It&#8217;s Earth Day, and the White House is trying to fix a toxic and smelly environmental issue on the nation&#8217;s southern border.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday that the Trump administration is urging the Mexican government to do more to stop sewage from flowing across the border and into the United States. She highlighted President Donald Trump&#8217;s desire to &#8220;do what&#8217;s right&#8221; for the environment.
During Tuesday&#8217;s press briefing, Leavitt responded to a question from Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan and discussed the work of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin, who is in San Diego pushing for the Mexican government to stop the flow of sewage into the United States.
&#8220;Administrator Zeldin met with his Mexican counterpart to discuss steps Mexico needs to take to ensure the water entering the United States is clean and safe, and he&#8217;s holding a press conference in San Diego today with elected officials and local stakeholders on the Tijuana River sewage crisis,&#8221; Leavitt said. &#8220;I would also add from the president himself, he has always maintained he wants America to have the cleanest air and the cleanest water, and we want to do what&#8217;s right for our environment and for our earth.&#8221;
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What does the White House have planned for Earth Day? <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MaryMargOlohan</a>:
&quot;[President Trump] has always maintained he wants America to have the cleanest air and the cleanest water, and we want to do what&#39;s right for our environment and for our earth.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/nrNinIXu8A">pic.twitter.com/nrNinIXu8A</a>
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Raw sewage from Mexico has traveled into the United States through the Tijuana River Watershed &#8220;for decades,&#8221; according to Zeldin, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/21/us-news/epas-zeldin-demands-end-to-mexican-sewage-flooding-across-border/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The issue has raised concerns about &#8220;beach closures, degradation of the Tijuana River Valley, and concerns of public health, air quality,&#8221; Zeldin added. Trump&#8217;s EPA administrator met with Mexican Environmental Secretary Alicia Bárcena to discuss the crisis.
Trump <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/work-starts-to-stop-sewage-flows-into-california-from-mexico/2020/09/02/b8675f3e-ed86-11ea-bd08-1b10132b458f_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> to resolve the Tijuana sewage issue during his first administration, completing a $10.6 million project to prevent millions of gallons of sewage from entering the Tijuana River. Zeldin said on Monday that the crisis &#8220;needs to end.&#8221;
“[T]here’s nowhere more important for me to be tomorrow than on the border in California dealing with this very important public health and environmental crisis,” he added.

