Biden Team Pumped $100 Billion Into NGOs, Green Energy Scams After Trump Win
Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “They basically tried to set bombs to make it hard for us to unwind the mess they’d created. “
While determining the biggest loser in the Biden administration was challenging, it will be equally challenging to name the most effective and competent official in the current Trump administration.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright is undoubtedly a strong contender for this designation. He has been busy untangling the web of climate cult financing. He has discovered that in the final weeks of the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) accelerated the allocation of nearly $100 billion in green energy loans and commitments.
He reviewed the numbers while being interviewed by Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business. Wright noted that the $100 billion far exceeded the total amount the DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) lent in the previous 15 years (about $42 billion).
…Let me repeat about a little over $40 billion was supplied in support through the loan program office in its 15 years of existence. A little over 40 billion and then almost a hundred billion in the 76 days after they lost the election and before President Trump’s inauguration.
Like if those were great ideas that were benefit to the America, why didn’t they do it in the two and a half years after the inflation reduction act was passed? What did they wait till they lost the election? They changed terms and loan covenants. They basically tried to set bombs to make it hard for us to unwind the mess they’d created.
That’s just not a responsible way to treat American taxpayer money and to move our energy system forward. So, yes, we’ve stepped into a lot of mess, but this stuff’s all fixable. We’ve got an aggressive team going after it. And you see already American energy prices are down. investments in America to bring jobs back are up. So, I think we’re going the right direction. But, yeah, we’ve got a lot to clean out.
DOGE: This is insane. The moment Kamala Harris lost the election, Biden began sending Democrat-aligned NGOs & companies $1.3 billion per day, almost $100 billion before Trump took office. In the prior 15 years the same loan office gave out just $40 billion, just $8 million a day.… https://t.co/WR1PVJMtxG pic.twitter.com/mqHeLz6TWc
— @amuse (@amuse) May 11, 2025
During the interview with Bartiromo, Wright also stressed that the Trump administration supports the development of other energy sources besides solar and wind.
Well, the great news is all we really have to do is undo all the wrongheaded policies of the last administration. You know, they came in saying they promised they were going to get rid of fossil fuels. Well, they were a little over 80% of American energy when they were elected and they were a little over 80% of American energy when they left.
The thing they did do was make them all more expensive. And they did that by just getting policies to get in the way of the commercial production of energy. So we’re clearing out a lot of that underbrush to make it easier, reppering natural gas export terminals, common sense permitting and regulation on building pipelines.
We’re going to give a help and a nudge to kickstart nuclear energy in the United States. Again, very excited about that. Geothermal is a new emerging technology, but we’ll end this sort of obsession with only wind, solar, and batteries that are still less than 4% of American energy. But they were all in on just that tiny little quadrant of the energy sector.
All of this sounds great, but I share Bartiromo’s concerns about getting policies codified in Congress…in the event climate cultists get their hands on America’s treasury again.
Wright’s response was less clear, but it indicates that meaningful reforms should be passed during this term.
I would say there’s great interest in Congress to make long-term structural fixes. On the news, you hear a lot about what we’re doing in the short run because that’s moving fast. There’s also at least as much effort on these long-term structural codifications you just mentioned. So, you know, no specifics yet.
Nothing has been passed through Congress of meaning, but you’re going to see meaningful changes to our laws some this year and you will see it steadfast throughout this term. We will not be able to go back to the lunacy we arrived in whenever the Democrats come back to power. I think there’ll be some meaningful checks on the lunacy that can return.
Efficient and affordable energy is the lifeblood of the American economy. If Wright can claw back this money and remove regulatory blogs on nuclear and fossil fuel development, he will be a contender for the Top Trump Pick among the current crop of administrators and agency heads.
The full interview is here:
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Nuclear is getting a lot more attention lately. Hearing Google is pushing this some for their data centers and AI power needs. SMRs: small modular reactors if I recall right. Regardless, happy to see a resurgence in nuclear power if that goes through.
Agreed — the resurgence of interest/investment in nuclear power, broadly, and, SMR’s, specifically, is long-overdue and heartening.
Decades of the Dhimmi-crats irrational and histrionic fear-mongering and histrionics with regard to nuclear energy massively set back U.S. nuclear deployment. Today, nuclear energy accounts for ~18 to 20% of U.S. electricity production. If the U.S. had ideally followed France’s prescient example, after the 1973 Arab oil embargo, we’d ideally be at around 60%, today.
Search – – – three mile island microsoft – – – All of those “Green” Silicone Valley Burning Man tree huggers when they put on their suits and go back to the office they have realized when the sun goes down or the wind isn’t blowing now nuclear is the only “green” method of keeping the server farms humming. When it comes to us phesents in the fields toiling away we can eat bugs and have unreliable energy but for their high energy AI computer farms they want only the best of the best.
Because above all, they have to provide reliable service.
The leftists running places like Google bought the propaganda for a while, but the simple fact is that solar and wind do not, and CAN NOT, work at scale, and any attempt to scale it to produce meaningful amounts of power is highly cost inefficient AND comes with highly unreliable power that has to be backed up by fossil fuels anyway.
Nuclear is the only game for cheap, ‘environmentally friendly’ power, and more and more people are realizing it.
