The Treasury Department’s latest accusation against laws protecting Americans and American businesses against “woke” discrimination would be absurd if it wasn’t so serious.
Treasury officials – the same ones that illegally spied-and-lied on law-abiding Americans purchasing firearms and ammunition – are warning that laws like Florida’s HB 3 are a threat to national security. That’s the law Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed that prevents “woke” corporations with discriminatory policies against firearm industry members and other businesses from collecting taxpayer dollars through state contracts and pensions. He followed that up by signing HB 989, that creates a complaint process for customers who feel they’ve been politically discriminated against by financial institutions.
Now, Treasury officials are warning that it could limit their efforts to track and prevent money laundering and terrorism financing. The Treasury Department didn’t make mention of other states with similar laws, including Tennessee, Texas, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana or South Dakota.
Financial Discrimination
These are efforts NSSF has backed through the Firearm Industry Nondiscrimination (FIND) Act. Those are a series of state laws that say corporations that discriminate against firearm-related businesses solely because they are in the business of selling firearms, ammunition or firearm accessories are ineligible to receive taxpayer funded contracts. There is pending legislation in Congress too. U.S. Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) introduced the NSSF-supported FIND Act as S. 428 and U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Mich.) introduced similar legislation, H.R. 53, under the same name.
The Treasury Department’s warning claimed that Florida’s law increases “the risk that international drug traffickers, transnational organized criminals, terrorists, and corrupt foreign officials will use the U.S. financial system to launder money, evade sanctions, and threaten our national security.”
Click the link to read the whole article: Treasury Claims Fla’s ‘Anti-Woke’ Law Threat to National Security
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