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Joe Biden & Kamala Harris Used American tax payers money to fund DOMESTIC TERRORISM · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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  Interesting developments, some of them topical today and some
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  of the you all have heard me talk about this, but I think
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  this should be in an outrage really to every taxpaying
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  citizen. We're talking about the
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  Inflation Reduction Act, which is almost two years old as of
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  this August. And it also, I noticed in the
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  President's schedule that he was getting briefed on the Inflation
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  Reduction Act. So I'm sure he got this briefing
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  while he was being briefed on the Inflation Reduction Act,
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  which we have renamed Invested Radical Activities Act because
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  that's what this is about. So we've really been digging
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  into who is getting these massive amounts of grants
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  through the EPA. There's $3 billion in the in the
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  Inflation Reduction Act, the IRA that will go for climate,
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  different climate kind of buckets.
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  And in our investigation we found that a lot of this money
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  that's going out really has little to do with the
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  environment and a lot to do with funding groups that are
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  basically engaged in what I characterizes anti American
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  activities. They're anti American,
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  anti-Semitic, anti Israel, anti police and anti border security.
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  So the first one I'm going to go to is, and before I do that, I'm
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  also going to say that Vice President Harris, who is now the
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  nominee for the Democrat presidential race, is quoted
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  here. I've put equity at the center of
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  our nation's largest investment in climate in history to reach
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  the organizations that know their community best.
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  That's what she said when they rolled out and actually named
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  these organizations. And interestingly today there
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  was a news article today saying that the green groups have now
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  formed a coalition today and guess who they're endorsing for
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  president, Vice President Harris.
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  So let's go over to the following one.
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  I say follow the money because I think that's where you find out.
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  The first one is climate justice.
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  It's up on the top right hand bar there, $100 million.
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  They have glorified Hamas in a lot of their social media, on
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  their websites and other things and they think Israel has no
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  right to exist. They're getting $100 million.
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  This is a direct grant to them. The next one is the NDN
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  collective. You know them.
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  Yes, they are a partner. Yes, they on their social media
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  called the United States a so-called country and also call
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  for the defunding of the police and our United States military.
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  Imagine that in these times right now.
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  Next we have two New York and New Jersey coalitions that are
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  getting $50 million. They're actually going to be
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  participating in granting $50 million.
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  Their quotes are the border and concept of citizenship is racist
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  and once no collaboration with federal immigration officials
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  and the ICE agenda is racist as well.
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  Then we have the social and environmental entrepreneurs $50
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  million again, abolish police, abolish prisons.
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  The the latest one these were all those previous ones I'm
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  talking about were all announced in December by the vice
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  president and named on the EP as materials as they as they rolled
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  them out through the press. The Ella Baker Center for Human
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  Rights, the most recent funding was announced last week, is
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  getting between one and $3,000,000.
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  And they are actively advocating to defund police, decriminalize
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  shoplifting and abolish our prisons.
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  So I think that that this uncovers quite a bit of the
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  three billion. We're up to 200 million,
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  actually a little bit more than that, if if you count everything
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  all in and this is just the lack of accountability.
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  The administrator of the EPA has been questioned about this.
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  He says the money hasn't gone out.
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  That's their, that was their first thing.
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  Well, they haven't gotten the money yet.
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  Now they're saying, well, we don't, we don't check out the
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  partner organizations. So this Indian would be a
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  partner organization as opposed to an actual grantee.
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  So why aren't you vetting these people?
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  I mean, this is taxpayers dollars and what do they have to
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  do with telling people how to live and cope better and clean
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  up their environment? So I think that we need to know
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  that these are appalling to me and to many of us who work hard
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  to make sure that we're not just paying our taxes, but we're also
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  making sure that we're making good investments from from the
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  federal government. So what are we doing about it?
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  Well, we're shining a light on it and urging the EPA to not
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  disperse this money. And and coincidentally, they
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  haven't dispersed all of this money yet.
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  So we'll see what happens. We are, I pushed in the
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  Appropriations Committee for more money for the EPA Inspector
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  General, somebody to follow the money within the EPA because
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  they know best an Inspector General would be able to do
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  that. And then I think the most
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  important thing is when we take control of Congress after
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  January, we will be able to defund a lot of this, but we
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  also be able to follow it and do much more oversight.
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  So I'm going to turn it over to my friend from Nebraska and see
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  his perspective. On this, well, thank you,
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  Senator Capito, for highlighting this and showing some
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  transparency and some sunlight on what's going on here with
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  regard to these grants through the Inflation Reduction Act, but
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  as you all more aptly named it, the Investment and Radical
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  Activist Act, because that's exactly what we're doing here.
