Democrats in Congress are blasting the recent revelation that President Donald Trump will push the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate left-leaning groups and political opponents, calling it a blatant weaponization of a government agency.

“Donald Trump believes he’s a king, and he’s determined to wield every agency under his control as a weapon to crush political opposition and silence free speech,” Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said in a statement shared with Salon on Thursday. “The Trump administration will try to legitimize this abuse with legal opinions and procedural lingo, but the implicit threat is that if you give to a progressive cause, they’ll deem you a terrorist and ruin your life.”

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