US EditionHouse Republicans look to help Trump strip tax-exempt status of nonprofits he says support terrorism
- House Republicans proposed including language in a reconciliation bill to let the Trump administration revoke tax-exempt status from nonprofits supporting terrorism.
- This proposal mirrors a similar bill passed by the House last Congress but not approved by the Senate, reflecting Trump's complaints and prior threats against nonprofits.
- The bill grants administration officials unchecked power to strip exemptions without due process or public evidence and targets nonprofits seen as opposing Trump's agenda.
- Republican Rep. Jason Smith said Congress must ensure taxpayers don't subsidize terrorism, while critics warned it arbitrarily risks funding environmental, racial justice, and LGBTQ+ groups.
- Opponents argue the legislation threatens nonprofit free speech, funding, and community health, with experts calling it inadequately designed and potentially devastating to charities.
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Tax-Exempt Status Cannot Be Changed by Presidential Fiat
In two recent social media posts, President Donald Trump challenged Harvard University’s tax-exempt status. By doing so, he ran afoul of a vital constitutional principle. Regardless of the merits of Harvard’s tax exemption, any effort by the president to change an organization’s tax status by fiat violates the rule of law. On April 15, President Trump posted on Truth Social, “Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Po…
GOP bill targets tax-exempt status of some nonprofits
WASHINGTON — A proposal by Republicans in Congress would allow President Donald Trump's administration to remove the tax-exempt status of nonprofits that it says support terrorism, creating what some nonprofits say is an arbitrary standard to financially punish charities that…
GOP bill targets nonprofits
WASHINGTON — A proposal by Republicans in Congress would allow President Donald Trump's administration to remove the tax-exempt status of nonprofits that it says support terrorism, creating what some nonprofits say is an arbitrary standard to financially punish charities that…
GOP Seeks to Revoke Tax Exemptions From NonProfits Materially Supporting Hamas, Other Terrorist Groups
WASHINGTON—Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are planning to give the Trump administration powers to revoke the tax-exempt status of nonprofit organizations that support terrorist groups like Hamas. Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization in the United States, nominally controls the territory of Gaza along the Mediterranean Sea, bordering Israel and Egypt. Since 2023, the group has been at war with Israel after waging a…
'We need calls now!' Republicans slip nonprofit killer bill into tax package
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on May 13, 2025. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. House Republicans on Monday quietly revived a proposal that would grant the Trump administration broad authority to crush nonprofits it views as part of the political opposition, from environmental justice organizations to news outlets. Fight for the Future and other advocacy groups called attenti…
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