We cannot wait for the deluge of stories from the Biden administration and how corrupt, dysfunctional, and messed up it really was behind the scenes.
Democrats can pretend Joe Biden was just a doddering, demented grandpa but the reality is far different. The administration engaged in a cover-up of Biden's cognitive decline, and Biden was always a terrible, lying scumbag. So what we learn will probably not shock us.
We'll start with this little tidbit about the EPA and the Inflation Reduction Act:
One IRA slush fund down.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) January 30, 2025
But it appears Biden’s EPA stashed $20 billion in other green slush funds with @Citibank before leaving office to keep it from being rescinded.
This is outright money laundering. pic.twitter.com/ywWJsyqlbB
Wow.
Four recipients contacted by POLITICO’s E&E News said they had lost access to EPA’s online grant management portal, called the Automated Standard Application for Payments, or ASAP, on Wednesday morning — more than 12 hours after a federal judge temporarily blocked Trump’s expansive spending freeze.
The recipients, who were granted anonymity to discuss government funding decisions, said they were not given any point of contact for questions related to the spending pause. Two said their EPA program managers had cut off contact.
OMB on Wednesday rescinded the Monday memo that initiated the spending freeze, but the ASAP portal was still inaccessible by midafternoon Wednesday, four grant recipients said. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on X on Wednesday that the administration was not rescinding the spending freeze, only the OMB memo.
'This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze,' she said.
EPA referred E&E News to the Justice Department. The Justice Department declined to comment.
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Incredible stuff.
Clawbacks are in order.
— Winston Niles Rumfoord (@RumfoordNiles) January 30, 2025
Absolutely.
If the Treasury entered the agreement for Citibank to hold the funds, there should be an exit clause the administration could exercise to recall the funds. Or simply pressure Citi to return it, either way.
— Andrew Fox (@Fox_Andrew) January 30, 2025
Either way.
Our tax money, @Citibank give me the account username/password and I will distribute appropriately: peanut butter and ammo for all legal citizens
— WVjeep_militia (@WVjeep_militia) January 30, 2025
Oooh. Can we get some crunchy peanut butter, please?
Wow - they were really in the plunder/loot stage of regime failure.
— Ken Nelson (@atKenNelson) January 31, 2025
Hope we can right this ship quick.
They need to right this ship, pronto.
“We can’t cut the budget. We need more money. Women and children will starve.”
— Santiago (@fezzaririder) January 30, 2025
Yeah, no.
How is it not a massive scandal that Democrats conspired to stash $20 billion in slush funds with a fininacial institution so that the next administration couldn’t rescind them?
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) January 30, 2025
Why hasn’t @Citibank been dragged in front of Congress? https://t.co/LUMFj6uvNL
It should be a scandal and Citibank should be answering to Congress.
They are openly money laundering to hide their malfeasance from the American people. We have a right to know. https://t.co/zi99bOqO8u
— Shayadjinn (@Shayadjinn1) January 30, 2025
We absolutely have a right to know. They're using our money.
Why was taxpayer money authorized by Biden's green boondoggle (IRA) deposited into a private bank rather than being held by the treasury?
— The Empowerment Alliance (@EmpoweringUSA) January 30, 2025
This needs to be investigated and the money returned to the federal government. https://t.co/qEXTkS32Mf
It's not their money. It's our money.
shine the light! https://t.co/CnDnajjKrz
— Rebecca Cunningham (@RebeccaTig) January 30, 2025
Sunlight is the best disinfected.
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