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National security officials are grilled on Capitol Hill amid dueling accusations over a military strike text chain. Big food companies are fighting to keep soda and snacks on the subsidized menu. And, EPA Chief Lee Zeldin is taking swift action to dismantle cumbersome environmental regulations.
It’s Wednesday, March 26th, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. If you’d rather listen to your news, today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below:
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<h2>When The Group Chat Leaks…</h2>
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Topline: Top national security officials were on Capitol Hill yesterday, where lawmakers grilled them on how a journalist was added to a group chat about military operations.
Damage Control… Around two weeks ago, a user named “Michael Waltz” added Atlantic Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat where Trump national security officials discussed upcoming strikes on Houthi terrorists. The fallout from that compromised series of communiques, in Washington and in the national press, has been substantial.
Several senior intelligence directors with the Trump administration were already set to testify before the Senate on Tuesday – the hearing naturally became all about the signal chat with Democrats accusing Trump officials of exposing classified information, and the officials defending the administration. CIA Director John Ratcliffe downplayed the severity of the leak in a heated exchange with Senator Jon Ossof (D-GA):
<blockquote>OSSOFF: Director Ratcliffe, this was a huge mistake, correct?
RATCLIFFE: No.
OSSOFF: A national political reporter was made privy to sensitive information about imminent military operations against a foreign terrorist organization, and that wasn’t a huge mistake? This is an embarrassment. This is utterly unprofessional.</blockquote>
Ratcliffe insisted that there was nothing inherently wrong with national security officials discussing military plans on Signal – it was approved under the Biden administration. “One of the first things that happened when I was confirmed as CIA director was Signal was loaded onto my computer at the CIA – as it is for most CIA officers,” Radcliffe testified before Congress. “That is a practice that preceded the current administration to the Biden administration.”
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, also a member of the chat, told Virginia Senator Mark Warner that “there was no classified material that was shared in that Signal chat.” 
Trump hasn’t said much about the saga yet, but it seems like he’s standing by Waltz and the entire team. The president told NBC yesterday that Waltz “has learned a lesson, and he&#8217;s a good man.&#8221; Trump added that he’s not concerned about the story, saying it is “the only glitch in two months, and it turned out not to be a serious one.”
<h2>Cutting Fat From The Budget</h2>
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Topline: Food lobbyists are fighting tooth and nail to stop the Trump administration from limiting taxpayer subsidies for junk food. 
The Trump administration has made a strong push to restrict soda, candy, and other unhealthy options from purchases being made with SNAP, commonly called food stamps. Proponents say this is necessary in light of America’s obesity and overall health crisis, and chiefly, about how taxpayer money is spent. Federally, these changes have been discussed openly by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, who plays a key role in administering these benefits.
 There are also numerous bills in the House seeking to restrict junk food and soda from SNAP.
The movement has picked up steam on the state level: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has <a href="https://governor.arkansas.gov/news_post/governor-sanders-calls-for-reforms-to-the-snap-program/">asked</a> the feds to allow her state to restrict SNAP. Lawmakers have made similar moves in Idaho, Kansas, Arizona, Indiana, Texas, and Wyoming, to name a few. In related news, West Virginia has just passed a bill that bans a number of food dyes often found in junk food and sugary drinks – that will affect the soda industry, too, which ran a <a href="https://www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/dietnutrition/114739">strong opposition campaign</a> to that bill. Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey signed that bill on Monday; it will go into effect in 2028, though it will affect school food programs this summer. 
The food industry is working across numerous fronts to protect the profits of these products. About 1 in 8 Americans receive SNAP benefits currently, with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-heart-association-retracts-food-stamp-soda-opposition">soda</a> as the most frequently purchased item. About 10% of all SNAP spending goes toward soda and sugary drinks, and another 10% toward junk food. American taxpayers reportedly subsidize roughly <a href="https://www.ibtimes.com/soft-drinks-snap-benefits-congress-3756667?utm_source=chatgpt.com">$4 billion</a> worth of soda products through SNAP.
Buttering Trump Up: The American Beverage Association, or ABA, which represents all of those big soda companies, gave <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/rfk-jr-soda-snap-food-stamps-coke-pepsi-9bd9a872">money</a> to Trump’s inauguration, as they have for past presidents. Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Keurig Dr Pepper have directly engaged with administration officials – talking up their commitment to “zero-sugar” options and clear product labeling. Coca-Cola also famously met with Trump in January to gift him a personalized bottle of Diet Coke. 
Walmart has also engaged in lobbying efforts to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-heart-association-retracts-food-stamp-soda-opposition">stop</a> these restrictions, and, believe it or not, there was also a lobbyist from the American Heart Association (AHA) who advocated against these restrictions. As was first reported by The Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-heart-association-retracts-food-stamp-soda-opposition">AHA</a> has since claimed that the lobbyist &#8220;miscommunicated&#8221; the group&#8217;s position. 
A poll commissioned by the ABA found that <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/republicans-divided-over-banning-purchase-soft-drinks-food-stamps?utm_source=chatgpt.com">58</a>% of 2024 Trump voters believe food stamps should be allowed to purchase soda. Overall, 64% of those polled agreed. But, again, this was conducted on behalf of the ABA, and it only polled about 800 people. It’s also noteworthy that a significant number of Americans who voted for Trump receive SNAP benefits – likely tens of millions of Americans. 
Trump himself has not said anything for or against restricting soda and other junk food from SNAP, though he has empowered RFK to enact his “MAHA” agenda.
<h2>EPA Cuts Spending and Regulation</h2>
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Topline: The second Trump administration could oversee one of the largest shifts in environmental policy in over a decade. EPA chief Lee Zeldin is leading the transition with an aggressive effort to cut extensive climate regulations.
The Trump administration, and Zeldin in particular, are aggressively attacking Democratic climate policies and green programs. It’s all part of President Trump’s stated goal of energy dominance.
“I am here to fight for part of that Trump mandate earned [on] November 5th,” Zeldin <a href="https://x.com/epaleezeldin/status/1899998341829730445">told</a> Fox&#8217;s Laura Ingram earlier this month. “[There are] people who cannot afford to be able to heat their home, to purchase a car, small businesses that are struggling to operate. People have been put out of work, and it&#8217;s going to end.”
Zeldin wants to reform and repeal dozens of the most burdensome climate rules. That includes, for example, Biden’s electric vehicle mandate that aims to force a radical change to the automobile market with half of new cars sold being all electric by 2032. Zeldin’s EPA has also set its sights on Obama’s 2009 endangerment finding – that rule essentially set the basis for the EPA to police greenhouse gas emissions in the United States and spawned a massive amount of environmental regulation.
Zeldin has also cut and reclaimed funds from climate programs. In a cabinet meeting on Monday, he said that the EPA had cut “over $22 billion worth of contracts,” which had previously been going to.
Trump’s Energy Secretary Chris Wright has worked alongside the EPA to greenlight a lot of oil and gas projects. And Wright has also been cutting regulations on energy producers – so much so that oil and gas executives are reneging on green investment pledges and pausing the transition to green energy that Democrats have wanted.
 There was also a major court case punishing Greenpeace for its extreme protest strategies. Last week, it was found liable in a nearly $700 million judgment for helping violent protesters destroy and vandalize property in their attempts to sabotage the Dakota Access Pipeline. The trial revealed that Greenpeace USA organizers had trained protesters and even purchased supplies the protesters used to commit illegal acts.

