Stacey Abrams, famous for running for governor of Georgia as a Democrat, losing and then turning into an election denier by rejecting the voters’ results, has been involved in a long list of controversial programs.
Including one where, as she described it, taxpayers bought new appliances for residents of a Georgia town so their energy bills would go down.
Pretty neat deal if you can line it up: Taxpayers buys new appliances and gives them to you and they then save you money.
It was one of the egregious spending schemes that is being revealed that happened during the Joe Biden administration.
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In an MSNBC interview, she said, the “program” was to lower costs for residents of De Soto, Georgia.
It was in 2023 and 2024, she said, “We worked in a tiny town in south Georgia to demonstrate that by replacing energy inefficient appliances with efficient appliances you can lower your costs,” she said.
That’s what happened when EPA-controlled tax funding went to that enterprise, she said. One woman’s electricity bill was halved to $98 because she was given new appliances, by taxpayers.
The EPA then said such a program should be expanded.
That apparently was the $1.9 billion that President Donald Trump has criticized as being wasted.
“Stacey Abrams admits the $2 billion Joe Biden’s EPA gave her was used to buy votes of people in Georgia by purchasing them new appliances. MSNBC does their best to whitewash this but can’t hide the huge pile of fraudulent spending Abrams facilitated,” social media commenters explained.
“When will there be ARRESTS?” said another.
Added another, “This is a ridiculous theft! Of course new appliances are more energy efficient! My household saved money for new washer, dryer, refrigerator, and our energy bills WERE less. BUT…the EPA has no business ‘giving’ my tax $ to others for this purchase. She needs be prosecuted.”