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The Biden-Harris administration announced on Wednesday that it is establishing a taxpayer-funded “environmental justice” jobs training program.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in conjunction with AmeriCorps, is creating the “Environmental Justice Climate Corps,” a $25 million program designed to “open doors” for people seeking careers in “environmental justice,” which is essentially the combination of left-wing social justice ideology and environmentalism. The initiative announced Wednesday is part of the administration’s American Climate Corps program, which the White House established via executive action after it failed to make it into what eventually became the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), President Joe Biden’s signature climate law.
The Environmental Justice Climate Corps “will put more than 250 American Climate Corps members to work over the next three years providing technical assistance to community-based organizations in environmental justice communities – helping them access resources to carry out locally driven projects that reduce pollution, increase community climate resilience, improve public health and safety, and build community capacity to address environmental and climate justice challenges,” according to the White House. Participants will receive an allowance that equates to a wage of roughly $25 per hour, and they will also be reimbursed for some living expenses. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: GOP Lawmakers Demand Answers From Biden Admin On Massive Grants For ‘Environmental Justice’ Program)
“Our partnership is a first-of-its-kind effort within the federal government to expand pathways into environmental justice careers,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said of the new program. “This program will create opportunities for young people through President Biden’s American Climate Corps that will help folks in overburdened communities access and benefit from historic funding secured under the President’s Investing in America agenda.”
Regan and AmeriCorps CEO Michael Smith will talk about the new program during an upcoming panel discussion at Climate Week New York City, a week-long summit attended by numerous other political and business elites, according to the White House.
An earlier iteration of the American Climate Corps did not make it into what became the IRA, largely because Republicans opposed it over concerns about its price tag, according to The Associated Press. Some House Democrats requested $132 billion for the program in the IRA before its removal from the legislation, and Biden’s initial plan budgeted $10 billion for the initiative.
Despite the program’s omission from the IRA, several Democrats, including New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, called on Biden to set up the American Climate Corps via executive action, according to the AP.
The EPA and AmeriCorps did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
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If programs like these rely on government funding to survive, closing them down is as easy as “Budget Cuts”. Trump 47 will be BIG on Government Budget Cuts. With any luck Vance 48 will follow suit with more Budget Cuts.
One hopes that it will be that sequence. Trump-Vance Presidencies will make this country great again!
First and foremost is to stop paying the UN and charge a market rate for for the commercial property they occupy. For some time, I have thought UN headquarters would be better placed in Niamey, Niger rather than New York.
The US should terminate donations to the UNFCCC, UN COP, and the IPCC.
Let’s start with COP-30 in Fargo, ND.
Defund the COP
Yep… around December, January time frame to really get the feel of Global Warming.
And open the windows in the meeting rooms as they did for Mann’s testimony before Congress in 1988.
Offer the UN a new location, Shemya Air Force Base, Alaska
McMurdo base Antarctica
I think Havana would be the best choice——a spiritual homeland for most of the delegates and a great laboratory for the success in building a socialist workers paradise.
Or the Maldives?
trump is a traitor to US allies as he is to his own country
https://apnews.com/article/trump-zelenskyy-ukraine-russia-6e02fc7575a14d9abb64a326ffd0a4a3
The debate showed how easy he is to manipulate. As if most people didn’t know that before.
Vance is a great asset for democrats, the more he talks, the more votes the’ll get. By now it looks like he’s still a never-trumper.
Like most of his former staff and people that worked with him became.
You are a traitor to Western Society.
You support every far-left agenda that is trying to DESTROY the society that has provided you with everything in your poor insipid, pathetic existence.
Yet you still are totally dependant on every benefit the fossil fuel and capitalist economy has to offer.
You must REALLY hate your life.. (I don’t blame you, it is totally depraved and backward)
Zelensky and Putin are both endorsing the Kamal… why is that ??
And how putrid was that attempt to influence the elections by bringing Zelensky over to the USA.
ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING… and it FAILED absolutely.
The Kamal lost the debate so badly because she didn’t answer a single question even the far-left ABC clowns asked.
Vance is piling up Republican votes left right and centre… a BRILLIANT choice as next VP,
He is pragmatic, resolute and believes in the USA… Something the Kamal certainly does not and never will..
Don’t pick on him so hard. He can’t help it if he was one of the 1 in 36 with ASD.
