By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-23 15:56:19 | Updated at 2024-12-26 01:50:09
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Biden Staffers Pressure President to Dole Out Millions to Defund the Police
Townhall ^ | December 22, 2024 | Sarah Arnold
Posted on 12/23/2024 7:17:27 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
Amid growing unrest over rising crime rates in many American cities, reports have emerged that staffers within the lame-duck Biden administration are pushing outgoing President Joe Biden to allocate millions in taxpayer dollars to support initiatives that effectively defund the police. Despite the alarming increase in violent crime and public calls for law and order, these insiders are reportedly advocating for policies that would siphon vital resources away from law enforcement agencies, leaving communities vulnerable and signaling a dangerous disregard for the rule of law— all in the name of appeasing the far-left fringe of the Democratic Party.
A group of lobbyists that include a multitude of Biden staffers are urging the White House, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Department of Energy (DOE) to pour millions of American tax dollars into a nonprofit that supports defunding the police, prison abolition, and the “liberation” of Palestinian territories.
In a letter, the group, dubbed the “Federal Environment and Energy Workers for Justice in Palestine,” demanded that the Biden Administration dump funds into the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA). They also urged him to end its support of Israel.
CJA has a long history of supporting the defund the police movement.
While our work typically does not engage on foreign policy issues, the ongoing genocide in Gaza has compelled us to speak truthfully on the hypocrisy of protecting human health and the environment within U.S. borders while our government continues to fund and facilitate the destruction of entire communities and ecosystems overseas. We call upon EPA and DOE to end their collaboration with Israel until there is a permanent ceasefire and an end to the occupation of Palestine. We also urge EPA Administrator Michael Regan and the White House to release all designated federal funds to Climate Justice Alliance. Palestine is an environmental and climate justice issue. There can be no climate and environmental justice within the United States while we perpetuate climate and environmental disasters abroad.
The group said they were “horrified” by the billions of “taxpayers’ dollars being diverted overseas to fund Israel’s military campaign,” adding that the EPA’s “funding to build community resilience to climate change has also been directly impacted by the ongoing genocide.”
The EPA has not yet given the grant to the left-wing organization.
Squad member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) echoed similar thoughts, saying that the “Climate Justice Alliance’s members include the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network, and Solidarity. Punishing their advocacy for human rights wrongly denies our communities critical funds for environmental justice.”
Last year, the EPA announced that it would give a $50 million grant to the Climate Justice Alliance, a Berkeley, California-based nonprofit, despite it promoting the “defund the police” movement. It was approved under the IRA’s $3 billion Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants provision.
CJA is the only nonprofit among the 11 recipients of the EPA’s “environmental justice thriving communities grantmaking program” that has not received funding. The organization’s executive director, KD Chavez, accused the EPA of “viewpoint discrimination.”
“This is a larger attack on civil society and due process in our democratic grantmaking and environmental work,” he said.
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1 posted on 12/23/2024 7:17:28 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
To: Mr. Mojo
Tell me again why we kept the government open?
2 posted on 12/23/2024 7:19:33 AM PST by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
To: Mr. Mojo
As I always say — if the troublemakers in society succeed in defunding the police, they will not like it when the Good Guys decide they can start taking out the trash. The police are mostly there to protect the Bad Guys from the righteous anger of the Good Guys.
To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...
4 posted on 12/23/2024 7:23:27 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
To: ClearCase_guy
5 posted on 12/23/2024 7:27:18 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
To: Mr. Mojo
Joe Biden is a dementia patient. He is the only one with the ultimate authority of the executive branch. Everything “he” has done must be reviewed under this lens and the actions taken by others on his behalf must be undone.
6 posted on 12/23/2024 7:29:05 AM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
To: Mr. Mojo
Why do you have to spend money to defund something?
Oh yes, graft.
7 posted on 12/23/2024 7:30:02 AM PST by packagingguy
To: Mr. Mojo
Take the keys away from grandpa .
It’s not safe for him to drive
8 posted on 12/23/2024 7:34:19 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
To: Mr. Mojo
The Biden Administration is on one huge spending spree at the end of his term. Our tax dollars going to waste.
9 posted on 12/23/2024 7:45:42 AM PST by Parley Baer
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