Intelligence Directors Testify At Senate Hearing On Worldwide Threats

Morning Brief: Signal Chat Fallout, Cutting Soda From SNAP, & EPA Deregulation

John Ratcliffe

Morning Wire

Trump Administration

Tulsi Gabbard

Over the past week or so, the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maha-update-here-are-rfks-latest-moves-on-big-food-and-big-pharma" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Make America Healthy Again</a>&#8221; movement has impacted federal and state policy regarding the fluoridation of public water, food oversight, and vaccination priorities.
Utah, for example, will become the first state in the nation to ban the addition of fluoride to public drinking water. 
Currently, only two counties in the state add the chemical to their water supply, but nearly half of all state residents live in those counties. The legislation is sponsored by Republican Rep. Stephanie Gricius, who argues that it’s expensive to add fluoride, and nixing this addition is about promoting “individual choice.&#8221; The bill notably moves to allow pharmacists to prescribe fluoride tablets to those who need the mineral. Republican Gov. Spencer Cox has said he will sign the bill into law, which would take effect on May 7. 
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the figurehead of the MAHA movement, has routinely spoken out against the practice of fluoridation. Just before the election, he posted on X that on Day One of Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency, he would advise that all U.S​. water systems remove fluoride from public water. He’s also called fluoride an “industrial waste” and says it’s associated with numerous negative effects, like arthritis, IQ loss, and thyroid disease. 
RFK Jr. has highlighted other studies and a ruling from an Obama-appointed federal judge back in October that said fluoride in drinking water presents an “unreasonable risk” and ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to respond. 
However, it’s not just Kennedy and MAHA figures debating fluoridation practices. Dr. Leana Wen, for example, has said that such a policy must be re-evaluated. Wen is notably the former president of the Planned Parenthood abortion mill and strongly opposed Kennedy Jr. as HHS secretary, calling him a &#8220;conspiracy theorist.&#8221; 
&#8220;Yes, it is true that, historically, fluoridating public water saved a lot of teeth, that it was good for oral health, but times have changed and the incremental benefit is not nearly as much as it was before the widespread availability of fluoridated toothpaste,&#8221; Wen recently <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/renewed-focus-health-claims-fluoridated-water-115936425?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> ABC News. 
&#8220;There are still about three million Americans living in areas where the fluoride level is above 1.5 mg/L, where harm has been associated,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I think there’s a good question about what should the level be? Maybe the EPA’s maximum level should be lowered. Maybe people living in areas with high fluoride concentration should be told that that’s the case. Maybe certain individuals who are particularly vulnerable, like pregnant women and young children, should be told to use fluoride water filters.&#8221;
&#8220;I definitely think that more studies are needed,&#8221; Wen added. &#8220;But in the meantime &#8230; it would not be unreasonable to give people a choice, that people in those areas might want to know if that&#8217;s the case.” 
As noted by Wen, proponents of water fluoridation <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/inside-americas-fluoride-rebellion-ab9aa524">argue</a> that it&#8217;s safe in drinking water at low levels and is important for oral health, which could impact one&#8217;s overall health. They also say that it’s particularly helpful for lower-income communities, arguing that toothpaste and mouthwash with fluoride might not be as affordable or accessible for everyone. 
A number of other states and communities have been battling out the question of fluoridation since RFK Jr.&#8217;s rise in the last election. And though Utah will be the first state to ban fluoridation, Hawaii also does not add fluoride to its water supply, though there is no ban in place.
On vaccine protocol, the National Institutes of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03/10/vaccines-nih-rfk-research-canceled/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Health</a> will stop spending money to find out why Americans are hesitant to take vaccines. The NIH, which is part of HHS, is terminating or scaling back more than 40 related grants and has said that such spending no longer aligns with NIH priorities. 
Additionally, as previously reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kennedys-cdc-to-reportedly-study-potential-link-between-vaccines-and-autism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a>, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is also studying whether there is any link between vaccinations and the rise in autism. A CDC study from 2020 found that one in 36 children in the U.S. have been diagnosed with autism.
On food, RFK Jr. has directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revise a rule that allows companies to “self-affirm” the safety of food ingredients. Under the revision, manufacturers will have to publicly submit safety data for new ingredients. HHS says such enhanced oversight will “bring transparency to American consumers.” 
Also, on Monday, Kennedy met with executives from major food companies, including PepsiCo, General Mills, and Kellogg&#8217;s, and urged them to eliminate certain dyes from their recipes. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-make-america-healthy-again-commission-is-already-impacting-the-food-industry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> has previously covered the other ways the MAHA movement has impacted the food industry from the very start of President Donald Trump&#8217;s second term. 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maha-update-here-are-rfks-latest-moves-on-big-food-and-big-pharma" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘MAHA’ Update: Here Are RFK’s Latest Moves On Big Food And Big Pharma</a>

