Busting terrorist charities here in the United States was a low priority for the last eight years under Barack Obama. It’s time for the Trump administration to instruct the bureaucracy to get back into this important fight.

In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the George W. Bush administration conducted multiple high-profile takedowns of terrorist charities. Federal authorities in 2001 targeted the Holy Land Foundation for funneling more than $12 million to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. The following year, Treasury took down the Benevolence International Foundation in Illinois for “providing material support to organizations, including al-Qaida.” The Global Relief Foundation, also shuttered in 2002, “provided assistance to Usama Bin Ladin, the al-Qaida Network, and other known terrorist groups.” Another charity that supported al Qaeda and Hamas, the Islamic Africa Relief Agency, met a similar fate in 2004, and its president was sentenced to 63 months in prison.