For months, activists have been scratching their heads over the fate of a bill aimed at curtailing imports made with forced labor by Uyghurs that has garnered broad bipartisan support as the White House remains mute.

Like legislation last year targeting Chinese officials responsible for detaining ethnic Uyghurs in forced labor camps in Xinjiang, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act passed the Senate unanimously. Instead of landing on the president’s desk, the bill has gone nowhere.