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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) found out that $2,000,000,000 of taxpayer money was given to a new nonprofit connected to Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat who keeps losing elections.
In April 2024, the Biden administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave Power Forward Communities the huge grant through a program called the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This group got the money for green energy projects even though it was only started in late 2023 and had almost no experience. According to its latest tax records, it made a mere $100 in its first three months.
Power Forward Communities was one of eight groups that got a piece of the $20 billion the EPA handed out in April 2024. On February 13, 2025, EPA boss Lee Zeldin said his team, along with DOGE officials, discovered that Biden’s administration had moved that $20 billion to a private bank before leaving office. This made it harder for the government to keep an eye on how the money was being used.
Finding out that Power Forward Communities got some of this cash raises big questions about whether Biden’s team picked favorites when giving out these giant grants. Abrams strongly supported Biden’s green energy plans and campaigned for Kamala Harris, the former vice president.
Republicans have warned for years that Biden’s allies might create groups just to grab federal money from programs like the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This program, started by the Democrats’ huge 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, was meant to act like a “green bank” to fund eco-friendly projects.
“I made a commitment to members of Congress and to the American people to be a good steward of tax dollars and I’ve wasted no time in keeping my word,” Zeldin told the Washington Free Beacon. “When we learned about the Biden Administration’s scheme to quickly park $20 billion outside the agency, we suspected that some organizations were created out of thin air just to take advantage of this.”
“As we continue to learn more about where some of this money went, it is even more apparent how far-reaching and widely accepted this waste and abuse has been,” Zeldin added. “It’s extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion. That’s 20 million times the organization’s reported revenue.”
Neither Power Forward Communities nor Abrams answered questions about this.
Power Forward Communities was set up in October 2023 by a number of groups, including Rewiring America, a left-leaning organization pushing for electric power over fossil fuels. Abrams, who works as Rewiring America’s senior counsel, said she was “thrilled” to join the group. “This is how we expand access to clean energy—by prioritizing housing, equity and resilience,” she posted on X.
The group’s website says it’s the first big nationwide program to pay for energy-saving home upgrades. It wants to help homeowners, builders, and renters switch out gas appliances—like old stovetops—for electric ones, like induction stovetops.
In its only press release so far, Power Forward Communities said it would use the $2 billion from the EPA to install things like heat pumps, solar panels, home batteries, electric car chargers, and better insulation.
“For an organization that has no experience in this, that was literally just established, and had $100 in the bank to receive a $2 billion grant—it doesn’t just fly in the face of common sense, it’s out and out fraud,” said Daniel Turner from Power the Future, an energy advocacy group, in an interview with the Free Beacon.
Power Forward Communities lists a number of partners on its site, including two nonprofits Abrams started after losing the 2018 Georgia governor race: the Southern Economic Advancement Project and Fair Count. The Southern Economic Advancement Project, which works on racial equity and economic power in the South, is backed by the Tides Center, a group that gives tons of money to left-wing causes.
Other partners include the American Federation of Teachers and the AFL-CIO, two big labor unions that support Democrats. The teachers’ union leader, Randi Weingarten, and Abrams both advise Climate Power, a group that spent $55 million on ads for Kamala Harris’s presidential run in September 2024.
“President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American people to stop the fraud and abuse by leaders who irresponsibly shoveled boat loads of cash to far-left, activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity, instead of serving the American people,” Zeldin said. “Those days are over.”
Right before Biden’s team left office, they put the $20 billion—now tracked down by Zeldin and DOGE—at Citibank. The eight groups that got the money, including Power Forward Communities, have only used a small amount of it thus far. But this setup makes it tough for Trump’s administration to take the money back, though Zeldin is working hard to do just that.
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