U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Monday on social media that he is cutting multiple diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, resulting in billions in taxpayer savings. 

How some of these programs benefited the environment is anybody’s guess:

…Lee Zeldin said on Monday he canceled 400 environmental justice and diversity, equity and inclusion grants totaling $1.7 billion in the Trump administration's latest crackdown on DEI initiatives.

The EPA did not immediately respond to a request for comment on details about the cancellation.

Since taking office on January 20, Republican President Donald Trump has passed executive orders aimed at dismantling DEI in the government and private sector.

X, formerly known as Twitter, is still experiencing technical issues Tuesday after suffering several cyberattacks, so I am unable to show you Zeldin’s post, but here is what it said:

UPDATE: I am cancelling over 400 DEI and Environmental Justice grants across 9 grant programs totaling $1.7 BILLION, bringing @EPA's total savings to over $2 BILLION! 

This fourth round of EPA/@DOGE cuts was our biggest yet.

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Trump has been busy taking a chainsaw to the divisive and discriminatory DEI policies that have infected government at every level, including, most dangerously our military.

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The EPA posted the news to their website:

Administrator Zeldin has been working with other agencies to establish accountability and oversight regarding $20 billion parked at a financial institution by the Biden-Harris Administration in a rushed effort to obligate money with reduced oversight. The Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation are investigating and the money is currently frozen by the financial institution. Further, Administrator Zeldin cancelled grants and contracts related to DEI and environmental justice in the first round of spending cuts, terminated a $50 million Biden-era environmental justice grant to the Climate Justice Alliance that believes “Climate Justice travels through a Free Palestine”, and ended more than one million dollars in media subscriptions.

In the second round of spending cuts with DOGE, EPA identified and cancelled an additional 20 grants totaling $60,958,537.30 in taxpayer savings. In the third round of spending cuts, EPA identified and cancelled 21 grants amounting to $116,449,761 total immediate taxpayer savings.

EPA continues to work diligently to implement President Trump’s executive orders.

Among the fishy projects Zeldin and DOGE uncovered was a $2 billion fund headed by none other than perennial failed candidate and election denier Stacey Abrams:As RedState reported, a non-profit headed by Stacey Abrams received taxpayer cash through a $2 billion government grant doled out by the Biden administration. The money was given to "Power Forward Communities," and the sketchiness of the entire affair only gets worse as you dig deeper. 

The paper trail started with a slush fund given to the Environmental Protection Agency. Lee Zeldin, who now heads that agency under the Trump administration, found that the money had been "parked" with outside non-profits in an attempt to get the money out the door before Biden left office.

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Zeldin and the DOGE continue to uncover astonishing waste and graft in the federal government. As I like to say, keep on chomping, DOGE.

DOGE is finding billions of dollars in wasteful spending, and the Democrats are losing their minds as they realize their gravy train and woke projects are coming to an end.

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