AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>I'm sure it's technically possible for the GOP's "big beautiful" budget bill to be worse than it is, but damn would they have to try. In addition to slashing healthcare and fucking food stamps for the poorest people in America, it turns out the bill also contains the NGO-killer sidecar that aged out in the then Democrat controlled Senate last year. Under the provision, the Treasury Secretary will be able to strip the tax-exempt status of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that the regime deems a “terrorist-supporting organization.” Who oversees that decision? Nobody who doesn't work for Trump. And what evidence do they have to produce to enact it? Absolutely nothing, just vibes.</p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/12/trump-nonprofit-killer-tax-cuts/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/05/12/tr</span><span class="invisible">ump-nonprofit-killer-tax-cuts/</span></a></p><p>Republicans Sneak Nonprofit Killer Bill Into the Tail End of Trump’s 389-Page Tax Plan</p><p>"The House Ways and Means Committee will meet Tuesday for a mark-up session of the 389-page draft plan, a massive bundle of draft amendments central to the Trump administration’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” that aims to cut trillions of dollars in government spending. </p><p>Among those amendments, buried on page 380 of the draft, is a section that would enable Trump’s secretary of the Treasury to denounce any nonprofit as a “terrorist-supporting organization” and strip it of its tax-exempt status. </p><p>“This seems to just give the president a tool to go after his political enemies and fulfill some of the darker elements of the Project 2025 agenda,” said Ryan Costello, policy director at the National Iranian American Council."</p><p>Readers with a good memory will recall that this exact same bill was passed in the House with resounding bipartisan support after the election, but before Trump was inaugurated, because Bidenite "Blue Dog" Democrats were very interested in punishing NGOs that spoke out against US. support for Israel and its ongoing US-backed genocide in Gaza. When it was (loudly) pointed out by numerous civil rights groups and activists that this meant giving the then-incoming President Trump the power to effectively censor NGOs by threatening their ability to operate and all he'd have to do is say the magic word "terrorism" to do so, cooler heads in the Senate prevailed and the bill didn't make it to a vote before Trump actually took office. All of which is to say that while the Democrats ultimately share in the responsibility for this idea even existing, even the most bloodthirsty pro-Zionist conservatives in the Dem Party, folks up to their eyeballs in AIPAC money, realized there is no way on this green earth a man like Trump should have that power because he will abuse it to violate civil rights, and target his enemies; now the GOP is trying to sneak that power onto the tail end of a class war budget bill that will literally murder disadvantaged Americans of all stripes to pay for obscene tax cuts for a wealthy ruling class that has more money than they can actually spend before they die. </p><p>Folks, I know you're tired of hearing me say it, but it is fundamentally impossible for you to understand how we got here, without factoring the unhinged security state authoritarianism the entire US political apparatus adopted to "keep us safe" from "terrorists" after 9/11. Without the War on Terror, we don't get to a place where Donald Trump and the GOP are trying to grant themselves the power to destroy aid organizations simply because they point out that bombing hospitals and refugee camps to murder children for the establishment of a Greater Israel is monstrous genocidal fuckery; which is to say nothing of the fact that Trump is absolutely going to use this power to target far more than pro-Palestinian NGOs, if it is granted to him. It may sound to you like I'm being hyperbolic when I say the state (and thus Trump) isn't required to prove anyone is an actual terrorist, before applying the terrorist label that allows them to unlock vast police state powers, but that is literally how it works and Americans were lead to believe this was necessary to protect us from "radical Islamic terrorism." Advocates warned that this was a grave threat to our civil liberties and would usher in an era of overt American fascism on a long enough timeline, and now here we are; with a fascist regime hinging its entire mass deportation program on a fake "invasion" that's only (legally) credible because Trump declared a gang with less than 1,000 members in the US a narco-terrorist organization working for the government of Venezuela. The US State department is using the word "terrorist" to revoke visas for student protestors, kidnap foreign students for exercising their free speech rights, and attempted deportations on behalf of Israel. Looking at the wreckage these policies have created in the hands of a government determined to abuse them, how can anyone at all think it's a good idea to expand those powers here in the Trump era? It's not; this bill must not pass.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Budget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Budget</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Terrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Terrorism</span></a> #911 <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/WarOnTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarOnTerror</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/NGOs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NGOs</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a></p>