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Posted on 09/02/2025 5:46:36 PM PDT by Libloather
Environmental organizations lost their bid Tuesday to immediately access $16 billion in grant money that was frozen by the Trump administration earlier this year.
In a split decision, a three-judge panel from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals found the Trump administration was within its rights to stop $20 billion from the Biden-era Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund that was promised to eight groups.
“While some grantees may be forced to shutter their operations during the litigation, their harms do not outweigh the interests of the government and the public in the proper stewardship of billions of taxpayer dollars,” Tuesday’s ruling reads.
The DC court said it doesn’t have jurisdiction over the matter and directed plaintiffs to the Court of Federal Claims.
Tuesday’s ruling reversed a lower court order that would have given the groups access to some of the funding while the case plays out.
Judges Neomi Rao and Gregory Katsas — the majority of the three-judge appellate panel — were both Trump appointees and worked in his administration during his first term. Dissenting Judge Nina Pillard was appointed by former President Barack Obama.
“The majority allows the government to seize plaintiffs’ money based on spurious and pretextual allegations and to permanently gut implementation of major congressional legislation,” Pillard wrote in her dissent.
The money — which was being held by Citibank — was frozen after Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin claimed that the allocations were quietly arranged before then-President Joe Biden left office to benefit left-wing non-profits staffed by alums of the Obama and Biden administrations.
At the time, Zeldin highlighted a video released by right-wing group Project Veritas — in which a Treasury Department official was caught on hidden camera comparing the handouts to “throwing gold bars off the edge” of the Titanic.
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That’s a lot of windmills and solar panels... Good thing they’ve decided to spend it on something else.
When these green energy boondoggles die, they die for good and become a complete mess of garbage clogging up landfills and landscapes.
That’s a shame.
It’s cute you think that money was buying windmills and solar panels, and not a lot of Leftist political grift.
They’ll all burn up like the rest of us. Tragic.
You know they were celebrating and already spending that money like a drunken sailor when they worked with Democrats to grift off the treasury.
Now they spent it before it was appropriated and have no way to pay their bills.
I LOVE IT!
The DNC is going to be short of campaign funds next election.
Learn to sit back and watch AI code!
Learn to sit back and watch AI code!
USAID.
Oh know... I’m pretty sure these funds were being doled out as such... $1 for a windmill, $1 for solar panels... $2 for me... $1 for a windmill, $1 for solar panels... $3 for me, and so on and so forth.
I think you missed the sarcasm.
I’ll say. How is the Democrat Party supposed to fund its riots?
There you have it.
Don’t forget the 10% for the big guy.
They’ll have to go back to beer and forget the Champagne
😭💰👋
buying windmills and solar panels from the Chinese Communist Party that fall apart after a few years
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