Are Your Tax Dollars Still Funding Leftist Activist Groups? White House Demands Answers

Is the federal government still funneling taxpayer dollars to some of the leftist activist groups that called the shots during President Joe Biden’s administration?

The Trump White House is asking federal agencies to investigate past and potentially continuing funding for a host of nonprofits, many of which are associated with aggressive promotion of leftist causes.

On May 13, the White House Office of Management and Budget issued a budget data request seeking comprehensive information on the federal tax dollars supporting 49 nonprofits.

In the document, OMB asks each federal agency to include all grants, cooperative agreements, loans, contracts, and other monetary awards, even if the provision of the funding is under litigation.

The request focuses on fiscal years 2024, 2025, and estimated obligations in fiscal year 2026.

A person familiar with OMB’s request told the Daily Signal that the request might capture data not accessible on USASpending.gov, the publicly-available database of federal grants and contracts.

The list includes many of the leftist activist groups that sent staff and policy ideas to the Biden administration, influencing the federal government in a “woke” direction.

The Woketopus and Its Allies

The Office of Management and Budget is seeking funding information regarding: the American Civil Liberties Union; the Council on American-Islamic Relations; and the Southern Poverty Law Center—three of the groups I covered extensively in my book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.”

The ACLU pushed open borders, while CAIR urged Biden to distance himself from Israel, and the SPLC—which puts mainstream conservatives on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan—influenced the Justice Department against conservatives. A federal grand jury indicted the SPLC for wire fraud and bank fraud in April, claiming the center directed donor money to support members of the Klan while fundraising on opposing such groups. The SPLC maintained that it was paying informants for information on extremist groups.

The list also includes foundations that form what I call the Left’s dark money network: the Open Society Institute founded by Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros, the Tides Center, and the Tides Foundation. These foundations direct donor funds to the leftist groups that influenced the Biden administration.

The Immigration Industrial Complex—nonprofits that received taxpayer funding to transport and assist illegal aliens—also features on the list. The Office of Management and Budget is seeking information on funding to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society or HIAS, Global Refuge (previously known as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service), the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, along with other immigration-related groups my book didn’t cover.

The list also includes the Action Network, a technology company that offers activism tools for leftist groups; the TransLatin@ Coalition; Transgender Equity Consulting; and Unidos U.S. or the National Council of La Raza, which has helped organize opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The budget request also singles out the Vera Institute of Justice, which claims the U.S. criminal justice system is “rooted in a history of white supremacy” and which aims “to establish a right to representation for all immigrants facing deportation.” The Foundation to Promote Open Society has awarded the institute more than $11 million. The Justice Department under Biden paid the group $73 million in contracts, mostly for providing legal services to immigrant children. The Department of Health and Human Services paid Vera nearly $200 million for “refugee assistance.”

The fact that the federal government likely funded each of these organizations does not come as a surprise to me—I previously reported that $1.7 billion of your tax dollars funded the nonprofits that sued to block Trump’s reforms in his very first month. Even so, it’s worth considering exactly what this means.

A Grotesque Scandal

I am not familiar with every organization on the Office of Management and Budget’s list, but the notion that my tax dollars would go to support the Immigration Industrial Complex and the weaponization of government against conservatives is beyond the pale.

It’s one thing for leftist activist groups to have tax-exempt status. I disagree with these groups, but I respect their right to advocate for policies they support.

It’s something else entirely for the federal government to use force to extract taxes from my pocket, and then pay activist groups that I oppose for services that actually undermine America’s security and pit us against one another.

Approximately 10 million illegal aliens entered this country under Biden, and while President Trump is working to deport many of them, the federal government had been propping up the very activist groups that not only fight to keep these illegal aliens in the United States but would open the borders again, if they could.

The Trump White House is right to demand a full accounting.