Celebrity Sightings In New York City – July 21, 2023

MAHA’s Latest Wins On Fluoride, Food, And Vaccines

'Make America Healthy Again' Movement's Latest Wins On Fluoride, Food, And Vaccines

Department of Health and Human Services

Health

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cut hundreds of grants totaling $1.7 billion in the latest cuts to align spending with President Donald Trump’s agenda.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-lee-zeldin-cancels-400-grants-4th-round-cuts-doge-saving-americans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the results of the fourth round of cuts identified with help from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project on Monday. The agency said it has cut around $2 billion since Trump took office in January.
“Working hand-in-hand with DOGE to rein in wasteful federal spending, EPA has saved more than $2 billion in taxpayer money,” Zeldin said in a statement. “It is our commitment at EPA to be exceptional stewards of tax dollars.”
The agency is working to claw back $20 billion in funds that the Biden administration doled out under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The funds were turned over to Citibank in the months leading up to the election and held under the names of eight nonprofits. Those nonprofits intended to disperse the funds to other groups and programs.
Citibank has frozen the funds while the Department of Justice probes the issue. Zeldin has said he wants the money returned to the federal government.
Zeldin has called the funds “gold bars” that were shoveled out of the agency at the last minute. Last month, the EPA head <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-prosecutor-steps-down-after-refusing-criminal-probe-into-20b-in-biden-climate-spending" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that $20 billion had been directed to go to a group of “pass throughs” that would then funnel the money to other pass throughs with the effect of funding friends and allies of the Biden administration.
$2 billion of the $20 billion was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/epa-doge-cut-nearly-70m-in-biden-era-grants-to-green-groups" target="_blank" rel="noopener">directed</a> toward a group called Power Forward Communities, a green group linked to Democrat Stacey Abrams. Zeldin suggested last month that the example represented a serious case of waste and fraud that the Trump administration is working to rectify.
“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. 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,” Zeldin said in a <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/icymi-administrator-lee-zeldin-finds-gold-bars-epa-stacey-abrams-connected-group-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
“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. 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,” he said.

