Watch Live: House Committee Goes After America’s Dark-Money NGOs

Watch Live: Full Committee Hearing on Foreign Influence in American Non-profits

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Update (1100ET):

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.

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Sutherland tells Smith the left-wing 1630 fund has received hundreds of millions of dollars from European billionaires.

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Smith asks Dubinsky what the IRS can do proactively to curb foreign influence in nonprofits. Dubinsky responds that the IRS needs stronger reporting in Form 990 filings to better track the money.

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Richard Neal (D-MA) is the Ranking Member on the committee and continues to focus on Trump, diverting attention from left-wing nonprofits.

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Adrian Smith (R-NE), a senior member of the committee, focuses on fiscal sponsorship and asked Dubinsky about how it works. Dubinsky responded that fiscal sponsorship can be misused, and said adding a specific question on Form 990 filings about fiscal sponsorship would help the IRS and investigators better “follow the money.”

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Democrats on the committee continue to deflect left-wing NGOs subject by hammering Trump…

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Democrats blamed Putin and Russia for what they described as Republicans’ attacks on left-wing NGOs at the hearing. They also criticized Republicans for even raising questions about the dark web of nonprofit funding tied to the “No Kings” …

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Update (Tuesday):

The House Ways and Means Committee will begin a hearing at 10:00 a.m. ET to investigate foreign influence operations in America’s dark world of nonprofits that fund the protest-industrial complex of chaos.

This investigation focuses on efforts to “unmask threats from Beijing and beyond.”

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Asra Nomani at Fox News has reshaped how the corporate media outlet covers dark money-funded NGOs, the protest industrial complex, and the ongoing color revolution-style operation backed by left-wing billionaires and their Democratic allies against President Donald Trump and the “America First” agenda.

Nomani was the first to report that the House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. ET titled “Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing and Beyond.”

The hearing, Nomani said, will focus on “examining a network of nonprofits,” ranging from groups tied to Neville Roy Singham to organizations she alleges are linked to his left-wing nonprofit network, including The People’s Forum, CodePink, BreakThrough BT Media, ANSWER Coalition, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

She added that these nonprofit groups work closely with the Democratic Socialists of America and other activist networks to stoke chaos.

Adam Sohn, co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute, will be one of the five witnesses speaking with the committee on Tuesday morning. He published a new report finding that DSA’s rhetoric aligns with the anti-U.S. propaganda of foreign adversaries.

“The same rhetoric used to attack America abroad gets recycled at home to attack American law enforcement. Different stage, same script,” Sohn said.

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According to NCRI’s new report, “Democratic Socialists of America: Policy, Advocacy and Narrative Convergence with Hostile Foreign States,” the organization has been engaging in a dynamic called “narrative convergence,” advancing narratives that stoke domestic unrest and delegitimize state institutions while advancing talking points aligned with “hostile foreign governments.”

The report said the DSA regularly circulates propaganda across its channels promoting delegitimization campaigns against President Trump, including equating him with “fascists” and declaring, “Socialism Beats Fascism.”

It continued that DSA “exhibits multiple indicators” warranting registration under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. It currently receives benefits registered as a nonprofit under Section 501(c)(4) of the tax code.

The report cites “repeated foreign-facilitated engagements, receipt of apparent in-kind benefits, and subsequent U.S. political advocacy aligned with the interests of the Venezuelan, Cuban, and Chinese governments.”

DSA applies “the same anti-legitimacy frame to domestic enforcement and to U.S. foreign-policy posture,” according to the institute, adding that the demonstrations are “explicitly linking domestic immigration enforcement to broader U.S. foreign policy actions.”

Other witnesses slated to appear include Capital Research Center president Scott Walter, Americans for Public Trust executive director Caitlin Sutherland, Dubinsky Consulting founder Bruce Dubinsky, and Public Citizen president Robert Weissman.

Tomorrow’s hearing on foreign influence that has infected the NGO world like cancer is Washington playing catch-up to our reporting, as well as many others, over the past year, including our most recent reports:

If you want to understand why the radical left appears to hate America and seeks to implode the nation from within, it is not difficult to see that these ideas are rarely developed organically. More often, they are shaped and reinforced by outside influences. This chart helps explain why the radical left has become so radical.

Recall Seamus Bruner, Director of Research at the Government Accountability Institute, briefed President Trump last fall about the dark web of NGOs sowing chaos nationwide. Even Elon Musk chimed in…

Way more than $100M of US taxpayer money

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 8, 2025

Few would dispute that the charitable sector is overdue for a hard reset. NGOs should return to their core mission work that directly helps working-class people, rather than serving as a revolutionary vector for socialists and marxists that seek to destroy the nation.