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🚨DOGE: After it became clear that Democrats were losing the White House, they rushed to create brand new NGOs so Biden could inject $20 billion into them from the Green New Deal slush fund. Jesse Waters: Trump's EPA administrator, is this a kickback? Is it theft? Is it graft? What would you call it? EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin: All of the above. It's a green slush fund—$20 billion parked at an outside bank toward the end of the Biden administration given to just eight NGOs. You just named a bunch of them. These NGOs were created for the first time, many of them just to get this money, and they're pass-throughs. So the EPA entered into this account control agreement with these entities, Treasury enters into a financial agent agreement with the bank, and they design it to tie the EPA's hands behind their back, to tie the federal government's hands behind its back. So when the money goes through the NGOs to sub-grantees, many of them also pass-throughs, we don't know where it's going. We don't have the proper amount of oversight, and as you pointed out, it's going to people who were in the Obama and Biden administrations. It's going to donors. It's not going directly—as you pointed out, thankfully you did—it's not going directly to remediate that environmental issue, to deliver clean air, land, and water. It's billions, tens of billions of dollars going through their friends. Jesse Waters: Well, they're going to say they didn't steal it. They're just going to say they got paid salaries and then they donated it to some other subcontractor, who got paid salaries, and it eventually went to some kid to pick up litter, right? Because like, at the end of this, what's it like, 5% of this money actually goes towards the environment? How much actually goes towards the environment after it's been just stripped out for salaries? Lee Zeldin: Right, and stripped out for salaries of middleman after middleman going through these multiple added layers. I'll give you an example: On the other end of this, there was one CEO who was serving on the White House Environmental Justice Council for the Biden administration. While she was serving on this council, she was CEO of an organization that applied for and received $20 million. So some people were able to, with the right connections, be on the receiving end of billions of dollars; others on the other end of this, getting tens of millions of dollars, and the federal government not having oversight. And, you know, I just mentioned the account control agreements that were entered into with the EPA and these prime recipients. They were amending the account control agreements right up to the inauguration. They were amending account control agreements, we found January 13th. Jesse Waters: So they were scrambling before you guys got in there and picked some tires. Lee Zeldin: They amended it. Yeah, they amended these account control agreements to reduce EPA oversight and to make it easier for them to pass through the money without getting caught. Jesse Waters: So you caught them. And have you kicked this over to Pam Bondi at Justice? Lee Zeldin: Yeah, the Justice Department and FBI have been working very closely with us. They've been working hard on this. My conversations with the Attorney General, she seems very focused and motivated. Same thing when I had an opportunity to speak to our great new FBI director. We have to ensure that there's accountability here, and we have to make sure that the federal government re-establishes oversight. We can't afford as a country to have this kind of money wasted. We should have zero tolerance for even a penny of waste and abuse. Jesse Waters: Wow. I mean, there seem to be a lot of scandals in the Biden administration, but this seems like a whopper. Glad you found it out, Lee Zeldin. We really appreciate it. Let's get to the bottom of it.