When President Trump’s MAGA squad hit 1600 Pennsylvania in January, they promised “accountability.”
According to a Just the News report, things might be finally heating up in America’s federal tax agency – suggesting that some of that long-promised accountability could soon come courtesy of the IRS.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, a Missouri Republican, has referred 11 nonprofit groups to the IRS to “have their tax-exempt status stripped for fomenting division, hatred, intolerance, and violence on America’s streets and college campuses.”
Smith thinks that newly installed IRS chief Billy Long will act on those requests and hopefully deliver some “meaningful” consequences to the partisan rabble-rousers.
Smith’s nonprofit offenders? We don’t have any names yet but Smith says they have been fomenting outrage on ICE, college campuses and out on the streets. He said, “That is not their tax-exempt status fulfillment. And so I think the IRS should eliminate their tax-exempt status.”
Translation: if your mission is to be an anti-American hate group, you should NOT be tax-exempt.
Smith isn’t just another face in Congress either. As chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees taxes and the IRS, he holds major sway over the agency’s operations.
Whether the IRS actually grows a spine or just continues rubber-stamping tax breaks for professional agitators remains to be seen. But if Chairman Smith has his way, the gravy train might be over for groups that weaponize nonprofit status to torch the very fabric of the country.
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