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Posted on 06/01/2026 5:40:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has taken the ax to over $22 billion in environmental-justice and DEI grants and contracts in order to help reprioritize the agency’s commitment to protecting human health and the environment, rather than allowing it and its mission to be co-opted by progressives who use them to further its own socialist agenda.
While former President Joe Biden was in office, his administration handed out billions of taxpayer dollars to a number of activist organizations that placed their ideological agenda ahead of taking action to legitimately provide solutions for environmental issues impacting communities across the United States. One of the most famous examples of this is failed Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
Abrams was handed $2 billion by the Biden administration’s EPA to buy green energy appliances for Americans. “Stacey Abrams linked Power Forward Communities received $2 billion in tax dollars in 2024 after reporting just $100 in revenue the year before. They were so unqualified that the grant agreement required the NGO to complete ‘How to Develop a Budget’ training within 90 days,” Zeldin said in an interview with Fox News.
“$2 billion in hard earned tax dollars should not have been doled out to this organization for many reasons, especially if they don’t even know how to put together a budget. The Biden EPA ‘gold bars’ scheme is riddled with self-dealing and conflicts of interest, unnecessary middlemen, unqualified recipients, and massively reduced government oversight. The funds are currently frozen, and the DOJ and FBI are investigating,” he explained, according to the report.
“One Biden EPA staffer described the agency’s frantic multibillion-dollar spending spree at the end of the administration’s term as ‘tossing gold bars off the Titanic,'” Zeldin said in a piece he penned for The New York Post. “Those ‘gold bars’ were awarded to just eight pass-through nongovernmental organizations — including one tied to Georgia activist Stacey Abrams.”
Zeldin noted that this amount was, staggeringly, 20 million times more than Abrams’ group’s 2023 reported income, which was only $100. Later in the piece, Zeldin detailed his approach to the EPA and its mission, saying, “Instead of handing off the responsibility of environmental stewardship to unqualified NGOs, or prescribing every last solution from behind a desk in Washington, DC, I am visiting communities across our country, working with our state and local partners on the ground and meeting with Americans to understand the issues they face.”
He then wrote, “Nationwide, we need federal funding to advance that core mission: for new water infrastructure to ensure safe waterways and drinking water, air monitoring to ensure clean air, Superfund and brownfield remediation to protect community health and emergency responses to help rebuild in the face of unthinkable disaster.”
Concluding his piece, he spoke about President Trump and his promise of bringing the country into a new golden age, explaining that such a goal isn’t just for the elite, but for everyone. “When President Trump speaks about a golden age for America, it is for everyone. Under this administration, EPA is serving all Americans with equal dignity and respect — and providing real environmental solutions, not false ‘justice.’”
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Uh oh. She gawn be mad!
“Being Angry” is not at all a new state of mind for Stacey Abrams, she has been off in the deep end for years now.
Perhaps this is a large part of the levers she holds over the Republican Georgia governor Brian Kemp, who seems to be reluctant to take action that in any way would offend our dear Stacey.
IT LOOKS LIKE THERE ARE NO CLEAN HANDS HERE.
I hate seeing the words “Stacey Abrams” and “Stripped” in the same sentence.
The arrogant loudmouth POS should have much more taken from her than Au. Thanks Lee Zeldin and everyone involved.
Check her cupboards, I’m sure they’re full, and she already ate the other half a billion.
Some people need to go to jail for this. Its out and out fraud.
Wake me up when the ghettopotamus is in jail.
Otherwise it’s not even a slap on the wrist and ZERO accountability for high-end fed.gov fleecing.
She was a Communist golden child for saying the election was stolen.
Gobmint can buy an Abrams tank for dat.
She already be mad ....
Mad as a hatter ...
Mad as a march hare ...
Mad as a box of frogs ...
“Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has taken the ax to over $22 billion in environmental-justice and DEI grants and contracts”
I’m sorry. But he’s not allowed to do this without the consent and approval of a Clinton, Obama, or Biden appointed Judge. Check the constitution.
How much of Fed.gov budget is just theft?
50%+.....................
Liberals think that if they are angry, it means they are right! 🙄
Just "frozen"? How about permanently rescinded and (hopefully) the crooked recipients and grant-givers tossed in the clink.
Anything temporarily "frozen" can be thawed out.
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