Washington, D.C. (RI) — Iowa Congressman Randy Feenstra, a Republican from Hull, has introduced a bill he says would keep American welfare benefits from being sent out of the country.
Feenstra says his “No American Benefits Abroad Act” is being considered by a House committee.
He says Democrats in Minnesota are to blame for allowing the fraud.
Feenstra is a member of the House Ways and Means Committee and has joined chair Jason Smith and Republican members of the committee in sending a letter to the acting IRS commissioner Scott Bessent to urge stronger oversight and accountability of the nation’s nonprofit sector.
Feenstra says he was disturbed along with many Iowans by the headlines of the rampant taxpayer fraud in Minnesota.
The Ways and Means Committee has referred 11 nonprofits to the IRS through its investigations of fraud, terrorism ties and foreign influences, which found that stolen funds may have been wired to regions of Somalia with links to an Islamic terrorist group.
Feenstra is running for the republican nomination to be governor.
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