Roy leads congressional delegation calling to halt federal funding for CAIR

(The Center Square) – Outgoing U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, is again calling on the federal government to take action against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), this time against its California chapter.

On Monday, he led a congressional delegation calling on U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to suspend funding for CAIR-CA and its affiliates and initiate debarment proceedings. He did so in response to a Department of Justice investigation launched more than a year ago into CAIR for alleged misuse of federal funds related to Afghan refugees.

“CAIR’s longstanding ties to terrorist organizations, including Hamas – a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization – combined with documented financial mismanagement and misuse of federal grant funds administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (HH...