‘Like tossing gold bars off Titanic’: Trump EPA chief moves to reclaim $20 billion in climate funding approved by Biden administration
Financial Express (India) ^ | February 13, 2025 | Staff
Posted on 02/13/2025 5:42:30 AM PST by Red Badger
Zeldin cited a December video in which an EPA official suggested the Biden administration had rushed to allocate the funds before Trump’s team could intervene.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans to recover $20 billion in climate funding approved by the Biden administration. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin revealed the decision in a social media post Wednesday, alleging that the funds were distributed hastily with “reduced oversight”.
This decision intensifies President Donald Trump’s broader efforts to freeze climate funding across federal agencies. It also defies a federal judge’s recent ruling, which stated that the administration had been violating a court order requiring the release of billions in grants.
Zeldin stated in a video posted to X that the EPA would terminate its contract with the bank overseeing the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a program established under former President Joe Biden’s 2022 climate law. The fund was designed to drive investment in clean energy technologies such as solar panels and heat pumps by leveraging public and private capital.
“The days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far-left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over,” Zeldin declared. “The American public deserves a more transparent and accountable government than what transpired these past four years.”
Zeldin cited a December video in which an EPA official suggested the Biden administration had rushed to allocate the funds before Trump’s team could intervene. He said that it seems like the previous administration was “trying to get the money out as fast as possible before they (the Trump administration) come in and stop it all…It truly feels like we’re on the Titanic and we’re throwing, like, gold bars off the edge”.
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1889884834149048819
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1 posted on 02/13/2025 5:42:30 AM PST by Red Badger
To: Red Badger
The honest, hard-working citizens of the American republic deserve to see the criminals 6ft. under for proper social distancing.
2 posted on 02/13/2025 5:47:43 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
To: Red Badger
“””The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans to recover $20 billion in climate funding approved by the Biden administration.”””
This is a double win for Trump.
The FED books will show the $20 billion spent under Biden and UNSPENT under Trump.
All of these clawbacks will slowdown the National Debt increases under Trump.
To: Red Badger
The reference to the gold off the Titanic is quite interesting, given that the Titanic saga is very much intertwined with the creation of the FED and demise of real gold-back money in favor of fake fiat.
4 posted on 02/13/2025 5:49:56 AM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
To: Red Badger
Msm response “Trump hates the climate! Trump wants us all to perish! Trump blah blah blah”
Meanwhile Americans will get more tax breaks and perhaps higher cola’s as a result, and democrats will continue to lose supporters.
5 posted on 02/13/2025 5:54:11 AM PST by Bob434 (NO MY BATTERIES ARE NOT IN ANOTHER ROOM LOL)
To: C210N
Did the Fed sink the Titanic so that silver wouldn’t kill it?
6 posted on 02/13/2025 5:55:21 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
To: Toddsterpatriot
Did the Fed sink the Titanic so that silver wouldn’t kill it?
No.. it was Climate change..
Or Trump..
To: Bob434
The MSM, ABCNNBCBS et al, are the perfect example of the ‘Dunning-Kruger’ effect.
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities.
IOW, they are so stupid, but think they are the smartest people in the room, they don’t know they are stupid..........
8 posted on 02/13/2025 6:02:21 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: C210N
Now their world is imploding like a cheap carbon fiber submarine.................
9 posted on 02/13/2025 6:06:46 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: All
Tax dollars to left-wing crazies for environment and climate nonsense are over.
<><>an EPA official said Biden rushed to allocate tax funds before Trump could intervene.
<><>like Biden was on the Titanic, throwing gold bars off the edge, as he was sinking.
10 posted on 02/13/2025 6:09:38 AM PST by Liz
To: Red Badger
“Financial Express (India)”
No, it’s “USAID Express (India)”.
11 posted on 02/13/2025 6:29:59 AM PST by BobL
To: Red Badger
The history of the past 16 years - since Obama was first elected - is a history of Obama’s team (first in his administration and then in Biden’s) turning the federal government into a machine to fund literally tens of billions of dollars to radical Leftwing NGOs and outside organizations to fundamentally change America. Obama’s presidency was a toxic cancer that was worse than even a lot of conservatives imagined.
12 posted on 02/13/2025 6:31:51 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: PGalt
The only way to fix this sh%t show is to eliminate all agencies except those functions called for in the 18 enumerated powers of Congress in Article I.
13 posted on 02/13/2025 6:34:11 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
It’s pretty clear that Obama hated our country, and did everything he could to destroy it!
14 posted on 02/13/2025 6:40:25 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! Thereon)
To: Red Badger
Ronald Reagan the wordsmith said “The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so”
15 posted on 02/13/2025 6:44:26 AM PST by Bob434 (time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
To: Red Badger
the epa budget is 11b
where did they get 20b?
16 posted on 02/13/2025 7:01:51 AM PST by joshua c
To: joshua c
Biden cronies in the Treasury.....................
17 posted on 02/13/2025 7:11:00 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
If Congress were in the water with scuba gear grabbing up the gold bars then ya
But no, Mr. Zeldin, all due respect. It is not like throwing it into the ocean
18 posted on 02/13/2025 7:15:23 AM PST by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
To: stanne
19 posted on 02/13/2025 7:25:00 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
You don’t need to fund the climate. It exists free of charge. Or at least until our sun turns into a red giant.
20 posted on 02/13/2025 7:26:25 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.")
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