“trump is a traitor to US allies”
It is Biden and the Kamal that are supporting Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran against the only democracy and only US ally in the middle east.
Zelensky is a Biden/ Democratic party PUPPET, not an ally to the USA.
Slava Ukraine
Slava Ukraini
That nitwit cannot grasp that Zelenskyy is a US democrat party puppet, even though he can watch live the same people trying to install a puppet in the United States.
NB: Please stop capitalizing the name of that vilest ever regime of murderous traitors to the American people.
The Kamal is a wonderful asset for the Republicans and Trump.
The more she yaps mindlessly with vague giggling and moronic platitudes, the larger the Republican vote becomes. 🙂
Hadn’t you noticed.
That is why they are trying to keep her hidden, so she can’t LOSE any more votes.
The camel is a great symbol for Ms Harris. If she is elected and she institutes her Leftist policies, America will soon be an economic desert.
I am still perplexed at how grocery stores are “gouging” prices.
“trump is a traitor to US allies as he is to his own country”
Ridiculous!
You know, when Biden decided to pull out of Afghanistan, there were also NATO partner nations who were also in Afghanistan. They were there protecting their interests, which was to fight against terrorism.
Joe Biden was a traitor to Afghanistan and to the NATO nations that fought beside American troops there. Biden brushed aside the protestations of NATO allies and his own advisors, and abruptly pulled out of Afghanistan, and damn the consequences. The NATO nations could not stay in Afghanistan without U.S. support, so they were forced to withdraw, too.
As for Ukraine, Trump gave Ukraine weapons they could use to defend themselves, whereas Obama and Biden sent Ukraine blankets and pillows (literally).
A lot of people think they know what Trump thinks about Ukraine and Russia. I think a lot of these people are seriously confused about what Trump thinks. Trump’s detractors think Trump will throw Ukraine under the bus. There is no indication that is the case. Just the opposite, going by what Trump has actually done in the past to support Ukraine.
Trump says a lot of things when he wants to make a deal. He sometimes takes the most extreme position initially. He does this to set a bargaining point for making a deal. He takes an extreme position at first, which his detractors freak out over, then he compromises and comes out with a great deal for the United States.
It’s called “The Art of the Deal”. You should read his book.
Btw, Kamala has learned a new word: “Holistically”.
Kamala rose in the ranks with Willy Brown’s help, holistically.
Yes Willie Brown was behind her the whole way.
‘Trump’s detractors think Trump will throw Ukraine under the bus.’
The Democrats / Deep State have already thrown Ukraine into a meat grinder. It would have been vastly better for all if Commander Zero had leveled honestly with America’s regime media back in 2019 re. Biden family corruption and Neo-con meddling in Ukraine. Instead, we’ve had to endure Trump’s impeachment and the malevolence and incompetence of the ‘Biden’ Administration for nearly four years. And we’re nowhere near certain of getting out of this mess, witness Zero’s and the regime media’s ongoing efforts to drag Harris over the finish line in November.
This all was after he cancelled Trump’s withdrawal schedule which would have been accomplished during the winter non combat season.
Trump also knows that being nice and friendly to adversaries is quite a tactical advantage. It is never a good idea to allow your opponent to be on guard.
OMG
ROTFLMFAO
😂 😂 😄 😄 😆 😆 😉👍
You do satire pretty well
Hilarious.
Didn’t she run for president in 2016?
Hillarious Clinton!
Do not feed the trolls.
He is sitting in the basement giggling and wetting his pants from all this unearned attention.
Waiting for granny to change its nappy !!
Harris is the Putin candidate, just like Biden and Hillary.
Trump is the one who started lethal military aid to Ukraine and bombed the Wagner Group in Syria. Obama/Biden/Harris were the ones in charge when Putin invaded Ukraine.
Your link said Trump thought Zelensky was a good deal maker, and implied that this meant Trump didn’t like Zelensky.
But Trump likes good deal makers, so Trump may be praising Zelensky, not criicizing him. That would be my take on it.
Trump has said in the past that funding for Ukraine should be made available, but he said the funding should be in the form of a long-term loan to be repaid when Ukraine gets back on its feet. The same thing was done in World War II, where allies borrowed money to fight the war with Germany and eventually paid it all back over many years.
Given the situation Zelensky faces, he absolutely must be a good salesman or his country is doomed.
It was a complement, but the legacy media could not allow that so they twisted it like a pretzel.
