Article: “Grantees under the program have to have their funds obligated by December 6 in order to get the funds disbursed before the start of the Trump administration.”
. . . “This is about the GOP’s obsession with shutting down the EPA,” Chavez said. “The attacks that we’re seeing on us are collateral damage in a war against regulations that protect everybody.”
. . . Republican lawmakers and right-wing media have targeted the Climate Justice Alliance in recent attacks. On Saturday, the Daily Caller published a story on the pending EPA grant that claimed that the Climate Justice Alliance shared protest material celebrating Hamas.
. . . The Daily Caller also said the Biden administration was weighing “awarding taxpayer dollars to [a] nonprofit that wants to defund the police.” Earlier this month, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee issued a report criticizing the EPA program and claiming that the Climate Justice Alliance had exhibited “anti-Republican sentiment.”
So, to recap: Biden awarded the funds, the EPA is slow to disburse because the republiQans are going to gut it, and therefore Democrats bad.
You seem to have deliberately cut off the critical part that explains the funds should have been granted by September. Which indicates a deliberate pause and move away from standard procedure.
The Climate Justice Alliance said it met all administrative deadlines and expected to get notice of funds by September, the end of the standard 90-day waiting period for grant applicants.
Because it has zero to do with Biden. He's not literally holding a giant bag of cash and personally handing it out to the head of each agency he granted it to in the first place.
It's covered by the same sentence that said the EPA itself is holding up because they're being stymied by republiQans.