EPA $375B Climate Slush Fund Handled by John Podesta Only Gave to New Charities
New York Post has a map of the gold bar trail, which led to 8 NGO’s of questionable origin and purpose.
Legal Insurrection readers may recall that late last year, Brent Efron, an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) special advisor implementing Biden’s climate agenda, made many controversial statements during an undercover video about the agency’s actions in anticipation of a potential Trump administration.
Efron reportedly told Project Veritas that the EPA was rapidly distributing billions of dollars in grants to nonprofits as an “insurance policy” against Trump winning the election. He described the situation as “throwing gold bars off the Titanic,” referring to the urgency with which the agency allocates funds.
Now the Trump Administration has followed those gold bars. An exclusive report by the New York Post indicates the trail of those bars led back to Deep State Obama/Biden minion, John Podesta.
The story began in September 2022, when Biden named Podesta to helm the $375 billion climate fund, which resulted from the Inflation Reduction Act, a 2022 law that was basically “Green New Deal” poison hidden beneath a wrapper of sweet economic promises.
Here is how The New York Times announced the 2022 fund creation:
As a senior adviser to Mr. Biden on clean energy innovation, Mr. Podesta will shape how the government disburses billions of dollars in tax credits and incentives to industries that are developing wind and solar energy, as well as to consumers who want to install solar panels, heat and cool their homes with electric heat pumps or buy electric vehicles.
..In an interview, Mr. Podesta described his new job as “throwing the weight of federal government policy behind a cycle of investment and innovation that we haven’t seen before in the United States, and that is almost unique in the world.”
There was absolutely no questioning by The New York Times as to where these monies would go, or how the funds would be used to help either our climate or energy industry.
On the other hand, the New York Post has a map of the gold bar trail. Apparently, billions went to “Non-Governmental Organizations” that were founded after the fund was created.
The Biden administration funneled at least $20 billion dollars into environmental groups, most of which had only recently been founded, The Post has discovered.
In one case, former Vice President Kamala Harris handed over a check for nearly $7 billion to Bethesda, Maryland, based group Climate United Fund, which does not appear in the IRS’s charities database, and has no federal filings.
The non-profit fund had only been incorporated in Delaware on November 30, 2023, according to public records, five months before Harris handed over the cash in April 2024.
The Climate United Fund then announced “the historic investment” in a press release, noting the group’s work “delivers benefits like cleaner air…and increased energy security.”’
However, because the company is so new, there is no publicly published accounting of how it plans to spend the $7 billion.
Climate Fund, which received nearly $7 billion in Biden Climate Gold, was just one of eight similarly set-up entities. Others are:
- Coalition for Green Capital: Received $5 billion
- Power Forward Communities: Received $2 billion
- Opportunity Finance Network: Received $2.29 billion
- Inclusiv: Received $1.87 billion
- Justice Climate Fund: Received $940 million
- Appalachian Community Capital: Received $500 million
- Native CDFI Network: Received $400 million
President Trump’s EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin discovered the horde of EPA gold stashed in an account at CitiBank last month.
BREAKING: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin just announced that his team has discovered a staggering $20 BILLION that the Biden regime laundered to corrupt NGOs.
Zeldin has referred the matter to the Inspector General & Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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— George (@BehizyTweets) February 13, 2025
Hot Air’s Beege Welborne noted her serious concerns about the $2 billion that went to “Power Forward Communities”.
As if $20B squirreled away in a Citibank account wasn’t insult enough, when the dollar sleuths started digging into who the money was earmarked for – because surely someone had a bead on those bucks – one of the names that popped up for a two billion dollar payday was an organization associated with none other than the cranky claimant to the governorship of Georgia and President of Earth, Stacey Abrams.
Her organization – Power Forward Communities – was only a few months old and had a whopping $100 in the bank at the time of the $2B with a “B” award.
Zeldin is still digging, and asked for the EPA inspector general to investigate.
As Zeldin told The Post: “Of the eight pass-through entities that received funding from the pot of $20 billion in tax dollars, various recipients have shown very little qualification to handle a single dollar, let alone several billions of dollars.”
He’s called for the EPA’s inspector general to investigate; who knows what other rank misuse that might turn up.
Let me put it this way, as I like to crunch numbers. The average American pays $500,000 in taxes over their lifetime, so:
- The taxes of 4,000 hard-working citizens were just lavished on Abrams.
