In a move that has raised eyebrows among conservative circles, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Biden-Harris administration has recently allocated a substantial sum of taxpayer money to a consortium of left-leaning nonprofits.
The recipient, Power Forward Communities (PFC), has ties to Democratic voter mobilization efforts, including a Stacey Abrams-led initiative in Georgia.
According to the Daily Caller, the EPA announced in mid-August that PFC would receive $2 billion from the Inflation Reduction Acts $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF). The PFC is in collaboration with various Democratic Party-affiliated groups, including Fair Count, an initiative backed by two-time Georgia governor candidate Abrams, the nations largest teachers union, and a prominent climate activist group.
This decision to award such a hefty grant to the nonprofit consortium has sparked scrutiny from Republican lawmakers. They are questioning the Inflation Reduction Act for channeling taxpayer dollars to entities linked to left-wing activists and the Democratic Party.
Republican Rep. Morgan Griffith of Virginia and Republican Rep. Brett Guthrie of Kentucky expressed their concerns in an October op-ed for the Washington Reporter. They wrote, At the same time that the EPA is disrupting our everyday lives, it has shown its true priorities by dishing out hard-working American taxpayer dollars to a vast network of former Obama-era officials who are now leading the far-lefts crusade against American energy independence.
The PFC is in partnership with two Abrams-backed nonprofit ventures, Fair Count and the Southern Economic Advancement Project (SEAP), both founded by Abrams in 2019 following her first election loss to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. Fair Count, a Georgia-focused voter mobilization outfit, has recently criticized voter ID requirements and accused Republican governors of voter purges to exclude eligible voters from casting ballots.
Abrams' SEAP is a research and advocacy-focused nonprofit that aims to build a more equitable future in the South. It is a fiscal project of the Tides Center, a subsidiary of the left-wing dark money behemoth known as the Tides Network, which has funded activist groups engaged in pro-Hamas protests across the United States.
Another PFC partner is Third Act, a left-wing activist group focused on mobilizing Americans aged 60 and older into climate activism. The group, founded by Bill McKibben, has endorsed Harris and raised over $100,000 for her presidential campaign in a July 25 event.
The PFC is also collaborating with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), a teachers union led by Democratic Party bigwig, Randi Weingarten. The AFTs executive council unanimously endorsed Harris on July 22, the day after Biden dropped out of the 2024 Presidential race.
Abrams also serves as a senior advisor to Rewiring America, one of the five nonprofit entities that make up the PFC consortium. Rewiring America is a left-wing electrification outfit that advocates for the adoption of electric vehicles and household appliances to curb fossil fuel use.
Abrams, in her previous capacity as senior counsel for Rewiring America, used nonpartisan language to imply that a key part of the nonprofits mission is to mobilize voters to cast ballots for Democratic candidates in November. She said during an interview at the Bloomberg Green Ideas festival in Seattle in July, The work of winning an election is not simply who is running. Its not just whats on the ballot; its whos in the booth. And to get people into the booth, you have groups like Rewiring America, a nonpartisan organization that exists to tell people whats possible.
Abrams also endorsed President Joe Biden, the Democratic Partys then-2024 Presidential candidate, and described the reelection of former President Donald Trump as an existential crisis. Following Bidens decision to end his campaign for a second term, Abrams quickly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.
The EPA, the PFC, and Rewiring America did not respond to the Daily Callers requests for comment. The Daily Caller had previously reported that another GGRF recipient, Coalition for Green Capital, held a webinar during which the nonprofits CEO, Reed Hundt, called for the elimination of the United States fossil fuel industry and urged the Biden administration to work with the Chinese Communist Party to change the way that everything is organized in society.
The allocation of such a significant sum to a consortium with clear ties to Democratic voter mobilization efforts raises questions about the use of taxpayer money and the potential influence of left-wing activists on the EPA's decision-making process. As the debate continues, it remains to be seen how this will impact the perception of the Biden-Harris administration among conservative voters and lawmakers.
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