Several House Republicans urged Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday to revoke the Southern Poverty Law Center’s tax-exempt status in light of allegations the organization funded efforts to fabricate and expand extremist groups.
The letter comes after a federal grand jury in April approved charges against the organization for alleged wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and other offenses.
North Carolina GOP Rep. Mark Harris led the letter to Bessent, claiming the organization is not operating as a nonprofit but as a partisan “left-wing political machine,” and violated Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code by targeting conservative and Christian organizations while receiving tax-exempt status.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center has strayed far from what its founders intended,” Harris said in a statement. “Instead of fighting hate, it now fuels the very division it claims to oppose … A political operation should not receive the benefits reserved for a charity.”
GOP Reps. Barry Moore, Alabama; Mary Miller, Illinois; Byron Donalds, Florida; Harriet Hageman, Wyoming; and Andy Ogles, Tennessee also signed the letter.
“The SPLC is an extremist left-wing operation masquerading as a charity,” Hageman posted on X. “[Bessent] must revoke their tax-exempt status.”
Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.
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Good on those republicans! Now let’s see if it actually happens.
their tax exempt status deserves to be revoked.
WHAT!!! They haven’t already done that!!! Get off of your sorry bottom and GET IT DONE …. NOW!!!!!
The SPLC “Slime Puke Loony Center” is just another hate group, no better than the KKK, ANTIFA, and the Democrat Party, all and others like them and those who associate with them hate America and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and are doing anything and everything to destroy it.
This coming 4th of July be very aware and watchful for attacks on our freedom!
God Bless America!
ANY & ALL like SPLC nationwide
They need to revoke all of the tax exemptions of all tax exempt organizations that lobby and are involved in partisan political activities: ie. SPLC, Planned Parenthood….
How about putting them where they belong for the theft and embezzlement of taxpayers money, they use the color of their skin to enrich themselves , they do not care about their own, only their own are too blind to see it. Race baiters without a shred of decency or shame.