They still buy and repeat the propaganda. But they buy it for YOU, not for THEM.
Small modular thorium reactors are the way to go at least until the cold fusion unicorn is a reality
Only the umpteenth demonstration that the vile Dhimmi-crat Party is an organized crime and racketeering outfit, masquerading as a political party.
FYI, headline says $100 million instead of billion.
Reminds me of deadbeat tenants that purposely trash the apartment prior to being evicted.
So cutesy and demure.
Trash the apartment, and, steal the silverware and any other valuables, on their way out the door.
Like the Clintons when they left the White House
…and the Obamas.
My girlfriend of the time bought a repossessed HUD house. The people took everything when leaving including light fixtures, appliances and wall outlets. About the only thing they didn’t do was rip the wire from the walls.
I’m amazed that they left the copper electrical wire behind. Probably too much work, ripping it out of the walls.
THIS is what people should be getting outraged over, not some fucking irrelevant plane the democrats are frothing about!! 🤬🤬
“So we’re clearing out a lot of that underbrush to make it easier, reppering natural gas export terminals, common sense permitting and regulation on building pipelines.”
“…reppering…”???
help, please!
Repermitting? I seem to remember Biden hobbling these terminals by refusing them permits. I think this was the EO that he assured a reporter that he “never signed” only to be shown the EO with “his: signature on it.
reopening
Pushing out money like this amounts to payoffs to democrat supporters. This ought to be illegal and everyone involved should be punished with jail terms including Biden and his cronies,
For that matter Obama and his cronies did a lot of this. He paid off his campaign bundlers in this fashion by doling out money to their soon to fail green companies. Solyndra comes to mind.
the lefts agenda has always been to be the slave masters and have the rest of us as their footstools
Jigar Shah served as Director of the Loan Programs Office (LPO) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) from March 2021 to January 2025.
He is very proud of passing out all the money Congress gave him:
“These past four years have been the most productive in LPO’s history. Under the Biden-Harris Administration, the Office has announced 53 deals totaling approximately $107.57 billion in committed project investment––approximately $46.95 billion for 28 active conditional commitments and approximately $60.62 billion for 25 closed loans and loan guarantees. These investments are supporting job creation and preventing pollution while driving American competitiveness in the global economy. LPO is now processing an average of three transactions per month and moving at the speed of business”
https://www.energy.gov/lpo/articles/lpo-year-review-2024
https://x.com/JigarShahDC
I have waited all my (getting long) life for nuclear powered electricity.
I’ve always wondered why nuclear plants have not just been built on some the vast tracts of remote federal lands in Nevada or Utah et al.
If electricity could be dispersed from Hoover Dam in the middle of nowhere using 1930’s technology it should be possible today. Let’s have the government subsidize some nuclear plant construction out there. The technology need not be bleeding leading edge; just modern. The nuclear plants in Europe have been running safely for (x) decades. The disaster in Japan was a function of location, not design.
Perhaps now that we have gotten over trying to save every sub-species of snail from extinction, we can finally do it.
“I’ve always wondered why nuclear plants have not just been built on some the vast tracts of remote federal lands in Nevada or Utah et al.”
Democrat outrage. Full stop.
By the way, for those who may have forgotten, Google abandoned their green energy research in 2014 after billions of dollars of research
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/google-engineers-explain-why-they-stopped-rd-in-renewable-energy
They had started out in pursuit of stopping climate change but finally recognized that even the best case scenario would do nothing to alter the climate….so, a lot of expense, and inconvenience for …nothing.
“Those calculations cast our work at Google’s RE<C program in a sobering new light. Suppose for a moment that it had achieved the most extraordinary success possible, and that we had found cheap renewable energy technologies that could gradually replace all the world’s coal plants — a situation roughly equivalent to the energy innovation study’s best-case scenario. Even if that dream had come to pass, it still wouldn’t have solved climate change. This realization was frankly shocking: Not only had RE<C failed to reach its goal of creating energy cheaper than coal, but that goal had not been ambitious enough to reverse climate change.
In the end, Congress isn’t going to codify anything, and all the DOGE drama will be for naught, as Congress controls the purse strings. Same for energy, unwinding onerous regulations across all industries etc., the next democrat administration will put us right back where we were after Brandon, except even deeper in debt.
If the Trump Administration is serious about reigning in this ridiculous Democrat money laundering operation then why is it not mentioned in the current budget that was just announced?
What part of “Congress writes budgets, not Presidents” is unclear. Read the Constitution, then get in your Congresscritter’s face.
Amen, Leslie. The same goes for all the spending rollbacks. It bothers me that we’re not hearing much in regard to Congress acting on this. Midterms are closer than people realize; the time for action is now.
Throwing gold bricks off the Titanic one Leftists said
Meanwhile, in a huge boost to the creation of green energy technologies, a stupendous deposit of lithium has been discovered in Oregon.
Not surprisingly, eco-activists, who support the development of green energy, are already working to oppose the exploitation of this deposit.
Makes perfect sense – in Clown World.
https://www.earth.com/news/volcanic-white-gold-a-lithium-deposit-valued-at-1-5-trillion-has-been-discovered-in-the-u-s/
The “environmentalists” love their so called green cars and windmills as long as someone else.s land is being mined to build them. The ultimate NIMBY