WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is taking action to strip suspected Nazi war criminals of their U.S. government pension benefits.
Legislation to be introduced Thursday comes after an Associated Press investigation revealed millions of dollars in benefits have been paid to former Nazis who were forced out of the United States.
The bill would end benefits when Nazi suspects lose their American citizenship, a step called denaturalization. U.S. law currently requires a higher threshold – a final order of deportation – before benefits can be terminated.
Democratic Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney says American taxpayers should not be “subsidizing the retirements of those guilty of the worst atrocities in human history.”
Two Republicans joined Maloney to introduce the legislation.
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