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2024-11-23 Home Front: Politix
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US House passes bill allowing Treasury to target nonprofits it deems terror backers
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Something to pass in both House and Senate in January. [IsraelTimes] Bipartisan legislation narrowly passes after many Democrats withdraw support; groups, including dozens of Jewish organizations, have said bill is too broad and can be abused
The US House passed legislation Thursday that would give the Treasury Department unilateral authority to strip the tax-exempt status of nonprofits it claims support terrorism, alarming civil liberties groups about how a second Trump presidency could invoke it to punish political opponents.
Progressive projection — it’s what they would do, just like the rounded up the January 6 protesters. The bill passed 219-184, with the majority of the support coming from Republicans who accused Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people , white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
of reversing course in their support for the "common sense" proposal only after Donald Trump
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...
was elected to a second term earlier this month.
Speaking on the House floor ahead of the vote, Rep. Jason Smith, GOP chair of the House Boodle Central, argued that his colleagues across the aisle would still be supporting the bill had Vice President Kamala Harris
who got her start in politix between former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' knees
won the presidential election. "And we, as members of Congress, have the duty to make sure that taxpayers are not subsidizing terrorism," the Missouri politician said. "It’s very, very simple."
But the proposal has drawn concern from a range of nonprofits who say it could be used to target organizations, including news outlets, universities and civil society groups, that a future presidential administration disagrees with. They say it does not offer groups enough due process.
A coalition of more than 55 centrist and progressive Jewish groups has been lobbying against the bill.
That’s the kind of centrists who are really Progressive, but do go on. "This bill is an authoritarian play by Republicans to expand the sweeping powers of the executive branch, to go after political enemies and stifle political dissent," Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said on the House floor ahead of the vote.
Critics also see it as redundant as it is already against US law to support designated terrorist groups. The proposal, which now goes to the Democratic-controlled Senate where its fate is uncertain, would also postpone tax-filing deadlines for Americans held hostage or unlawfully detained abroad.
The bill would create a new category of "terrorist supporting organizations," according to an analysis by the Congressional Research Service of a previous version of the legislation. This category is defined as any organization the Treasury Secretary designates as having provided material support to a terrorist organization in the past three years.
"We think this legislation is an overreach," said Jenn Holcomb, vice president of government affairs at the Council on Foundations. "It would allow the Secretary of the Treasury to designate a 501c nonprofit as a terrorist organization at their discretion. And our concern is it doesn’t have enough in there to really ensure that a nonprofit understands the reasoning that a secretary designated as such."
The bill would give a nonprofit designated as "terror-supporting" 90 days to appeal that designation. Nonprofits like the American Civil Liberties Union have said that the bill does not require that the Treasury Secretary disclose all the evidence that was used to make the designation.
The bill text outlines how the Treasury must send "a description of such material support or resources to the extent consistent with national security and law enforcement interests."
In a joint statement with the Independent Sector, National Council of Nonprofits, and United Philanthropy Forum, the Council on Foundations also said the bill would shift the burden of proof to the nonprofit, and even if an organization was eventually cleared, the nonprofit would "risk irreparable damage to their operations and reputation."
If it were to become law, the bill could apply to a range of nonprofits, including membership organizations, unions and private foundations.
A version of the bill was first introduced after the October 7, 2023, Hamas
 ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
onslaught in Israel, when Paleostinian faceless myrmidons killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages into Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
. The House passed a previous version of the bill in April, including with the support of some Democrats.
The bill was also brought up for a vote last week but failed to garner a two-thirds majority required under the suspension of the rules.
Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib
...the very first ever Paleostinian-American ever sworn into Congress in 2019. She is a member of The Squad and consistently votes against the U.S. national interest. She's a Dem, naturally, from a safe district you wouldn't want to live in (Michigan's 12th congressional district). She wants the country to be kinda like Gaza only without any Jews for neighbors...
, the only Paleostinian-American representative in Congress, said Thursday before the vote that it would be her third time voting against the bill.
"I don’t care who the president of the United States is," she said. "This is a dangerous and unconstitutional bill that would allow unchecked power to target nonprofit organizations as political enemies and shut them down without due process."
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