In February, The Gateway Pundit reported that Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lee Zeldin, provided a startling update to the money wasted on Biden’s watch in response to undercover video posted by Project Veritas in December.
As previously reported, an EPA advisor was exposed in a Project Veritas undercover video admitting that the agency rushed to allocate billions of taxpayer dollars to climate change initiatives just before President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Further, the video discussed the EPA’s strategy of using nonprofits as a shield against Republican policies and hints at the potential personal benefits awaiting him post-tenure.
Zeldin has now announced, in a fourth round of DOGE cuts, over 400 additional grants will be halted saving American taxpayers more than $1.7B.
The agency said in a statement:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin, with the assistance of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), identified and cancelled more than 400 additional grants across nine unnecessary programs totaling $1.7 billion in savings for the American people. This marks the fourth round of EPA-DOGE partnered cancellations as the Administrator oversees a line-by-line review of spending, bringing the total taxpayer dollars saved to more than $2 billion since being sworn in.
“Working hand-in-hand with DOGE to rein in wasteful federal spending, EPA has saved more than $2 billion in taxpayer money,” said EPA Administrator Zeldin. “It is our commitment at EPA to be exceptional stewards of tax dollars.”
Administrator Zeldin has been working with other agencies to establish accountability and oversight regarding $20 billion parked at a financial institution by the Biden-Harris Administration in a rushed effort to obligate money with reduced oversight.
The Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation are investigating and the money is currently frozen by the financial institution.
Further, Administrator Zeldin cancelled grants and contracts related to DEI and environmental justice in the first round of spending cuts, terminated a $50 million Biden-era environmental justice grant to the Climate Justice Alliance that believes “Climate Justice travels through a Free Palestine”, and ended more than one million dollars in media subscriptions.
In the second round of spending cuts with DOGE, EPA identified and cancelled an additional 20 grants totaling $60,958,537.30 in taxpayer savings. In the third round of spending cuts, EPA identified and cancelled 21 grants amounting to $116,449,761 total immediate taxpayer savings.
EPA continues to work diligently to implement President Trump’s executive orders.
In February, the agency revealed that DOGE discovered that under Joe Biden, the EPA awarded $2 billion to a firm linked to failed Democrat Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
Even worse, the firm only reported $100 in revenue in its first three months of business in 2023.
How did a brand-new firm that only reported $100 in revenue get awarded $2 billion??
Zeldin told the Free Beacon at the time of the discovery, “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.”
The post EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Announces Cancelation of 400+ Grants in Latest Round of Cuts Saving Americans More than $1.7B appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.