Appeals Court Allows Trump Administration to Reclaim $16 Billion in Climate Grants Rushed Out by Biden Officials
Every good con artist knows the secret: get the money moving before anyone looks too closely at the books. It’s the oldest trick in Washington’s playbook, and the outgoing Biden administration played it like virtuosos in their final days.Twenty billion dollars here, sixteen billion there – pretty soon you’re talking about real money, as they say. But what happens when someone finally decides to check the receipts?
The Biden administration’s final weeks resembled nothing so much as a clearance sale at a corrupt bank. With the clock ticking down to Trump’s inauguration, bureaucrats worked overtime (on our dime, naturally) to shovel nearly $20 billion in taxpayer funds out the door to their favorite “climate” organizations.
No real oversight, no accountability measures, just a desperate rush to move the money before the new sheriff arrived in town. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin would later describe it perfectly: they were “throwing gold bars off the Titanic.”
But hey, who’s counting when it’s not your money, right?
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit didn’t just overturn a lower court’s ruling – it delivered a crushing blow to the scheme that had tried to Trump-proof billions in taxpayer money.
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