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<p><span style="font-weight:400">The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have cut tens of millions of dollars directed under former President Joe Biden to left-wing green groups.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">The Biden administration had awarded the funds through grants to a slew of environmental and activist groups. The grants totaled $77.1 million, but the EPA froze $67.4 million in payments yet to be made, according to the </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/22/us-news/doge-cuts-67-m-in-epa-grants-for-environmental-justice-groups/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">New York Post</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has welcomed DOGE officials into his agency to comb through spending programs and systems looking for waste, fraud, and abuse. The administrator touted the cuts to the environmental grants as another example of “wasteful spending end[ing] with the Trump Administration.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">“We will make sure every penny spent by EPA goes towards protecting human health and the environment, and Powering the Great American Comeback,” he added. “I am proud to partner with DOGE to restore fiscal responsibility and accountability in our government.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Zeldin has spent much of his first weeks at the U.S. environmental regulator making cuts to the agency’s spending and reshaping its priorities to the Trump administration. The EPA head has been attempting to claw back $20 billion in “gold bars” that he says the Biden administration hurriedly shoveled out to allies and friends ahead of the former president leaving office.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">The EPA chief said last week that $2 billion of the $20 billion identified was </span><a href="https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/billions-doge-found-parked-at-bank-earmarked-for-stacey-abrams-backed-green-group/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">directed</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> to be paid out to Power Forward Communities, a green group linked to Stacey Abrams.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">“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. 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 said in a </span><a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/icymi-administrator-lee-zeldin-finds-gold-bars-epa-stacey-abrams-connected-group-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">statement</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">“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. 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,” he said.</span></p>
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EPA, DOGE Cut Nearly $70M In Biden-Era Grants To Green Groups
