EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin appeared for a podcast interview with Miranda Devine where he outlined billions of EPA dollars that were transferred to various passthroughs as an outcome of the Inflation Reduction Act (aka Green New Deal).
As noted by Administrator Zeldin, various investigations are now underway to determine who structured the payments as the EPA begins clawing back the money. The numbers are staggering, $20+ billion. WATCH:
🚨 EPA Head Lee Zeldin Says His Agency Was Used to Funnel BILLIONS From the Inflation Reduction Act to Fmr. Obama & Biden Officials
“They decided to park $20 billion at an outside bank and … send the money through eight NGO’s … that were riddled with … conflicts of interest” pic.twitter.com/WDqXWUHIBh
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) August 20, 2025
The full interview is below.
Get the impression that many of the Trump cabinet members knew going in that there had been great corruption in the previous regime – but have been horrified at the scale of the corruption, and the difficulty in getting it stopped.
I think you’re right! I know that Energy Secty Chris Wright is 100% behind domestic oil & gas production. He can barely contain his derision when asked about anything “green.”
Yeah, that’s it… six ways from Sunday if you get my drift.
It’s only difficult because activist judges are making nonsense rulings to hamper and stop any changes from taking place.
Time to replace the US judiciary system with military tribunal system and jail these insurrectionists and traitors.
We would need a real Attorney General who could find a way to do that for the nation.
The corruption in Congress (Senate and House) is not restricted to the Democrats.
It may be more prevalent with Democrats, but there are more than a handful of Republicans who have their snouts in the trough as well.
For the record, I have never voted for a Democrat. I am simply pointing out that some Republicans are not as pure as the driven snow.
More then some!
That’s why its a Uniparty!
Unified, but not for us!
Every last one of them have the responsibility to know where tax payer money is going to. That’s literally what they are hired for. The citizens best interest.
Until the grift, kickbacks and fraud is prosecuted the recipients are still winning. Seriously? Yes by all means recover money but prosecute every one inside and outside of government who were in anyway involved with it.
Meanwhile, normal electricity bills have skyrocketed in the past several months, as the Green Scam severely disrupted electricity capacity by design, and the emerging AI Beast fortresses are devouring what’s available.
PDJT cannot move fast enough to undo the Green Scam damage to the energy infrastructure of America.
These people were traitors and saboteurs.
you are their enemy
their loyalty is to somethign they thought was inevitable.
if you can read this – it explains it all
Lyndsey, Mccain, Romney, Cruz,
“McStain” ….spit
And his kin that are belatedly trying to join the Trump train
I’ll keep bringing it up. SMRs. Small (nuclear) modular reactors. This all goes away, and problem solved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power
https://thoriumsmr.com/
It will be too late shortly because the windmills and solar panels that cover arable land will decay in place making arable land useless for crops or grazing for thousands of years. Artificial food will be forced upon us.
And ivermectin for cancer.
So many languishing solutions for problems.
So few problem solvers.
I live in NJ and electric bills have skyrocketed 28%
NY and they’ve doubled with a new increase coming. They hoodwink with average $33 a month for 600kwh, next year. Problem is it’s a lie due to the way they break it down and tax it. I only know one person who uses 600kwh or less in a month. Same with the smart meter option out was only $13 a month, funny I got my bill and it’s $25 pretax. They lie, lie lie.
They will use your smart meter to stop or throttle the power coming to you during high usage crisis. I believe this was already done in the Mid-Atlantic this summer.
Those who have back up batteries at home for their EVs will find the power companies pulling stored energy out of such devices.
Smart homes will have the thermostat controlled by the power company.
All done this summer during the “crisis.”
NY is more and going up again.
MamCommie is probably saying Hold My Beer right about now on that score.
Few states can be worse then the Commie state of Oregon. Our home has only access to electricity and my latest “equal monthly bill” is $510 per month. Since this is equal pay that stays the same and adjusts upward because of the Green New Scam.
Forced LED lights, Forced “Energy Efficient” appliances, washing machines that don’t actually clean clothes, Forced gas standards on cars and yet the cost of everything still goes up regardless.
It’s a scam.