EPA Ends Hundreds Of Grants Totaling $1.7 Billion In Latest DOGE Cuts

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

A massive climate change slush fund created by former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act paid out billions of dollars to groups that had been created just months before receiving the money.
Exclusive <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/03/05/business/john-podesta-375m-epa-slush-fund-gave-billions-to-newly-formed-charities/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporting</a> from the New York Post found that billions of dollars went to groups with no footprint, including $7 billion to Climate United Fund, a Bethesda, Maryland, organization that has no federal filings or even a listing on the Internal Revenue Service’s charities database. Further, the organization was incorporated in Delaware on November 30, 2023, just five months before receiving the money in April 2024, the Post reported.
Climate Fund United announced “the historic investment” in a press release and claimed the organization “delivers benefits like cleaner air” and “increased energy security,” but fails to note how it will spend the $7 billion.
A spokesperson for the organization told the Post that the money provided to the Climate United Fund actually sits with a related non-profit called Calvert Impact. The Post found three organizations with that name, all based in Bethesda, meaning it is difficult to track where the money actually went.
Another organization, the Justice Climate Fund, was created in 2023 and received $940 million dollars even though it hasn’t even submitted a tax filing to the IRS. The organization claims it works with “community partners” to “drive transformative investments, focused on reducing pollution,” and more.
The slush fund was overseen by John Podesta, who chaired Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential bid and who fell for <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-phishing-email-that-hacked-the-account-of-john-podesta/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a phishing scam</a> that hacked his Gmail account and led to WikiLeaks releasing his emails. Biden tapped Podesta to oversee the climate slush fund in 2022, soon after the Inflation Reduction Act was passed. Though named for its supposed efforts to reduce inflation, the bill increased government spending – particularly to left-wing organizations purporting to solve climate change.
In 2024, Environmental Protection Agency advisor Brent Efron discussed how the Biden administration shoved $20 billion in climate grants out the door before leaving office.
“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,” Efron said in footage captured by Project Veritas.
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin has been vocal about the “gold bars,” since being confirmed to his post. He told the Post on Monday that the “Biden EPA ‘gold bar’ scheme was designed to limit government oversight while doling out funds to far-left organizations pushing DEI and Environmental Justice.”
“Of the eight pass-through entities that received funding from the pot of $20 billion in tax dollars, various recipients have shown very little qualification to handle a single dollar, let alone several billions of dollars,” he added. “I have zero tolerance for waste and abuse at the EPA.”
One of the organizations that received money was a group tied to failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stacey-abrams-linked-group-received-2b-from-biden-admin-slush-fund-doge-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received $2 billion</a> despite having raised almost no funds the first three months it operated. It had only existed for six months when it received money from the Biden administration.

Climate Protest

$375 Billion EPA Slush Fund Gave Money To Charity Groups Created Months Earlier

$375 Billion EPA Slush Fund Gave Money To Charity Groups Created Months Earlier: Report

Climate Change

Joe Biden

John Podesta

U.S.

The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have cut tens of millions of dollars directed under former President Joe Biden to left-wing green groups.
The Biden administration had awarded the funds through grants to a slew of environmental and activist groups. The grants totaled $77.1 million, but the EPA froze $67.4 million in payments yet to be made, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/22/us-news/doge-cuts-67-m-in-epa-grants-for-environmental-justice-groups/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has welcomed DOGE officials into his agency to comb through spending programs and systems looking for waste, fraud, and abuse. The administrator touted the cuts to the environmental grants as another example of “wasteful spending end[ing] with the Trump Administration.”
“We will make sure every penny spent by EPA goes towards protecting human health and the environment, and Powering the Great American Comeback,” he added. “I am proud to partner with DOGE to restore fiscal responsibility and accountability in our government.”
Zeldin has spent much of his first weeks at the U.S. environmental regulator making cuts to the agency&#8217;s spending and reshaping its priorities to the Trump administration. The EPA head has been attempting to claw back $20 billion in “gold bars” that he says the Biden administration hurriedly shoveled out to allies and friends ahead of the former president leaving office.
The EPA chief said last week that $2 billion of the $20 billion identified was <a href="https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/billions-doge-found-parked-at-bank-earmarked-for-stacey-abrams-backed-green-group/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">directed</a> to be paid out to Power Forward Communities, a green group linked to Stacey Abrams.
“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. 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,” Zeldin said in a <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/icymi-administrator-lee-zeldin-finds-gold-bars-epa-stacey-abrams-connected-group-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
“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. 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,” he said.

