Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Urges IRS to Target Turning Point USA’s Tax-Exempt Status
19th January 2021
It looks as if the government is returning to its old habits of trying to exploit the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to attack conservative nonprofits.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is urging IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig “to review the tax-exempt status of Turning Point USA [TPUSA],” according to CNBC. The reason for this push was asinine: “Whitehouse said [in a letter that] the nonprofit student group should have its tax-exempt status reviewed because he believes they broke Covid regulations when it reportedly hosted two large events in Florida.” Conservative activist Charlie Kirk is president of the group. Kirk is also a member on the board of advisors for the MRC’s Free Speech America project.
Whitehouse’s push for the IRS to zero in on TPUSA sounds eerily similar to that “scandal that erupted in 2013 when the IRS was found to be targeting conservative organizations for harassment.”