UPDATE:

From Powerline. It seems they’ve identified some of these NGO’s and hoo boy,….

The Coalition for Green Capital is supposed to get $5 billion. That would be quite a step up for this 501(c)(3) organization, which hauled in a grand total of $3.46 million in 2023…. Then there is the Native CDFI Network, which is supposed to get $400 million. Again, quite a step up: in 2023, this tiny South Dakota nonprofit brought in a whopping $1,691,067. Also Inclusiv, whose 2023 revenue was $10,119,825. Biden EPA grant: $1.87 billion.

This is just straight up, blatant corruption and therefore more than recovering the money (PL’s not sure if Zeldin can do it) should be involved. If any connections can be made between the EPA people doing this and the NGO’s in terms of jobs, relatives or anything else then criminal charges should be laid – after they’re escorted out the door by security.

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You may not have seen a little video clip that was circulating in US social media in early December 2024, just after the election, where a Biden Administration flunky boasted about how they were shovelling money out the doors as fast as possible to pre-empt Trump:

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) advisor Admits ‘Insurance Policy’ Against Trump is Funneling Billions to Climate Organizations, “We’re Throwing Gold Bars off the Titanic” “It was an insurance policy against Trump winning.” “Get the money out as fast as possible before they [Trump Administration] come in … it’s like we’re on the Titanic and we’re throwing gold bars off the edge.”

https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1863960384513753213

That was yet another undercover sting of government corruption done by Project Veritas. They’re almost as valuable as DOGE except they can’t move as fast – there’s only so many hot guys and girls to set up their “dates”.

The attitudes and actions of this particular asshole didn’t surprise me. It didn’t even anger me as I’ve come to expect this sort of corrupt shite from the Left, from both those in and out of politics; it’s free money from someone else so who cares. Sadly I also figured it would work because who can get the money back once it’s in the bank accounts of private organisations?

Amazingly it could be and Trump’s new EPA Czar did it – with a sense of humor as well.

https://twitter.com/epaleezeldin/status/1889840040622321778

Incidentally this incredible sum of money covered only eight (8) NGO’s, groups who were part of Biden’s Green Nude Eel Act.

If a “Non-Governmental Organization” is entirely dependent on government funding to function then it is not a non governmental organization. It’s a government organization being used by the government as a cut-out to do things it itself is legally barred from doing.

The massive scale of this scam–which as with so many things is SOP at government agencies–blows your mind. Pushing $20 billion out the door to friends of the administration with little to no financial controls, zero accountability, and lots of malice aforethought is only different in scale and not in kind.

What IS different is that somebody is doing something about it. $20 billion is such a large amount of money that it was traceable, and Zeldin actually bothered to trace it and claw it back.

No doubt there will be lawsuits and a tug of war between the feds and the NGOs, but those lawsuits will be quite instructive. There will be discovery that will open up the books of the NGOs, showing the American people how the sausage is made and that the meat inside is rotten.

The scams, the revolving door, the massive skimming. The “green banks” funding projects that never get off the ground cost enormous amounts of money without achieving any discernible goal, and the massive salaries for managers of these projects. You will find out that politically connected people all have ties in some form or fashion to the dollars going out the door.