Georgia perennial candidate and Democratic organizer Stacey Abrams has found herself at the center of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) into how much her “community investment group” received from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Abrams’s liberal organization, Power Forward Communities, was slated to receive at least $2 billion in community grants from the Biden-Harris administration.
However, those payments won’t be happening, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a statement.
“I made a commitment to members of Congress and to the American people to be a good steward of tax dollars, and I’ve wasted no time in keeping my word,” Zeldin told the Washington Free Beacon.
“When we learned about the Biden administration’s scheme to quickly park $20 billion outside the agency, we suspected that some organizations were created out of thin air just to take advantage of this.”
“As we continue to learn more about where some of this money went, it is even more apparent how far-reaching and widely accepted this waste and abuse has been,” the EPA administrator continued.
“It’s extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion. That’s 20 million times the organization’s reported revenue.”
Power Forward Communities was founded in October 2023 following Abrams’s failed bid for office against Gov. Brian Kemp.
Abrams is credited with helping Democrats flip Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats during the December 2020 elections.
In January, the Georgia Ethics Commission imposed a record-breaking $300,000 fine on a voter registration group founded by Abrams for breaches of state campaign finance regulations during the 2018 elections.
During the same month, a legal entity founded by Abrams intended to oppose efforts to limit voter fraud in the 2020 elections lost a three-year court battle, resulting in a loss and an order to pay the state back $231,000 in legal costs.
Abrams’s latest pet project told the Biden EPA that it intended to dole out $2 billion to help install heat pumps, water heaters, solar panels, home battery systems, EV chargers, and weatherization upgrades.
It was the only press statement the group ever released, while Power Forward Communities reported receiving just $100 in revenue in 2023.
“For an organization that has no experience in this, that was literally just established, and had $100 in the bank to receive a $2 billion grant—it doesn’t just fly in the face of common sense, it’s out-and-out fraud,” Daniel Turner, the executive director of energy advocacy group Power the Future, alleged in an interview with the Free Beacon.
“President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American people to stop the fraud and abuse by leaders who irresponsibly shoveled boatloads of cash to far-left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity, instead of serving the American people,” Zeldin said.
“Those days are over.”
