Lee Zeldin, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, took to X on March 10, 2025, to announce that he was ending hundreds of Biden-era Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) grants. He says this cost-saving measure will save billions of taxpayer dollars. Zeldin has worked closely with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to bring accountability to the EPA.
Conservatives have long criticized DEI programs for wasteful spending and for promoting progressive politics. In his post, Zeldin explained the massive scope of the problem. He announced that he was cancelling over 400 grants and ending nine grant programs. He says that his action will save taxpayers billions.
“UPDATE: I am cancelling over 400 DEI and Environmental Justice grants across 9 grant programs totaling $1.7 BILLION, bringing @EPA‘s total savings to over $2 BILLION! This fourth round of EPA/@DOGE cuts was our biggest yet,” posted Zeldin. This is far from his first cost-saving announcement. In a video posted to X on February 13, 2025, the head of the EPA revealed a stunning $20 Billion scheme to funnel taxpayer dollars to leftist causes.
Zeldin began by stressing that accountability is essential to his job. “This is EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. One of my very top priorities at EPA is to be an excellent steward of your hard-earned tax dollars,” he said. There will be zero tolerance of any waste and abuse.” He then explained a complicated scheme in which Biden appointees were using the EPA to fund political causes.
“An extremely disturbing video circulated two months ago featuring a Biden EPA political appointee talking about how they were tossing gold bars off the Titanic,” Zeldin reported.”[They were] rushing to get billions of your tax dollars out the door before Inauguration Day, the gold bars were tax dollars and tossing them off the Titanic meant the Biden administration knew they were wasting it.”
However, Zeldin was able to put a stop to the graft. “Fortunately, my awesome team at EPA has found the gold bars. Shockingly, roughly 20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA,” he said in his statement. “This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight.”
Zeldin explained how under his control, the EPA will operate with increased transparency. “The EPA needs to reassume responsibility for all of these funds. We will review every penny that has gone out the door. I will be referring this matter to the Inspector General’s office, and will work with the Justice Department as well,” he revealed. “The days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over.”
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He wrapped up his remarks by confirming his commitment to Donald Trump’s vision for America. “The American public deserves a more transparent and accountable government than what transpired these past four years. We take our obligations under the law as seriously as it gets. I’ve directed my team to find your gold bars, and they found them,” he concluded. “Now we will get them back inside of control of government as we pursue next steps, as President Trump has vowed. We’re going to usher in a new golden age of American success for the citizens of every race, religion, color and creed.”
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