What to know about Tuesday's House hearing on foreign influence in American nonprofits: 'Follow the money'

The Republican-led House Committee connected Ways and Means is acceptable to clasp a proceeding connected Tuesday greeting digging into overseas power successful American nonprofits, with respective NGOs and far-left backing networks expected to beryllium connected the blistery seat. 

At 10 a.m. connected Tuesday, House Committee connected Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith volition oversee a hearing, "Foreign Influence successful American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing and Beyond." The proceeding volition beryllium broadcast online astatine the committee’s website.

Witnesses astatine the proceeding volition see Capital Research Center president Scott Walter, Americans for Public Trust Executive manager Caitlin Sutherland, Narravance CEO Adam Sohn, Dubinsky Consulting laminitis Bruce Dubinsky and Public Citizen co-founder Robert Weissman.

In a property release, the committee said the proceeding volition absorption connected the "ways overseas actors person funneled millions of dollars done networks of tax-exempt organizations to create, support, and substance disruption and amerciable enactment crossed the country."

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The proceeding is expected to analyse a web of nonprofits, including organizations funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech tycoon and self-styled Marxist-Leninist, surviving successful Shanghai. Singham has funded nonprofit groups, including the People’s Forum, CodePink, BreakThrough BT Media, the ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which person worked intimately with Democratic Socialists of America successful dispatching socialist, Marxist-Leninist and communist ft soldiers into the streets to disrupt national migration instrumentality enforcement agents and stoke chaos.

"For excessively long, overseas actors person gotten distant with abusing our tax-exempt assemblage to [sow] part and chaos successful our country," Smith posted connected X connected Tuesday morning. "Today, we’re putting them connected notice. Going to beryllium a precocious nighttime successful China for Shanghai Singham!"

Over the past year, Fox News Digital has documented a signifier of coordinated protests by socialist, communist and Marxist groups, revealing a synchronized ecosystem of funding, media amplification, ideological framing and street-level mobilization that aligns with the strategical interests of hostile overseas governments, including the People’s Republic of China.

"Tax-exempt presumption is simply a privilege not a right," Smith told Fox News Digital. "Nonprofits indispensable stay accountable and garbage to enactment arsenic instruments of hostile overseas governments."

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The Ways and Means Committee "continues to analyse however overseas wealth and foreign-linked networks are funneled done tax-exempt entities to sow discord and unrest successful our society," helium said. "That’s wherefore we’re demanding answers from Tricontinental and BreakThrough astir their backing streams, activities and communications with CCP-linked individuals, including Neville Roy Singham."

Hours earlier the hearing, Fox News Digital reported that Smith escalated his probe into Singham, who has allegedly been "sowing chaos and spreading Chinese propaganda, perchance successful coordination with a overseas government."

In abstracted letters, Smith demanded records from BreakThrough and Tricontinental, informing that some tax-exempt organizations whitethorn beryllium operating extracurricular their lawful intent arsenic imaginable unregistered overseas agents, portion helping to substance home unrest nether the guise of journalism and world research.

Congressional investigators accidental the Singham web sits astatine the halfway of a malign overseas power cognition that allegedly exploits U.S. nonprofit laws to inject anti-American propaganda into home protestation movements and sow discord from wrong the United States.

The letters picture a full-spectrum operation, with backing aligned with overseas interests flowing into tax-exempt nonprofits that nutrient ideological research, media narratives and societal media messaging, which are past deployed onto U.S. streets done tightly choreographed protests.

"If the grounds shows these groups are acting arsenic conduits for CCP-aligned propaganda oregon functioning similar overseas agents portion enjoying U.S. taxation benefits, their tax-exempt presumption should beryllium revoked immediately," Smith said. "We’re going to travel the wealth and request accountability to enactment a halt to Beijing’s exploitation of our tax-exempt sector."