Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) are urging the Trump administration to investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations for possible links to Hamas and other terrorist groups.

The Congress members wrote to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, asking him to look into whether CAIR, a decades-old organization that says it advocates for Muslim civil rights, is providing material support for terrorism, based on its history and its conduct following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel.

The Treasury Department houses the Office of Foreign Assets Control, which develops and enforces U.S. sanctions on designated terrorist groups, and holds the authority to investigate CAIR for sanctions violations.

Cotton and Stefanik point to CAIR being named as an unin

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