State Dept. Sued For Records On Taxpayer Cash Funneled To Soros European Groups

A legal watchdog is going to court to find out why the State Department sent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to left-wing European political groups backed by liberal billionaire George Soros.

The non-profit public interest law firm Judicial Watch announced it “filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State for records on contracts, grants, and communications with several left-wing European non-governmental organizations (NGOs) (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:26-cv-00346)).”

“Americans deserve to know if their hard-earned taxpayer dollars are being used to fund foreign, left-wing organizations that have a pattern of anti-freedom and anti-American policies,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The State Department has failed to provide these records, leaving the public in the dark.”

Judicial Watch reports it “filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the State Department failed to respond to a November 2025 FOIA request for all contracts and grant agreements from January 2016 to November 2025 connected to the organizations Free Courts (Wolne Sądy), the Civil Liberties Union for Europe, DemoCrisis, and Ökotárs Alapítvány (Hungarian Environmental Partnership Foundation), as well as all associated communications of State Department officials.”

“According to the Open Society Foundations’ website, the Free Courts Foundation received a $130,000 grant in 2023. The organization lists the quasi-governmental National Endowment for Democracy as a partner organization on its website. Polish lawyer Michał Wawrykiewicz, who co-founded Free Courts, is on the board of DemoCrisis which was founded in 2023 and is an umbrella organization of non-government organizations (NGOs) in Israel, Poland and Hungary,” Judicial Watch reports.

“The Civil Liberties Union for Europe (LibertiesEU), which was spun off from Open Society Foundations and received approximately 40% of its funding from the organization. LibertiesEU has been aggressive in its campaign against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban,” Judicial Watch notes.

“The Hungarian Environmental Partnership received $306,000 from the Open Society Foundations between 2017 and 2022. One of the projects the organization funds was also supported by the U.S. Embassy Budapest’s Free Media Grant Program. Earlier this year, a reportfound U.S. taxpayer dollars were used to help fund this program; however, the funds mainly went to organizations that are critical of the Hungarian government,” Judicial Watch concludes.

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