
I know everyone has been on edge, anticipating the Executive Orders that are coming this week, possibly even today, that are targeted to devastate the nonprofit sector, including targeting climate-focused organizations, punishing organizations that fund or do work abroad, revoking the tax status of organizations like Harvard that refuse to comply with the administration’s ideology, and designating certain organizations as terrorist organizations.
The attacks are strategic, designed to overwhelm and exhaust us all so we can’t fight back against the horrible things this fascist administration is doing, including the planned gutting of Head Start, a vital resource for hundreds of thousands of low-income families.
The actions of this administration are unlawful, as this helpful document from the National Council of Nonprofits shows. It has no authority to limit what types of orgs are eligible for 501c3 status, nor does the president have authority to order the IRS to revoke the c3 status of specific nonprofits, nor does the IRS have the authority to remove nonprofits of its status without due process.
Of course, none of that matters when we’re dealing with a dictator, one who has suggested deporting US citizens to torture camps abroad and who has ignored even the unanimous ruling of the Supreme Court.
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