Non -Profit executives say that they affect the potential targeting of the Trump management after a controversial tax measure in the congress

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A House measure that would make it easier to raise the tax-free status of non-profit organizations that the Trump government regarded as the support of terrorism marks the recent efforts of the President and his Republican allies of limp organizations that oppose his agenda argue.

The provision comes when President Donald Trump used the powers of his office in an exceptional way to address Top law firms, elite universities and other perceived political enemies. Last month, for example, Trump instructed his Ministry of Justice to start an investigation by Actblue, the main fundraising platform for democratic candidates and liberal causes.

The Language-Ther Week by the tax writer of the house added to the massive “a big beautiful draft law”, which for Trump's top priority, it would enable the finance minister to suspend the tax-fighting status of organizations that the administration says “supports terrorist”.

More than 200 groups – from the American Library Association to the Sierra Club – have recently signed a public explanation in which the house was asked to remove the provision. You say it is a tool for the president to aim his opponents.

“We saw how this administration used every power lever that they could be able to speak to people as their enemies,” said Cole Head, Executive Director of Americans against the government's censorship, one of the groups that protest themselves against the language of the apartment. “This is a broad gun of the government, and this is only the latest manifestation of it.”

Non -profit groups fear that there is more on the way – with a period of the White House for Government Agency, to identify large listed companies, foundations and non -profit organizations, universities as well as state and local lawyers and medical associations for potential civilian investigations.

In a statement, an official from the White House claimed that Trump operated on his rights and law.

“President Trump will always stand for law and order, end the weapon of the legal system and execute the fraud in the federal government,” said the spokesman for the White House, Harrison Fields in an e -mail to CNN, and repeated the president's well -known chorus that the Biden administration started the judicial system against him when Trump was out of office.

“Every measure he took during his second term reflects these priorities and is approved by the constitution,” said Fields. “External groups who ignored the outrageous legal abuses of the previous government against President Trump have no credibility today.”

The tax provision, which was recently added to an almost 400-page legislative proposal of the GOP-controlled House Ways and Means Committee. In a draft law, which was written by the Republican of New York Republican, Claudia Tenney, that the house was not adopted at the last congress meeting.

It would enable the finance minister to suspend the tax exemption status of charity organizations that the secretary determines that it has provided an organization that the government has described “material support or resources”.

Helpers of Tenney and Ways and Means Chairman Missouri Rep. Jason Smith did not respond to the inquiries about the measure. During the ground debate about the Tenney Act last November, Smith said that legislators are “obliged to ensure that taxpayers do not subsidize terrorism”.

Groups that oppose the measure stated that there are no sufficient protective measures to protect the rights of the organizations' rights.

Kia Hamadanchy, a high -ranking political advisor to the ACLU, found that it is already illegal to support a terrorist organization materially. The new provision, according to Hamadanchy, is problematic because the finance minister would only determine a group as a terrorist support and allow the agency to suspend the tax exemption status of a non -profit organization.

Lisa Gilbert-Die co-president of the liberal watchdog group public citizen-sagte, she fears that organizations could be unintentionally committed with international networks if the provision was to be made.

“Think about foreign humanitarian aid or groups that receive funds from foundations based not only in the United States,” he said. “There is a lot of activity that could be entered.”

The White House referred questions about the language of the legislation to the financial department. A spokesman for the Ministry of Finance rejected a statement.

The entire legislation is currently a rocky path in the house, although the Republican leaders of the chamber have announced that they will bring them to the ground next week. A group of GOP hardliners blocked their passage in a key committee on Friday when they demanded steeper cuts and changes to the Medicaid regulations.

When the legislation passes the house, organizations that speak against the language in terms of charitable tax status say that they will fight to kill them in the Senate.

The legislation deals with a number of the president's priorities, from tax cuts to the enforcement of immigration. But to say goodbye to the congress, where the Republicans have slim majorities in both chambers, the GOP leaders rely on a tool that is referred to as the budget reconciliation. It allows a simple majority to approve it without democratic voices.

According to strict rules of the Senate, however, the parliamentarian of the chamber must determine whether his provisions actually have an impact on the budget, not just a “accidental”. An early analysis of a common tax committee of the congress showed that the destination has a “negligible” influence on sales and the hope of the opponents that it could be withdrawn from the larger draft law in the Senate.

The Federal Law prohibits the president of the order of tax investigations of certain persons or organizations, but Trump has threatened to revoke Harvard University's tax status because he has refused to meet his political requirements.

In the comments last month about Harvard's tax status, Trump stated that other organizations could be targeted, and the citizens for responsibility and ethics in Washington or Crew, a non -profit guard dog group that tackled public corruption and sued Trump administration for several of its actions.

Some non -profit managers are now carefully observed according to other potential administrative movements that result from the order of the executive, which Trump signed on January 21 to encourage the private sector to end what the administration sees as “illegal discrimination”.

Among other things, the agencies instructed the agencies to identify up to nine potential goals between foundations, companies, universities and other companies in order to exhaust “civil compliance” probes in the context of the efforts of the administration, the guidelines for diversity, justice, inclusion and accessibility. The groups that could be subjected to the exam include the name of “large” organizations and associations that describe themselves as “large” organizations and associations, foundations with assets of at least 500 million US dollars and universities and universities with foundations that exceed 1 billion US dollars.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has already instructed the ministry's civil rights department to check whether the universities are trying to rock a judgment of the Supreme Court of 2023 that the schools could not take any breed into account as a specific basis for granting the approval. A Task Force for Ministry of Justice, which aims to combat anti -Semitism on campus, also examines almost a dozen universities and the entire system of the University of California.

Trump's order on January 21 also asks the Attorney General to give the White House a report in which measures are recommended within 120 days – a period that will arrive next week. However, it is not clear whether lists of potential goals have been put together or published publicly.

A DOJ spokesman did not answer a request for the report.

Nevertheless, managers of non -profit groups have talks with their lawyers and are looking for ways to avoid risks and prepare for potential audits. Several people who are familiar with internal discussions tell CNN.

“People try to gather for it,” said Gilbert von Public Citizen. “It is very unclear what it means to be on a list in Trump's America.”

Hannah Rabinowitz from CNN contributed to this report.