Republicans in Congress are investigating ties between a Biden-era $27 billion green fund at the Environmental Protection Agency and former Democratic staffers.
The EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), created in 2023 after Joe Biden‘s Inflation Reduction Act passed, was responsible for doling out the billions to nonprofit organizations to help them champion climate causes.
From start to finish the application process for the $27 billion in taxpayer-backed fund only lasted months. Many of the nonprofits that received billions in funding had been established after the application process was announced, according to Republican lawmakers
Reports indicate that up to $20 billion of the GGRF was obligated after Donald Trump won the 2024 election but before he was sworn in on January 20.
A former Biden EPA official likened the fund to ‘tossing gold bars off the Titanic’ – a mad dash to hand out federal dollars to anyone that would accept them.
President Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has ordered an internal investigation into the matter, and the Justice Department is also probing the GGRF.
Republican lawmakers claim firms that were incorporated after the GGRF application process opened – and which employed staff with ties to Democrats – were granted billions without proper oversight.
‘The Biden Administration’s EPA rushed through $27 billion in grants with little transparency, minimal vetting, and troubling political ties,’ Chairman Brian Babin of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee claims in a letter to Zeldin about the GGRF exclusively obtained by the Daily Mail.