WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 -- The Senate Finance Committee issued the following news release:
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Finance Committee member Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., today launched an inquiry into reports that the Trump administration is developing plans to use the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) tax enforcement authority to target ideological opponents, including taking away their tax-exempt status.
"We write regarding disturbing reports that senior Treasury officials are developing plans to target left-leaning tax-exempt organizations with IRS enforcement scrutiny and potentially revoke their tax-exempt status," the senators wrote. "Americans of every political persuasion must be able t...