A left-wing nonprofit group whose activists were arrested for occupying House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) office to demand reauthorization of an HIV/AIDS program pockets millions of dollars each year in government grants, documents show.

Activists for the HIV/AIDS advocacy organizations Health GAP and Housing Works faced arrest Monday after storming McCarthy's office on Capitol Hill and pressing Congress to carve out a five-year extension to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a program that allocates federal funds for research, prevention, and treatment to fight the disease. Housing Works, a charity based in Brooklyn, New York, has received government cash for decades, including over $100 million in grants between fiscal 2011 and 2022, according to tax forms reviewed by the Washington Examiner.

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That an entity engaging in unorthodox protest methods like Housing Works has been heavily boosted through taxpayer-backed payouts is a particular cause for concern, watchdog groups say. Housing Works notably disclosed hauling in $32.2 million in fiscal 2022, with $29.6 million of that coming in the form of government grants.

"It is unlawful for taxpayer funds to subsidize political activism," Pete McGinnis, spokesman for the Functional Government Initiative ethics group, told the Washington Examiner. "The American taxpayers deserve to know if our tax dollars are being used to support partisan protests that require law enforcement intervention.

"This situation underscores the concerns of ongoing congressional investigations studying whether the tax code is being abused and adds a new question as to whether the situation may be so serious that inspectors general need to get involved," he added.

Housing Works declined to further comment on the incident, pointing the Washington Examiner to its joint press release Monday with Health GAP, in which Housing Works CEO Charles King, who was arrested, dubbed it "criminal" that some Republicans oppose PEPFAR — which was last approved in 2019. Conservative groups and GOP members have argued that PEPFAR, which was enacted under Republican President George W. Bush, is a Democratic-run program that has bankrolled abortions overseas.

Housing Works, which was founded in 1990, has a mission to "improve the health and quality of life of drug users, sex workers, and others who engage in behavior that puts them and the community at risk for HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, and other sexually transmitted diseases," according to its consolidated financial statements in 2022.

In fiscal 2022, the charity received $11 million from the Department of Health and Human Services, $605,000 from the Department of Homeland Security, and $7.3 million from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, statements show.

Out of the HHS money, $3.9 million came via "HIV Emergency Relief Project Grants," while other grants were passed through the likes of the New York City Human Resources Administration, the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports, and the New York City's Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, according to documents.

During the Biden administration alone, Housing Works has been awarded over $4.8 million from HUD in connection to its Continuum of Care Program, which allocates funding to nonprofit groups and state governments to "rehouse homeless individuals and families while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused to homeless individuals, families, and communities by homelessness," according to federal grant records.

Housing Works, which has protested repeatedly in recent years in favor of abortion access and demanded healthcare for illegal immigrants, shouldn't be engaged in radical advocacy leading to congressional arrests given it is so heavily affiliated with the U.S. government, according to Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of the federal spending watchdog Open the Books.

"It’s counterproductive, a distraction, and a terrible way to use resources you’ve been provided by taxpayers," he told the Washington Examiner. "Crossing the line into alleged illegal protesting, draining the resources and time from the Capitol Police, and getting arrested is even more obnoxious."

Congress has until Sept. 30 to weigh whether it will authorize PEPFAR. Other than King, those who were arrested this week over the McCarthy protest were Housing Works President Matthew Bernardo, as well as the group's case manager Rosalind Casillas, human resources vice president Jewel Allred, medical director Dr. Archie Jao, and Darnell Smith, who was identified by Housing Works as a "client."

Health GAP Executive Director Asia Russell faced arrest as well, noting in a statement Monday, "House Republicans are playing political games with the lives of countless adults, children, and newborns with HIV and most affected by HIV across the globe and here in the U.S."

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McCarthy's office did not reply to a request for comment.

"Housing Works is intimately involved in monitoring the distribution of ARVs in Haiti, which are 100% funded through PEPFAR, so we are acutely aware of the risk posed by any threat to the funding of this vital program," King said Monday, referring to antiretroviral HIV drugs.