In a shocking video released by Project Veritas, an EPA official appears to confirm what many have long suspected: taxpayer money is being shoveled out the door with reckless abandon, all in the name of climate policy. The official’s words paint a damning picture of an agency prioritizing speed over prudence, all to sidestep political obstacles. His cavalier attitude suggests that the real motive is not saving the planet, but safeguarding their funding from potential Republican oversight.
Gold Bars Off the Titanic: A Scandalous Admission
The official’s metaphor of “throwing gold bars off the Titanic” says it all. Here we have an Environmental Protection Agency employee admitting that the agency’s spending spree is less about strategic investments and more about ensuring the funds are locked into programs that future administrations can’t reverse. The phrase reeks of desperation and irresponsibility, reflecting a mindset that prioritizes politics over the public trust.
One particularly egregious quote reveals the intent behind the chaos:
“We’re throwing gold bars off the Titanic. We’re getting the money out.”
The EPA is deliberately funneled billions into nonprofits to insulate the funds from political accountability. The fact that these programs are less transparent and harder to audit only raises further questions about their legitimacy.
Efron openly admits how the EPA uses nonprofits as a political buffer against Republican administrations—and reveals how he could later reap personal rewards with a cushy job at one of the nonprofits he helped fund during his tenure.
“Over the last year we’ve given out $50 billion dollars for climate things…so to go work for one of these places would be really cool.”
The Inflation Reduction Act: A Billion-Dollar Giveaway?
The official boasts about the scale of the spending, highlighting $50 billion in climate-related funds distributed last year alone. The conversation reveals a startling lack of concern for oversight:
We gave them [nonprofits] the money because… it was an insurance policy against Trump winning. Because they aren’t [a government agency], they’re safer from Republicans taking the money away.
This admission underscores a staggering departure from the responsible stewardship of public funds. If preventing abuse and ensuring efficacy are no longer priorities, then taxpayers are left footing the bill for what amounts to ideological activism masquerading as governance.
The Real Agenda: Politics Over Policy
The video also exposes the underlying political motivations driving this free-for-all. The official admits that the rush to disburse funds is driven by fear of Republican oversight, calling it an “external policy against Trump winning.” This politicization of an ostensibly neutral government agency is troubling. It suggests that the EPA, under its current leadership, views itself not as a public servant but as a partisan tool.
What’s at Stake?
The environmental movement’s defenders might argue that the urgency of climate change justifies these tactics. But even if one accepts the premise of a climate crisis, it does not excuse abandoning accountability. Public trust hinges on transparency and fiscal responsibility—qualities conspicuously absent from this EPA official’s description of the agency’s operations.
Moreover, the decision to funnel funds through nonprofits rather than traditional government programs raises serious concerns. Nonprofits are not subject to the same scrutiny as government agencies, making it difficult to track how these billions are being spent. Are these organizations truly advancing environmental goals, or are they simply lining the pockets of well-connected insiders?
A Titanic Failure of Leadership
The metaphor of the Titanic is all too fitting. It reflects an administration careening toward disaster, its leaders focused not on averting the iceberg but on throwing taxpayer money overboard. The recklessness on display in this video is a microcosm of a broader failure in climate policy, where ideology and expedience often trump science and reason.
The EPA official’s remarks should serve as another in an unending series of wake-up calls for Americans. If we allow government agencies to operate with this level of impunity, we risk not just wasting billions but undermining the very principles of accountability and good governance.
The Project Veritas video is a damning indictment of the EPA’s current trajectory. It exposes an agency more interested in political gamesmanship than in serving the public interest. As taxpayers, we should demand better. Environmental policy, like any other domain of public policy, deserves rigorous scrutiny, not carte blanche spending justified by ideological fervor.
It’s time to hold our leaders accountable—not just for their intentions but for their actions. The EPA’s Titanic approach is sinking public trust, and only transparency and responsibility can patch the hull before it’s too late.
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re: “The official’s words paint a damning picture of an agency prioritizing speed over prudence, all to sidestep political obstacles. His cavalier attitude suggests that the real motive is not saving the planet, but safeguarding their funding from potential Republican oversight.”
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Who here STILL DOUBTS there exists a ‘deep state’ with their OWN agenda?
How is this not a RICO violation? Funneling of public funds into private hands that the funneller plans to use as a golden parachute when they leave “public service”.
We (I?) await an indicting document detailing the US Public Law (U.S. Code) cites and the individuals (and organizations) involved …
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text
Don’t forget to add Fauci and his funding of Wuhan.
Who’s going to prosecute? Biden’s DOJ?
I had to Google/Wikipedia to learn more about RICO.
