Lee Zeldin

I was there with Secretary Wright, Secretary Burgum, Secretary Duffy, and others. President Trump doesn't want to spend time just four years trying to get all of these goals accomplished. He wants to get this stuff done in a matter of weeks and months. So with that level of urgency, we're all in to do our part here at EPA.

Hi, this is EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. One of my very top priorities at EPA is to be an excellent steward of your hard-earned tax dollars. There will be zero tolerance of any waste and abuse.

Hi, this is EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. One of my very top priorities at EPA is to be an excellent steward of your hard-earned tax dollars. There will be zero tolerance of any waste and abuse.

An extremely disturbing video circulated two months ago featuring a Biden EPA political appointee talking about how they were tossing gold bars off the Titanic, rushing to get billions of your tax dollars out the door before Inauguration Day. Shockingly, roughly 20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA.

An extremely disturbing video circulated two months ago featuring a Biden EPA political appointee talking about how they were tossing gold bars off the Titanic, rushing to get billions of your tax dollars out the door before Inauguration Day. Shockingly, roughly 20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA.

And it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight.

And it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight.

There's been so many developments just over the course of the last few days since that video came out. I'll give you an example of one. Just earlier today, I was reading a grant agreement On page one of a grant agreement, it was saying that the grant for $2 billion of funds.

There's been so many developments just over the course of the last few days since that video came out. I'll give you an example of one. Just earlier today, I was reading a grant agreement On page one of a grant agreement, it was saying that the grant for $2 billion of funds.

On page six of that grant agreement, it says that the grantee has 90 days to complete a training called, you won't believe this, Charlie, it's called how to develop a budget. So 21 days to get out over $2 billion. 90 days to complete training on how to develop a budget. There is so much to this. I've read now the financial agent agreement, the account control agreements, the legal reviews.

On page six of that grant agreement, it says that the grantee has 90 days to complete a training called, you won't believe this, Charlie, it's called how to develop a budget. So 21 days to get out over $2 billion. 90 days to complete training on how to develop a budget. There is so much to this. I've read now the financial agent agreement, the account control agreements, the legal reviews.

They were amending account control agreements just days before inauguration day. So that video where that Biden EPA political appointee was talking about tossing, throwing gold bars off the Titanic, They actually were, not to what is just a few hundred thousand or a few million. We're talking about tens of billions of dollars, tens of billions of tax dollars.

They were amending account control agreements just days before inauguration day. So that video where that Biden EPA political appointee was talking about tossing, throwing gold bars off the Titanic, They actually were, not to what is just a few hundred thousand or a few million. We're talking about tens of billions of dollars, tens of billions of tax dollars.

I've been working with the Justice Department, the Treasury Department, and others. We want to make sure that there's full accountability and oversight established here. There's zero tolerance for waste and abuse in the Trump administration.

I've been working with the Justice Department, the Treasury Department, and others. We want to make sure that there's full accountability and oversight established here. There's zero tolerance for waste and abuse in the Trump administration.

So the way that this was designed, once Congress appropriated tens of billions of dollars here to pass through the EPA, eight entities as primary recipients would receive all 20 billion dollars as a pass through. And then once that money was passed through those eight primary recipients, they would go to a bunch of sub-grantees. And in many respects, those sub-grantees were also pass-throughs.

So the way that this was designed, once Congress appropriated tens of billions of dollars here to pass through the EPA, eight entities as primary recipients would receive all 20 billion dollars as a pass through. And then once that money was passed through those eight primary recipients, they would go to a bunch of sub-grantees. And in many respects, those sub-grantees were also pass-throughs.

And these were NGOs that were very well-connected and in some respects, extremely newly set up organizations where they have never handled anywhere close to this level of money to the point where you have to work into the grant agreement a training on how to develop a budget. So this is something that shouldn't have been set up from the get-go.

And these were NGOs that were very well-connected and in some respects, extremely newly set up organizations where they have never handled anywhere close to this level of money to the point where you have to work into the grant agreement a training on how to develop a budget. So this is something that shouldn't have been set up from the get-go.

The entire scheme is something that is designed for waste and abuse. And get this, Charlie, once the money passes through those eight primary recipients and moves on to those sub-grantees, EPA isn't even a party to the account control agreement. EPA deliberately had stuff worded into the financial agent agreement and the original account control agreement to tie its hand behind its back.