Republicans probe questionable Biden-era grant program for conflicts of interest

First on the fox: Republicans are launching an investigation into the Green Energy Grant program from Era in Biden, which funded the billions of climate groups related to Democrats and the Allies of former President Joe Biden.

GOP leaders sent letters to the Energy and Trade of House eight non -profit organizations that awarded a grant from a $ 20 billion (GGRF) reduction fund, seeking answers to ensure that Biden Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) followed the appropriate ethics and protocols of the conflict of interest in the distribution of the fund.

In February, Trump’s EPA administration announced that she would take steps to return money, citing concerns about lack of supervision related to the way money is paid. In the announcement, New Epa Lee Zeldin Administrator Cited comments from the former political appointed appointment of Biden EPA, who described the payments made through GGRF as similar to “throwing gold grids from the Titanic” because Bidel officials allegedly tried to get money through the door before Trump took over.

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It was also discovered that 2 billion dollars from GGRF went to a group associated with Stacy Abrams, Power Community, which are not established only after the biden administration has published the application procedure for GGRF. Meanwhile, during the first few months, the Power Forward operations – before receiving financing – the group reported only $ 100 revenue.

Clim United, another group that received the most money from GGRF, approximately $ 7 billion, currently a former climate climate staff who worked in the last two years of the former president. The same group is managed by the Executive Director with the Obama Administration and a member of the Management Board, which was among those who were invited to the Biden signature ceremony for his infrastructure account with a number of billions of dollars in 2021.

Several GGRF recipients have to do Democrats and advisers biden, and Some were allegedly founded Shortly before or after the biden administration announced the program. In the meantime, these groups, according to Zeldin, only had decisions on how to use funds.

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Brett Guthrie, R-Ky, in addition to the members of the Committee, representatives of Alabama and Morgan Griffith of Virginia, both Republicans, said in a joint statement that their investigation to the GGRF recipient, will be “key” to understanding whether they are also available in AMORTY, in addition to the members of the Committee, R-Ky.

“The Committee had concerns about a greenhouse gas fund program from its creation – including concern about the unusual program structure, a potential deficiency of a depth check in selecting the recipient recipient’s recipient’s recipient’s recipient’s capacity to manage the great connection of the federal dollars they received from the EPA,” the legislators said in their statement.

“The recent hearing of a supervisor for supervision and investigations that tested these problems combined with a speed that pushed the money the door of EPA Biden -a increased the concern of the Committee and raised additional questions about certain recipients of the greenhouse gas reduction fund.”

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Several groups that were the recipients of GGRF money Trump administration In March because of his attempts to respond.

Subsequently, Judge Tanya Chutkan appointed Obama a temporary order for restricting EPA prevention to freeze $ 14 billion in GGRF funds allocated three climate groups.

Associate Press contributed to this report.