The U.S. House passed legislation that would give the Treasury Department unilateral authority to strip the tax-exempt status of nonprofits it claims support terrorism.

H.R. 9495 would authorize the treasury secretary to designate nonprofits as supporters of terrorism and strip them of their tax-exempt status.

Nonprofits like the ACLU have said the bill does not require the Treasury secretary to disclose all evidence used to make a ‘terror-supporting’ designation.

The U.S. House passed legislation Thursday that would give the Treasury Department unilateral authority to strip the tax-exempt status of nonprofits it claims support terrorism, alarming civil liberties groups about how a second Trump presidency could invoke it to punish political opponents.

The U.S. House on Thursday passed a bill that Democrats and other critics warn will allow President-elect Donald Trump to crush nonprofit organizations that are critical of him and his policies.

Most Democrats opposed the measure, reversing their previous positions as they warned that President-elect Donald J. Trump could use it to punish nonprofit groups he saw as political antagonists.

The House passed H.R. 9495 on Thursday in a 219-184 vote. If passed by the Senate and signed into law, the measure would give the Trump administration the authority to strip the tax-exempt status of nonprofits it considers "terrorist supporting organizations.