The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has canceled more than $29 billion in federal grants, said Administrator Lee Zeldin on Fox News Tuesday.
During an interview on “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Zeldin said his administration has axed grants totaling nearly three times the annual operating budget of his agency, which stands at roughly $10 billion. Zeldin said that the EPA is targeting green energy projects funded through former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
“Over $29 billion of grants have been canceled. Our operating budget annually is about $10 billion,” Zeldin told Baier, the host. “$27 billion of it was the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, part of the Inflation Reduction Act, when President Biden had one party control of Congress.”
Zeldin said the Biden administration funneled these grants through a complex web of intermediaries.
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“It was filled with self-dealing and conflicts of interest, unqualified recipients, reduced agency oversight, money going through pastors, through pastors, through pastors. The dollar getting diluted,” Zeldin said. “And if the argument is going to be made that a dollar should get spent to remediate [an] environmental issue, then spend it on remediating an environmental issue. Instead, they’re giving it to their friends, former Biden and Obama officials, and Democratic donors.”
Zeldin cited a non-governmental organization tied to former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams that received a modest $100 in 2023 before landing a $2 billion grant from the Biden Environmental Protection Agency in 2024.
“President Trump talks about Stacey Abrams, this one linked NGO to her that received $2 billion,” Zeldin said.
“In 2023, that NGO received $100. In 2024, they got $2 billion from the Biden EPA. They had to complete training in their grant agreement, page seven, that says they have 90 days to complete training called ‘How to Develop a Budget,’” Zeldin said. “Yet, in the first 21 days, they can start spending the money, billions of dollars.”
Abrams’ group Fair Fight Action funneled roughly $20.2 million to the law firm of a close friend, Lawrence & Bundy, between 2019 and 2023, according to tax records. Biden’s EPA awarded $2 billion to Power Forward Communities, a nonprofit tied to Abrams, as part of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund created by the Inflation Reduction Act.
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