师王炜婷，星期五在大会的午餐研讨会环节上，透露这些研究的数据。她解释，费用增加，是因为患者前往综合诊疗所的次数增加，包括前往做健康筛查，而减少的医疗开销中，最主要的是住院开销，每年可减少405元。

在海外谋生却沦为“提款机” 缅外劳年汇72亿新元供养军政府

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缅甸拥有东南亚最庞大的外劳群体之一。国际劳工组织的数据显示，政变前缅甸约有10%的人口在海外务工，仅在泰国和马来西亚就有约200万人。图为在仰光码头搬运大米的工人。 （法新社）

缅甸拥有东南亚最庞大的外劳群体之一。国际劳工组织的数据显示，政变前缅甸约有10%的人口在海外务工，仅在泰国和马来西亚就有约200万人。图为在仰光码头搬运大米的工人。 （法新社）

（内比都彭博电）西方制裁与内战重创官方财源，缅甸军政府通过强制海外劳工汇款的新规定，把侨汇转化为国家最大的外汇来源。

彭博社引述的缅甸内部数据显示，缅甸去年收到的海外汇款总额达56亿美元（约72亿新元），占外汇流入总额约38%，远高于2022年6亿7000美元。

这波激增主要源于军政府2024年颁布的强制性规定：要求海外劳工必须通过官方指定的银行渠道，汇回至少25%的个人收入。这项规定把汇款记录与护照续签及海外就业资格挂钩，有效为与军政府关联的金融机构锁定国际资金流，并在一定程度上填补因制裁及冲突造成的外部资本缺口。

尽管军方首脑敏昂莱上个月就任总统，试图稳定受内战重创的经济，但缅甸经济压力依旧沉重：通胀率徘徊在约30%的高位，去年外国直接投资更降至仅8300万美元。在此形势下，掌握外汇对军政府维持运作至关重要，因为军方仍须以美元支付燃料、药品和食品等基本进口。

风险分析公司维里斯科枫园（Verisk Maplecroft）首席亚洲分析师余嘉豪指出，在当局仍承受外汇流动性和对外收支压力之际，大量侨汇正为军政府严密管控的银行体系提供关键“生命线”。

劳工和维权团体说，这些规定通过中介机构和使馆网络执行，就业中介往往要求移民工签署定期汇款协议；若停止汇款，国内家属可能会被当局或中介联系施压。

泰国维权人士则说，在泰缅甸劳工被要求每月至少汇回2500泰铢（约100新元），有时甚至超过工资的25%。缅甸当局还向海外劳工征收所得税。

银行体系也被指从中牟利。维权人士说，银行起初以低于市场的汇率兑换汇款，变相获取额外收益；尽管近期官方汇率已逐靠拢市场价，减轻劳工的损失，但这些外币仍被导入受官方监管的金融体系。

国际特赦组织缅甸研究员弗里曼指出，以宽泛的国家利益或行政管理为由拒发护照或拒绝延长护照有效期，可能构成对个人行动自由与谋生权利的侵犯。他呼吁当局修改或撤销相关政策。

国际劳工组织也警告，这种高压措施可能适得其反，把更多工人推向非法、非正规转账渠道，反而削弱监管与保护劳工权益的能力。

斯特兰蒂斯与东风汽车签署协议 将在中国生产标致和Jeep品牌汽车

2026年5月15日 19:29 / 联合早报

斯特兰蒂斯与东风汽车星期五（5月15日）宣布，双方签署协议，将在中国共同生产标致和Jeep品牌的汽车。 （法新社）

（北京／米兰路透电）欧洲汽车巨企斯特兰蒂斯与中国东风汽车宣布签署协议，将在中国共同生产标致和Jeep品牌的汽车。

这份协议总值12亿美元（15.4亿新元），其中斯特兰蒂斯预计出资约1.3亿欧元（1.9亿新元）。两家公司星期五（5月15日）称，湖北省和武汉市的产业政策将为项目提供支持。

与东风汽车的这项合作是斯特兰蒂斯新长期战略的一部分，旨在同时满足中国市场和出口的需求，公司首席执行官菲洛萨将在5月21日正式公布相关战略。

斯特兰蒂斯在声明中说，公司与东风汽车也签署了一项不具约束力的战略协议，旨在通过发挥双方在行业内的规模、专业知识和研发能力，进一步加强合作。

此举凸显这家法意合资集团正致力于在中国市场重新自我定位，并重新评估生产方案，为未来在中国以外地区开展更多合作铺平道路。

斯特兰蒂斯4月概述了与东风汽车合作协议的部分内容，称旗下的标致品牌将利用东风的技术，在现有合资企业神龙汽车有限公司的框架下，在中国生产汽车。

两家公司上星期五也宣布，计划从明年开始，在神龙汽车位于武汉的工厂生产两款Jeep品牌的新能源越野车，销往全球市场。

这标志着Jeep将重返中国生产。斯特兰蒂斯与广汽集团在2022年终止Jeep合资企业，此后一直是通过进口方式将Jeep引入中国。