Lee Zeldin: Climate Hoax Blows Billions in Name of ‘Environmental Justice’

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin appeared on Newsmax and expressed disbelief over the Biden administration’s decision to allocate $20 billion in clean-energy grants to non-governmental organizations, calling it “crazy” and warning that the government is willing to spend billions “in the name of environmental justice.”

In a video shared on X, Zeldin referred to “an extremely disturbing video” showing a Biden EPA staffer explaining that the administration was essentially “tossing gold bars off the Titanic,” implying they were wasting billions of taxpayer dollars even before President Donald Trump took office.

“Never in EPA history has anything like this ever happened,” Zeldin told “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE.” “And there was a decision to park $20 billion of tax dollars at a bank just outside of government to lessen the amount of oversight that government has over the funds, to give it to eight different entities – not like $20 billion on 40,000 different entities; we’re talking about eight entities – and then those entities are distributing the funds. You’re getting further and further removed with less government accountability.”

Zeldin was referencing a new “green bank” initiative that aims to fund numerous projects focused on environmental justice and combating climate change. He told Newsmax that “the money needs to be at EPA.”

“It needs to be with the government,” he continued. “It needs to be with the American taxpayer. I, as the administrator of EPA, have to have the ability to go before Congress and account for these funds. So, when the video came out that you all know about, a couple months ago, Biden EPA political appointees saying that they were tossing these gold bars off the Titanic, I was going through my confirmation hearing. And part of that process, you meet individually with senators. They were all concerned about it. They wanted my commitment, if confirmed, as soon as you get there, will you make it a top priority to get to the bottom of where these gold bars are?” he said. “We found the gold bars. Now we want to bring them back into control of government. And whether it’s $20 billion … or it’s finding some way to save $100,000, none of this is our money in government. It is the people’s money. It is our duty to have zero tolerance for any waste and abuse.”

Zeldin further criticized the Biden administration, pointing out that during the president’s time in office, the EPA gave $160 million upfront to a Canadian company to manufacture school buses.

“They delivered $65 million worth of the school buses,” he explained. “They still have not delivered $95 million of school buses to 55 school districts. What has happened in the meantime? They declared bankruptcy. $95 million still not delivered that that company has already received and they’ve filed for bankruptcy and they’re not even an American company.”

Zeldin attributed incidents like this, including the school bus failure, to what “President Trump has been so outspoken about when he talks about climate hoax.”

“Water, air that is safer, healthier, cleaner, [that’s] President Trump’s goal, that’s my goal,” he said. “But in the name of environmental justice, in the name of climate equity, they will distribute tens of billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of your tax dollars … and they will spend it recklessly where they are willing to just toss billions of dollars off the Titanic. And who cares what happens next?”

{Matzav.com}