President Donald Trump’s new Environmental Protection Agency head says he’s working to claw back about $20 billion in shoved-through taxpayer funding handed over to Citibank by the outgoing Biden administration near the end of Joe Biden’s one term in office.
The billions in American tax dollars were to be distributed to a smattering of climate organizations including non-profits like United Climate, which announced they’re using their nearly $7 billion cut to “increase access to solar, electric vehicles, and green buildings through innovative financing.”
The Washington Times reports the group has already spent about $32 billion on:
“…18 solar projects in Arkansas, $250 million for a heavy-duty electric truck financing program in California, $30 million for a “pre-development” grant program for the development of clean energy projects in low-income and American Indian communities, and $11 million for a “pre-development” solar projects loan on tribal lands in eastern Oregon and Idaho.”
In case you were wondering just how much any of this garbage that you’re apparently paying for will actually benefit you and your family. (Spoiler alert: it won’t. Not even a little bit.)
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In a move that can only be explained as the outgoing Biden administration’s attempt to shove through green agenda funding before the incoming Trump administration could stop it, the Biden White House in an 11th-hour Hail Mary forked over the $20 billion to Citibank as the “financial agent” tasked with distributing the cash among the left-wing climate groups for their multi-billion-dollar pet projects.
Now, newly arrived EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said his agency is working with the EPA inspector general and the Justice Department to try to get back as much of that $20 billion as it can, saying the former White House had no right to give taxpayer cash to a bank to use as a slush fund for progressive climate activist groups. Zelda cited an undercover video published by Project Veritas in December that reveled a Biden-era EPA advisor admitting the agency was “trying to get the money out as fast as possible before they [the Trump administration] come in and stop it all,” adding that “It truly feels like we’re on the Titanic and we’re throwing like gold bars off the edge.”
Trump’s EPA has already canceled millions in contracts with climate change organizations that had been slated but not yet funded by the Biden administration.