If government would only spend its fair share. Instead, it spends roughly double.
Spends double but accomplishes Net Zero
Much worse than ‘zero’. A more honest ‘accounting’ of national income would start with backing 2x Federal government spending out of GDP – 1x because it’s a diversion of productive resources from the private sector and another 1x because the vast majority of Federal government spending is actually deleterious to productive activity.
Well, there is that!
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/09/26/we-should-be-talking-more-about-kamalas-internet-boondoggle-n2645143
Glad you raised the issue. I, for one, had forgotten.
How to waste taxpayer’s money for worse than useless BS jobs.
Misread the post.
Buying votes with taxpayers’ money.
Again.
Doing something for poor people instead of the rich = buying votes.
Paying people to dig ditches and fill them in …… yes.
Kinda like your life – and you only get one.
The Kamal is doing something for the poor.
Has created so many more of them over the last 3½ years….
… and is intent on doing an even better job of creating the poor, if she gets in.
Doing something for the poor?
Apparently bringing down everyone else’s standard of living to match the poorer proles is viewed as leveling the playing field. Doesn’t lift up the poor, just makes everyone equally miserable
What exactly HAS she done for the poor that she actually hasn’t done TO them??
She says she Wants to make things better, she’s had four years already … Why hasn’t she done it yet??
In 4 years
Gasoline prices have doubled
Grocery prices have doubled
Energy prices are up 80%+
inflation reached 9+% for 6-8 months in a row
Illegal border crossings are at crisis levels
All happened after Jan 21, 2021 inauguration day
“We all start from different positions. Equity means we all arrive at the same point.”
(Or words to that effect.)
In order for that to happen, the result has to be the lowest common denominator, sort of what happened with “Success for every child” programs in schools.
The only thing Democrats do for the poor is keep them poor. Oh wait, I forget uneducated and dependent. Poor, uneducated and dependent on government handouts. That’s what Democrats do for the poor.
Not quite. They also buy their votes with taxpayer dollars.
And saddle them with even more debt.
How quick can the next batch of eco justice nutter activists be trained /indoctrinated
Oh it’s not really for indoctrinating the activists it’s resourcing for them to indoctrinate us. They’re already hand picked and can identify impure thoughts or absentees from the ‘information’ sessions.
Exactly.
They’d be better off learning REAL skills.
The entire state government here in Wokeachusetts now consists of eco justice nutter activists. Every agency is now dominated by them. All state policies- all their web sites- are nothing but how the state will help save the planet against the cc boogeyman. Believe it or not, this week is CLIMATE CHANGE WEEK in this crazy state.
“How quick can the next batch of eco justice nutter activists be trained /indoctrinated”
If Trump is elected, they have about four more months to train these activists before Trump cuts off the money.
Exactly which Congressional appropriations bill authorized this expenditure? Without Congressional approval, this is an illegal expenditure by an out-of-control Executive Branch.
Is – is this the ‘gateway’ to Idiocracy (see the movie with the same name) on steroids?
“Plants crave Brawndo – it’s got Joe Biden/Kamala Harris-class electrolytes!”
I think we are deep in a Western Idiocracy right now.
We are sitting here watching our societies being destroyed in real time by very stupid leaders who think they know what they are doing, but obviously don’t, as their economies come crashing down around their ears due to their stupid decisions.
And all the idoocrats are radical leftwingers.
I am getting sick to death of the never-ending tidal wave of bullshit dressed up as environmental science
A fine legal term I leant yesterday – maybe use it to help reduce moderation problems on “picky” sites
“This is pure ipse dixit. (A legal term for bullsh*t.)”
Nice. I will use it.
It’ll be useful for a reply to the climatistas that show up here.
Nice- I’m gonna throw that one at my lawyer friend.
so, the green police
yes, the green police
The Green Police.
I try to sleep, they’re wide awake
They won’t let me alone
They don’t get paid to take vacations
Or let me alone
They spy on me, I try to hide
They won’t let me alone
They persecute me
They’re the judge and jury all in one
Yes, Green Police is the objective.
I think the Biden plan is to hire 40,000 of them.
Do not fail to wash out your jars and cans before recycling them.
There is no food waste allowed in the recycling bin we forced you to take.
Be sure to conserve water by using low flow nozzles we forced you to buy.
