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GAMER LAWYER JOE BIDEN - ALWAYS ABOVE THE LAWS AND ALL ETHICS - Congress Raises Alarms About $27 Billion Green Energy ‘Slush Fund’
Congress Raises Alarms About $27 Billion Green Energy ‘Slush Fund’
House lawmakers are warning that the Biden administration’s $27
billion green energy "slush fund" at the Environmental Protection Agency
could be used to finance Democratic political allies and Chinese solar
companies, according to a letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund will be responsible for
distributing $27 billion to nonprofit groups and the green energy
technology sector by next September.
Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee said the short
deadline for doling out the money will make it difficult for the agency
to conduct proper vetting of grantees. They also noted that some EPA
officials previously worked for nonprofit groups that stand to benefit
from the funding and questioned how the EPA will prevent money from
going to Chinese companies that dominate the solar industry.
"Hardworking Americans are facing record high energy costs as a
result of the administration's massive tax-and-spend agenda, which has
driven inflation across the board," House Energy and Commerce Committee
chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R., Wash.) told the Free Beacon.
"Energy and Commerce Republicans won't stand by and let President Biden
use this $27 billion slush fund to line the pocket of his political
friends or use it on technology that is produced in China."
The letter, which Republicans sent to EPA administrator Michael Regan
on Thursday, comes after the EPA inspector general warned about a lack
of oversight on green energy spending. EPA inspector general Sean
O'Donnell told
Congress in April that the billions in new funding carries a "high risk
for fraud, waste, and abuse," and the agency watchdog doesn’t have the
resources to properly investigate the distribution.
"With billions of dollars on the line, an unusually accelerated
timeline for disbursement, and a new and complex funding structure, this
program warrants close scrutiny and rigorous oversight," wrote McMorris
Rodgers and other House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans in
the letter.
They added that the "EPA has no experience administering such a
funding vehicle, referring to it as ‘a first-of-its-kind’ program," and
has "just over a year to obligate $27 billion."
The letter also noted that some of the funding is directed to solar
power and other green energy industries dominated by China and
questioned how the EPA would be able to ensure that products are sourced
domestically.
"China has a significant stranglehold on the availability of solar
panels, among other green energy technologies—we are unsure how the EPA
and program participants will ensure that the [Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Fund] programs are not supporting Chinese products," the letter said.
The lawmakers asked Regan to respond to their questions by November
1, and also asked for a staff-level briefing the week of October 30.
California governor Gavin Newsom will visit China next
week to discuss climate cooperation, promote bilateral economic
development and tourism, and encourage cultural exchanges, his office
said in a statement on Thursday.
The week-long trip will include visits to Hong Kong, Beijing,
Shanghai, and the provinces of Jiangsu and Guangdong, the statement
said.
"California and China hold the keys to solving the climate crisis," Newsom said.
"As two of the world's largest economies, our partnership is essential
to delivering climate action for our communities and beyond."
Newsom is
expected to sign a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Guangdong
province on climate issues, and he will also meet with regional leaders
to discuss the shift toward electric vehicles and public transport. He
will also sign additional MOUs in Beijing aimed at advancing climate
cooperation between the two sides.
California has played a major role in maintaining climate ties between China and the United States, the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters.
During the presidency of Donald Trump, who pulled the United States
out of the 2015 Paris agreement and all but shut down climate talks,
leaders in California continued to meet with Chinese counterparts,
including climate envoy Xie Zhenhua.
In 2019, California also set up the California-China Climate
Institute, led by former governor Jerry Brown and partnered with
Beijing's Tsinghua University, to conduct joint research on climate
policies and solutions.
Newsom also signed an MOU with China's environment ministry last year to strengthen cooperation.
China and
the United States relaunched top-level bilateral climate talks earlier
this year after a hiatus triggered by the visit of former House of
Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, the democratically
governed island that China claims.
China climate
envoy Xie and his U.S. counterpart John Kerry met in Beijing in July
and have held several rounds of talks since in a bid to map out areas of
agreement ahead of the COP28 climate talks in Dubai starting at the end
of November.
(Reporting by David Stanway in Singapore; editing by Christopher Cushing)
The
Taliban jihadist regime in Afghanistan sent its Industry and Commerce
Minister Nooruddin Azizi to Beijing on Monday to attend this week’s
“Belt and Road Forum,” a celebration of ten years of China’s global
predatory lending scheme.
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Since Biden’s inauguration, the University of Pennsylvania has disclosed at least $14 million in donations from China or Hong Kong, the Free Beacon reported
last week. The names of these donors have yet to be disclosed by the
Department of Education, breaking the precedent of prior administrations
which published foreign donor names in a public database.
Janet Yellen Hails Globalism: Biden ‘Not Attempting to Decouple from China’
Treasury
Secretary Janet Yellen reaffirmed President Joe Biden’s globalist
agenda this week, vowing that the United States is “not attempting to
decouple from China.”
“We
are not attempting to decouple from China,” Yellen told Sky News on
Monday. “We have a deep economic relationship and that kind of
competition, trade, and investment is beneficial to both sides and we
want an environment in which it can continue.”
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“We
are deepening our relationship [with China],” Yellen continued, and
said the Biden administration is not looking to “harm progress in
China.”
Yellen’s
comments come as a growing number of Republican lawmakers are backing a
plan that would end U.S. free trade with China, which helped eliminate nearly five million American manufacturing jobs and 91,000 American manufacturing plants from 1997 to 2018.
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In
July, for example, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) introduced the “Ending Normal
Trade Relations with China Act” which would effectively end U.S. free
trade with China, thus imposing high tariffs on Chinese imports.
The bill was filed in the Senate by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) in March.
Likewise, Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Ted Budd (R-NC), Rick Scott (R-FL), and J.D. Vance (R-OH) have filed similar
legislation, called the “China Trade Relations Act,” to end China’s
normal trade relations status. Instead, presidential administrations
would choose whether or not to authorize China’s free trade status with
the U.S.
Stripping China of its normal trade relations status with the U.S., a new study from
the Coalition for a Prosperous America found, would create two million
American jobs and grow the economy by nearly two percent.
The
plan would put tariffs on Chinese imports from a range of 6.7 percent
all the way up to more than 70 percent. As a result, the study showed,
real American household income would increase by more than $3,600 and
American manufacturing output would increase by more than six percent.
“Pursuing
further decoupling from the Chinese economy by removing China’s MFN
status would not harm the U.S. economy or American living standards,”
the study stated. “On the contrary, we find that further decoupling from
China would grow the U.S. economy and result in higher incomes and more
jobs for Americans and the rebuilding of many critical manufacturing
sectors.”
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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