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Biden sabotages the USA on his way out of office

Every day there is MORE and MORE.

Earlier today there was YET ANOTHER bailout of deadbeat student loan "forgiveness" by the Biden administration. Totally many BILLIONS of dollars. This despite the fact that the courts have ruled against most of the forgiveness offered by Biden in the past.

Now comes another handout.



Biden’s Green Loan Office Offers Up A Staggering $22 Billion In Admin’s Final Hours​

Nick PopeJanuary 16, 2025 12:53 PM ET​
President Biden Will Speak On Major Oil Companies Reporting Record Profits
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The Biden administration’s green loan office is shelling out nearly $23 billion to utility companies for green energy development and other projects in its final days.​
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The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced its conditional commitment to provide a combined $22.9 billion in financing to numerous utility companies across the country to “modernize” their grid systems by adding new green energy generation, building transmission lines needed to harness renewable generation and more. The LPO is continuing its lame duck lending spree through the very end of the Biden administration, even though Republicans and the DOE’s internal watchdog have called for a freeze on LPO activity due to concerns about the office’s safeguards pertaining to conflicts of interest. ​
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LPO is offering Michigan’s DTE Electric and DTE Gas $9 billion to develop more green energy generation and replace gas lines, while Alliant Energy and its subsidiaries have been offered $3 billion to incorporate more wind power and batteries into its grid. Other companies that LPO extended loan packages to include PacifiCorp — which will look to use the money to build 700 miles of new transmission lines — and New Jersey’s Jersey Central Power and Light.​
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“On January 16, 2025, LPO announced eight conditional commitments through its Title 17 Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment (EIR) program, comprising $22.92 billion to utilities serving more than 14.78 million customers across 12 states,” . . . STORY CONTINUES AT LINK ABOVE ^^^​
 
Looks like they have not found all the sabotaging that Biden did on his way out of office.

11 minute video that explains how Biden's DOJ snuck in a new policy that appears to be non-reviewable by Congress. Seriously take a few minutes to watch this, it is blatant politics, and blatantly weaponizing the Dept of Justice. Hopefully exposing this will make it easier to undo it.

What the actual F***?


 
Looks like many of the things that Biden did can't be undone by Trump.

On the bright side, the GOP members of the House & Senate are both working undoing the regulatory mess that has been imposed on the nation.

Politico runs an ongoing blog with updates: https://www.politico.com/live-updat...p-to-begin-undoing-biden-regulations-00205560


Republican lawmakers in both chambers are set to begin voting soon on legislation to undo a range of Biden-era rules, teeing up their first major steps toward rolling back the previous administration’s regulatory agenda.​
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The Senate is gearing up to begin considering Congressional Review Act resolutions in the coming weeks that would undo rules on bank mergers, methane emissions and other matters, according to a Senate GOP aide with knowledge of the matter who was granted anonymity to discuss unannounced plans. The chamber could begin voting on the roll-backs as soon as next week, though the exact timeline remains unclear.​
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Meanwhile, the House is set to vote next week on two of those resolutions, which would undo Biden-era climate rules.​
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The Senate’s top targets include a pair of resolutions introduced by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) that would overturn a rule from the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency that put new restrictions on bank mergers and a regulation from the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management requiring oil and gas companies to submit archaeological reports to the agency before beginning offshore drilling, respectively.​
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The chamber is also expected to take up a resolution from Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) that would undo an EPA rule adding a charge on some methane emissions from oil and natural gas facilities and legislation from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to roll back an Energy Department regulation that requires increased efficiency levels for gas-fired water heaters.​
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This is F'ing unbelievable.

If a federal worker is supposed to be working, he/she can opt to, during working hours, work for the union but still be paid by the government, to do union work, at taxpayer expense. It is called "official time" when you are being paid by the taxpayers but working for the union.

And apparently Biden's administration buried the practice by hiding the reports of the hours worked on "official" time. They even removed the government website that showed the hours of "official time" being worked.

