House Ways and Means committee hearing on outside influence on nonprofit organizations
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The Republican-led House Committee on Ways and Means is expected to hold a hearing Tuesday morning looking into foreign influence on American nonprofits, and many NGOs and far-left networks are expected to be in the spotlight.
At 10 a.m. Tuesday, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith will moderate a hearing, “Foreign Influence on American Nonprofits: Revealing Threats from Beijing and Beyond.” The hearing will be streamed online at committee website.
Witnesses at the hearing will include Capital Research Center president Scott Walter, Americans for Public Trust Executive Director Caitlin Sutherland, Narravance CEO Adam Sohn, Dubinsky Consulting founder Bruce Dubinsky and Public Citizen founder Robert Weissman.
In a press release, the committee said the hearing will focus on “the ways in which foreign players invested millions of dollars through networks of tax-exempt organizations to create, support, and disrupt fuel and illegal activities across the country.”
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The hearing is expected to examine a network of non-profit organizations, incl organizations sponsored by Neville Roy Singhaman American-born technologist and self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist, living in Shanghai. Singham funded non-profit groups, including the People’s Forum, CodePink, BreakThrough BT Media, ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which worked closely with the Democratic Socialists of America in sending socialist, Marxist-Leninist and communist militias into the streets to disrupt federal immigration agents and law enforcement.
“It has been a long time since foreign actors have stopped abusing our tax-free sector [sow] separation and turmoil in our country,” Smith wrote on X Tuesday morning. “Today, we recognize it. It’s going to be late at night in China Singham!”
Last year, Fox News Digital documented a pattern of coordinated protests by socialist groups, communists and Marxists, revealing a coordinated ecosystem of financing, media amplification, ideological formation and street-level mobilization aligned with the strategic interests of hostile foreign governments, including the People’s Republic of China.
“Tax-exempt status is a right, not a privilege,” Smith told Fox News Digital. “Nonprofit corporations must remain accountable and refuse to serve as tools of hostile foreign governments.”
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The Ways and Means Committee “continues to investigate how foreign money and foreign-linked networks are being used through tax-exempt organizations to sow discord and disorder in our society,” he said. “That’s why we want answers from Tricontinental and BreakThrough about their funding, operations and dealings with people connected to CCP, including Neville Roy Singham.”
Hours before the hearing, Fox News Digital reported that Smith had expanded his investigation into Singham, who allegedly “sows chaos and spreads Chinese propaganda, possibly in collaboration with a foreign government.”
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In separate letters, Smith sought records from BreakThrough and Tricontinental, warning that both tax-exempt organizations may be operating outside their official mission as unregistered foreign proxies, while helping to fuel domestic unrest under the guise of journalism and academic research.
Congressional investigators say Singham’s network is among the worst foreign influence firms accused of exploiting US nonprofit laws to inject anti-American propaganda into domestic protests and sow discord in the United States.
The books describe the pervasive activity, with funding aligned with foreign interests flowing into tax-exempt nonprofit organizations that produce opinion polls, media narratives and social media messages, which are then circulated on US streets in tightly organized protests.
“If the evidence shows that these groups are acting as propaganda channels aligned with the CCP or acting as foreign agents while enjoying US tax benefits, their tax-exempt status should be revoked immediately,” Smith said. “We will follow the money and demand accountability to stop Beijing’s exploitation of our tax-free sector.”
