Commenting on the reports of an executive order targeting climate advocacy organizations, ActionAid USA’s Director of Policy and Campaigns, Brandon Wu, said:
“Reports that the Trump administration may target climate nonprofits and organizations working internationally on Earth Day are deeply disturbing.
Threatening the charitable status of causes the administration doesn’t like is a gross overreach of executive power, right out of the authoritarian playbook. This move would be an attack on freedom of speech, freedom of dissent, and the freedom of people to give to causes they believe in. These actions, if implemented, will be a devastating blow to organizations and people simply trying to make the world a better place.”
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Spokespeople available to speak to journalists are:
- Brandon Wu – Director of Policy and Campaigns, ActionAid USA
- Meredith Slater – Director of Development, ActionAid USA
- Niranjali Amerasinghe – Executive Director, ActionAid USA
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About ActionAid
ActionAid is a global federation working with more than 41 million people living in more than 71 countries, including some of the world’s poorest countries. We want to see a just, fair, and sustainable world in which everybody enjoys the right to a life of dignity and freedom from poverty and oppression. We work to achieve social justice and gender equality and to eradicate poverty, including by shifting power to local organizations and movements.
