A nonprofit connected to Stacey Abrams, the former Democratic governor of Georgia, was given a$ 2 billion grant by Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ).
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The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, provided the funds to the party as part of its$ 20 billion grantmaking program. Energy Forward Communities was one of the victim companies. It served as the umbrella organization for a hundred additional philanthropic clean energy organizations, including Rewiring America, for which Abrams was the senior counsel.
In April 2024, Power Forward Communities received the$ 2 billion offer. It came into being in October 2023, and at the time the award was given, had$ 100 in its banks account.
Zeldin told the Washington Free Beacon,” I made a commitment to members of Congress and to the American people to be a good steward of tax dollars and I’ve wasted no time in keeping my word.” We “fell prey to the Biden Administration’s plan to immediately park$ 20 billion outside the organization” when we learned about it.
The EPA administrator continued,” As we continue to learn more about where some of this income went, it is even more obvious how far-reaching and commonly accepted this misuse and abuse has been.” ” It’s extremely concerning that an organization that reported just$ 100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive$ 2 billion. That’s 20 million times the firm’s reported income”.
They weren’t trying to hide it or anything, do ya believe?
” For an organization that has no experience in this, that was literally just established, and had$ 100 in the bank to receive a$ 2 billion grant—it doesn’t just fly in the face of common sense, it’s out and out fraud”, Daniel Turner, the executive director of energy advocacy group Power the Future, alleged in an interview with the , Free Beacon.
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The fact-checking site Snopes.com looked into the state and found it” a mixture of” wisdom and undetermined knowledge.”
Snopes does not contest the grant’s award to Power Forward Communities. But they say that Abrams simply has a radial relation to the grant, and the data was no” discovered” by DOGE, because the information about the offer to Power Forward Communities was right that, in black and white, on , usaspending. gov”, an recognized supply that tracks U. S. authorities spending.”
But, is Power Forward Communities and Rewiring America receiving outdated information, then? One problem: How the devil do we also know to look for it if DOGE hadn’t brought it to our focus? How could we have searched the collection without making any mention of the$ 20 billion offer?
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On its site, Power Forward Communities lists a number of associates with whom it collaborates to carry out its mission. The Southern Economic Advancement Project and Fair Count, two left-wing organizations founded by Abrams in response to her 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election battle, are two of its companions.
The Tides Center, a group known for giving millions of dollars to left-wing environmental and social activist institutions, is the financially sponsored job of the Southern Economic Advancement Project, which aims to promote “economic power” and “racial capital” in the South, according to Influence Watch.
The American Federation of Teachers and the AFL-CIO, two strong Democratic-aligned labor unions, are also on Power Forward Communities ‘ list of lovers.
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Why would the EPA give$ 2 billion to a fly-by-night activity such as Power Forward Communities? It’s no injury that the award was given when it was. Minority involvement in federal grant applications is subject to strict regulations by the federal government. A particular percentage of the give money must go to” underprivileged areas.”
Abrams was hired by Rewiring America in March 2023 because of her well-known position within the Democrat Party and the fact that she represents an “underserved society.” Rewiring America joined the philanthropic Power Forward Communities a few months after she was hired. In April 2024, Power Forward Communities received the$ 2 billion grant.
Stacey Abrams is going to seem before a couple of boards, and she better have some good answers.
