The distinguished achievement of President Joe Biden’s management was a pair of bills, which together pumped nearly a trillion dollars towards clean energy and flexibility in disasters. The Infrastructure Law of the two parties (2021) and the Act of Inflation reduce (2022), BIL and IRA, were the main motives of Biden policies and economic policies. Both projects have transferred grants to the states, cities, startups and non -profit organizations of renewable curls and flexible infrastructure, and the Irish Republican Army displayed generous tax credit for companies and individuals to stimulate the adoption of renewable technology, such as solar panels, EVS, and induction situations.
Since he took office in January, the new Trump administration has launched an attack on a shock and AWE on federal funds that are not related to chains in both projects.
“He will end the new green deal, which is called the new green fraud,” Trump said, referring to the climate policies of the BID and IRA climate listed. In order to achieve this, his management intends to curb hundreds of billions of dollars from Biden’s laws that aim to finance community solar energy projects, address drought issues, and clean polluted neighborhoods. Trump’s executive procedures seem to violate many federal laws and centuries of legal precedents, as well as multiple active restrictions from federal courts. It is not yet clear whether the financing will eventually continue or be cut at the end; Meanwhile, individuals and organizations who were expecting money were thrown into chaos.
A large part of the chaos stems from the lack of transparency from the Trump administration, which only increases the rapid movement of movement that sometimes contradict each other. We have tried here to answer some basic questions: How much funding from Bil and IRA has already been spent? How much has not been paid yet? How actually is at risk of cutting? What are the possibilities that the Trump administration will be able to keep the money that Biden actually spent?
To help answer these questions and provide reliable information with the development of the situation Plans Almost all projects that have been granted grant financing through the Irish Republican Army and BIL and the progress of context, when available, which may be at risk of Trump’s orders.
In normal situations, the federal government is going through a series of steps before spending money. Congress first allocates a certain amount of funding for an agency such as the Environmental Protection Agency for a specific purpose, such as processing air pollution from diesel trucks. This is what the legislators did with Bil and Ira.
After that, the agency chose an entity to receive some of these funds – for example, Denver, or an environmental, in Los Angeles. The agency writes a contract with this entity that determines the grammar of the grant. This is known as “obliging” money, and represents a binding legal agreement. Only later, sometimes after months or years of truth, the Treasury Department delivers funds to the granted. This is known as “expenses” money.
The executive branch has little control of this process. When Congress allocates money, executive agencies must be obligated, except in rare conditions. The refusal of obligating the funds allocated as “reservation” is known to be known; In 1974, after the violations of the Richard Nixon administration, the administration of Richard Nixon, Congress approved a law To restrict when presidents can exercise that force. In addition to the violation of this law, the rejection of the money that has already obligated it represents a direct violation of a contract with the agency, which is a more clear violation of legal advances, according to budget experts.
“The general rule is that once the conference is allocated and the money spending is directed to withhold federal funds.” Said Aziz Qat, a researcher in the constitutional law. “Understanding was that once the law enacted as is due, this law is. [must] It is implemented.
After Trump won his re -election in November, the Biden administration rushed to the largest possible amount of BIL and IRA infrastructure. Hundreds of new financing agreements with cities, states, tribes, non -profit organizations and companies have completed, and it ended up obligating the lion’s share of money from bills.
When it comes to money -focused money from the Irish Republican Army, the Biden administration made an effort to compel money with clean energy control programs and pollution before Trump was able to suppress them. For example, the Environmental Protection Agency managed to bind each dollar from the teacher’s greenhouse gas reduction fund, which provided 27 billion dollars to community banks to finance solar and home.
Biden made less progress when it comes to granting money focusing on BIL infrastructure, because many of these funds can only be disbursed after countries and cities have finished building contracts. As of December, Transportation Department It was only necessary Half 65 billion dollars allocated by Congress for Public Transport Projects, and a third of approximately $ 12 billion that the agency received to improve the airport.
The spending on environmental justice was also delayed, according to the EPA report in January. While the agency managed to compel 98 percent of the $ 33 billion that it received from “climate work”, it only managed to obligate two thirds of $ 3 billion that were distinguished for “protecting societies”. Some programs related to environmental justice, such as a $ 13 million program to monitor air quality in schools in the disadvantaged areas, have never disposed of the land. The Trump administration is likely to make every effort to scratch these programs.