It sounds like it could be made to apply, but do you believe it is obvious?
The kid in the video is clearly corrupt but I think other laws fit more cleanly.
Bonus info for others who did not know: RICO law started under Nixon.
So many important US policies go back to the Nixon era
(except all the ones that I learn go back to FDR?)
Stokes?
Duuh! Alexandr Vindman was the poster boy for Deep State apparatchiks in the first term, whoever is funding The Green Blob with tax funds is likely to be the poster boy for the second.
ex-FBI agents/employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page would like to enter this ‘Deep State apparatchiks’ competition.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/14/17465360/peter-strzok-text-inspector-general-stop
My skin crawls whenever I see this name or his mugshot.
What a creep.
And it should have been called the Inflation Inflation Act, if democrats were honest.
I’ve been terming it The Inflation Aggravation Act …
It’s the Inflation Creation Act !
Inflation Resurgence Act.
(The FED wanted higher unemployment so they could check that economic equilibrium box … how many people ‘work’ at the EPA?)
Inflation INDUCTION Act
This country is no longer governed by elected officials. It is governed by a Bureaucratic Hegemony. The Soviet Union was not governed by the Communist Party, it was governed by the Bureaucratic Hegemony the CP established. Same for Nazi Germany. Same for China.
The Democrat party, a socialist party even though they won’t admit it (except for Bernie), has created the same thing here in the US.
I hope that Trump can at least begin to dismantle our Bureaucratic Hegemony but I’m not going to hold my breath. The BH has VAST powers to use in resisting Trump’s changes. The subject of this thread outlines just a part of how this can happen.
AOC has called herself a Democratic Socialist. So there are 2.
I think it is governed by banking oligarchy, at least they are the ones set the agenda and are the benefactors. Those who have unchecked power to print money and decide where the money will be invested are the real power.
The bureaucracy are expandable mercenaries that execute the agenda. Even if Trump attacks bureaucracy, the underlying oligarchy will survive.
Minor nit. The banks do not print the money.
It’s on You Tube put up two days ago and comments are NOT turned off
His name is Brent Efron
Short search finds linkedin with this:
LinkedIn · Brent E.
1.5K+ followers
Princeton, New Jersey, United States · Special Advisor for Implementation, Office of the Administrator · US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Special Advisor for Implementation @ur momisugly US EPA · I am a solutions-oriented political and climate policy professional with 7+ years of experience across local, …
“…political and climate policy professional…”
Isn’t that a good description for all so-called climate professionals?: They’re political!
Climatology is a liberal art, not a quantitative physical science.
7 years experience …
That’s a good description for an apprentice that could (maybe) have enough knowledge and experience to begin to begin working on his own.
After 7 years he is already thinking about the payback job outside of govt, but still essentially funded by govt.
Brent needs to realize his govt days are over, and anywhere he goes outside of govt is going to call a lot of attention to itself. Poor Brent is (for good reason) screwed.
He will be arrested on January 20 for embezzlement.
He better have an exact list of where every cent of those funds went to, otherwise he is in deep doo-doo !!
I haven’t been able to watch a YouTube clip for months now. I don’t know why.
(I click on one and YouTube wants me to sign in to prove I’m not bot?!)
But the clip in the article was Rumble and worked fine.
Thanks to whoever put the Rumble version.
Some good news for the UK:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/were-just-getting-started-nigel-farages-reform-uk/
“Mr. Yusuf said: “Reform has all the momentum in British politics. Reform is now polling at 24 per cent and, for the first time, we are now polling ahead of Labour. We recently surged past 100,000 members, are adding members at a record pace, and we are just getting started.
The British people want real change after years of failure and deception. Reform will form the next government of the United Kingdom.”
Time for some accountability. Investigate and prosecute or fire any government employee abusing their position. In the case of EPA, cutting the department staffing and budget by ninety percent, reducing their purview to real environmental problems, and placing it under Interior will go a long way toward ending this kind of corruption.
I figured it was worth a shot to sign into RFK Jr’s “Nominations for the People” website in order to nominate David Schnare for Deputy Administrator at EPA — he was slated to be EPA Deputy Administrator in Trump’s first administration. if Trump wants a gunslinger at EPA under Lee Zeldin to help clear out the Deep State mess there, David is the man for the job.
“Investigate and prosecute or fire any government employee abusing their position.”
Careful, there is likely to be a ‘D’ in office relatively soon. What then?
“Investigate and prosecute” costs time and money.
