The United States can strike a balance between protecting the environment and economic growth, but failed renewable projects under former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden wasted taxpayer dollars while driving up energy costs, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin told Newsmax on Sunday.
“When Democrats had one-party rule in Washington, you saw them appropriating tens of billions of dollars to go through their well-connected left-wing environmentalist NGO (non-governmental organization) friends, former Biden and Obama officials, and Democratic donors,” Zeldin said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.”
He added that President Donald Trump often talks about ending the Democrats’ Green New Deal “scam” and that the administration has been dismantling it all year long, saying it has been “abusing the wallets of Americans.”
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