Extremists fund their violence with tax money meant to help the homeless

A new report reveals how violent extremists are funded by taxpayer money intended to help those suffering on our streets.

In early October The Capital Research Group, in collaboration with Seattle’s Discovery Institute, released “Infiltrated: The Ideological Capture of Homelessness Advocacy” which describes how public funds are being diverted away from helping homeless individuals and ending up funding such extremist groups as Antifa.

This has been allowed to happen due to the lack of financial accountability by Democrat public officials – especially when it comes to homelessness funding.

• An audit of the King County Department of Community and Human Services found that only 1% of its $1.8 billion in expenditures had the correct paperwork and the lack of oversite has likely led to “likely massive fraud”
• A 2023 Discovery Institute report showed that the King County Regional Homelessness Authority was paying its housing vendors three times as much as private charities pay to house an homeless individual. It also revealed that only a small percentage of KCRHA funding recipients actually filed a report on what they did with the money and what impact it had on reducing homelessness.
• In a December 2024 interview with ChangeWA, King County Executive Dow Constantine, the elected official most responsible for our region’s homelessness response, said that he could not provide a figure, even an estimate, for how much money was spent on the region’s homeless, for any year he authorized county funding.

In this irresponsible environment, radical organizations have infiltrated (or created their own) homeless advocacy groups.  Because there is very little accountability for the money, these groups are using this money to fund their violent activities.

Journalist and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jonathan Choe recently handed this report to President Trump when he was invited to the White House (along with Brandi Cruse) to discuss Antifa.

If you do not want to read the full 100 page report, there is an excellent two-page Executive Summary at the beginning.