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BIDEN/HARRIS TERRORIST ORGANIZATION through the “Inflation Reduction Act · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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I think this should be in an outrage really to every tax
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paying 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 characterize as 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
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for 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.
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They're $100 million. They have glorified Hamas in a
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lot of their social media, on their websites and other things
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and they think Israel has no right to exist.
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They're getting $100 million. This is a direct grant to them.
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The next one is the NDN collective.
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You know them. Yes, they are a partner.
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Yes, they on their social media called the United States a
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so-called country and also call for the defunding of the police
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and our United States military. Imagine that in these times
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right now. Next we have two New York and
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New Jersey coalitions that are getting $50 million.
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They're actually going to be participating in granting $50
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million. Their quotes are the border and
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concept of citizenship is racist and once no collaboration with
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federal immigration officials and the ICE agenda is racist as
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well. Then we have the social and
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environmental entrepreneurs $50 million again, abolish police,
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abolish prisons. The the latest one.
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These were all those previous ones I'm talking about were all
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announced in December by the Vice president and named on the
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EP as materials as they as they rolled them out through the
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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 actually a little bit
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more than that if you if you count everything all in.
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And this is just the lack of accountability.
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The administrator, 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 fur. 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 NDN would be a partner
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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 in some sunlight on what's going on here with regard
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to these grants through the Inflation Reduction Act, but as
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you all more aptly named it, the Investment and Radical Activists
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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, it 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
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taxable account issues to you know, rollback this program, I
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mean as far as in the in the universe of IRA components, do
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you view this as as what a kind of right this targets or things
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you think Trump should prioritize if.
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He 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?
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What these groups? Are doing with this money like.
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Are you sending letters? To EPA or or the groups?
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Well, EPA is well aware of our extreme concern on this.
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I mean, here's a small victory Climate Just Climate Justice
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Alliance redid their website and took all that down.
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I mean, what is that? Oh, is that OK now?
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I mean, so I feel like we're, our voices are being heard, at
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least in a small way. No response from the
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administration at all. No response from the
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administrator on this. And, and so right now we're
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just, I think our best path is to just shine a light on it and
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talk about it. And this isn't going to be the
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end of this. I think this is just the
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beginning, yes. So in the past in response to
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your investigation of these groups and uncovering.
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What exactly? They stand for the EPA has said,
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you know, political message or political beliefs or not in our
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criteria, they don't play a role in how we choose and how we
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score these grants. And they've also said that the
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specific money of the grants that are pending or go out can't
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be used for messaging activities.
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It can only be used for this specific purpose that's
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outlined. My response?
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But do you want to go ahead? You want to go first?
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Well, I mean, common sense tells you if you have $100 million
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coming into your nonprofit organization and you have
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certain political beliefs that you've been espousing all
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through your existence, not just in your social media, but for
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for years. That to say that you would never
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use that money in in, in to be guided towards anti police or
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anti what happens? It frees up the anti police
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money 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.
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And oh, you got kind of got caught being unaware or try to
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slip something through. So I don't know.
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Yeah, I would just build upon that.
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Money is fungible, right? You can move money around.
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And so if you've got money that covers administrative expenses,
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you're paying part of the rent. That part of the rent means that
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you don't have to go out and raise the money to do your
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political activities, right? So the money is fungible.
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The only thing I'd point out is that there's been such a lack of
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diligence from the EPA that allows the money to go to these
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groups. Why would we have any confidence
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that they're doing any sort of audit to make sure the grant
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money is being spent in the way that it's supposed to be spent?
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I don't have any confidence the EPA is checking up on these
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groups after the even just seeing the groups they've gone
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to. So 0 confidence the EPA actually
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knows how this money is being spent do.
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You. Believe that when they say that
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political affiliation or messaging has nothing to do with
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their criteria, it's not involved.
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I would say the, the I would question that back and say why
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are we paying for any political activity?
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It should be a criteria. You should say you can not have
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this if you are going to, you know, lobby the federal
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government with the money that we're giving you, right?
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And then again, unless you're actually auditing to find that
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out, we can't have any confidence in that.
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I mean, I'll go back to what I said earlier.
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If you have no, if you have no political messaging and you're
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not supposed to be a political group, why are you endorsing
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somebody for president if you're not interested in the political
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environment? Yeah.
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Is this something that you've asked the?
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EPA Inspector General. EPA.
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Inspector General. Or GAO to look into.
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We haven't asked yet. I don't believe I got my staff
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back here. But I will tell you this in the,
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in the IRA, the authors of the bill did not include, while
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they're getting $3 billion, did not include one single dollar
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for extra oversight of those dollars.
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So the EPA has an Inspector General and what we get back
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from the Inspector General is are from the EPA as well.
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We need more resources and within our agency to be able to
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move forward on this. So we did get $5,000,000 through
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Senator Murkowski's bill of the, I think it's 30 that they get
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for their IG. 5 million is directed towards this.
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So that's a minor victory. I had an amendment that would
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have said we need to move this up to 20 million because to try
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to follow the money of $3 billion, that's a pretty hefty
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load. And that's what happens when you
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pour so much money in so fast, it gets wasted.
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And we see it all the time. Why don't we learn the lesson of
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this? And now it's not only getting
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wasted, it's getting poured into radical activists.
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So thanks.