# Stacey Abrams slammed after defending $2 billion in Biden-era EPA funds to buy green energy appliances

**Category:** Lee Zeldin  
**Date:** March 9, 2025 3:37pm EDT  
**Author:** Emma Colton  
**Source:** Fox News

Failed Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is facing condemnation from conservatives after she appeared on MSNBC to defend a $2 billion initiative under the Biden administration's EPA to purchase green energy appliances for Americans.

"Stacey Abrams linked Power Forward Communities received $2 billion in tax dollars in 2024 after reporting just $100 in revenue the year before. They were so unqualified that the grant agreement required the NGO to complete ‘How to Develop a Budget’ training within 90 days,"  said in comment provided to Fox News Digital on Sunday.

"$2 billion in hard earned tax dollars should not have been doled out to this organization for many reasons, especially if they don’t even know how to put together a budget. The Biden EPA ‘gold bars’ scheme is riddled with self-dealing and conflicts of interest, unnecessary middlemen, unqualified recipients, and massively reduced government oversight. The funds are currently frozen, and the DOJ and FBI are investigating."



"Stacey Abrams speaks during an election night rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on Nov. 8, 2022."  
(Alt: Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The group is a consortium of housing nonprofits, such as Habitat for Humanity International, United Way Worldwide and Rewiring America. Abrams reportedly "played a pivotal role" in establishing the group, according to a LinkedIn post by Ian Magruder, who works at one of the coalition's partners, Rewiring America, Fox Digital previously reported.

Abrams worked with Rewiring America to bring energy efficient appliances to a Georgia community in 2023 and 2024, she said on MSNBC while defending the billions in funds provided to Power Forward Communities.

"What is this organization? What is your relation to it? And what does it do," MSNBC's Chris Hayes asked Abrams during the program.



"EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin says his team has uncovered billions of dollars that were wasted at the agency under the Biden administration."  
(Alt: Fox News)

The interview followed Trump calling Abrams out during his speech to a joint session of Congress last Tuesday.

"$.1.9 billion to recently created decarbonization of homes committee, headed up – and we know she’s involved – just at the last moment, the money was passed over — by a woman named Stacey Abrams. Have you ever heard of her?" Trump said during his speech, with some booing Abrams' name as Trump spoke.



The Washington Post ran a fact-check on the remark, giving Trump four "pinocchios" for the comment, arguing Abrams "does not head the consortium; she did not even head one member of the consortium. She was only an adviser. Moreover, the money was delivered nine months before President Joe Biden left office, not at the last moment."

Abrams notably did not distance herself from the project during her interview on MSNBC, instead celebrating her work on Vitalizing De Soto, which she explained led to the creation of Power Forward Communities.



EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said his team has uncovered billions of dollars that were wasted at the agency under the Biden administration.  
(Alt: Fox News)

The EPA hit back in its own fact check following the WaPo story that it "is no surprise that the Washington Post continues to toe the line for the radical left and are quick to defend apparent cronyism instead of actually doing the work to investigate on behalf of the American public."



_Fox News Digital's Aubrie Spady contributed to this report._

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