The FBI reportedly has launched an investigation into Environmental Protection Agency grants totaling $20 billion under then-President Joe Biden.
A Trump-appointed U.S. attorney submitted a warrant request after DOJ career prosecutors were unwilling to do so, The Washington Post reported Thursday night.
The outlet said FBI agents this week questioned EPA employees regarding a Biden administration grant program for climate and clean-energy projects.
One source told the outlet that agents sought information regarding spending under the National Clean Investment Fund and the Clean Communities Investment Accelerator programs, which seek to finance clean-technology and clean-energy projects.
“Per our usual policy, the department declines to confirm or deny the existence of an ongoing investigation,” a DOJ spokesperson told the Post.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin took to social media Feb. 12 to say the Biden administration stashed $20 billion dollars at an outside bank to give to select recipients, such as a climate group connected to former Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.