By the time when Trump was opened, the Environmental Protection Agency committed 88 percent of its financing, and the Ministry of Transport obligated about 65 percent of its financing. The outgoing Biden administration has not released its full government data on its financing.
But on his first day in his post, Trump issued an executive order to “stop” funding from both Bil and IRA for at least 90 days, as he threw thousands of projects in infrastructure and energy throughout the country to danger. It also declares that any adjacent financing will be canceled for what Trump calls sarcastically the “new green deal” even once the stop is over. Besides his BIL and IRA financing attack, it is not clear programs that will be decided to cancel the cancellation.
Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images
The “committed” situation can become a problem for coordinators. Although the Biden administration has committed a large amount of Irish Republican army money, it is more than 50 billion dollars, it is fond of less than 20 billion dollars of this money, according to the analysis conducted by the Washington Post. Officials have concluded binding agreements to send money, but are still sitting in the banking treasury accounts, as they are under the control of Elon Musk, the director of the Trump initiative referred to as the Ministry of Government Efficiency. Musk sought to gain the ability to Withhold payments as desired.
On January 31, John McConnell, a federal judge in Rod Island, prevented Trump’s executive order to the Irish Republican Army and BIL, and the Ministry of Justice in Trump later distributed a note that ordered the agencies to comply with the ruling. But the funds from the draft laws are still in an unprecedented state of legal forgetfulness.
On Monday, McConnell said that the administration appears to challenge his matter and guarantee that he might carry the administration in criminal contempt if the money is not frozen immediately. Then the administration made an appeal for McConnell’s order.
To date, it seems that every agency is dealing with legal forgetfulness about a temporary stop differently, and a Trump member of the Council of Ministers has already threatened to decline in the money that was already bound.
in The video was published on WednesdayZeldin claimed that the Biden administration has transferred about $ 20 billion from IRA money into one bank. Without providing any evidence of the lack of errors, Zealin called for returning the money imposed on the government so that the Environmental Protection Agency can control it.
Zealin said: “We will review every penny that came out of the door.”
Most of the funding can still come after a “pause” for 90 days, but for the time being most other agencies refuse to comment, noting the suspended litigation on Trump’s executive order. The Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Energy, nor the Ministry of Internal Security did not respond to the requests of Grist to comment. A spokesman for the Ministry of Interior said that the agency “continues to review the financing decisions to comply with the president’s executive orders.”
Currently, almost all climate spending. The pioneering Irish Republican element was the $ 7 billion solar energy for all programs. The program gave community banks and green financial institutions with funds to create solar energy boxes, which would open access to solar panels and heat pumps for about one million low -income families. But one of the managers who were about to create such a fund said she was unable to get a first segment of federal money.
“The payment system is disrupted,” said Al -Mutamah, who asked not to be identified to avoid revenge on the Trump administration. “Everything is suspended – all contractors who work on solar energy for everyone are now suspended, and they need to obtain their salaries.”
Companies and institutions throughout the country suffer from the same thing – a The start of biofuels in Montana, Non -profit climate education In New Orleans, a MicroGrid Factory in Ohio They all said they are unable to receive funding. The same applies to a School area in St. Louis This is awaiting low -emissions buses A farmer in Maryland Which was going to fix the solar panels. Many non -profit organizations and companies said they are unable to provide salary statements or meet loan payments. Experts said that if the process of freezing the financing continues, many projects will collapse and thousands of jobs may be lost.
“Many of those affected are … the farmers of the rural community in Massachusetts and Arizona, [or] Gillian Blancard, deputy head of climate change and environmental justice in lawyers for the good government, a non -profit legal invitation group, said that small non -profit organizations on Earth are trying to implement air control programs. “These are entities that do not have a financial insulation. If they suffer from great delays, they will go, and they will go bankrupt, the programs will not occur.”
The interactive IRA/Bil financing map has been reported and developed by Cleiton Aldren. Gotama Mihita contributed to reporting this story.