Pesos? Mine is $ 750 pesos per month down south…
Good for you.
You can have that craphole.
The only problem with that is you have to live in Mexico. Couldn’t you live right by the border in the US and run an extension cord into Mexico?
Is there any border town that isn’t a turd whirld s?!!hole? That’s the Reconquista of our southern neighbor.
You have electricity?
CUT THE CORD!
And some (many) of them are lining their own pockets as well as their family and friends’ pockets.
Must be a hoot taking other people’s money (by force) and doing nothing useful in return. I don’t think I could sleep at night, but that’s just me.
That’s because most of us here have a conscious
Same. I’m so honest I couldn’t because politician. My sons either. No liars in my family.
And will the NGOs be approached and demand that fraudulent money be paid back ?
Why do these people not reveal what the name of these NGOs are ?
If these billions were appropriated for the EPA isn’t it illegal to funnel funds and accepting it ?
Kiinda like the John’s never revealed in the Epstein files
IMHO I think and hope President Trump doesn’t want to let any cats out of any bags. Why reveal which NGOs? Let them squirm. It will be worse for them when they’re caught destroying documents.
It is and the accepting orgs are also part of the grand conspiracy RICO and defraud unless returned before investigation.
https://x.com/search?q=Epa%20from%3AOilfield_Rando%20&src=typed_query
You might find some names here.
Those of us not on X cannot access this, nor does xcancel work. Fyi
Not only the name of the NGOs but the name of the politicians family members that sit on the board of directors of the NGOs.
Bingo.
Well, here are some people who got tired of waiting for the government to investigate at its own glacial pace, so they mentioned names like CEPPS (I think that would be Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening) in this update. https://x.com/PeterBernegger/status/1957989196695515178#m
President Trump said, “We caught them all.”
I now believe that none of us really knew at the time how extensively that short declarative statement truly applies….
Ever so grateful to God Almighty that 47 has been returned, to act upon 45’s discovery.
46 was really bankrupting the nation.
And purposefully so!!!
46 was the kenyan.
44= Bronco Bama; 45 = PDJT; 46 = F’n Joe; 47 = PDJT
Bring in the handcuffs please.
wasnt their some US citizen tracking thing also done by the EPA. some weird surveillance
A group describing itself as a non-profit, non-partisan whistleblower advocate claims government documents indicate that the United States Environmental Protection Agency monitored East Palestine residents following the 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment.
https://www.wfmj.com/story/53017275/whistleblowers-claim-epa-tracked-east-palestine-residents-after-derailment
Who can even track all the ways US citizens have been surveilled?
NON Government Organizations??
Why then has government (taxpayer money and money printed out of thin air) been funding them…
Isn’t this in the same vein as saying the US will not be providing weapons to Ukraine directly but selling them to the EU instead? We’re still funding Zelensky, no?
Linguistic swings and roundabouts….🤔
A superbly accurate observation. Much bleed between NGO and GO. Akin to playing with the water flow with the kids: Block it at one location and it immediately seeks an alternate path; open a throughway and pressure is lessened elsewhere. Strikes me as an excellent metaphor for the money flow among these organizations.
Money laundering purely and simply, Russ.
As for your apt metaphor, ask who controls the valve.
PDJT is between a rock and a hard place when it comes to Ukraine.
He has taken a bad choice and made it better. Before, we just gave Ukraine weapons. Now, he makes the EU/NATO pay for the weapons and they can do with them whatever they want to do. Right now, they are choosing to give the weapons to Ukraine but PDJT is working very hard to have the war ended so that you will no longer have to wrestle with the moral dilemma.
At least he is keeping the American taxpayers off the hook for the cost of these weapons. America First is fine with me.
If he completely ends this war then this will cease to be an issue. Those on the side of Ukraine should be happy that they are getting weapons. Those on the side of Russia are probably less happy but really don’t care who pays for them because they still end up in Ukraine.
Ryder trucks did not care that illegals were hauled around in the backs of their vans because of $$$$$. Ryder trucks only cared about humans riding in the backs of their vans when ICE agents were transported in the backs of the vans.
