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House Judiciary Republicans Say Biden-Era Tax Dollars Reached Terror-Linked NGOs


Official photo of Rep. Jim Jordan chairing a congressional hearing.

House Judiciary Committee Republicans dropped a new memo on May 29, 2026, and the headline finding is blunt.

They say Biden-Harris Administration taxpayer money moved through USAID, the State Department, and other federal agencies into NGO networks that funded radical anti-Israel protests and groups with alleged ties to terrorist organizations.

The memo is titled “The Biden-Harris Administration’s Funding of Anti-Netanyahu Non-Governmental Organizations, Part II.” The “Part II” tells you the committee thinks this is a pattern, not a one-off.

Jim Jordan and his investigators are now pressing the obvious question. How did American grant dollars end up this close to groups undermining a U.S. ally?

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The committee laid out its findings in an official release that walks through the alleged money trail.

According to the House Judiciary Committee Republicans, the memo describes a continued pattern of neglect and misuse of taxpayer dollars across USAID, the State Department, and other agencies:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Judiciary Committee released a memo titled, “The Biden-Harris Administration’s Funding of Anti-Netanyahu Non-Governmental Organizations, Part II,” detailing a continued pattern of the Biden-Harris Administration’s neglect and misuse of taxpayer dollars through U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the State Department, and other federal agencies that were used to directly and indirectly fund the efforts of anti-Netanyahu organizations and terrorist groups. There is also evidence that U.S. nonprofits may be violating 501(c)(3) provisions of U.S. law by funding radical anti-Israel groups and protests against the Israeli government.

The Committee’s New Key Findings: U.S. nonprofit Rockefeller Brothers Fund provided nearly $4 million to radical, anti-Israel groups, including some with alleged ties to terrorist organizations;

USAID grantee and tax-exempt organization, the Tides Network, provided over $1 million to anti-Israel groups, including some with ties to terrorist organizations;

U.S. nonprofits, the Jewish Communal Fund, and its grantees, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and PEF Israel Endowment Funds, may be violating section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status by funding radical anti-Israel groups;

According to a 2023 audit, Israeli nonprofit and U.S. government grantee Abraham Initiatives failed to comply with anti-terrorism procedures.

The Committee will continue to work to prevent the misuse of federal grant funds to interfere in the political affairs of foreign countries.

That is the alleged structure. Federal agency to grantee, grantee to NGO, NGO to the groups in the street.

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Each layer makes the next one harder to trace, which is part of what the committee is flagging.

The full committee document fills in the scale of the request and the records.

The House Judiciary Committee memo says the committees sought documents from U.S. and Israeli NGOs and have received 1,256 documents from nine organizations:

On March 26, 2025, the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Foreign Affairs sent letters to six U.S. and Israeli non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to request documents related to any grants, cooperative agreements, or other awards received from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) or State Department. On July 17, 2025, the Judiciary Committee issued a memorandum summarizing the key findings of the inquiry as of that date.

Since then, the Committee has continued the inquiry, sending similar letters to three additional NGOs. To date, the nine organizations have produced a total of 1,256 documents.

This memorandum provides an updated summary of the Committee’s key findings.

Documents obtained since July 2025 reveal new information about the Biden-Harris Administration helping to fund protests against the Netanyahu government. In particular, these documents shows that two U.S. tax-exempt organizations, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) and the Tides Network, provided over $5 million to groups that funded radical anti-Israel protests in the U.S. and Israel, and supported multiple terrorist-linked NGOs.

In addition, documents suggest that the Jewish Communal Fund, and its grantees, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) and PEF Israel Endowment Funds (PEF), may have violated their tax-exempt status by funding groups engaged in radical anti-government campaigns in Israel.

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Another U.S. government grantee, Abraham Initiatives, similarly led anti-government protests in Israel and, according to a 2023 audit, the organization failed to comply with anti-terrorism procedures in a USAID-funded program operated in regions “where [Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)] activity is prevalent.”

Fungibility is the heart of it. A dollar that pays a grantee’s rent is a dollar that grantee no longer has to raise elsewhere.

That is how oversight gaps turn into real exposure for taxpayers.

Jordan put the stakes directly to JNS: Republicans see the funding trail as American tax dollars moving to NGOs that undermine Israel, the U.S. ally at the center of this fight.

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For now, the committee is alleging a pattern and raising serious oversight and tax-status questions.

The direction is still clear. Republicans want to stop American tax dollars from flowing, by any path, toward groups working against Israel or sitting next to terror-linked networks.

That is the through-line from the campus chaos to the foreign aid spreadsheet. President Trump and House Republicans have spent this stretch trying to shut the spigot the previous administration left wide open.

The 1,256 documents are only the start of what Jordan’s team says it is still pulling. If the money trail holds up the way the committee describes it, the people who signed off on these grants are going to have questions to answer.



 

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