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On 2025-02-20 14:37, tye syding wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:50:56 -0800 Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> 
>> You're the one who tried to argue that you couldn't railroad
>> someone
> 
> https://saraacarter.com/lee-zeldin-slams-biden-admin-over-2-billion-
> handout-to-stacey-abrams-linked-nonprofit/

Not sure how any of this is responsive, but off topic postings with no 
text of your own seems to have become your MO.

But to address your re-posted bullshit:

t is a grant over 7 years. So quite a bit less spectacular

> 
> 
> A nonprofit with ties to Democrat Stacey Abrams has become the
> center of a controversy after receiving a staggering $2 billion in
> taxpayer funds. According to the Washington Free Beacon, the
> Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) discovered that the funds
> were initially allocated by the Biden administration’s Environmental
> Protection Agency (EPA), and were earmarked for Power Forward
> Communities, a group with minimal prior revenue.

The supposed "tie" is that Abrams is "Senior Counsel" for one (ONE!) of 
the organizations that came together to found "Power Forward Communities"
> 
> In April 2024, the EPA awarded Power Forward Communities the grant
> as part of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program. The timing and
> size of the grant have raised eyebrows, given that Power Forward
> Communities was established in late 2023 and reported only $100 in
> revenue during its first three months.

It is not shocking that a non-profit gets founded or that it doesn't 
have much revenue.

 > > According to the Free Beacon, “Power Forward Communities’ grant was
> one of just eight Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants that the EPA
> doled out in April 2024 and that, altogether, totaled $20 billion.
> EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Feb. 13 that his staff and
> Department of Government Efficiency officials discovered that the
> Biden administration parked that same $20 billion at an outside
> financial institution before leaving office, limiting the federal
> government’s oversight of the program.”

Funny they don't name the parking place, huh?

> 
> With Power Forward Communities being linked to Stacey Abrams,
> ethical questions have arisen over the beneficiaries of taxpayer
> dollars under the Biden administration. Critics are questioning the
> selection process for these massive grants and whether political
> favoritism played a role. Republicans have long voiced concerns that
> Biden administration initiatives would be used to bolster
> organizations specifically created to receive federal funding under
> programs like the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
> 
> “When we learned about the Biden Administration’s scheme to quickly
> park $20 billion outside the agency, we suspected that some
> organizations were created out of thin air just to take advantage of
> this,” Zeldin told the 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.”
> 
> “As we continue to learn more about where some of this money went,
> it is even more apparent how far-reaching and widely accepted this
> waste and abuse has been,” he continued. “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
> organization’s reported revenue.”
> 
> Zeldin reminded Americans that President Trump was elected with a 
> “mandate from the American people to stop the fraud and abuse by 
> leaders who irresponsibly shoveled boat loads of cash to far-left, 
> activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate 
> equity, instead of serving the American people,” adding that “those 
> days are over.”

And he'll start shovelling boat loads of it to himself!