A bill that would let Donald Trump unilaterally revoke tax-exempt status from nonprofits is being fast-tracked through Congress.

DONALD TRUMP HAS made no secret of his desire for revenge.

On the campaign trail, he joked about being a dictator on “day one” in office, pledged to jail journalists, and threatened to retaliate against political foes who he felt had wronged him.

Now, just days after he secured a second term in the White House, Congress is already moving to hand a resurgent Trump administration a powerful cudgel that it could wield against ideological opponents in civil society.

Up for a potential fast-track vote next week in the House of Representatives, the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, also known as H.R. 9495, would grant the secretary of the Treasury Department unilateral authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit deemed to be a “terrorist supporting organization.”

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1045·
    4 days ago

    Thanks, abstainers. Really showed us what a great America you lot believe in.

    • NobodyElse@sh.itjust.works
      309·
      3 days ago

      I didn’t abstain, but the blame doesn’t lie entirely with them. This feels like 2016 all over again, down to blaming the voters instead of the party.

      People want change and are unhappy with the state of things, so the Democratic Party runs a status quo candidate against a (psychotic liar) who is making promises about change.

      At least a charismatic candidate like an Obama (who doesn’t actually rock the status quo boat too much) would have rallied voters. Why is the Democratic Party so bad at this?

      • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        None of that is even the beginning of an excuse for going out of your way to burn your own and your neighbor’s house down.

        “They should have been 1000x better than the alternative of burning everything, instead of merely 10x better”. This shit just doesn’t fly.

        And yes the Democrats are guilty of being better than Republicans by an embarrassingly thin 10x margin. Any decent party is 1000x and that should have happened, too.

      • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        3 days ago

        The fault fall on both the DNC and the voters.

        The DNC for being god damn awful at campaining and the voters for seeing the situation and still decide not to go vote.

        Both can be true.

    • KoboldCoterieEnglish
      311·
      4 days ago

      Don’t worry, they’re just thinking long-term. They’ve got a plan to make everything better in 12-16 years, just you wait and see! Any day now!