Tax-exempt groups can now engage in politics Yea.

by Joseph Saraceno

636226936285027235-143475Trump’s Johnson Amendment is allowing tax-exempt groups to engage in politics. Now all the religions can work together and will out number the Liberals.

We’re going to hear more now about the Johnson Amendment, the tax code provision that you just heard President Trump promising to destroy. The amendment was originally proposed by then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, and it became law back in 1954. Trump can’t just undo it. Congress would have to repeal it. It says tax-exempt groups like churches and charities can’t speak for or against particular political candidates. MORE