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  When you're giving money to organizations like the Climate
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  Justice Alliance and they are funding the Wash on March, March
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  on Washington, and they are waving the free Palestinian
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  flags and so forth, we're paying them to lobby our government.
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  I got to tell you, everyday Nebraskans don't think that's a
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  good idea like that. Our tax dollars should go to
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  radical organizations to lobby our own government.
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  That's just crazy. And you're talking about the NDN
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  collective and the things they want to do, like abolishing the
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  military, abolishing the police, abolishing Customs and Border
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  Protection, abolishing immigration, Customs
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  Enforcement. Again, everyday Americans think
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  those organizations are important organizations and we
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  want to keep them to keep us safe.
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  They are way out of step with what everyday Americans want to
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  see. This is really, really radical
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  stuff that they're they're promoting.
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  And then we have organizations like the social and
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  environmental entrepreneurs who are spreading Climate Act
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  alarmism and again, funding left wing groups.
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  This is not what our tax dollars are supposed to go for.
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  And to your point about the EPA, because all this money is going
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  through the EPA, I was just talking to a company yesterday
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  who said, hey, we need more help with getting permits done.
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  We can't get permits fast enough, frankly, for some of
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  these environmental projects even.
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  And it's because the money is going to fund these radical
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  organizations. And not that nobody's paying
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  attention to how many people have got work in their different
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  regions to be able to help get these permits processed.
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  So on the one hand, the EPA has got legitimate business.
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  They're not getting done. On the other hand, they're
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  funding these radical and environmentalists and other
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  sorts of organizations. And again, just gets back to
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  everyday Americans. That's not how they want their
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  money spent. They want their money spent here
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  in Washington, DC wisely. And when you see the frustration
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  that people have Washington, DC, this is a prime example of why
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  they have that frustration. So I want to again thank Senator
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  Capito for highlighting this, for shining some sunshine on
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  this so that we can get some changes made.
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  We are now sitting at $35 trillion in debt.
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  We have got to get our spending under control.
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  And spending on this kind of radical activism is not the way
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  we should be spending our tax dollars.
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  I'll turn it over to you. Well.
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  Said well said. So any questions?
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  Yeah, Josh. Yeah, thanks for doing.
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  This just, I mean, as far as you said, you know, if you say the
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  tax control account issues that you know, rollback this program,
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  I mean it's as far as in the in the universe of IRA components.
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  Do you view this as as what kind of right this targets or things
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  you think Trump should prioritize?
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  The people, Well, well, I mean. 'Cause he's he's talking about
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  almost the entirety of. The bill, OK, we, we know well
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  #1 there's there's been a recent rush to get this money out.
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  And that's because they know that there's a likelihood, we
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  like to think a high likelihood that the administration will
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  change come November. And so they're rushing to get
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  the money out and you see who they're sending it to.
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  So we have that how in, in this pot of money, in the $3 billion
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  for the EPA, it would probably be predicated on how much is
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  left. We would certainly try to claw
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  that back. But but at at the minimum, we
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  would have more opportunity for sunlight here and more
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  opportunity for oversight. In terms of other parts of the
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  IRAI think some of the tax provisions, I mean it was just
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  such a bloated, you know, Pete's talked about our our debt, we
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  talked about the inflation. Everybody who knows anything
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  attributes our inflationary rise over the last two years to this
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  IRA and the bloated spending. And then they cap that with the
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  expansion of of our debt. So I think, I think this is
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  something that would be a top priority for all of us and I
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  don't know if you want to say anything about what we could and
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  would do. Yeah.
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  I mean, when you look at partisan bills that are passed
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  that include reckless spending, that's one of the things that's
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  driving inflation. We've got to control that in if
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  we're going to get inflation under control.
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  There's other things that we have to do, like being able to
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  use our own energy resources to help bring prices down, but
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  we've got to get the spending under control.
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  And so if we have a new administration, a new
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  opportunity, we got to be able to start raising some of this
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  money in, especially when it's being wasted on radical
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  political activities, which is not what the American taxpayers
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  signed up for. Yeah, do.
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  You have any? Do you feel like you have any
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  recourse more immediately to try to figure out what these groups
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  are doing with this money like? Are you sending?
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  Letters to EPA or or the groups. Well, EPA is well aware of our
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  extreme concern on this. I mean, here's a small victory
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  climate Just Climate Justice Alliance redid their website and
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  took all that down. I mean, what is that?