EPA, DOGE Cut Nearly $70M In Biden-Era Grants To Green Groups

A nonprofit linked to failed Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams received $2 billion from the Biden administration in 2024, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) found.
Power Forward Communities (PFC), the nonprofit, was established in October 2023 and received the $2 billion grant in April 2024, just six months after it began operating, The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/billions-doge-found-parked-at-bank-earmarked-for-stacey-abrams-backed-green-group/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. During its first three months of operation, it reported just $100 in revenue, tax filings <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/932705500/202432199349200308/IRS990EZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a>.
PFC had never managed any amount of money near $2 billion, yet it was one of eight organizations that received grants from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Those eight groups received $20 billion, which the Biden administration had stashed at an outside financial institution to ensure the government couldn’t oversee the funds’ allocation.
The $20 billion slush fund <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/administrator-zeldin-announces-billions-dollars-worth-gold-bars-have-been-located" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was discovered</a> by EPA administrator Lee Zeldin’s staff and DOGE earlier this month.
“Roughly twenty billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA,” Zeldin announced. “This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history and it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight.”
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As the Free Beacon noted, PFC’s inclusion as a recipient of the money “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 staunch supporter of Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund was created as a “green bank” under the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which, despite its name, didn’t reduce inflation and instead doled out funds to favored left-wing organizations in the name of climate change.
Abrams <a href="https://x.com/staceyabrams/status/1713665823976358080">serves</a> as senior counsel for the left-wing organization Rewiring America, which leads a coalition of groups, including PFC.
&#8220;For an organization that has no experience in this, that was literally just established, and had $100 in the bank to receive a $2 billion grant—it doesn&#8217;t just fly in the face of common sense, it&#8217;s out and out fraud,&#8221; Daniel Turner, executive director of energy advocacy group Power the Future, told the Free Beacon.
It is not the first time a group tied to Abrams has been embroiled in controversy. Earlier this month, an ethics watchdog filed an IRS complaint against nonprofits Abrams founded, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-ethics-watchdog-files-irs-complaint-against-stacey-abrams-nonprofits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Her groups, the New Georgia Project and its lobbying arm, the New Georgia Project Action Fund, were found to have violated state campaign finance laws and ordered to pay $300,000 in fines after failing to disclose more than $4 million in campaign contributions and another $3 million in expenditures during the 2018 election cycle.

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Stacey Abrams-Linked Group Received $2B From Biden Admin Slush Fund, DOGE Finds

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A top prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office in Washington, D.C, resigned on Tuesday over an order to open a criminal investigation into Biden-era climate-related contracts.
Denise Cheung, head of the criminal division in the D.C. office, sent a resignation <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/18/read-resignation-letter-denise-cheung/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin. In the letter, Cheung said that she decided to resign her post after refusing to open a criminal investigation and issue grand jury subpoenas related to “whether a contract had been unlawfully awarded by an executive agency before the change in Administration.”
The investigation cited by Cheung is believed to be part of an effort by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to claw back at least $20 billion-worth of green energy contracts issued in the final weeks of the Biden administration, previously <a href="https://x.com/epaleezeldin/status/1889840040622321778" target="_blank" rel="noopener">targeted</a> by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin as “gold bars off the Titanic.”
The funds Zeldin identified were found in a Citibank account and marked to be dispersed under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which, despite its name, is widely recognized as a largely green energy and climate action-oriented piece of legislation.
Zeldin has said that he wants those taxpayer funds clawed back and returned to the U.S. Treasury. In a <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/administrator-zeldin-announces-billions-dollars-worth-gold-bars-have-been-located" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> announcing the discovery, Zeldin said his agency would work with the Department of Justice to take back the funds.
Cheung in her letter said she “took point” on a letter to Citibank requesting that the funds be frozen, but refused to comply with an order from Martin to take harsher measures to ensure the funds stay in place.
“[B]ased upon the evidence I have reviewed, I still do not believe that there is sufficient evidence to issue the letter you described, including sufficient evidence to tell the bank that there is probable cause to seize the particular accounts identified. Because I believed that I lacked the legal authority to issue such a letter, I told you that I would not do so. You then asked for my resignation,” Cheung wrote.
Zeldin has characterized the $20 billion in funds as waste that was directed to eight “pass throughs” that were then going to direct the money toward other pass through groups.
“What the American public voted for was having a government that would be better stewards of tax dollars, caring about the economy, unleashing energy dominance, making sure that taxes are lowered, and the cost of living in America goes down,” Zeldin said in a Fox News interview on Tuesday.
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$20 BILLION in tax dollars stashed at an outside bank to split among 8 pass through entities to give to other entities, including even more pass throughs. With massively reduced oversight controls at EPA, this was a recipe for disaster from the start! <a href="https://t.co/ZLaN2WfG6R">pic.twitter.com/ZLaN2WfG6R</a>
&mdash; Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/epaleezeldin/status/1892022422305407178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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EPA Administrator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lee-zeldin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lee Zeldin</a> said in a video released on Wednesday night that his agency has discovered an unprecedented scheme that was utilized by the Biden administration to funnel money to far-Left activist groups.
&#8220;An extremely disturbing video circulated two months ago featuring a Biden EPA political appointee talking about how they were &#8216;tossing gold bars off the Titanic,&#8217; rushing to get billions of your tax dollars out the door before Inauguration Day,&#8221; Zeldin said.
He continued, &#8220;The gold bars were tax dollars, and tossing them off the Titanic meant the Biden administration knew they were wasting it.&#8221;
Zeldin said that he has contacted the U.S. Justice Department and the inspector general to launch investigations into the $20 billion that was transferred to an outside financial institution for the purpose of doling out funds to leftist organizations during Biden&#8217;s final days in office.
&#8220;Fortunately, my awesome team at EPA has found the gold bars,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Shockingly, roughly $20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA.&#8221;
&#8220;This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposely designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Even further, this pot of $20 billion was awarded to just eight entities that were then responsible for doling out your money to NGOs and others at their discretion with far less transparency.&#8221;
He said that the financial agreement with the bank needs to be instantly terminated and the funds need to be returned to the government.
&#8220;The days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far-Left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over,&#8221; he added.
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The Trump administration has warned hundreds of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staffers that they could be fired &#8220;immediately.&#8221;
The email was sent to more than 1,100 employees hired within the past year who have probationary status, including new hires and employees who took new roles at the agency, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/climate/trump-epa-workers-zeldin.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>. The notice went out within days of the Senate confirming Trump’s pick to lead the agency, former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY).
“As a probationary/trial period employee, the agency has the right to immediately terminate you,” the email says.
EPA spokeswoman Molly Vaseliou said the goal of the email was to be “transparent” about the agency, according to the Times.
“On his first day in office, he engaged directly with career staff across E.P.A.’s headquarters — spanning two city blocks in downtown D.C. — listening to their insights and perspectives,” Vaseliou said. “Ultimately, the goal is to create a more effective and efficient federal government that serves all Americans.”
In one of his first actions as EPA administrator, Zeldin is traveling to East Palestine, Ohio, with Vice President JD Vance on Monday to inspect the site of the train crash and chemical spill that upended life in the small town two years ago.
Zeldin plans to carry through on Trump’s pledge to end remote work at the agency. It’s a move that could also shrink the size of government if employees opt to leave their federal jobs instead of returning to full-time office work. Most federal workers have already been offered a buyout to resign their roles now and be paid through September.
“I believe the COVID remote work era is over,” Zeldin told <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/03/lee-zeldin-hits-the-ground-running-at-epa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Signal</a>. “It’s time to come back into the office and collaborate and to be productive in a way that the American public can be proud of to the max.”
The EPA office in Washington, D.C., sits largely empty, according to the new administrator.
“And it wasn’t that I just passed by an office or two. I went through an entire wing where no door was open and no one was inside. I went to other offices where there were lots of people there, working hard,” he recalled. “We’re occupying a beautiful, historic, massive building. And we shouldn’t have hallways that are this quiet. The American people pay us to work for them.”

