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A chorus of Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee is now calling for an investigation into the National Rifle Association’s tax-exempt status after an explosive report from The New Yorker detailed alleged financial improprieties at the gun rights organization.

On Thursday, Congressman Brad Schneider, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, wrote a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig asking the agency to investigate the NRA over the latest allegations. Additional committee members told Newsweek on Friday that they support efforts to investigate the group and its tax-exempt status.
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The House Ways and Means Committee is the primary tax-writing committee of the House of Representatives and has jurisdiction over issues relating to nonprofits and tax-exempt entities.

The report from The New Yorker, co-published with The Trace, details a litany of potential financial misdeeds concerning the NRA’s reimbursement of vendors, business decisions and possible conflicts of interest. A key figure in the allegations is the organization’s longtime public relations firm, Ackerman McQueen.
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“I support Rep. Schneider’s call for an IRS investigation into reported abuses at the NRA,” Congressman Don Beyer told Newsweek. “Given the organization in question I am neither surprised nor disappointed by the latest revelations. Political patronage should not protect supposed ‘nonprofits’ whose executives are living the high life off of tax deductible donations.”

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