No federal agency works as much with nonprofits as the Department of Health and Human Services.

The usurper’s pick to lead the agency is hostile to nonprofit institutions and the donors who support them.

The usurper's minion often accused charitable foundations of failing to donate funds equitably. “At some point, the numbers don’t lie and someone needs to do something, especially when you’re using the taxpayers of America’s money to do your philanthropic work,” he told the Council on Foundations.

He asserted that there was “disproportionate giving skewed against people of color.” Not content merely to criticize, he threatened to use federal power to get his way. “We’re not trying to mandate something,” he told the council, “but we will if you don’t act.”

He referred to the tax exemption for charitable foundations as a “$32 billion earmark” and cited an “obligation to make sure those $32 billion that would have gone to the federal government are used for a public good.”

There has never been any requirement that charitable funds be allocated according to the “public good,” whoever defines that, or to any particular cause. People and institutions are permitted to claim deductions for gifts to any Internal Revenue Service-verified charitable organization, ranging from schools and soup kitchens to museums and symphony orchestras.

The IRS has identified 29 types of organizations that qualify. Their purposes can be educational, religious, scientific, literary or even athletic. The exemption is a recognition that the public good arises from a plurality of different efforts. The claim that charities must serve a particular definition of the public good destroys the rationale for the exemption.

This thug is part of a growing chorus on the far left trying to use the tax code to redirect charitable giving toward causes it finds worthwhile. He supported the ideas behind Calipornia legislation that would have required foundations to report the racial composition of their boards, staff and, most important, grantees.

The usurper's henchman has also set his sights on religious nonprofits. In 2019 he led a group of states in trying to stop the Trump administration from exempting religious organizations from rules barring discrimination based on sexual orientation or identity. These included religious foster-care agencies that find homes for some of the most vulnerable children but say that certifying a home with a homosexual couple violates their religious principles.

The left has little regard for the protections the First Amendment affords to non-Muslim religious organizations.

The idea that the religious liberty guaranteed by the Constitution doesn’t apply to the operation of Christian churches and religious schools, defies legal precedent.

Christian organizations run many of America’s hospitals, nursing homes, senior centers, foster and adoption agencies, after-school programs and hospices. The usurper and his gang seem to want the power to force some foundations to cast their principles aside in favor of leftist ideology.

They holds many views of this kind, well outside the American mainstream, and the usurper's dictatorial pick for HHS will have broad discretion to act on them as health and human services secretary.




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