I merely posed the question and drew the comparison, OLS. And not wishing to pull us off topic, I shall leave the discussion of moral dilemmas concerning the ongoing war for a perhaps more appropriate time. Such a conversation would be fascinating.
I no longer believe much of what we have read and heard about this war. So I am choosing to not pick a side.
But on a happy note, Lee Zeldin is clawing back at least $20,000,000 in “gold bars” from these demons. I am happy that losing the NYS governorship brought him to a position where he can do even greater things for all 50 states.
I said the same below. God had better plans for him…I devoutly believe this.
(I comment very little on all things regarding the very complex Ukraine/Russia war itself, and the only reliable source of information is here.)
Perp walks expected shortly… /s
Expected?
Anticipated?
I hope so, but I am not holding my breath that there will be any perp walks.
If there are perp walks, I’m not counting on convictions.
Can we talk about the Fake Pandemic and installation of the Fake 46th President? Or must we pretend to the end.
Tulsi said that she and Jay Bhat are looking into Fauci, so let us hope.
Tulsi will never reveal the truth about the fake pandemic and will regularly refer to the fake pandemic as something that really happened while misleading the hapless hopium addicts down endless bunny holes filled with Wuhan conspiracy theories that lead to nowhere. One long tic toc continuum
Just like that Uniparty Senator she praises so much , never Trumper, Rand Paul.
This is one reason how and why I know Tulsi is not the real deal and is throwing us bones to satiate our hunger for truth, justice, and in most cases entertainment, as long as it doesn’t lead to the true origins of the the real Big Ugly she is also tasked to protect. (Fake Global Pandemic)
Like Marco Rubio, Tulsi is much better trained at the art of misleading the average Con Inc. consumer and their loyalty is and has always been to protect the Club
This is what a Not pretending not to notice response looks like.
Class action lawsuits to bleed Fauci dry. His auto pen pardon and criminality will likely never be addressed.
Sure, but we need to prep the ground for the Dems that do not yet get it’s all related. Russia hoax, stealing 2020, and covid and last but not least they killed millions to get rid of Trump all that didn’t do it so J6. There must be consequences.
This is a very good interview. Lee Zeldon is methodical and meticulous in putting together data points.
My late husband knew Lee Zeldin from his early days in NY politics. He said he was one of the good guys.
I smiled when President Trump nominated him to his current administrative position with the EPA.
Good job Lee.
His is a good example, sis, of being denied what his worked so hard for, a victory in the NY gubernatorial race years ago. A severe disappointment for him I know.
Not a defeat per se….merely a postponement for his talents. Much as with the coup which deprived President Trump of a second second consecutive term in 2020.
That wasn’t where God wanted either of them. Nor was it the right time.
Something which I often think of when I become disappointed myself and impatient with the pace of the events which we are all following, hoping for righteous, long overdue accountability. All recognizable in hindsight of course. Thank goodness Secretary Zeldin sits in the chair he occupies now where his talents are well suited for the job at hand.
He’s a good man.
Reminds me of the story of the Chinese farmer: One day the farmer’s only horse broke out of its corral and ran away. As word got out, his neighbors came to help the farmer wring his hands & clutch his pearls about how awful it was that his horse ran off. The farmer simply replied, “Maybe. Maybe not”. Some days later the horse returned bringing with it a dozen more horses. Then the farmer’s son was busy breaking one of the new horses one day, fell off and broke his leg. As word got out, the neighbors came again to commiserate about the son’s bad luck in having a broken leg. The farmer replied, “Maybe. Maybe not”. Within a day the Army came through conscripting every able bodied young man they found. Needless to say . . .
I feel exactly the way you do, Betsy. It also helps regulate my blood pressure. ☺️👍🙏❤️🇺🇲
He works in mysterious ways all right, teabag. And He says Himself His thoughts are not ours. What an illustrative story reinforcing that we can’t begin to understand why any this or any that happens. For good or ill, if an answer ever manifests itself, it is always with hindsight that we will see it. I am speaking from experience.
Thank you from my heart for this. I shall not forget it.
“being denied what his worked so hard for, a victory in the NY gubernatorial race years ago.”