Remember, there are lots of toxins that cannot go into landfill so be sure to sort them out first. A complete list of prohibited items is available. You will be fined if they are found in your trash, and it is illegal to put them in your neighbors trash instead. Do not place them on the street with a FREE sign. Do not sell them on eBay. Do not abandon them. Do not allow toxins to collect in your yard.
Environmental justice?
Whispering grass don’t tell the trees…
I googled that and listened to the tune. Never heard of it. I’m impressed that you knew it.
Paving over Joshua trees.
Making artificial Joshua trees.
From the article: “The initiative announced Wednesday is part of the administration’s American Climate Corps program, which the White House established via executive action after it failed to make it into what eventually became the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), President Joe Biden’s signature climate law.”
So, when Trump moves into the White House in January, he can take executive action and cancel the “environmental justice” jobs training program.
If Trump is elected, he is going to be cancelling and repurposing a lot of the funding for Joe Biden’s delusional attempts at controlling Earth’s weather and temperatures.
This is going to be so much fun! Climate Alarmists will be down on their knees screaming at the sky in frustration. Meanwhile, Trump will be getting the nation back on track with a common-sense agenda that doesn’t include wasting money on climate alarmism.
The United States will shift back into “high gear” after January 2025, if Trump is elected.
Often we read about large, influential industries, such as Big Pharma and Big Oil. There is another, in my opinion, Big Grievance, an industry that exists solely on government support. Problems in society do exist, and there are organizations that truly work toward solutions. But Big Grievance is not about actual solutions.
It is based on exacerbating problems in order to have more government money passed to it to solve the problems it is exacerbating. This program is another instance of the existence of Big Grievance. Communities will be told how bad things are with environmental justice, and how they need more money, which will be funded via these same organizations that are part of the Big Grievance industry. Most of these funds will be spent by the organizations, expanding their size and, yes, increasing the pay of those in charge.
Yep, but the Big Grievance industry is but a part of the Big Taxation industry.
Do fish swim do birds fly?
‘Universally loathed’: Kamala Harris’ latest endorsement a misstep (msn.com)
Even some birds don’t fly they flock together.
Hopefully, they will be as effective as those hired by FDR’s CCC and WPA. As the old saying went “It takes eight WPA people to mow a lawn. Two to come, two to go, two to sh*t, and two to mow.”
Under the US Constitution, the Executive branch cannot spend money without authorization from Congress. The Supreme Court has been aggressively clear on this point, curtailing the power of the bureaucracy.
This plan of the Biden-Harris Administration will be challenged and stopped—-but they do not care.
So who is the real threat to our Constitution and Democracy?
We were doing justice to our environment before the absolute stupidity of solar and wind made planet Earth a lot uglier and a lot more hostile to so many species we had previously taken great care to look after as well as we could. The British countryside has been and is being blemished by political liars telling us the so called renewables are cheap and clean when they are neither.
Nuclear energy does a lot less damage, lasts longer than the one generation of turbines and panels (if you are lucky), and should not need any special measures we don’t already know about.
There is nothing remotely cheap, green or clean about wind turbines and solar panels even if we could actually make enough of them to cope with demand now let alone in 2050.
Another impeachable offense.
Tell me again about the threats to democracy. Tell me again about the Constitutional Republic.
Setting up a program and funding it without Congressional budget authority.
“The Environmental Justice Climate Corps “will put more than 250 American Climate Corps members to work over the next three years providing technical assistance to community-based organizations in environmental justice communities “
So … the taxpayers will be paying the climate protesters instead of Soros-funded group?
This is where your money goes. Or it it your children’s and grandchildren’s money when it’s borrowed?
If you’re still thinking about not voting for Trump, this example of useless spending should be enough to convince you.
Our government is terrible, all agencies need their budgets cut drastically or they need to be shut down. They are not just costing us a boatload of money but they are sending us in the wrong direction. This stuff is really bad.
Think of it as a brainwashing operation and you won’t be wrong. Captain Planet Mark II. Cheers –
Socrates had trouble defining justice. Yet, our environmental alarmists apparently understand justice so well that they even come up with new ways to use the word.
A while back, Biden signed an executive order establishing some kind of youth for climate group that was supposedly in the 10s of thousands who would work to advocate for Biden’s climate agenda (I am being kind here). They would receive stipends and housing and food and transportation and UNIFORMS.
It has faded from the news.
When I first saw that, the first to pop up in my mind was Hitler Youth. The pattern was too clear.