It’s an absolute disgrace: the Climate United Fund, a shady nonprofit slapped together in November 2022, somehow wangled a jaw-dropping $7 billion grant from the Biden administration’s climate slush fund in April 2024—the largest nonprofit grant in U.S. history. This money, ripped from taxpayers’ pockets, was supposed to fuel clean energy projects under the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) of the Inflation Reduction Act. Instead, it’s become a glaring symbol of political cronyism, grift, and utter mismanagement, leaving Americans furious and demanding answers.

This so-called “popup nonprofit shell” started with a paltry $547,000 in revenue in 2022. By 2023, it had burned through $451,000 in just two months, with a whopping $323,000 of that mysteriously unaccounted for in its tax returns. Where did it go? No one knows—because the fund’s filings are a black hole of transparency, offering no details on officer pay or project plans, which any legitimate nonprofit would be required to disclose. Yet, Kamala Harris and EPA Chief Michael Regan handed over $7 billion for vague solar projects in Idaho, Arkansas, and Oregon—totaling a measly $50 million, a drop in the bucket compared to the billions entrusted to them. It’s an insult to every taxpayer who’s been left in the dark about where their hard-earned money is disappearing to.

The fund’s ties to Democratic insiders make this scandal even more infuriating. Its CEO, Beth Bafford, is a former Obama aide and campaign operative, and its board includes heavyweights like California’s Democratic Party Chairman Phil Angelides, Obama’s Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, and Stacey Abrams, whose linked group, Power Forward Communities, quietly pocketed some of the cash. This isn’t climate action—it’s a taxpayer-funded piggy bank for political pals, a blatant case of favoritism that reeks of corruption.

And it doesn’t stop there. This outrage is just one piece of a broader fiasco with the GGRF, which rushed $20 billion to eight newly minted environmental nonprofits after Biden’s 2024 election loss but before Trump took office in January 2025. Reports from the New York Post and Project Veritas expose how Biden officials scrambled to dump the money, with an EPA insider caught on video calling it “throwing gold bars off the Titanic.” Now, Trump’s EPA head, Lee Zeldin, has rightly frozen access to that $20 billion held by Citibank, citing rampant fraud, waste, abuse, and conflicts of interest. The DOJ and FBI are digging in, but it’s maddening that no hard evidence of criminality has surfaced yet. It’s a betrayal of public trust and a slap in the face to every American worried about both the climate and their tax dollars.

As investigations grind on and lawsuits pile up over the frozen funds, the Climate United Fund scandal screams for justice. Federal government spending needs ironclad transparency and accountability, not backroom deals for political cronies. This mess is an outrage that demands answers.

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