There is some evidence that he would have been successful IF the NYS (R) Party had provided him with more funding to conduct a campaign in a (D) stronghold state.
They have a habit of not doing that. IDK what they do with their $ to lavish it on themselves while hard working endorsed candidates are just used as ballot line placeholders against entrenched (D) incumbents.
In our lifetime, we had Sen. Alphonse D’Amato and George Patacki that had a (R) after their name.
Secretary Zeldin falls in the same category for RINOs as does his boss, President Trump. Their faces don’t fit.
How delicious then that by their snobbish pique which was intended to crush him politically and keep him from influence they in fact opened the door for him to rise higher, and to give his patriotic best where it is desperately needed.
I think he can do more good where he is now, rather than be Governor of NY.
Because NY still has a downstate demonrat controlled Assembly & Senate.
Absolutely, DI. Carry on, Secretary Zeldin…
I know a lot of NYers who just don’t vote. Conditioned to think the cheating has been going on for decades and don’t bother trying.
That is a lot of the problem.
A lot of hunters and gun owners sit home 😡
They’re correct about the cheating and intentional illegal voting.
Is it possible that this time at the EPA is preparation for cleaning house in NY State as govenor?
May he learn all he needs to take on that fight for New Yorkers.
When you think we are only 8 months into this administration, sit quietly, and tot up all which has been accomplished so far?
Did we ever think a brash NY real estate developer would be President of these United States not once, but twice?
Anything is possible, bara.
$1.5 B to plant trees??
get a Boy Scout troop looking for a merit badge project
and a local nursery with overstock.
treat the Scouts to lunch and you’ve got $1.499, 999, 950.00 left over.
Unfortunately, the BSA these days wouldn’t be interested. It would take too much time away from their WOKE merit badge projects.
because they were targeted for destruction internally
Maybe the Forest Service could be adjusted so such an organization could be part of it for this very reason!
The ‘Installed’ Biden Administration was actually a massive ‘Money Laundering’ Administration…..
Hold these people accountable…
The auto-pen made him do it.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/19/court-questions-epa-termination-climate-grants-00356918
Whether the EPA can freeze all these grants is before the DC Court of Appeals, and no doubt will go on to SCOTUS.
What was the name of the bank?
20+ BILLION dollars… as families struggle. American families.
The Democrat party, sadly, really should, figuratively, just delete itself right now.
And believe me, I’m sure the Republicans are guilty as sin on the NGO front.
It became a way to funnel money… there was no humanitarian interest… makes me sick at my stomach.
What absolutely sickening rot to the core of our government.
I hope Nancy Pelosi, and her drunken “The American People…” BS, never shows her face again.
Same with the Clintons…
Shudder…
Dems don’t like families. Dems don’t like Americans.
It’s all entirely a money laundering operation.
And here is the thing:
What we’re reading here that happened, THIS then serves as the model that all their useful idiots follow in your town.
This is what then happens in your schools, in your towns, every bit of your organized government winds up then following all this and doing the same thing.
This is how they run their “trickle down economics”.
This is how the corruption is entirely woven into the fabric of our society.
I’ll also say this:
Howie Carr is quite an expert on organized crime. I’ve been listening to him for my entire adult life, reading his books about it all, and I can say today that I’m very grateful for the education.
Because the more that you understand how organized crime works, the more you can fully see it and understand what we’re looking at today in our government.
You might as well say that the number one competitor for the mafia is our own government.
There are times that I wonder if it’s all really devolved into being two sides of one coin.
The Govermnent makes the Wise Guys, seem a like a bunch of high school choir boys.
What they have done, and are still doing, is on a gigantic scale of corruption, not just a handful of families. The UniParty and their criminal actions, go well beyond anything a Mafioso operation could muster.
This is a fact.
Go over to the Presidential Thread…someone posted a 26 minute video by someone at “Peak Prosperity”, explaining the destruction of the American life…at the hands of what seams to be politicians and private equity.
Worth the time.
Yes it is a fact, and it’s global- don’t forget that big detail.
I knew/have known USA is a lot more corrupt than All All of México. Si….
the whole point of our system is for coporations to fight over federal money.
