Claudia Tenney Tied Hostage Tax Relief to a Bill Letting the Treasury Secretary Strip a Nonprofit's Tax Exemption
A bipartisan fix for hostages' tax penalties had already cleared the Senate. In 2024 Tenney packaged it with a power for the Treasury Secretary to designate nonprofits as terrorist supporters. After Trump won, most Democrats walked away, and the hostage relief died with the package. Both halves are now back in her committee — separately.