OAN Staff Brook Mallory
12:30pm – Thursday, February 20th, 2025
Lee Zeldin, the new manager of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has been assigned to a nonprofit organization connected to failing Georgia Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams, with the help of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). 2 billion dollars were discovered in funding.
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In April 2024, the organization's Power Forward Community received a grant from the Biden administration's Environmental Protection Agency as part of the agency's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
Although it was established a few months ago in the second half of 2023 and failed to reach the grant amount, the recent tax returns had only 100 dollars in total revenue in the first three months of operation. It shows that. The Power Forward Community was awarded the Green Energy Grant during the Biden administration.
The grant allocated to Power Forward Communities was one of the total $2 billion grants awarded by the EPA in April 2024.
When Trump-appointed EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced on February 13th, oversight of federal government programs was limited.th His staff and officials from the Government Efficiency Bureau discovered that the Biden administration parked the same $20 billion at an outside financial institution before he left.
There are ethical concerns regarding how the Biden administration choose recipients of such large grants and if they exemplified clear political preference when awarding them, given the disclosure that Power Forward Communities is one of the recipients of the funds that Zeldin's team located.
Abrams campaigned for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential run and was an outspoken supporter of the Biden administration's green energy policy.
Additionally, Biden administration allies will support groups that aim to receive federal funding through initiatives such as the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which was established as the “Green Bank” by the Democratic Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Apparently he is confirming the Republican concerns.
“I have promised Congressional members and the American people to be good tax stewards. I have not wasted any time keeping my words,” Zeldin told the press. “When I learned about the Biden administration's plan to quickly park $20 billion outside the agency, we suspected that an organization made from thin air was made from thin air just to take advantage of this. .”
“As we continue to learn more about where some of this money went, it's even more clear how widely accepted and widely accepted this waste and abuse is,” he continued. “We are very concerned that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 has been selected to receive $2 billion, 20 million times the revenue that the organization has reported.”
In October 2023, a coalition of groups called the Power Forward Community was formed under the direction of rewiring America, a leftist organisation that promotes electrification policies and moves away from its dependence on fossil fuels.
Abrams, a senior lawyer rewiring America at the time, expressed his excitement to join the power forward community collaboration.
“For an organization that has no experience with this, it was literally just established and had $100 in the bank to receive a $2 billion grant. It's not only flying in the face of common sense, but fraud has come in and come in. “Daniel Turner, executive director of energy advocacy groups, powered the future.
The Power Forward community mentions on its website a wide range of partners who “work together” to carry out their purposes. Its partners include Abrams, two left-leaning NGOs, founded after his defeat in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, including the Fair Count and the Southern Economic Progress Project.
According to It affects the watchTides Center, famous for providing millions of dollars to left-wing environmental and social activist groups, is a financial sponsor of the Southern Economic Promotion Project. South.
The American Federation of Teachers and AFL-CIO also list two key trade unions with democratic affiliations as partners in the forward community of power.
Both Abrams and Randy Weingern, presidents of the American Federation of Teachers, are also members of the Climate Advisory Committee, who helped launch a $55 million campaign in September to support Kamala Harris' presidential election. there is.
The New Georgia Project, a nonprofit voting advocacy group founded by Abrams in January this year, also suffered the biggest fine in the state's history for campaign finance violations. The new Georgia Project was founded by Abrams in 2013 and was taken over by Democrat Sen. Rafael Warnock (D-Ga.) in 2017 and operated as a “charity” that accepts tax-deductible donations.
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