Story much longer than the small portion quoted below, see the whole story at the Daily Signal:

www.dailysignal.com

The Sneaky Way Government Unions Rake in Taxpayer Money, and How Congress Can Fight It in Reconciliation

Congress can fight the deep state by taxing “official time”—the practice by which taxpayers pay federal employees to do union work—in a reconciliation bill.
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The Sneaky Way Government Unions Rake in Taxpayer Money, and How Congress Can Fight It in Reconciliation​



The little-known practice of “official time” allows bureaucrats to bill the taxpayer for hours they spend doing work for the union. ​
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Members of Congress have filed bills to ban the practice, but a budget expert suggests that taxing the practice instead might pose a smaller hurdle for getting it through Congress. ​
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Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., a member of the House Budget Committee, told The Daily Signal he supports the idea of taxing official time.​
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“Taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for federal employees to conduct union business instead of fulfilling their official duties,” Cline said in an emailed statement Wednesday. “Taxing or ending ‘official time’ altogether are commonsense options to ensure taxpayer dollars are used responsibly while increasing accountability in the federal workforce.”​
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“It’s important that public funds serve the American people, not private union interests,” he added.​
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Senators Weigh In​

Senate Republicans also condemned official time.​
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“Federal employees should not engage in union activities on the taxpayer’s dime, which is why I’ve introduced legislation to ban the practice,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told The Daily Signal. He was referring to the No Union Time on the Taxpayers’ Dime Act, a bill he filed in July. The bill never made it out of committee.​
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“So-called ‘official time’ has been abused as essentially publicly funded political organizing by government employees on federal property, which would be illegal in any other context,” Lee added. “We should get rid of it. Public servants should serve the public while on the clock.”​
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He did not specifically address taxing official time in budget reconciliation, but he insisted that the government should not “allow people to get paid to work on doing something that’s not their job as a federal employee.”​
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“That needs to be changed,” Scott added.​
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Biden Hides the Ball​

Higgins noted that the Office of Personnel Management previously published the amounts the federal government spent on official time in a regular report titled “Taxpayer-Funded Union Time Usage in the Federal Government.” The Biden administration not only stopped publishing the reports but removed the web page hosting previous reports. ​
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“They got rid of it because it was embarrassing,” Higgins said. “The unions just don’t want us to know that this happens. I’m sure the broader public doesn’t know it exists or would be surprised to find out about this phenomenon.”​
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Ernst and Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, wrote to Charles Ezell, acting director of the Office of Personnel Management in the new Trump administration, to restart the annual reports, and an OPM spokesperson told The Daily Signal the office will again release this information under Trump.​
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“OPM is committed to transparency and accountability,” the spokesperson told The Daily Signal in an emailed statement Thursday. “We are in the process of compiling this data and will begin releasing this information again. Unfortunately, the previous administration halted its publication, shielding unions from taxpayer scrutiny. We are working to restore this critical transparency for the American people.”​
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For the chorus who said that Trump could simply use Executive Orders to undo the damage that the Biden and Obama administrations did to the US, here is just another example of how that is not work.

A liberal San Francisco federal judge just ruled that Trump has to re-hire ALL the federal workers that were laid off. And another liberal judge prevents him from revoking security clearances for a law firm that, apparently, is knowingly misrepresenting material prior to an election.

These are JUST 2 of the cases where the current administration has been thwarted and common sense has been over turned.

The EPA is trying, unsuccessfully to get back $20 BILLION that is being held in Citybank accounts in, what appears to have been a scheme to divert some $27 BILLION in grants under the radar to NGOs on Biden's way out the door. This money was transferred in DECEMBER after Harris lost the election and before Trump was inaugurated in January. There are many other examples.




Tens of thousands of fired federal workers must be reinstated​

03/13/2025 12:35 PM EDT​
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A federal judge on Thursday ordered federal agencies to reinstate tens of thousands of probationary employees who were fired amid President Donald Trump’s turbulent effort to drastically shrink the federal bureaucracy.​
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U.S. District Judge William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” strategy by the government’s central human resources office to sidestep legal requirements for reducing the federal workforce. . . .​



And here, the law firm behind the "Russian Collusion" hoax that actually got President Trump impeached, got a favorable ruling when a judge blocked their loss of security clearances. Now I'm thinking if anyone should have their security clearances blocked it is the people in this firm, they knowingly helped in this hoax.

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The Trump administration was ordered to halt, at least temporarily, parts of its executive order punishing the law firm Perkins Coie.​

Perry Stein
March 12, 2025 at 5:26 p.m. EDTYesterday at 5:26 p.m. EDT​
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A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to at least temporarily halt the unprecedented penalties it levied on a powerful law firm that has represented clients whom President Donald Trump considers his political enemies.​
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U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled from the bench after the two-hour hearing, saying Trump exerted “extraordinary power” and that Perkins Coie proved it had suffered immediate damages from the penalties.​
 
These rulings are clearly wrong, and motivated by the judges' political bias. They'll be overturned on appeal. The president has the right to fire anyone in the Executive branch at any time for any reason. If it comes to it, the Supreme Court will make that clear.
 
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