EPA Puts 1,100+ Employees On Notice, Warns They Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’

EPA Puts 1,100+ Employees On Notice, Says They Could Be ‘Immediately’ Fired

On Wednesday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lee-zeldin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lee Zeldin</a> received Senate confirmation to become administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/environmental-protection-agency-epa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EPA</a>), the latest of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s second-term nominees to get approval from the upper chamber of Congress.
The GOP-led <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> voted 56-42 to confirm Zeldin, a former Republican congressman from New York, to take on the Cabinet role. Sens. John Fetterman (D-PA), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) <a href="https://x.com/SenatePress/status/1884715715124400562" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broke ranks</a> and voted for Zeldin with their GOP colleagues. Two Democrat senators did not vote.
&#8220;CONFIRMED! Thank You to the 56 Senators for your vote and confidence,&#8221; Zeldin <a href="https://x.com/LeeMZeldin/status/1884715889880150458">said</a> in a post to X. &#8220;Grateful to President [Trump] for having the faith in me to be part of his Cabinet as [EPA] Administrator. Make America Great Again!&#8221;
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✅ CONFIRMED! Thank You to the 56 Senators for your vote and confidence.
Grateful to President <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> for having the faith in me to be part of his Cabinet as <a href="https://twitter.com/EPA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EPA</a> Administrator. 
Make America Great Again!🇺🇸
&mdash; Lee Zeldin (@LeeMZeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeeMZeldin/status/1884715889880150458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-will-restore-american-energy-dominance-trump-taps-lee-zeldin-to-lead-epa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that he was nominating Zeldin, who served eight years in the House and ran a competitive but unsuccessful campaign against New York Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul in 2022, for the EPA administrator position back in November.
&#8220;Lee, with a very strong legal background, has been a true fighter for America First policies. He will ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses, while at the same time maintaining the highest environmental standards, including the cleanest air and water on the planet,&#8221; Trump said.
&#8220;He will set new standards on environmental review and maintenance, that will allow the United States to grow in a healthy and well-structured way,&#8221; Trump continued, adding, &#8220;I have known Lee Zeldin for a long time, and have watched him handle, brilliantly, some extremely difficult and complex situations. I am very proud to have him in the Trump Administration, where he will quickly prove to be a great contributor!&#8221;
Zeldin testified in a confirmation hearing earlier this month and later advanced out of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee by an <a href="https://x.com/ABC/status/1882458912781160459" target="_blank" rel="noopener">11-8 vote</a>. He is the seventh person to obtain Senate approval to join Trump&#8217;s second-term Cabinet after Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marco-rubio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marco Rubio</a>, CIA Director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-ratcliffe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Ratcliffe</a>, Defense Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pete-hegseth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pete Hegseth</a>, Homeland Security Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kristi-noem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kristi Noem</a>, Treasury Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-confirms-trumps-pick-for-treasury-secretary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott Bessent</a>, and Transportation Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-confirms-sean-duffy-as-trumps-transportation-secretary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sean Duffy</a>.
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Other nominees are still working their way through the Senate. Democrats have sought to impede the confirmation process, such as forcing procedural votes, an effort that has earned stern rebukes from the GOP.
&#8220;It’s day 10 of Pres. Trump’s admin, &amp; Senate Democrats are still using every trick in the book to delay &amp; obstruct Pres. Trump’s team,&#8221; Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) <a href="https://x.com/SenRickScott/status/1884715199523152229" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X, adding that former President Barack Obama &#8220;had 22 nominees confirmed by now! Trump only has 7. Pres. Trump needs his full team in place to help make America great again. We won’t stop until every last nominee is confirmed.&#8221;

