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Remember when Joe Biden promised to Build Back Better? He rode that slogan into the Oval Office, building an expensive and vast regulatory agenda that mismanaged taxpayers’ money and handed out subsidies and tax credits like a drug dealer giving free samples to hook new customers. Yet perhaps one of the president’s biggest boondoggles is the system his administration built to funnel billions of dollars to “radical activist groups” – under the guise of environmental justice (EJ) – with scant oversight and little accountability.
This could go on for years unless Donald Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency can finagle a way to rescind the money earmarked for these climate-related programs. But should Trump shut it down? What would the country lose?
The Injustice of Environmental Justice
The White House’s website says environmental justice is supposed to “address the disproportionate health, environmental, and economic impacts that have been borne primarily by communities of color.” That sounds righteous but is hard to swallow when Americans’ tax dollars are being dispersed to “special interest groups committed to a radical energy agenda to ‘educate’ others and drive public outreach,” according to a recent report by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, “the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives.” The report goes on to suggest the operation is “akin to taxpayer-funded lobbying.”
Much of the cash comes from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the climate bill Biden signed in 2022 and has gushed publicly about when trying to bolster his legacy. The IRA quadrupled the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) budget, bringing it to $41 billion, including $3 billion designated for environmental justice (EJ) grants. These are frequently awarded to far-left organizations that strive to exert political influence and “engage in progressive election activities.” One program uses a “pass-through” model to give $600 million to 11 “grant makers” for distribution to other recipients. Many of these groups display anti-Republican views, support “radical progressive ideologies,” and have billionaire donors already backing them, claimed the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Biden laid the groundwork for all this when, a week after he was inaugurated, he signed Executive Order 14008, which included the Justice40 Initiative, a measure that requires 40% of federal climate investments go to “disadvantaged communities.” Federal agencies were then wrapped in red tape, directed “to ‘secure environmental justice and spur economic opportunity’ for ‘marginalized’ communities,” explained the City Journal, a public policy magazine. “Instead of focusing on their core missions … federal officials are now tasked with ‘stakeholder consultation,’ collecting data on how programs benefit disadvantaged communities, and filing lengthy reports to the White House Office of Environmental Justice.” […]
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‘Merely Coincidental’: Secular Scientist Work Overtime to Explain Away the Miracles of Christ
by Harbingers Daily
Was the miracle of Jesus feeding the 5,000 with just five loaves and two fish a little less than miraculous? Well, that’s what a group of scientists are claiming in a recent paper published in a scientific journal. Instead of a supernatural provision by the Lord, they claim the feeding…
Google Hosts Party for Democratic Operatives Plotting To ‘Resist the Republican Agenda’
by Free Beacon
The resistance’s bar tab is on Google. Priorities USA, a top Democratic super PAC with an affiliated dark money group, is convening a summit of left-wing digital activists on Wednesday afternoon to deliver a post-mortem on Vice President Kamala Harris’s election loss and strategize how to “resist the Republican agenda,”…
“The Correction Before the Surge”: Why Gold and Silver’s Future Is Brighter Than Ever
by Sponsored Post
It was long overdue by most estimates. Precious metals prices have been steadily rising for far longer than even the …
Ukraine Denies Reports From Think Tank That It Is Months Away From Developing a Nuclear Weapon
by Natural News
Ukraine has denied reports suggesting it could develop a nuclear weapon soon, following claims by a Ukrainian military think tank. The report, published by the Ukrainian think tank and nongovernmental organization the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies, claimed that Kyiv could use spent nuclear fuel from its remaining…
Alex Jones Reveals Elon Musk Saved Infowars From Being Sold to The Onion
by End Times Headlines
Alex Jones has declared ‘the cavalry is here’ as attorneys for Elon Musk’s X jumped in to help put a temporary pause on the sale of his controversial Infowars to The Onion. The satirical news publication said the bid was sanctioned by the families of Sandy Hook Elementary victims who…
FBI Whistleblower Says FBI Intentionally Blocking Security Clearances for Trump Officials
by The Conservative Treehouse
It should not come as a surprise to see the same methods deployed against President Trump in 2024 that were used by the FBI in 2016. The difference is now that President Trump understands the full power of his office in the security clearance process and that he doesn’t need…
Pastor Greg Locke Burns Voodoo Doll He Claims Was Found on His Property
by End Times Headlines
Even amid ongoing warfare, we are called to stand firm on the Word of God. Pastor Greg Locke knows well the spiritual and physical attacks directed at him; he was recently targeted by a gunman. Now, he faces another spiritual assault, this time from someone attempting to place a curse…
Trump’s Incoming FCC Chief Already Putting Target on Big Tech ‘Censorship Cartel’
by WND
Social media companies have become a “cartel” for suppressing information with which they disagree, and that agenda now is going to be getting the attention of Brendan Carr, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. It was social media companies who played a role…
Sabotage: Two Undersea Internet Cables Connecting Four NATO Nations Were Severed
by Publius
Many in the international community are claiming sabotage as the only viable explanation for two fiber optic internet cables in the Baltic Sea being severed less than 24-hours apart. Fingers are being pointed at Russia as one of the the cables connected NATO nations Germany and Finland. The latter was…
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Orders Democrats to Immediately End Counting of Illegal Ballots
by Infowars
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday ordered Democrats in several counties to immediately halt their unlawful counting of illegal ballots in the Senate race recount. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court had ruled before the election that mail-in ballots lacking formally required signatures or dates should not be included in official results….
22-Year-Old Woman With Depression Was Almost Euthanized, She Changed Her Mind Right Before She Was Killed
by Life News
Why do you oppose euthanasia, Wesley? If people want to die, we should help them die. No. And here’s an individual example explaining just one reason why. A deeply depressed woman was about to be lethally injected in the Netherlands — but changed her mind just in the nick of…
“Massive Breach”: T-Mobile Network Hacked by Chinese State Sponsored Intelligence
by Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge
(Zero Hedge)—Where’s John Legere in a pink t-shirt when you need him? Among the multiple stories over the last few weeks about Chinese intelligence and hackers either attempting to, or outright gaining access, to U.S. cell phone networks (with reports stating President Trump and his team were targeted), comes news…
Trump’s Idea to Shut Down Department of Education Gets High Five From Top Christian Evangelist
by WND
A priority for the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump is to tackle the Deep State, the bureaucracy in Washington that is a self-perpetuating industry, to find what American taxpayers don’t need or want. And get rid of it. One of the targets he’s already identified is the Department of…
Experts Sound Alarm Over ‘Shocking’ Spike in Strokes Among ‘Healthy’ Young People
by Slay News
Health experts have issued a chilling warning to the public over a “shocking” spike in strokes among “healthy” young people. The “alarming” surge was identified in official UK government data. The data shows that recorded cases of deadly strokes skyrocketed in 2023 and continued soaring this year. In 2023/24, the…