In case it sailed over your head, the U.S. elections indicate a resounding rejection of ‘D’-style tyrannical politics. As more is exposed in investigations how we’ve been subjected to the most corrupt time in American history, and as more of the youth in the country find out how much ‘D’-promulgated disinformation has been poured into their heads on more than just the climate issue, the results are likely that we might not see ‘Ds’ return to office anytime in the foreseeable future. “Investigate and prosecute costs time and money” is essentially the same mentality as “increased police presence in crime-riddled areas cost time and money.” No offense, dude, but if you are not part of the solution on calling for holding corrupt people accountable for their actions, then you are part of the problem. This is a situation where you either lead, follow, or get out of the way.
I really hope that Musk, Ramaswamy, Patel and Bondi can come up with a way to claw back misappropriated funds. It’s not just EPA. There is clearly an element of fraud and quid pro quo in these bureaucrats funneling billions to NGO’s whom they then go to work for. There is a long history of former senior government folks going to NGOs when their party is out of power and from NGOs to government when in power. This is, I believe, a major source of the waste and fraud that D.O.G.E. is supposed to root out. Here’s hoping they are wildly successful.
Don’t hold your breath. Fraud, waste and abuse has never been eliminated inside government bureaucracies. That means the internal government culture accepts it and the best that can be done is to reduce the obvious criminality a bit by sacrificing unpopular employees occasionally using show trials on TV.
Let those misappropriated funds go.
Stop the next misappropriated funds from getting misappropriated.
They have already been given a lot of funding..
They just get NO MORE until every cent of those funds is accounted for.
And if they can’t account for the use of federal funds, it is clearly embezzlement and a criminal offence.
Does that also include the Pentagon? They have flunked every audit so far :<)
Washington DC, 2000 Deep State, 2012 Swamp, 2024 Sewer. Progressive Progress.
Climate funding is the grift that keeps on grifting.
If Trump can find a way to defund ngos and slash dept. budgets, half of the deep state will go away. The other half will stay and work for free to destroy the republic.
The Deep State is not NGOs or bureaucracy. It is Federal Reserve, at least FR is the visible tip of the iceberg, and the Deep State is the invisible and unaccountable part under it. NGOs and government officials are just their tools.
I could survive 4 years on $100 billion.
I’m increasingly convinced that we’re fighting the battle that the climate culture has staged for us.
They don’t believe the climate crisis bullshit any more than we do.
But they have a much more sinister agenda, which I think is the “Great Reset” of civilizations in the world order, engineered and controlled of course by the one- world-government cabal.
The smarter ones are totally cynical, but there are plenty of useful idiots as well.
Also, doublethink and doublespeak have become commonplace.
It was NEVER about the climate, just the MONEY!
Someone here at WUWT called the alarmists either Dupes or Knaves.
The Dupes truly believe they are saving the planet. They never hear any contrary evidence
in the bubbles they inhabit, or are not allowed to hear due to censorship, shadow-banning or Google’s algorithmic changes. With enough facts & repetition some of these people can be reached. Don’t get mad at the Dupes.
The Knaves know it’s a scam: they are in it for money or power or both. We will never convince them. Skeptics should make them the object of ridicule, satire & parody. And try to defund them if at all possible!
It goes without saying our government is completely out of control. A good first step would be to declare a government funding holiday. No regulatory agency can gift money to anyone until we can establish clear accountability. An accounting of all distributed money from all agencies should be made and each agencies budget cut by that amount.
A good first step would be to pass a law, perhaps a constitutional amendment, requiring balanced budget, and then eliminate as many government departments as need to balance the budget.
The EPA is one of those government agencies that achieved it’s original goal a long time ago, and should have been disbanded after it did.
Toll road.
How many gigatons of CO2 has the EPA prevented from being emitted by handing out this funding?
How many degrees of global cooling has the EPA caused by handing out this funding?
I’d like to see an accounting of the actual climate value that the tax dollars have provided. Isn’t that the ultimate measure of success that was intended by congress approving the legislation?
The EPA is beyond salvaging. It needs to be disbanded, not defunded.
“…. ensuring the funds are locked into programs that future administrations can’t reverse…”
hmmm… maybe many of these programs can be stopped- even if contracts are signed- I bet there are ways to encourage the contractor to back away- nit pick the hell out of them
Under new Australian laws against corruption – ironically passed by the Democrats’ equivalent here, I reckon the money may not be recoverable but the officials might just get a nice long holiday in prison. As I understand it, deliberate corruption such as this is criminal. Maybe the US RICO laws may apply. Might be worth a try for a new administration. After all the money is taxpayers’ money, not Presidents’ money or officials’ money. At the very least, all of those responsible should be fired and publicly named and shamed.
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world.