Senate Confirms Lee Zeldin To Be Trump’s EPA Administrator

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A coalition of energy experts on Thursday urged the incoming Trump administration to take dramatic action to ditch regulations imposed by the Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/environmental-protection-agency-epa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Environmental Protection Agency</a> and unleash American energy, according to a memo exclusively shared with The Daily Wire. 
Led by the American Energy Institute, a group of energy experts sent a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/Top-10-EPA-Fact-Sheet_v2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> to Trump EPA nominee and former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin ahead of his Senate hearing, outlining 10 steps they think he can take to roll back EPA abuse. The memo was also sent to Trump&#8217;s transition team and co-signed by the Energy &amp; Environment Legal Institute, Truth in Energy and Climate, and the American Lands Council. 
“For over five decades, the EPA has amassed a troubling record of overregulation, political abuse, and mission drift, often stifling innovation, burdening the economy, and undermining public trust,” American Energy Institute CEO Jason Isaac told The Daily Wire. “This plan lays the groundwork for realigning the agency’s focus to maintaining a safe environment while bolstering America’s energy and industrial production, reducing consumer costs, and promoting government accountability.”
The recommendations include freezing all EPA activities pending further review, prohibiting EPA staff from communicating with outside groups about agency activities, terminating all external science advisors, revising air quality and emissions standards, ending President Joe Biden’s electric vehicle mandate, ending policies based on climate alarmism, reforming EPA risk assessment procedures, eliminating the Office of Environmental Justice, and settling litigation. 
Many of the memo’s recommendations entail rolling back policies the Biden administration has implemented over the last four years. For example, the memo says that the Trump administration should “reduce pointlessly burdensome air quality” regulations imposed by Biden. 
&#8220;Reforming the EPA&#8217;s process toward risk assessment would help it to focus on real-world scenarios,&#8221; the memo says.
&#8220;Require data used as a basis for regulating be made publicly available during rulemaking,&#8221; the experts recommended. &#8220;Require cost-benefit analyses based on actual and demonstrable vs. imaginary costs and benefits.&#8221;
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“The EPA needs more draining than just about any other part of the Swamp,” Myron Ebell, chair of the American Lands Council and former leader of Trump’s EPA transition told The Daily Wire. “Biden&#8217;s greenhouse gas regulations on power plants are raising electric rates and making the grid less reliable, so Trump&#8217;s EPA must start undoing them immediately.”
Another former Trump EPA transition team member who signed onto the memo was Steve Milloy, now a senior fellow at the Energy &amp; Environment Legal Institute. He predicted that the agency would be one of the most resistant to the president’s agenda. 
“EPA has a 54-year history of junk science-fueled, job killing environmental overregulation. It is chock-full of anti-Trump ‘resistance’ and will be the toughest agency for President Trump to rein in,” he said. 
Zeldin’s hearing before the Senate Committee on Public Works and the Environment is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. EST.

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