- The monies sent to DC by 40,000 Americans were distributed recklessly to groups only interested in the political climate.
- Zeldin and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have yet to determine where the other $355 billion went. This wealth represents the taxes of 710,00 Americans paid to the government.
I don’t know about you, but I could have made many economy-supporting purchases with my $500,000 that would have done more for the country than any of the social justice/climate cultist/Democrat supporting expenditures made by these groups.
As more and more of this fraud and waste is uncovered, Americans will get even angrier at those that perpetrated it…especially in the name of “climate”.
Apparently, the only climate Biden’s EPA was interested in protecting was the political one.
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When do the arrests start?
Correct. Until people have assets seized and go to jail, it’s all just bloviating.
Assuming the EPA followed the prescribed grant procedures, and the grant recipients didn’t lie on their grant applications, I suspect it will be hard to indict anyone involved in this odious scheme. I hope I’m wrong.
Those are two assumptions that need to be inverted. Every grant procedure for these bribes…um… I mean awards need a “Guilty until proven innocent” review, and every application needs audited with the understanding that one error invalidates the whole thing, with clawback. Indicting the individuals is nearly impossible, but stripping every penny they expect to gain will be far more effective, and indictments will follow if they screwed up enough to be tracked.
One thing that will help is for Congress to enact a rescission of all unspent funds of the “Inflation Reduction Act” in the Reconciliation bill.
Agree, I’m tired of the outrage. Let’s see this turd prosecuted.
Never! Bondi is as useless as was Jeff Sessions
That’s the best part. They don’t.
Democrats can money launder better than organized crime because they are organized crime. No wonder the party is suffering mental breakdown. Now squeeze a few near the top and flush out all the RICO rats.
Did Biden provide pardons to any of the Climate Gold Bar folks? Maybe he should have.
Fraud and waste are certainly important but let’s not take our eyes off of something far more insidious: influence.
It can be shown that NGOs function as workarounds to enact policy that cannot be achieved through legislation. EPA’s participation in sue & settle agreements during democratic administrations is a good example.
The tangled web of pass-though funding in the NGO world is legendary and entirely undemocratic. This particular scheme under the overly broad and quite Orwellian Inflation Reduction Act (1984 was a cautionary tale, not a how-to book, people) was caught before it metastasized. Let’s clean the rest of them up too.
The NGO funding IS the fraud and waste.
Ok, I won’t pretend I understand all the laws and myriad regulations governing such grants, but among all those laws and regulations, many undoubtedly specifically incorporated by reference somewhere in grant process, and other controls that necessarily apply here by law, there must be someway to enforce accountability at some level. I don’t think these sleaze grifters are in the clear, at least if there’s sufficient will to do something here.
It will take so long to sort through tangled webs of NGOs, that the management of those NGOs have enough time to liquidate, strip all their offices down to bare walls and cancel leases, deliver all their furniture to Goodwill, sell their houses, auction off their Rembrandts, and migrate to the EU.
Maybe it will be worth checking Goodwill more regularly for good deals on top-shelf office furniture if you live in Northern Virginia. They might also be dumping expensive pets at local shelters they can’t take with them to countries with strict quarantine laws like the UK.
A third of a TRILLION taxpayer dollars! How many degrees of global warming will this ‘fix’ in the next century? Ok, how many tenths of a degree? Oh, hundredths of a degree? Maybe?
No (censored) wonder the Dems were in full panic mode when Trump got elected the second time. Not one dime of this Dem slush fund would have been reported or stopped if Her Royal Highness had ascended to the throne. The country dodged an enormous bullet.
Why – HOW – does EPA have a $375B ‘slush fund’ in the first place? It’s absurd. There’s a lot of blame to go around. But, I would start with the GOP Senators who had to have voted with Democrats to get such a fund past the cloture vote. There are about 20 member of the GOP House & Senate caucuses who actually care about reducing federal spending. The rest of them don’t give a hoot and may in fact be enriching themselves with this out of control spending.
It was the Democrat reconciliation bill where Manchin finally threw in the towel and let the Party have its grift. It needs to be repealed to the greatest extent possible in the GOP reconciliation bill.
Ah, that explains it…or, at least some of it. The problem with the GOP reconcilliation bill is that it doesn’t seem to do much of anything in the way of expense reduction. This is how Thomas Massie puts it:
“If it passes this week, the CR obligates Trump (from now until September) to spend the same amounts of money on generally the same things Biden spent money on in his last 15 months in office.
