(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Unions and Progressive Organizations of all types are threatened with massive dollar losses by losing their tax-exempt status as non-profit organizations in a Bill the House passed last week, warns NewsGuild/Communications Workers of America President Jon Schleuss – who adds it also could be an instrument of repression.

The measure could, for example, be used against an organization a Trump Administration decided was in support of Palestinians.

In an emergency e-blast the day before, Schleuss said a key section of a Republican measure, HR9495, would let the Treasury Department - in practical terms, the Internal Revenue Service - unilaterally strip any non-profit group of its Federal tax exemption if Treasury found the group funneled “material support or resources” to a terrorist organization.

That could mean the shutting down of many organizations.

“This legislation threatens Non-Profit Workers at ProPublica, The Texas Tribune, Spotlight PA, American Civil Liberties Union Affiliates, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Southern Poverty Law Center and more who are Members of The NewsGuild/CWA,” Schleuss wrote. “And the legislation also threatens our Union itself, because Unions are also non-profits.  Such unilateral power could easily be abused by any future administration to target political opponents, shut down newsrooms and silence freedom of speech and affiliation in the United States.”

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