Stop ANTIFA Act of 2026
Sponsored By: Representative Steube, W. Gregory [R-FL-17]
In Committee
Summary
Designates Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and sets up a national framework to investigate, disrupt, and prosecute political violence and those who fund it. It creates a Joint Terrorism Task Force model, increases financial and tax scrutiny of supporters, and directs agencies to prioritize politically motivated offenses.
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- People accused of political violence and their networks will face coordinated federal investigation and prosecution for offenses like doxing, swatting, rioting, assault, arson, conspiracy against rights, money laundering, and related crimes.
- Funders, sponsors, and tax-exempt organizations will get increased scrutiny. The Treasury and Attorney General will target financial networks and push banks to file Suspicious Activity Reports, while the IRS will review tax-exempt groups for ties to violence.
- State and local law enforcement will be folded into a National Joint Terrorism Task Force framework and become eligible for new grant programs to detect, prevent, and respond to domestic terrorism threats.
- Prosecutors are directed to prioritize politically motivated acts and adopt disruption strategies to dismantle networks rather than only pursuing isolated offenders.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
6 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
National terrorism task force duties
If enacted, the bill would require the National Joint Terrorism Task Force and its local offices to run a national strategy to investigate, prosecute, and disrupt political violence. The Task Forces would investigate recruitment, radicalization, and conspiracies to deprive civil rights. They would probe funders, organizational leaders, and foreign-linked actors. Agencies could ask other law enforcement partners for operational help when allowed by law, and the Attorney General would be asked to prosecute related federal crimes to the fullest extent permitted.
Cutting off terrorist funding networks
If enacted, the bill would direct the Treasury, together with the Attorney General, to use available legal tools to identify and disrupt financial networks that fund domestic terrorism. Treasury's terrorism-focused office would examine financial flows and coordinate with partner agencies. The bill would require guidance to financial institutions on filing Suspicious Activity Reports and direct the IRS to check tax-exempt groups for ties to political violence and refer cases to Justice for possible prosecution.
Attorney General list and guidance
If enacted, the bill would let the Attorney General recommend that groups meeting the federal definition of domestic terrorism be listed as domestic terrorist organizations and would require transmission of any recommended list to the President. The bill would also require the Attorney General to issue guidance prioritizing politically motivated acts—like doxing, swatting, rioting, looting, trespass, assault, property destruction, and threats—as domestic-terrorism priorities. The guidance would ask investigators to identify common patterns and indicators to aid prevention and identification.
Declares Antifa a terrorist group
If enacted, the bill would declare Antifa to be a domestic terrorist organization and use that declaration to guide federal investigative and prosecutorial priorities. It would direct executive-branch agencies to use their legal authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle illegal operations by Antifa or people claiming to act for it. Agencies could investigate and prosecute people and groups that fund or provide material support for those operations, subject to applicable law.
Grants for domestic terrorism prevention
If enacted, the bill would require the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security to name domestic terrorism a national priority and to develop grant programs for law enforcement partners. Grants would fund federal, state, local, and tribal efforts to detect, prevent, and protect against domestic-terrorism threats. Any grant program would only operate under applicable law and if Congress provides appropriations.
Limits on implementation and claims
If enacted, the bill would say it must be carried out only under existing law and only if money is provided. It would not change other agencies' legal authorities or the Office of Management and Budget's budget functions. The bill would also say it does not create new legal rights that anyone could use to sue the federal government.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Steube, W. Gregory [R-FL-17]
FL • R
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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