Biden plans taxpayer-backed ‘green giveaway’ climate change operation in Morocco
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The Biden administration is planning to drop up to $2 million in federal funds on a green energy initiative in Morocco, according to documents reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
President Joe Biden has made it a top priority of the federal government to fight the “climate crisis,” which he declared in a January 2021 executive order to be “more necessary and urgent than ever” and “at the forefront of this nation’s foreign policy and national security planning.”
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The U.S. Agency for International Development, a top foreign aid agency, is setting its sights on building “resilience to climate change impacts” in Morocco, “with a focus on women and girls,” grant documents show.
“The general secretary of the United Nations will no doubt be pleased with millions of American tax dollars flowing to the green agenda in Morocco, but residents of East Palestine or small communities across our country sure won’t,” Daniel Turner, president of Power the Future, an energy advocacy group, told the Washington Examiner.
The newly unveiled program underscores how the Biden administration has taken sweeping steps on an international basis to champion green energy, to the ire of pro-fossil fuel organizations. The Washington Examiner reported in May that the Labor Department is spending $4 million to boost “understanding of the link between climate change and vulnerability to child labor” in Nepal, all while Republicans point out how children are being forced to mine minerals, including cobalt, for green energy technologies in South Asia and other areas for electric vehicle batteries.
USAID has also prioritized diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in Africa that the GOP has slammed as “woke,” including consulting with left-wing groups in Ethiopia — a revelation first reported by the Washington Examiner that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said showed the Biden administration “has been relentless in politicizing every agency of the federal government and injecting them into the culture wars.”
In the Morocco funding documents, USAID said the country’s climate troubles are leading to “intensifying water scarcity and drought, and leading to low agricultural production, declines in economic growth, and social instability.” The agency put forth that climate change “disproportionately affects people living below the poverty line,” including “women, youth, and other underrepresented populations who are often less resilient to climate shocks.”
Therefore, USAID is in the process of conducting a “Climate Action Gender Analysis” to examine “the gaps and inequities that exist in the local system between men and women related to climate change and opportunities to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment related to climate action and resilience,” documents say. Applicants in the foreign country are intended to propose strategies for “mobilizing local resources” to thwart climate change, as well as ways to activate “leadership of women and girls in climate action,” according to the U.S. government.
State Department spokesman Mahmoud El-Hamalawy told the Washington Examiner USAID “completed all required congressional notifications associated with these funds,” referring to the Morocco grant. He said the United States “is committed to mitigating and adapting to the climate crisis,” adding, “These types of investments protect U.S. national security by mitigating causes of instability and irregular migration and addressing humanitarian needs.”
Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI), who sits on the House Oversight Committee, told the Washington Examiner: “I want to see a study showing that the air is warmer around women and children than men.”
“The idea of spending more money abroad on dubious global warming programs is preposterous.”
Reed Rubinstein, senior counselor and investigations director for the conservative group America First Legal, agrees with the congressman.
“The ‘program opportunity’ is a mashup of Marxist DEI boilerplate and climate change catechisms,” said Rubinstein, who served in various legal roles in the Trump administration, including as deputy associate attorney general for the Justice Department.
The grant is part of USAID’s 2022 “climate strategy,” which outlined how the agency will mobilize “active leadership in climate action [among] Indigenous Peoples, local communities, women, youth, and other marginalized and/or underrepresented groups in at least 40 partner countries,” documents show.
USAID also said in the strategy documents that youth climate activists suffer from “a broad range of climate-related mental health conditions” and pledged taxpayer dollars to “encourage youth’s active participation” in the climate movement by supporting “behavior change and communications campaigns.” Through the Morocco award, applicants are encouraged to consider “working with existing women-led cooperatives and youth organizations” in order “to optimize the program’s success,” according to USAID.
“It doesn’t help anybody except the politically correct, who have become empowered by having money to hand out,” said Myron Ebell, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market think tank.
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USAID is asking organizations to specify how they may engage Morocco’s government after pocketing the federal climate change award, documents show. Still, fossil fuels remain key to Morocco’s economy, given around 80% of its electricity production comes from burning oil, gas, and coal, according to recent data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration and International Energy Agency in Paris.
“President Biden is using every inch of his bureaucracy to impose rules and funnel money to his green agenda while working families are struggling with staggering price increases brought on by his policies,” Turner added. “The sad truth is Joe Biden never met a green giveaway he didn’t love.”