Nonprofit Killer Provision Quietly Disappears from Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill"

An effort to empower President Trump to target his ideological enemies in the nonprofit sector stalled when Trump s sprawling agenda-setting megabill faced opposition from far-right Republicans in the House Now with an amended version of the longer bill inching toward approval the push to target nonprofits appeared to suffer a major setback For now it s not in the text of the bill and that s an improvement from where we were at last week The latest draft of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act which passed the House Budget Committee on Sunday night no longer includes a provision that critics have dubbed the nonprofit killer The measure which has surfaced in several different forms over the past two years would grant the secretary of the Treasury Department broad powers to strip nonprofits tax-exempt status by labeling them as a terrorist supporting organization with little in the way of due process or evidentiary standards It was not at once clear why the provision was absent from the latest draft of the bill but a Democratic congressional aide declared the removal was indeed a deliberate move by the GOP Apparently Republican staffers removed it after hearing about it from stakeholders and working with leadership on a response but I m not sure what the key is the source reported The Intercept The removal of the clause prompted cautious optimism from civil-society advocates according to Kia Hamadanchy senior procedures counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union It s doable they took it out to rewrite it in selected way because we know that this package is going to be amended Hamadanchy stated The Intercept But for now it s not in the text of the bill and that s an improvement from where we were at last week Fits and Starts The latest push to get the nonprofit-killer clause into law appeared on page of a -page bundle of amendments put forward by the GOP-controlled House Methods and Means Committee last week and passed out of committee intact After far-right Republicans opposed to executive spending stalled the megabill the section on nonprofits appears to have been removed from an updated version put out Monday by the House Committee on Rules Proponents of the provision have been trying for well over a year to make it law an effort that critics have described as an assault on free speech aimed in particular at pro-Palestine groups First introduced in late an initial version of the bill passed the House with overwhelming aid from Democrats and Republicans alike In the wake of Trump s reelection win however and in the face of a concerted campaign by the ACLU and other civil-society groups a multitude of Democrats changed their tune When the last version of the bill H R was introduced in November Rep Lloyd Doggett D-Texas marshaled opposition to the measure and even managed to vote it down in one floor vote Read our complete coverage Chilling Dissent The Republican-controlled House however pressed on and the bill eventually passed with near-unanimous GOP aid and with the help of a handful of Democrats but ultimately stalled in the Senate without becoming law The Big Beautiful Bill passed a major hurdle over the weekend after an initial attempt by four hardline conservatives to block the package Opponents of the nonprofit killer clause are not counting it out just yet Hamadanchy reported We are continuing to track things he mentioned in occurrence this thing comes back from the dead as it has numerous times The post Nonprofit Killer Provision Quietly Disappears from Trump s Big Beautiful Bill appeared first on The Intercept