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Tom Suozzi lives at C Street, controversial Christian center behind National Prayer Breakfasts
The New York Democrat kept secret his low-rent lodging at a right-wing Christian townhouse
Published May 29, 2026 6:00AM (EDT)
For years, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) has lived at a Washington townhouse run by the Fellowship Foundation, aka The Family, the secretive group behind a global, right-wing Christian political network.
Known as the C Street Center, C Street house, or just C Street, the building is home to members of Congress who enjoy below-market rental rates and the services of college volunteers, all provided by The Fellowship. Suozzi has assisted The Fellowship’s work, publicly and privately, for most of his time in Congress.
One religious leader told me that Suozzi tried to keep his C Street lodgings a secret. Suozzi’s roommate is Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI), who has only discussed living there in one religious podcast, but is known as a Fellowship insider and staunch opponent of LGBTQ and reproductive rights.
Suozzi is a frequent facilitator of Fellowship network-building, including recently in El Salvador, where he and Moolenaar praised the president, Nayib Bukele, who joined The Fellowship’s ring of prayer breakfasts. Suozzi and Moolenaar sing at Fellowship events with Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), who was flown by The Fellowship to bolster Ugandan politicians who enacted an LGBTQ death penalty there.
Suozzi’s and Moolenaar’s vague public references to their Washington lodgings match known details about life at C Street. One detail they haven’t mentioned is their rent, $800 each per month. Neither responded to emailed questions about the reporting in this article.
An analysis of House reimbursement disclosures shows that their rent is consistent with C Street rents, and lower than what other Washington renters pay, even in less expensive neighborhoods. One ethics watchdog told me the low rents could constitute illegal gifts.
Suozzi has been a vocal advocate for cooperation and reconciliation with Republicans, working often with Fellowship Republicans. He takes an opposite tack toward Democrats on his left. In The Fellowship, reconciliation typically involves everyone from conservative Democrats to right-wing dictators; seldom journalists or the left.
It’s not known who subsidizes the low rents at C Street, which is technically a church and doesn’t disclose its backers. The C Street Center nonprofit that owns and runs the house is controlled by four Fellowship insiders, all Republican donors, including Moolenaar’s millionaire mentor.
The three-story residence has spawned a variety of scandals over the years. Those include not just ethics complaints about the low rent, but three political sex scandals.
U.S. and other government records suggest C Street remains a hub for international lobbying to this day.
Most visibly, Suozzi has been a leader of The Fellowship’s National Prayer Breakfast as The Fellowship used it to bolster friendly dictators, right-wing allies, accused human-rights abusers, and others.
So, for most of his congressional career, Suozzi’s involvement has helped The Fellowship build right-wing political networks working around the world against LGBTQ and reproductive rights and, in some places, democracy. Fellowship leaders and donors have promoted election denial for decades overseas and, more recently, here in the U.S.
Most visibly, Suozzi has been a leader of The Fellowship’s National Prayer Breakfast (NPB) as The Fellowship used it to bolster friendly dictators, right-wing allies, accused human-rights abusers, and others.
Fellowship politics are seldom overt, and sometimes not even intentional. But operating in secrecy, among like-minded people, the results are inevitable. Secular and LBGTQ groups have warned Democrats for years about the dangers of helping The Fellowship.
As one of very few Democrats still publicly associating with The Fellowship, Suozzi helps preserve the tattered bipartisan facade essential to its work. (At this year’s Fellowship prayer breakfast, only two Democrats spoke, Reps. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), son of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Lou Correa (D-CA); Suozzi joined an on-stage singalong.)
Having even just a few token Democrats gives events official-seeming status that The Fellowship exploits, especially in countries where access to members of the U.S. Congress is a liquid commodity.
Leveraging that access, The Fellowship grows regional ministries and prayer networks that quietly glide politicians and nations toward right-wing policies and even theocracy.
Suozzi and Moolenaar co-chair the weekly U.S. House prayer breakfasts, also ostensibly bipartisan but also facilitated by Republican Fellowship associates. (Side note: The Fellowship uses the title “associate” for scores of operatives around the world it supports with administrative services and guidelines, serving as a clearinghouse for the donations they bring in to support their activities. Typically, associates minister to, or “encourage,” powerful politicians while supported by rich people who want access to those politicians or want someone to keep those politicians strong in the face of popular opposition. Sometimes, an associate’s connection to The Fellowship is an open secret, but rarely to the public. The Florida House chaplain and his predecessor are good examples of how this works.)
In January, Suozzi accompanied Moolenaar on a committee junket — even though Suozzi’s not on the committee — as part of The Fellowship’s campaign to boost Bukele.
Accompanied by Fellowship leaders, Suozzi and Moolenaar helped The Fellowship launch a new Salvadoran prayer breakfast there. They lauded Bukele — whose violations of human and civil rights are well documented — suggesting God supports Bukele and urging the nation’s leaders to start their own prayer groups.
“[Y]ou’ve achieved a miracle,” Suozzi said, addressing Bukele directly, “the miracle that’s taken place in El Salvador.”
Civil-rights groups say Bukele’s miracle entailed suspending civil rights and imprisoning thousands of people.
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Suozzi met with dissidents the day before his remarks at the Salvadoran National Prayer Breakfast but doesn’t appear to have articulated their concerns publicly.
Meanwhile, deportations from the U.S. to El Salvador in the first three months of this year roughly doubled from 2025, the........