Key Quote: In the letter, CIP Senior Adviser Jack Miller asked the lawmakers “to make the administration’s use of outside groups to target nonprofits an early, joint oversight priority, beginning with CRC.” CIP wants the Democrats to probe what role CRC’s research played in a Justice Department directive to investigate Democratic megadonor George Soros’ Open Society Foundations last year.
Politico: A Nonprofit Call for Oversight
The Congressional Integrity Project sent a letter to the top Democrats on the House Oversight, Judiciary and Administration panels today asking them to investigate a conservative watchdog group’s influence on the Trump administration, Jacob reports.
CIP, a liberal nonprofit advocacy group, is asking Reps. Robert Garcia of California, Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Joe Morelle of New York to look into the Capital Research Center, a conservative group focused on money in politics. The letter cites POLITICO’s reporting that CRC has shared research with the Trump administration and congressional Republicans as the group pushes for greater scrutiny of liberal nonprofits. It also cites a recent report from The Wall Street Journal that the White House is mulling an executive order that would label some nonprofits as having terrorist ties.
In the letter, CIP Senior Adviser Jack Miller asked the lawmakers “to make the administration’s use of outside groups to target nonprofits an early, joint oversight priority, beginning with CRC.” CIP wants the Democrats to probe what role CRC’s research played in a Justice Department directive to investigate Democratic megadonor George Soros’ Open Society Foundations last year.
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