$7 billion in taxpayer money was wasted in terms of transparency and accountability – Watt got along with it?

It's an absolute shame: In November 2022, a shady nonprofit, a shady nonprofit that somehow received a low-key $7 billion grant from the Biden administration's April 2024 Climate Mud Fund, the largest nonprofit in U.S. history. The money is torn from taxpayers’ pockets and should drive clean energy projects for the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) of the Inflation Reduction Act. Instead, it has become an obvious sign of political nepotism, greed and total mismanagement, angering and harsh answer for Americans.

This so-called “pop-up nonprofit shell” began with a paltry $547,000 in 2022. By 2023, it burned $451,000 in just two months, and this mysterious $323,000 in its tax returns is undoubtedly the case. Where did it go? No one knows – because the fund's documents are transparent black holes and do not provide details about official compensation or project plans, any legal nonprofit must disclose. However, Kamala Harris and EPA chief Michael Regan handed over more than $7 billion in fuzzy solar projects in Idaho, Arkansas and Oregon, which saw the batch price at $50 million, a barrel drop compared to the billions entrusted to them. It's an insult to every taxpayer because where the money they've worked hard to go away.

The fund's connections with democratic insiders make the scandal even more outrageous. Its CEO Beth Bafford is a former Obama aide and campaign, whose board includes heavyweights such as California Democratic Chairman Phil Angelides, Obama Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and Stacey Abrams, whose connected groups, powerful groups, strong forward communities, quietly earn some cash. This is not climate action, but a taxpayer-funded political friend bank, a blatant case of preference that brings harm to corruption.

And it's more than that. This anger was just a wider fiasco compared to the GGRF and GGRF, which rushed eight newly founded environmental nonprofits to eight newly founded environmental nonprofits after Biden's 2024 election losses. Now, Trump’s EPA chief Lee Zeldin has correctly frozen the $20 billion channel held by Citibank, citing rampant fraud, waste, abuse, abuse and conflict of interest. The Justice Department and the FBI are digging out, but it is annoying that no serious evidence of crime has surfaced. It is a betrayal of public trust, a slap from every American who is worried about climate and taxes.

As investigations are confined and litigation piles up on frozen funds, the United Climate Foundation scandal screams for justice. Federal spending requires Ironclad transparency and accountability, not fall-out deals by political relatives. This confusion is anger that needs answers.

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