This week, House Republicans quietly slipped into their new tax bill a dangerous provision that gives President Donald Trump another weapon to target nonprofits he doesn’t like. The bill would enable the administration to label civil society groups “terrorist-supporting organizations” and strip them of their tax-exempt status, making it virtually impossible for them to function.

The Trump administration has already wielded the “terrorist” label to stigmatize and strip rights from student activists and migrants. Homeland Security agents whisked an international student off the street for nothing more than writing an opinion piece in her college newspaper advocating divestment from Israel. The administration banished hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador, calling them terrorists and gang members with scant evidence and refusing to bring home a Maryland man who it conceded was mistakenly deported.