EPA head Lee Zeldin shows us good riddance to bad giveaways

President Donald Trump’s decision to put one of New York’s own, ex-Long Island Rep.Lee Zeldin, in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency is already paying off — literally.Zeldin last week announced that his team rooted out roughly $20 billion in taxpayer money that the Biden administration had squirreled away at an unnamed outside financial institution.The plan, per Zeldin, was to park that cash to be passed out to far-left climate groups in “a rush job with reduced oversight,” as it was “awarded to just eight entities that were then responsible for doling out your money to NGOs and others at their discretion with far less transparency.”So a $20 billion giveaway for groups pushing the radical climate agenda, meted out with zero input from anyone voters actually put in charge.Kudos to Zeldin’s team for catching this scam, we hope in time to stop the billions from going all the way out the door.Zeldin also pointed out that we were told this was happening: In December, Project Veritas caught an EPA adviser on camera admitting that the agency was “trying to get the money out as fast as possible” and “throwing gold bars” off “the Titanic” before the Trump admin could take over and “stop it all.” The EPA’s hunt for misspent funds makes it clear that slashing government waste and protecting taxpayer money doesn’t stop with Elon Musk’s DOGE.Zeldin made sure to clarify that the bank had, as of yet, done nothing wrong, but he insisted the money be returned to the EPA, so it could be properly (and accountably) disbursed.There’s no guarantee that the billions can be clawed back, but Zeldin gave warning: “The days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far-left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over.”And good riddance.

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