There are a number of utility companies that had horrific project over runs that could not be explained. Only to stick massive rate increases to hostage customers. Southern company is one.
I suspect they have more than one project that was a laundering scheme.
Then there was blatant ‘Pay to Play, Chicago Style’ with Madigan and Com Ed cronies.
I don’t think there should be any taxpayer funds provided to any NGOs unless there is an identified governmental need and then through a formal, open and transparent competitive process a contract is issued to one of them to satisfy that need. Otherwise, not a penny should ever go to any of these organizations.
Lawlessness, larceny and larping: The Democrat way.
Larping?
Live-action role-playing.
Essentially rent-a-mobs, astroturfing, etc.
Oh, okay. Thanks.
“The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others… institute the rule of violence and now uniting their forcesmassacre,banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch.”
– Polybius
That last one is the only item that even potentially has any real value, and I bet no trees were actually planted
don’t ever forget, 19 republican senators voted for Biden’s green new deal. Trump can barely get the GOP senate to pass anything he wants to do, but a demented Biden can easily pass a boondoggle like the green new deal and the GOP senate lines up to support it. UFB
It’s called “leverage” (blackmail)
Don’t forget to include NGO donations to their own “foundations”.
This can’t be overstated enough, Liberal
Democrats are absolutely loathsome creatures!
Yes that’s true but we can’t let the GOPe’s off the hook. They are worse in my book because they are so deceptive.
As are the GOPe some of whom now pretend to be MAGA
Mr. Zeldin ought to interview Madigan in IL…and Com ED…
Madigan has no reason to talk.
He will walk soon, just like the rest.
The Green agenda affects every part of our lives. One look at the California fires is an example. Very little effort has been put into the types of things that could have prevented these fires statewide, but the environmental agenda was a wall to good maintenance and prevention practices that we used to have and practice 50 years ago. We need to learn from these mistakes, throw out the politicians who are adherents to these agendas like “preachers” of cults, and put in place people who understand what common sense and experience is all about.
So many months after the horrific fires in Pacific Palisades and still nothing is being rebuilt. I feel sorry for a lot of those people (especially those who are NOT being represented there because of the one party rule in local government).
So glad my family and I left CA.
Since the money has already been released…maybe we should use rectal exam protocol on all of the recipient entities to make sure they didn’t just give themselves multi-million dollar salaries and piss away the money on mansions. Every penny must be accounted for to the fullest extent of the law.
What more billions authorized by CONgress with zero accountability. One money laundering scam after another. Some judge will order this money be spent as authorized by the miscreants in CONgress in 3. 2. 1.
Just a guess, based on past experience.
(to miss protect the dems)
The main media will not timely address (already 6 months late)
the prior corruption that was mentioned by Zeldin (EPA),
nor mention
‘finding the gold bars that were thrown off of the (brandon) titanic, prior to brandon leaving office’?
imho
Might sound silly but I’m ok with the money to plant trees.
In his first term, PDJT signed onto a WEF initiative to plant 1 trillion trees in 10 years. Yes, Trillion!
I have had a ball challenging Moonbats with that fact and have won a drink or two in my MA watering hole.
I rub it in that PDJT helps greening the globe, addressing CO2, and adding oxygen for us all. The Moonbats sit and stare, dumbfounded. It doesn’t sound like he wants dirty air for our grandkids.
At this point our government should NOT be allowed to fund ANY NGO.
It only leads to more corruption and uses our own taxpayer money against us.
Some of the recipients were brand new entities that had never done anything at all, and were receiving money anyway. The Democrat government under Biden was little more than a giant slush fund.
IMHO the Biden REGIME with the secret help of HUSSEIN SOETARO Obama was as corrupt as the 8 long years we had to endure. Obama had a bevy of slush funds he used to fund Antifa, BLM, Communist USA and various sick perverted gay and trans “nonprofits” etc etc etc!! Hopefully, these organizations will be defunded within the next few years. In 12 years they almost destroyed our country! It came close.
Hang Em’ Higher!!!
Balanced budget amendment needed. The politicians and bureaucrats need to be held accountable.
Gee, I can’t for the life of me figure out why they lost the election.
