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The Environmental Protection Agency recently discovered that the Biden administration awarded $2 billion to a climate group with ties to former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, a fierce supporter of former President Joe Biden.

The money was earmarked for Power Forward Communities — a nonprofit partnered with multiple left-wing groups founded by Abrams and which the Georgia Democrat has stated she was “thrilled” to be part of, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Wednesday.

The funds were set aside at an outside financial institution — Citibank — before Biden left office and part of a larger, $20 billion pot of money the former president’s EPA received through the Inflation Reduction Act to dole out to climate groups.

“It’s extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin told the outlet, referring to Power Forward Communities’ latest tax filings. “That’s 20 million times the organization’s reported revenue.”

Abrams was a vocal advocate of the Biden administration’s green energy push, and last July, as calls grew for Biden to drop out of the presidential race, she penned an op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution declaring that Democrats’ “path to victory lies in standing by Biden.”

“It’s time to stop the Joe Biden doom loop,” she tweeted that same month.

“With funds expected to start flowing into homes in early 2025, the grant will make possible the affordable decarbonization of homes and apartments throughout the country, with a particular focus on low-income and disadvantaged communities,” the group said of the $2 billion grant in August 2024.

Zeldin, who has pledged to look into ways to recover the money from Citibank, described “Stacey Abrams’ Power Forward Communities” as “a pass through entity for Biden EPA’s $20 billion ‘gold bar’ scheme” in an X post Wednesday night.

Power Forward Communities did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/19/us-news/zeldin-epa-discovers-2-billion-biden-admin-stashed-away-for-stacey-abrams-linked-climate-group/

Power Forward Communities was awarded the grant the following month.

By Spencer Pauley | The Center Square

Published: February 19, 2025 11:21pm

New Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes is making it clear to city residents who are immigrants that police officers will not be asking about immigration status.

Barnes said he wanted to address head-on any concerns from community members regarding the position of the Seattle Police Department on immigration “in the wake of recent news and events.”

“Throughout my career in policing and as your new Seattle police chief, I have unwaveringly supported the rights of undocumented people, who are vulnerable, too often victimized and exploited, and may not feel safe coming forward when they are victims of crime,” Barnes said in a statement on Wednesday.

The recent events Barnes may be alluding to are a string of arrests of illegal immigrants in Seattle deemed to “have or continue to pose a threat to public safety" by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

This month alone, there were three arrests in Seattle by ICE agents Seattle agents, including a Chinese national with convictions for drug manufacturing; a citizen of El Salvador, who was previously arrested for commercial sex abuse of a minor; and a Kazakhstan national illegally residing in the U.S. who is “considered to be a threat to public safety,” according to a news release from ICE.

Barnes clarified that SPD’s policies regarding immigration status will not change and that immigration law and enforcement is exclusively the responsibility of the federal government – that is, ICE is left alone to conduct searches and arrests of illegal immigrants.

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/seattle-police-chief-officers-will-not-question-residents-about

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