Thanks to the efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency, taxpayers are now getting a look at the many ways their hard-earned money has been wasted. President Trump recently read off a list of some of the absurd projects the U.S. funded overseas—like $10 million for circumcisions in Mozambique, $25 million for biodiversity in Colombia, and $2.3 million for strengthening independent voices in Cambodia. But back home, there’s plenty to be enraged about.
DOGE recently uncovered $2 billion in taxpayer money that was set aside for a nonprofit linked to failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
The Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration awarded Power Forward Communities the grant in April 2024 as part of the agency's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program. Power Forward Communities received the green energy grant despite the fact that it was founded months earlier in late 2023 and never managed anywhere near the grant's dollar figure—it reported just $100 in total revenue during its first three months in operation, according to its latest tax filings.
Power Forward Communities' grant was one of just eight Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants that the EPA doled out in April 2024 and that, altogether, totaled $20 billion. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Feb. 13 that his staff and Department of Government Efficiency officials discovered that the Biden administration parked that same $20 billion at an outside financial institution before leaving office, limiting the federal government's oversight of the program.
The revelation that Power Forward Communities is among the beneficiaries of the funds Zeldin's team located raises ethics questions about how the Biden administration selected recipients of such massive grants and whether it played favorites when doling those grants out. Abrams was a vocal proponent of the Biden administration's green energy agenda and campaigned for former vice president Kamala Harris. (The Washington Free Beacon)
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called the latest discovery "extremely concerning."
"I made a commitment to members of Congress and to the American people to be a good steward of tax dollars and I’ve wasted no time in keeping my word," Zeldin told the Washington Free Beacon. "When we learned about the Biden Administration’s scheme to quickly park $20 billion outside the agency, we suspected that some organizations were created out of thin air just to take advantage of this."
"As we continue to learn more about where some of this money went, it is even more apparent how far-reaching and widely accepted this waste and abuse has been," he continued. "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."
STACEY ABRAMS SCAM UNCOVERED BY DOGE?!
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 19, 2025
.@DOGE found $2 BILLION in taxpayer dollars designated for a fledgling nonprofit called "Power Forward Communities," which had close ties to Democrat Stacey Abrams.
Power Forward Communities was only a few months old with just $100 in the… pic.twitter.com/5zbLEOKrKD