Big question is wether there is anything technically illegal. It’s wrong on so many levels, but unless there is fraud…
NM, the track record virtually guarantees it.
Between things like this and USAID, is it any wonder the commie Dems are suddenly way behind the GOP in cash? 🤡🤡
😝
I have nothing against planting trees, but for 1.5 billion $$$$ wtf ???
Good point.
The trees and coastal preservation together amounted to less than a half of one percent of the total amount listed.
Although the EPA could probably have made those activities nefarious, it’s amazing what a tiny part of the total those relatable things were.
99.5% was just pure green green grift and claptrap.
On August 7, 2022, following the vote-a-rama, an unlimited marathon voting session on amendments, that lasted nearly 16 hours, the Senate passed the bill (as amended) on a 51–50 vote, with all Democrats voting in favor, all Republicans voting against, and Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie. On August 12, 2022, the bill was passed by the House on a 220–207 vote, with all Democrats voting in favor and all Republicans voting against it. On August 16, 2022, the bill was signed into law by President Joe Biden.
The Inflation Reduction Act was so bad even Uniparty Senators Murkowsky and Collins couldn’t vote for it!!!!
So many people to prosecute, but the DOJ is clearly compromised.
Just look around your neighborhood and count the number of unsupervised children and unqualified looking adults driving electric motorcycles classified as e-bikes and e-scooters, sometimes on the roads with car traffic.
The Federal goverment dumped billions of dollars into “subsides” and “rebates” to flood the consumer market with these vehicles, which require no licensing in many states.
I live on the busiest road in Erie, PA and probably half the many eBikes drive on the sidewalks at, conservatively speaking, 20 + mph.
What about the Governmental agencies in every state? What’s their cut of the Federal money? (pie). Pollution Control Agency, (PCA) in Minnesota is the EPA watch dog here. Full time employees driving around farm/businesses looking for infractions.
Hey! I see you have a drainage ditch going through your field. We now declare that a wet land and you can no longer plant, or till within 200 ft of it. Either side.
Such a pretty farm you have. Your cows, goats, horses, chicken can not be within 100 yds of that lake/watershed/wetland. We don’t care if you own the property.
We see from aerial photos that your remote lake property has been ecologically disturbed. Did you get permission to cut those tress down? You need permission even if they’re dead. Don’t shoot the beaver that’s dropping trees down from your property.
I see you drag your row boat up on shore when not using it. That’s a potential erosion issue. Why are all these weeds washed up on your shoreline? Have you been cutting weeds to gain access to your property?
The edge of your deck is 99ft from the edge of the average water level. I know we approved of the building permit, but you’ll have to move your deck back 1 foot within 30 days , or we’ll come and remove it for you at your expense.
Oh! You bought a house with a septic system. You’ll have to have that inspected. (After the inspection) – Your septic system is functioning properly, not leaks found and the drain field has no compaction, BUT Your tank is 1 foot too deep, therefore you will have to dig it all up and replace with mound type septic system, (Which are prone to freeze in Minnesota) Please have someone submit septic mound system design , information and plans sent to county for approval. Once approved you will have 30 days to build. Permit is $500
The nonsense goes on and on.
Can’t tell you prescient I feel after moving from there 20 years ago next month. I live in the country south of Franklin, TN now in Williamson County. Have very little in the way of government interference. Unfortunately, after 20 years the county finally re-evaluated property values and oof mine went up 3X. My property taxes hadn’t gone up much in 20 years. That will change this year. I’ll still take it over Minnesota with swishy CCP Tim as gov.
This situation is ripe for fractal analysis. Especially in determining which, and how many, NGOs were getting a piece of that $20B. And how much money and who was head of each one. Are the Feds even using tools like this to drill down? They really need to be.
If you were to ask me, this sort of behavior would go a long ways to explaining multi-trillion deficits for years.
These rats have been robbing us blind for decades! Hopefully something will finally be done about it besides just talk!
IOW, a money laundering operation.
The height, width, depth and breadth of the criminality and corruption of the Clinton, Obama, and Biden political minions is Breathtaking!
These SCUMBAG corrupt politicians from both parties have been robbing the American people for decades.