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Posted on 01/12/2026 2:14:14 PM PST by Olog-hai
As a sweeping fraud scandal grips Minnesota, a conservative energy watchdog is encouraging lawmakers to scrutinize billions of dollars in Department of Energy grants they say were rushed out the door in the final weeks of the Biden administration, warning that internal red flags were ignored and taxpayer money may have been exposed to waste and political favoritism.
Power the Future founder and director Daniel Turner sent a letter to Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chair of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Monday, calling on lawmakers to examine grants and loan guarantees approved under the Biden administration’s Department of Energy, Fox Digital learned. […]
The letter turned lawmakers’ direction to the final months of the Biden administration, when “former Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm authorized tens of billions of dollars in so-called ‘clean energy’ grants and loan guarantees, an amount that exceeds many years of prior Department activity,” according to the letter. […]
Climate change was a cornerstone of the Biden administration, with the then-president repeatedly casting it as “the single greatest existential threat to humanity.”
He argued his administration was correcting the ship on the climate through laws such as the Inflation Reduction Act’s sweeping clean energy tax credits and incentives, and cracking down on Environmental Protection Agency rules aimed at cutting emissions from power plants and oil and gas, among other initiatives. …
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Solindra.
30 years too late
If we cut the federal budget in half, we might barely feel it. Most of it is just fraud.
The War Department does a lot of very good work. But don’t kid yourself — it’s a very big budget, and a lot of it is very poorly managed. The lesser departments like Energy and Education and Homeland Security and the rest: 90% fraud.
They needed the Minnesota fraud to prompt them to look for corruption in Biden’s energy grants?
I guarantee a lot stuck to the fingers of the crooked Canuck former governor of the corrupt state of Michigan.
Oh, and Hillary’s John Podesta, as climate czar, had hundreds of Billions in walkin’ around money to dispense as he wished.
Rope. Tree.
There should be Maga citizen reporters who, on tape, say somthing like this too liberal demondtrators and politicians : “ Thank you for being an honest rebel. So, we have this small family with children and no father. Could you possibly take this small family into your home to feed and give toys to them?” THEN post all responses.
HHS has the biggest budget and the biggest WFA waste Fraud Abuse.
First, focus on the poverty pimps, not on the poor. Deloitte could show those Somalis how to really do it.
Minnesota and the Somalis are the gateway drug to get Americans hooked on national fraud investigations and prosecutions.
kennedy.senate.gov
press release
Feb 26 2025
Sen Kennedy condemns Biden admin for doling out
$2B to Abrams-backed climate change organization
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), in a speech on the Senate floor, questioned how a six-month-old nonprofit with $100 in the bank and ties to former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was able to secure a $2 billion climate change grant from President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). “I try to see the world from other people’s bell towers as much as I can, but I cannot come up, not for the life of me, with a single rational justification as to why the EPA under the Biden administration thought it was appropriate to give Power Forward and Rewiring America—two brand new nonprofits with no business experience, no accomplishments according to the IRS forms, and only 100 bucks in the bank—to give them $2 billion of taxpayer money, especially to the exclusion of every other qualified applicant for that money, if there were any other qualified applicants.”
. . .
“The average Louisianian, because of President Biden’s inflation, had to spend an extra $890 a month—extra—for food and clothing and car notes, and they didn’t get an $890-a-month raise. President Biden and my Democratic colleagues told us that the Inflation Reduction Act—I remember when it was passed. They said: ‘If you spend $1.2 trillion on the Inflation Reduction Act, it will be a lifeline to every family in America.’ That is not what it looks like to me. It is starting to look like to me that it was really a slush fund—a slush fund for Washington insiders.”
. . .
“Now, this is just the beginning of the type of spending porn that President Trump and Mr. [Elon] Musk are uncovering that people are screaming about. I am going to repeat what I started with: There is nothing wrong with wanting to know what they do and did with our money, and that is all President Trump and Mr. Musk are doing.”
Background-——In April 2024, President Biden’s EPA announced the award of a $2 billion federal grant to Power Forward Communities through the Inflation Reduction Act’s Green House Gas Reduction Fund. The grant was to help homes transition from gas appliances to electric.
Power Forward Communities formed in Oct. 2023 as a coalition of nonprofits, including Habitat for Humanity International, United Way Worldwide, and Rewiring America. According to its tax filings, Power Forward Communities had just $100 in revenues in 2023. Rewiring America similarly formed in 2023. Abrams joined the nonprofit in March 2023 as senior counsel. The organization stated in its tax filings that 2023 was a “startup year for the organization.”
Rewiring America’s only listed accomplishment was that it had “joined a coalition of other national organizations to apply for a grant from the Inflation Reduction Act’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has pledged to claw back more than $20 billion in improper Inflation Reduction Act grants, including the $2 billion to Power Forward Communities.
link——Watch Kennedy’s full speech here.
Ha.
“And loving it.”
-—Don Adams as Maxwell Smart.
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