The Biden administration is withholding funds from the Climate Justice Alliance, a federal grantee that has spoken out about Palestine.
  • Optional@lemmy.world
    18·
    12 days ago

    Intercept doing their thing.

    Title: BIDEN BIG MEANY: HATES PALESTINE

    Article: “Grantees under the program have to have their funds obligated by December 6 in order to get the funds disbursed before the start of the Trump administration.”

    . . . “This is about the GOP’s obsession with shutting down the EPA,” Chavez said. “The attacks that we’re seeing on us are collateral damage in a war against regulations that protect everybody.”

    . . . Republican lawmakers and right-wing media have targeted the Climate Justice Alliance in recent attacks. On Saturday, the Daily Caller published a story on the pending EPA grant that claimed that the Climate Justice Alliance shared protest material celebrating Hamas.

    . . . The Daily Caller also said the Biden administration was weighing “awarding taxpayer dollars to [a] nonprofit that wants to defund the police.” Earlier this month, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee issued a report criticizing the EPA program and claiming that the Climate Justice Alliance had exhibited “anti-Republican sentiment.”

    So, to recap: Biden awarded the funds, the EPA is slow to disburse because the republiQans are going to gut it, and therefore Democrats bad.

    • femtech@midwest.social
      8·
      12 days ago

      WTF, that’s blatantly a false headline. I didn’t know so many news agencies loved republicans so much.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      11 days ago

      You seem to have deliberately cut off the critical part that explains the funds should have been granted by September. Which indicates a deliberate pause and move away from standard procedure.

      The Climate Justice Alliance said it met all administrative deadlines and expected to get notice of funds by September, the end of the standard 90-day waiting period for grant applicants.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 days ago

        Because it has zero to do with Biden. He’s not literally holding a giant bag of cash and personally handing it out to the head of each agency he granted it to in the first place.

        It’s covered by the same sentence that said the EPA itself is holding up because they’re being stymied by republiQans.

        • BrikoX@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          11 days ago

          I know US education is abysmal, but people at least should know what different branches of government are responsible for. Executive branch of the government runs the agency. And no, nobody expects Biden to personally to hold the bag, but his administration has direct control.

          The Biden administration is withholding funds from the Climate Justice Alliance, a federal grantee that has spoken out about Palestine.

          • Optional@lemmy.world
            2·
            11 days ago

            Wow you see his name and think he’s directly invovled?

            HE. IS. NOT. Give it up.

            Executive branch of the government runs the agency.

            As someone who knows jack shit, that’s correct. What do you suppose “running the agency” entails? Buying pens and staplers? Noting who’s absent today? Sending out agency picnic invites? No. That is 100% not how it works at all. You’re VERY much mistaken.

            And since you’re a leading academic in the field of civics education in the US, please enlighten us as to who holds the “purse strings” for the government agencies such as the EPA.

            • BrikoX@lemmy.zipEnglish
              3·
              11 days ago

              And no, nobody expects Biden to personally to hold the bag, but his administration has direct control.

              Please re-read what I said. You’re arguing against yourself.

              And since you’re a leading academic in the field of civics education in the US, please enlighten us as to who holds the “purse strings” for the government agencies such as the EPA.

              Since money was already approved (see https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-announces-600m-11-grantmakers-fund-thousands-environmental), executive branch has full discretion over it via the agency.

              Republicans literally can’t do anything about it except for talking. The bill was passed that allocated the money, it’s out of their hands now.

              • Optional@lemmy.world
                1·
                10 days ago

                Republicans literally can’t do anything about it except for talking.

                So what’s the hold up then? Biden hates Palestine?

                First of all, the group doesn’t do anything with Palestine, they demonstrated like a million others and the article heavily implies that that’s why they didn’t get money. I think that’s bullshit. If you know better, what’s the reason then?