The Fox News host said Trump’s EPA guy just found out “sitting in a parking car.” But he definitely didn’t
Fox News host John Roberts absurdly announced Tuesday that EPA administrator Lee Zeldin recently discovered “fraud” in the EPA when he found “$20 billion sitting In a parked car outside the financial institution”.
Needless to say, Zeldin didn’t come across a pile of cash sitting in a car outside the bank, as Roberts seemed to misunderstand a report about the EPA chief trying to revoke the clean energy project awarded by Biden Administration.
Amid the Trump administration’s efforts to tear down federal agencies and cut spending through the Elon Musk administration’s Efficiency Department, Selding announced last week that he “discovered” $20 billion in EPA funds that would have been funded by the Trump administration. It has been “parked” in “external financial institutions”.
Although Zeldin is part of a “plan” for funding and Zeldin is angry to grant the government a “group of left-wing activists” instead of an effort to “throwing gold bars from the Titanic,” EPA chief It seems that it is actually revoking this point that Congress approved it a few years ago. Meanwhile, Zeldin admitted that “zero has reason to suspect any misconduct in the bank” but he hopes to bring the money back to the EPA for oversight.
“The plan approved under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act is officially called the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, but is often called the Green Bank,” the Associated Press reported. “Two initiatives, worth $14 billion and $6 billion, aim to Providing competitive grants to nonprofits, community development banks and other groups to focus on vulnerable communities.”
Fox News host John Roberts asked EPA administrator Lee Zeldin about him “fraud” in the form of “fraud” and “sitting in a parked car outside a financial institution Sitting with $20 billion”. (Fox News)
Republican-controlled homes tried to abolish “green bank” last year, claiming it was a “sled fund” without proper responsibility, but the democratically controlled Senate blocked it.
“As Doge, the EPA “discovered its own fraud” after federal agencies tried to save money.” While the Control Room aired the title of the Fox News digital story, the story Zeldin tried to try Call backwards, but Roberts offers a very different explanation.
“$20 billion was sitting in a parked car outside the financial institution,” the veteran anchor breath said. “EPA administrator Lee Zeldin demanded that the funds be refunded to avoid wasting.”
After welcoming Zeldin to the radio, Roberts quipped that the two “ride the elevator today” at the Fox News location, calling it “records” they shared the elevator twice in a day. He then returned to the approved EPA fund that Zeldin tried to recover, which led the two to talk about the issue earlier in the day.
“So tell us that the $20 billion you found was hidden, and when we were chatting in the elevator, the way you said you did it almost made supervision impossible,” Roberts added.
Yet Zeldin didn’t address the Fox News host’s claim that the EPA literally found billions of dollars in cash “sitting in a parked car.” Instead, the EPA chief complained about how the Biden administration tried to “rush” from the agreement that began last September, claiming that “$20 billion walked out of the door ahead should be a big red flag.” He also said that the agency has significantly reduced “accountability and oversight” as the EPA no longer holds funds.
“I want the EPA to have the funds and control and oversee the funds. But that’s abandoned,” he continued. “So the whole program is very irresponsible, even before you start analyzing each recipient.”
Meanwhile, Roberts, or one of the show’s producers, seems to have misunderstood the online story of the “green bank” funding that Zeldin wants now.
Zeldin said: “A very disturbing video was scattered two months ago, in which a Biden EPA political appointee was talking about how they threw gold bars from the Titanic’s ‘a video posted to X, citing Another video from December. The article noted that “the “gold bars” are tax dollars, and “throwing them out of the Titanic” means that the Biden administration knows they are wasting it. ”
“Selding said the EPA plan to resume was found to be ‘stopped at the ‘gold bar’ of external financial institutions,’ he did not mention that,” the Fox News report added.
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This is not the first time Roberts has left some eggs on his live remarks. In June 2023, he apologized for mocking the weight of former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, saying he “realized immediately” that it was “harmful”. Two years ago, Roberts also withdrew his and the Internet’s reports that Biden is planning to limit Americans’ consumption of red meat to combat climate change.
