To bet onthe upcoming presidential election, dont just rely on polls. <\/p>\n
Look at the billions of taxpayer dollars President Biden is pouring into community organizations in disadvantaged communities to tip the election scales. <\/p>\n
The community organizer who became president, Barack Obama, was a master at machine politics. He used federal tax dollars to turn community organizations left-wing not-for-profits into a fourth branch of government. <\/p>\n
Their staffs, paid using taxpayer money but not tied to government rules, could hit the streets at election time and build turnout. <\/p>\n
Joe Biden has scaled up Obamas playbook, using billions of dollars instead of mere millions. <\/p>\n
West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito made headlines last week when she publicized the Environmental Protection Agencys $50 million environmental justice grant awarded to a group called the Climate Justice Alliance. <\/p>\n
The group, Capito was distressed to learn, has vowed that the path to climate justice travels through a free Palestine. <\/p>\n
In fact, Climate Justice Alliance serves up a full agenda of radical activities, including fighting political oppression and placing race, gender, and class at the center of its climate solutions. <\/p>\n
But $50 million for Climate Justice Alliance is a drop in the bucket. <\/p>\n
Had members of Congress read the Inflation Reduction Act before passing it in 2022 a novel idea they would have known that the law provides $2.8 billion to the EPA for environmental and climate justice block grants (Section 60201). <\/p>\n
Thats a license to hand out walking-around money to many political activists, not just Climate Justice Alliance. <\/p>\n
Who are some of the other recipients? <\/p>\n
One is the New York Immigration Coalition, which describes itself as a coalitionof immigrant and refugee organizations pushing for more government services and political clout. <\/p>\n
Same is true of the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, another recipient of EPA cash. <\/p>\n
The words climate and environment dont appear anywhere on these groups websites or literature. <\/p>\n
Lawmakers may have assumed they were authorizing money for climate improvement, but the IRAs fine print allows the moolah to be used to facilitate engagement of disadvantaged communities in State and Federal advisory groups, workshops, rule makings and other public processes. <\/p>\n
Translation: elections. <\/p>\n
How easy is it to get the dough?Piece of cake. <\/p>\n
The EPA says it wants to alleviate much of the burden that the federal grants process places on small resource-constrained community-based organizations supporting underserved communities and marginalized populations. <\/p>\n
In short, no jumping through hoops. <\/p>\n
The money can only go to a disadvantaged community or a southern border town. <\/p>\n
There are27,521 disadvantaged communities on the US Census map, according to Bidens Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, which targets non-English speakers, people with diabetes and other factors thatmostly correspond to heavily minority populations. <\/p>\n
These communitiescustomarily vote Democratic. <\/p>\n
Adding eligibility for border towns is an interesting twist. As waves of migrants overwhelm resources in these areas, Democrats are growing divided over Bidens open border policies. <\/p>\n
Federal money may shore up support for the incumbent. <\/p>\n
During his first week as president, Biden issued an executive order implementing the Justice40initiative, a new rule requiring that 40% of many types of federal spending not just EPA grants must go to these disadvantaged communities. <\/p>\n
The Department of Energy, too, is spreading money to disadvantaged communities, using what it calls community benefit plans and promising intentionally flexible application requirements. <\/p>\n
This playbook started with ObamaCare the Affordable Care Act. <\/p>\n
The ACA authorized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hand out community transformation grants. <\/p>\n
Community Health Councils,a typical recipient, pledged that its mission was to advance social justice. <\/p>\n
It distributed 65% of its $7.9 million windfall in 2012 to partner community groups that promoted voter engagement, conducted one-on-one education in the streets or led tenants rights, anti-fracking and anti-drilling efforts. <\/p>\n
And you thought the ACA was about covering the uninsured. <\/p>\n
A decade after Obama, Biden is taskingevery agency and department of the federal government to promote voter engagement. <\/p>\n
Bidens community grants pale in size compared to his student-debt cancellation vote-buying scheme, which now totals$620 billion. <\/p>\n
But the community grant money lands directly in the hands of political activists who know what to do with it. <\/p>\n
Tell your congressional representative to read bills before voting on them and to strip out these community giveaways that make a mockery of democracy. <\/p>\n
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