Constantly failing and flailing Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is now in the crosshairs of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after it discovered that her formerly quite broke “community investment group” was, at the last moment, on track to receive a massive payment from the United State Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
According to what DOGE has so far discovered, the EPA was set to pay her extremely far-left community non-profit, called the Power Forward Communities, a whopping $2 billion in grants. The Biden-Harris Administration approved those massive grants to the Georgia leftist.
Fortunately for conservatives who are tired of seeing leftist causes and leftist personalities like Stacey Abrams subsidized by our tax dollars, the grants were discovered in time. Now that they have been, new EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has said that they will not go forward under the Trump Administration.
Such is what Mr. Zeldin said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon. In his statement, Mr. Zeldin said that he vowed to rein in his agency and its expenditures and would take that vow seriously. He said, “I made a commitment to members of Congress and to the American people to be a good steward of tax dollars and I’ve wasted no time in keeping my word.”
Continuing, Zeldin said that when he found out about the massive amount of money the EPA was set to pay to various causes, he knew they would likely be funding various made up leftist groups. He said, “When we learned about the Biden Administration’s scheme to quickly park $20 billion outside the agency, we suspected that some organizations were created out of thin air just to take advantage of this.”
Building on that, Mr. Zeldin noted that the massive amount of “waste and abuse” in the federal government generally was truly astounding, as was the fact that it had been accepted. He said, “As we continue to learn more about where some of this money went, it is even more apparent how far-reaching and widely accepted this waste and abuse has been.”
Further, Mr. Zeldin noted that Abrams organization was practically broke, having brought in just $100 before the Biden Administration decided to fund it with billions of dollars. He said, “It’s extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion. That’s 20 million times the organization’s reported revenue.”
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Making a similar point, Daniel Turner, the executive director of energy advocacy group Power the Future, told the Washington Free Beacon, “For an organization that has no experience in this, that was literally just established, and had $100 in the bank to receive a $2 billion grant—it doesn’t just fly in the face of common sense, it’s out and out fraud.”
Mr. Zeldin also released a video statement on the matter in which he said, “Roughly twenty billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA. 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.”
He continued, “One of my very top priorities at EPA is to be an excellent steward of your hard-earned tax dollars. There will be zero tolerance of any waste and abuse. We will review every penny that has gone out the door. The days of irresponsibly shoveling boat loads of cash to far-left, activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over.”
Watch him here: