Foreign nationals are quietly bankrolling leftist causes throughout the United States, several witnesses told House lawmakers on Tuesday.
The concerning news came during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing focused on noncitizens pouring foreign dollars into U.S.-based nonprofit organizations. These groups, many of the witnesses said, are employing such funds to advance left-wing causes and policy priorities across the country.
“It’s refreshing to have a hearing where all witnesses share strong agreement on a central point, namely, foreign money should be kept out of American politics,” said Capital Research Center President Scott Walter. “A lot of these [foreign funding] problems involve America’s nonprofit sector, which is traditionally a glory and a strength of this exceptional country. But foreigners abuse this sector — especially tools like fiscal sponsorship and donor-advised funds, which aren’t inherently bad things — in order to hide their influence ops.”
In his testimony, Walter referenced the “politicized” and recently re-acquisitioned Arabella Advisors, a “dark money” network that includes various tax-exempt 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations that subsidize various left-wing ventures. Among these groups is the U.S.-based Sixteen Thirty Fund, which has reportedly received more than $200 million from leftist Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss and his Berger Action Fund.
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