Should more than $22 million in donations be enough for a nonprofit organization to carry out its activities? You might think so, but the Obama administration decided that the National Urban League should get another $20 million in tax dollars, according to the League’s most recent annual IRS filing.
In fact, during the eight years of the Obama administration, the League received $128 million from the taxpayers. That doesn’t count another $169 million to eight of the League’s local affiliates. (It must help to have someone from your state in the White House. The Springfield, Illinois Urban League took in $65 million, more than double what any other city received.)
Just what does the National Urban League do with all that money? It functions as one important part in the left-wing coalition that promoted the policies of Barack Obama for eight years and is now working to make sure those policies survive despite the verdict of the 2016 election.
They praise ObamaCare, saying that it’s only faults are that it needs to be expanded, with more spending. Of course, such praise is hardly surprising when one HHS publication lists the Urban League and two of its affiliates as receiving grant money under ObamaCare.
Affirmative action, which can be a form of reverse discrimination, is defended by the League on the grounds that it does not believe minorities can successfully compete without preferential treatment.
The League is a strong supporter of Common Core, abortion on demand, gun control, and weak protection against voting fraud.
The sort of “criminal justice reform” pushed by Hillary Clinton, which would put all blame on police officers and release many criminals from jail, is one of the League’s priorities.
When both Clinton and Donald Trump declined to appear at the League’s 2016 convention, Clinton was praised anyway while Trump was accused of showing that he would ignore black Americans if elected president. (One year earlier, the League had made a big deal of the fact that they would not allow Trump to speak at the 2015 convention, declaring that it Trump tried to attend he would be told “You’re fired.”)
Since the election, the League has continued to act as a foe of President Trump, opposing the nomination of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and pledging to keep an eye on Trump and fight him whenever he fails to support their agenda.
Now the question is, will the Trump administration continue to give our taxpayer money to this adversary? Does the President believe he should be funding his enemies?
Defunding the Left: The National Urban League
March 10, 2017FedUp PAC Staff