The White House has confirmed that lame-duck President Joe Biden is trying to funnel “as much funding as possible” to “climate change” group as he can before his term ends next month.
The Biden administration is seeking to rapidly disperse taxpayer-funded climate cash before President Donald Trump is sworn in to power.
Biden is hoping to cement his green energy agenda before Trump assumes the Oval Office in January.
In a memo released by the White House, Jeff Zients, Biden’s chief of staff, boasted that the president is pumping as much climate cash “as possible before the end of the term.”
Zients said that the administration is going to “sprint to the finish line and get as much done as possible for the American people” in the remaining weeks of Biden’s term.
The top Biden official said that they plan to “obligate as much funding as possible before the end of the term.”
The plan involves dishing out unspent funds from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to support globalist “climate change” projects.
The White House also said that Americans can “expect more action” on funding from the IRA.
The IRA was the Democrats’ climate legislation which was thinly disguised as an economic plan.
Trump has suggested that he would “undo” the IRA when he becomes president.
He described the legislation as the “greatest scam in history.”
Some House Republicans, who secured a majority in the chamber in the next Congress, have signaled support for reworking the climate bill.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told CNBC that “you’ve got to use a scalpel and not a sledgehammer” on the legislation.
However, it’s unlikely that the IRA would be completely overturned.
Most of the funds in the IRA have already been awarded.
White House spokesperson Andrew Bates warned against Republicans and the incoming Trump administration attempting to undo Biden’s agenda.
In a memo first obtained by NBC News, Bates said:
“Repealing President Biden’s signature laws would be a historic redistribution of wealth from working Americans to Big Pharma and China.”
Bates added that, despite potential pushback, projects under the IRA “have been locked in.”
He also suggested that Republican districts are benefiting from the IRA.
“That includes the creation of over 330,000 clean energy jobs — disproportionately in House districts represented by Republicans,” he wrote.
“Because of the Inflation Reduction Act, we’ve already saved more than 3.4 million Americans $8.4 million on clean energy upgrades to their homes, and more than 300,000 Americans have saved over $2 billion upfront on [electric vehicle] purchases.”
Bates didn’t include any evidence for these claims, however.
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