JOE GROGAN And MATT MOWERS: The EU’s Far-Left Regulatory Agenda Puts Trump’s Golden Age in Jeopardy

What’s happening in Europe right now should alarm every American who cares about jobs, innovation, and national sovereignty. The European Union has quietly advanced a regulatory agenda that could soon reach across the Atlantic, forcing American businesses to comply with European rules written by unelected bureaucrats. These new mandates would reshape how companies operate, what they disclose, and even who they can do business with, regardless of U.S. law.

Leaders in the European Union proposed changes to the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, known as CS3D, and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, known as CSRD, that may sound technical, but the consequences for the United States would be devastating.

In plain language, these rules would require any U.S. company operating in the EU to track, report, and disclose every link in their supply chain for ESG madness. CS3D, for example, could make an American manufacturer legally responsible for the labor or environmental practices of suppliers halfway around the world. CSRD would force businesses to publish detailed sustainability reports under EU-defined standards, even if they never sell directly to European consumers.

For many U.S. businesses, this is practically impossible. A small or mid-sized company might have hundreds of suppliers and subcontractors. Tracking each one to comply with European paperwork could take thousands of hours and millions of dollars. Those costs would be passed on to American workers and consumers.