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To bet on the upcoming presidential election, don’t rely on polls alone. Just look at the billions of taxpayer dollars President Joe Biden is funneling to “community organizations” in “disadvantaged areas” to help swing the election.
Barack Obama, the community activist who became president, was a master of machine politics, using federal tax dollars to turn community organizations (left-leaning nonprofits) into a fifth estate. Their staff, paid by tax dollars but not bound by government rules, could take to the streets during election season to boost voter turnout. Biden has expanded on Obama’s approach, spending billions instead of millions.
Senator Shelley Moore Capito (D-Va.) recently made headlines when it was discovered that the Environmental Protection Agency had awarded a $50 million “environmental justice” grant to the Climate Justice Alliance in December 2023. Senator Capito was troubled to learn that the Climate Justice Alliance had pledged that “the path to climate justice will pass through a free Palestine.”
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Indeed, the Climate Justice Alliance lays out a full agenda of radical activism, including fighting “political oppression” and “putting race, gender, and class at the center of climate change solutions.”
An angry President Joe Biden can’t win the election like he had hoped, so he’s relying on taxpayer money to garner support from the Democratic base. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
But $50 million is just a pittance for the Climate Justice Alliance.
If Congress had read the Inflation Control Act before it passed it (a novel idea), they would have known that it provided the Environmental Protection Agency with $2.8 billion in block grants for environmental protection and climate justice (Section 60201), a license to hand out money randomly to a host of political activists, not just climate justice alliances.
Another beneficiary group is the New York Immigration Coalition, which describes itself as a “coalition of immigrant and refugee groups” that pushes for expanded government services and greater political influence.
The same goes for another donor, the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice. Nowhere on either organization’s website or literature do the words “climate” or “environment” appear.
Adding eligibility to border towns is an interesting development as Democrats become increasingly divided over Biden’s open border policies as waves of migrants overwhelm the resources of these towns, and the money could solidify support.
Lawmakers may have thought the money was for climate improvement, but the IRA’s bylaws allow it to be used to “promote participation of marginalized communities in local, state, and federal public processes, including advisory groups, workshops, and rulemaking.” In other words, elections.
How easy is it to raise funds? It’s easy. The EPA “hopes to alleviate many of the burdens that the federal grant process imposes on small, resource-limited local organizations that serve underserved and marginalized communities.” That means no red tape required.
The money will only go to disadvantaged areas and towns along the southern border. There are 27,521 disadvantaged areas on census maps, according to Biden’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, which targets factors that primarily affect large minority populations, such as non-English speakers and people with diabetes. These areas traditionally vote Democratic.
Adding eligibility to border towns is an interesting development as Democrats become increasingly divided over Biden’s open border policies as waves of migrants overwhelm the resources of these towns, and the money could solidify support.
In his first week in office, President Biden announced his “Justice 40” initiative by executive order, mandating that 40% of many types of federal spending, not just EPA grants, be directed to these “disadvantaged communities.”
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The Department of Energy is using what it calls a “Community Benefits Plan” to distribute the money to these “disadvantaged communities,” promising that application requirements will be “intentionally flexible.”
This strategy began with the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, which authorized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to award “Community Transformation Grants.” The typical recipient, a Community Health Council, pledged that its mission was to promote “social justice.”
The administration distributed 65% of the funds to partner community groups that promote voter participation, conduct “street-to-street education,” and lead tenant rights and anti-fracking and anti-drilling efforts. You thought the ACA was supposed to cover the uninsured.
Following on from President Obama’s decade in office, President Biden is ordering every agency and department of the federal government to step up voter engagement.
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Biden’s community grants are small in scale compared with his student loan forgiveness buyout, which now totals $620 billion, but they would go directly into the hands of political activists who know how to spend them.
Tell your MPs to read the bill before they vote and remove these provisions on community benefits that make a mockery of democracy.
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