This is a victory for taxpayers. At the widely covered Trump administration cabinet meeting on Tuesday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced some promising updates about how the One Big, Beautiful Bill is effectively cutting down on frivolous “green” expenditures, and you’ll recognize a familiar name in association with this.
The Trump EPA’s notable bill was packed with significant advantages for taxpayers. It effectively dismantled what some called the Green New Scam. Billions of dollars were clawed back.
This is significant for American taxpayers who have seen funds rerouted to entities marred by self-interest and conflicts. They’ve witnessed money going to unqualified beneficiaries, noted diminishing oversight, and demanded responsibility regarding their taxes—and they have achieved it.
These grants to non-governmental organizations (NGO) have always had a distinct odor to them, like a dead carp that’s been lying in the cornfield for a week in June. It strikes us as a way to launder federal money for purposes far from what the grant applications claim they were doing, and Mr. Zeldin isn’t shy about giving us some specific cases of what looks like just that:
So in the example of the Stacey Abrams Connected NGO, they received $100 in 2023. They got $2 billion in 2024. They had to complete training on how to develop a budget that was put into their grant agreement.
They out of nowhere started paying a CEO $800,000, a COO $450,000, 22 people making over $150,000. Out of nowhere, this is tax dollars. So money goes through pass-throughs, through other pass-throughs, through other pass-throughs, and we lose oversight over it.
And you see that it’s going to former Biden officials, it’s going to former Obama officials, it’s going to Democratic donors. And we’re not here saying we want to take money from a left-wing NGO and give it to a right-wing NGO. We want to give it back to the taxpayer.
There’s that familiar name, Stacey Abrams, who still hasn’t admitted that she is not, in fact, the governor of Georgia. It’s not abundantly clear what her “Connected” NGO does, or why they need $2 billion in taxpayer money to do it, but they aren’t getting it anymore.