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  Oh, is that OK now? I mean, so I feel like we're,
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  our voices are being heard, at least in a small way.
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  No response from the administration at all.
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  No response from the administrator on this.
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  And, and so right now we're just, I think our best path is
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  to just shine a light on it and talk about it.
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  And this isn't going to be the end of this.
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  I think this is just the beginning, yes, so.
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  In the past in response to your investigation of these groups
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  and uncovering. What exactly they?
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  Stand for the EPA has said, you know, political message or
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  political beliefs are not in our criteria.
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  They don't play a role in how we choose and how we score.
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  These. Grants.
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  And they've also said that the specific money of the grants
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  that are pending or go out can't be used for messaging
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  activities. It can only be used for this
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  specific purpose that's outlined.
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  My response? But do you want to go ahead?
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  You want to go first. Well, I mean, common sense tells
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  you if you have $100 million coming into your nonprofit
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  organization and you have certain political beliefs that
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  you've been espousing all through your existence, not just
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  in your social media, but for for years, that to say that you
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  would never use that money in in, in to be guided towards anti
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  police or anti what happens, it frees up the anti police money
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  so you have more anti police money.
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  I mean, that just makes sense to me.
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  If somebody's going to get $100 million, you're going to have
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  much more to do your political events or your political
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  espousing through that. And there's no coincidence that
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  just today they've announced they're going to endorse the
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  person who announced them and the EPA administrators.
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  I like him, but his response to this has been very, very
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  deficit. He told the House members when
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  questioned about this, because they got the information from
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  us. He told the House members, well,
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  they haven't gotten it yet. Well, why are you putting a
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  press release out that these are the people that are going to get
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  it? These are the organizations that
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  are going to get it if you don't intend to actually give them the
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  money. I mean, that to me is either at
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  the least sloppy or at the most deceptive and oh, you got kind
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  of got caught being unaware or try to slip something through.
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  So I don't know. Yeah, I would just build upon
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  that. Money's fungible, right?
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  You can move money around. And so if you've got money that
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  covers administrative expenses, you're paying part of the rent.
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  That part of the rent means that you don't have to go up and
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  raise the money to do your political activities, right?
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  So the money's fungible. The only thing I'd point out is
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  that there's been such a lack of diligence from the EPA that
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  allows the money to go to these groups.
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  Why would we have any confidence that they're doing any sort of
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  audit to make sure the grant money is being spent in the way
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  that it's supposed to be spent? I don't have any confidence the
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  EPA is checking up on these groups after even just seeing
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  the groups they've gone to. So zero confidence the EPA
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  actually knows how this money is being spent do.
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  You believe that when they say that political affiliation or
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  messaging has nothing to do with your criteria, it's not
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  involved. I would say the, the I would
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  question that back and say why are we paying for any political
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  activity? It should be a criteria.
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  You should say you can not have this if you are going to, you
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  know, lobby the federal government with the money that
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  we're giving you, right? And then again, unless you're
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  actually auditing to find that out, we can't have any
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  confidence in that. I mean, I'll go back to what I
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  said earlier. If you have no, if you have no
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  political messaging and you're not supposed to be a political
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  group, why are you endorsing somebody for president if you're
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  not interested in the political environment?
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  Yeah. Is this something that you've
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  asked the EP Inspector General? EPA Inspector General.
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  Or GAO to look into. We haven't asked yet.
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  I don't believe I got my staff back here, but I will tell you
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  this. In the in the IRA, the authors
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  of the bill did not include, while they're getting $3
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  billion, did not include one single dollar for extra
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  oversight of those dollars. So the EPA has an Inspector
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  General and what we get back from the Inspector General is or
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  from the EPA as well. We need more resources within
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  our agency to be able to move forward on this.
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  So we did get $5,000,000 through Senator Murkowski's bill of the,
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  I think it's 30 that they get for their IG. 5 million is
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  directed towards this. So that's a minor victory.
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  I had an amendment that would have said we need to move this
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  up to 20 million because to try to follow the money of $3
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  billion, that's a pretty hefty load.
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  And that's what happens when you pour so much money in so fast,
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  it gets wasted. And we see it all the time.
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  Why don't we learn the lesson of this?
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  And now it's not only getting wasted, it's getting poured into
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  radical activists. So thanks a lot.
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  Yep. Did you have a question?
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  I was just. Going to say following up on.
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  That is, are you sort of keeping that option?
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  In the Clipper right? Depending.
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  On what we're not, this is not the end of this.
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  So yes, I think we will. We will pursue.
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  And by the way, nice flower, I like it.
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  OK. Thanks guys.