The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, is calling on all Americans to urge their members of Congress to strike and not include the “Nonprofit Killer Bill” provision, recently approved by the House Ways and Means Committee and quietly inserted into page 380 of President Trump and House Republicans’ revised “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill” tax proposal. In the past 36 hours, CAIR’s ongoing action alert has quickly sent 3,600 messages to the House and Senate opposing the inclusion of this troubling provision.
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Yesterday’s House Ways and Means Committee markup saw little opposition from either Democrats or Republicans, with the notable exception of Representative Don Beyer (D-VA), who criticized the provision. The bill is currently subject to Republican backroom negotiations, and they aim to pass the legislation in the House by the end of the month. The Senate version currently does not contain this harmful language.
This sneaked-in anti-nonprofit provision, listed as “Section 112209,” would grant the Trump administration’s Treasury Secretary unprecedented and unchecked power to revoke the nonprofit tax status of religious, charitable, civil rights, and advocacy organizations without evidence, formal charges, or due process. Such unchecked authority directly threatens the free speech, advocacy, and independence of nonprofits, especially groups advocating for Muslim, Palestinian, civil rights, faith-based communities, and any organization that dare to criticize U.S. foreign policy or call out Israel’s genocide in Gaza and attacks on civilians in the West Bank, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen.
In a statement, CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert S. McCaw said:
“The inclusion of the Nonprofit Killer Bill in one committee markup is not the end of this fight. We must double our efforts in urging Congress to strike this unconstitutional attack on nonprofits and our fundamental freedoms.
“This provision is the latest in a growing wave of legislative attacks on constitutional rights. Americans are increasingly rejecting efforts to silence political dissent in Congress, including the misleadingly titled Antisemitism Awareness Act, which seeks to criminalize student protests against Israel’s genocide on college campuses, and the International Governmental Organizations Anti-Boycott Act, which would undermine Americans’ ability to engage in peaceful boycotts of Israel’s human rights abuses
“The battle to protect free speech, due process, and nonprofit independence is ongoing, and we need everyone’s voice to win it.”
Yesterday, McCaw recorded a video blog while visiting congressional offices on behalf of CAIR, urging members of Congress to oppose this anti-nonprofit provision.
This proposed “Nonprofit Killer Bill” must be rejected because:
- It grants the Treasury Secretary broad discretionary power to revoke nonprofit status based on subjective and politically motivated grounds.
- It suppresses protected free speech, disproportionately impacting groups advocating for Palestinian human rights and other critical social justice issues.
- It violates due process rights by allowing classified and secret evidence to revoke tax-exempt status without giving organizations the chance to respond.
- It is unnecessary—existing U.S. laws sufficiently prohibit terrorism financing without threatening civil liberties.
Last year, CAIR joined 100 organizations in a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson, stating that the Nonprofit Killer Bill “poses a direct threat to the constitutional rights of any American nonprofit, house of worship, or advocacy organization.”
CAIR also joined 135 civil liberties and human rights groups in a letter to the Senate Finance Committee opposing another version of the act.
CAIR will continue to urge all concerned Americans to take action and urge their members of Congress to oppose the advancement of this act, and its dangerous goals. CAIR remains committed to challenging this legislation in all its iterations and forms and will continue to advocate for the protection of nonprofit organizations’ rights to free speech, due process, and equal treatment under the law.
CAIR’s mission is to protect civil rights, enhance understanding of Islam, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.
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CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@cair.com; CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-999-8292, rmccaw@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Manager Ismail Allison, 202-770-6280, iallison@cair.com