We could pass recisions later to undo some things, but there’s no commitment to do so.’
https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1899084041111957714
I’m not a fan of some of the stuff Massie says. But, he does seem to have a better understanding of the spending problem than anyone else in the House. Because we have less than 60-seats on the Senate, any recessions would have to be done via CR. Massie doesn’t seem hopeful that’s in the cards.
I still think a POTUS’ spending of funds appropriated by Congress is an executive function, and as such is beyond Congress’ authority to control. As Milhouse helpfully pointed out a day or two ago, Congress made impoundment illegal. I believe the act is an unconstitutional infringement upon the prerogatives of the Executive.
Congress allocates
The Executive spends
Congressional allocation limits the POTUS’ spending
The Executive can likewise limit Congress’ spending when he deems it wasteful, unnecessary, or counter to his agenda/policies
These couplets are “checks,” one each by each branch upon the other (“balance”). Amazing if this has never been noticed before. Or is it a fortuitous accident, not explicitly intended by the Authors? (If so, I believe it’s an unavoidable construction of the Constitution, considering other elements of the Constitution’s separation of powers that nowhere give Congress authority over funds once allocated and subsequently delivered to the Executive’s control.)
P. S.
This may actually be an effective weapon against so-called “pork barrel spending” on special projects that do not necessarily concern federal matters nor advance federal, i.e. the POTUS’, policies. If quid pro quo agreements can’t be guaranteed to work (because a POTUS may not spend the money on the “quid” while the “pro” gets his project fulfilled), this activity might stop.
I believe the statutory prohibition on impoundment is unconstitutional as well. I’m just not sure if there are five votes on SCOTUS that feel the same way. I guess we might find out.
Seriously, suspend tax collection until this shit is sorted out.
Citibank delenda est.
Forget the Gambino and Genovese mafia crime families, or, the Cali, Medellin and Sinaloa drug cartels — the Dhimmi-crat Party racketeering criminal organization (masquerading as a political party) has these outfits beat by a country mile, when it comes to the scale of their criminality and the sums of money involved.
RICO indictments should be handed out like candy to kids.
Agree, but so far Pam Bondi has been just about invisible.
Power Forward Communities was a NGO formed in late 2023. Stacey Abrams is associated with Rewiring America, one of five NGO’s that are partners in PFC. Unfortunately, Habitat for Humanity International is one of the partners. Habitat does good work providing the opportunity for lower income families to purchase a home.
The PFC $2B grant is make affordable the decarbonization of home interior environment leading to healthier and safer homes and lower energy costs.
The focus is the elimination of the gas stove, gas-fired furnace, gas-fired hot water heater and the ducted clothes dryer. All replaced with electric stoves and heat pump electric hot water heaters, clothes dryers and furnace/AC. The gas stove pollutant emissions study was a “lab” experiment NOT representing the true home environment.
Who is in charge of the IRS? Time to start some audits.
well maybe, but it’s time for somebody to impanel some grand juries
That will be hard if any crimes were done only in DC, and all juries are 100% Democrat. You need to look for cases where there is jurisdiction outside the Beltway.
There’s plenty of nefarious stuff going on in IRS regional offices.
There’s an acting IRS Director who was appointed by Trump in January who resigned himself a couple weeks ago. Biden’s IRS Director (Werfel) resigned right around Inauguration Day. I’m not sure if there’s another acting Director, ATM. Billy Long, a former House member and someone who served Trump in his first term, has been nominated as the permanent Director of the IRS. The Left isn’t happy with Long’s nomination. So, there will almost certainly be another contentious confirmation hearing that is full of retards.
Podesta is a democratic bagman and more importantly a Clinton, Obama, Biden bagman. Arrest him and squeeze him until he rolls over on them.
There is massive corruption throughout the government and allied leftist organizations. Much of it is probably criminal and should be prosecuted.
It will take time though as both Bondi and Patel have an abundance of both targets and priorities. They have to get rid of the enemies within the DOJ and FBI and replace them with honest competent agents and prosecutors before they can drain and burn the swamp.
Podesta can buy himself a world class pizzeria with his cut of that money.
these people are making millions using taxpayer money.
Was Podesta-Molesta’s security clearance removed? Trump should remove ALL security clearances from previous administrations and, justified, restore those that may seem provident.
For sure, I would remove ALL former presidents security clearances and most, it not all, members of Congress who have been granted access for non specific reasons.
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