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Top takeaways and headlines from the hearing.
The first witness to testify before the House Ways and Means Committee is Americans for Public Trust executive director Caitlin Sutherland.
Sutherland tells the committee that nonprofits have been co-opted by foreign actors
Sutherland tells the committee that European entities are funneling money into US nonprofits to push a radical left-wing agenda
She calls for more guardrails across the nonprofit world from foreign influence
Next is Adam Sohn, co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute????.
Sohn says nonprofits were never meant for revolution on America's city streets
Sohn points out the Neville Roy Singham nonprofit network and the CAIR network
Sohn says CAIR funneled money into the Muslim Brotherhood, funded campus protests, etc...
Sohn begins talking about Singham sowing chaos in US through nonprofits
Sohn talks about Singham's Party for Socialism and Liberation sparking protests
Sohn says Singham's network is a national security risk
Dubinsky Consulting founder Bruce Dubinsky now speaks:
Dubinsky says total charitable giving in the U.S. was about $500 billion, but it's difficult to determine how much of that is foreign money flowing through nonprofits. He adds that the core concern is a national security risk.
Dubinsky says the current reporting in the nonprofit world is a problem and flawed. He points to this graphic...
Capital Research Center president Scott Walter is next up.
Walter says foreigners have abused the nonprofit complex to hide "influence ops" ...
Walter points to the Arabella network
Now, Public Citizen president Robert Weissman speaks.
Weissman says the Trump adminstraiton is failing to maintain existing rules or institutions to deal with foreign influence
Weissman says we have record money of dark foreign money funneling into US politics ... Says to pass the disclosure act
Now Q&A begins ...
Jason Smith, chair of the House Committee on Ways and Means, called out the Neville Roy Singham network and asked Walter to explain how it operates, including how the CCP uses NGOs to push propaganda.
Walter responds to Smith's question about how the Singham network amplifies communist propaganda across the U.S. through a vast nonprofit network.




