➡ Judicial Watch, a legal watchdog group, has filed a lawsuit to clean up California’s voting rolls, claiming there are over 870,000 ineligible voters. Despite previous lawsuits and settlements leading to the removal of millions of names, the state and many counties have not been maintaining the rolls properly. The National Voter Registration Act requires inactive voter registrations to be removed after two general federal elections, but this is not being done in California. The lawsuit aims to ensure fair and honest elections by maintaining clean voter lists.
➡ Judicial Watch, a legal watchdog group, has filed a lawsuit against California for having outdated voter rolls, with names dating back at least 10 years. The group argues that this could lead to fraudulent elections and is pushing for immediate cleanup of over 870,000 names. The group has had success with similar lawsuits in other states, leading to cleaned up voter rolls. Additionally, they are awaiting a Supreme Court decision on whether late-arriving ballots can be counted, which could impact election rules in 30 states.
➡ The article discusses ongoing legal battles against former President Trump, objections to a compensation fund, and resistance to improving security at the White House. It also mentions a shooting incident involving Trump and criticizes the lack of information available about it. The author urges readers to question their senators about these issues and expresses concern about the safety of the President.
➡ The Biden administration, in its final year, rushed to distribute billions of dollars to left-wing groups, including one tied to Stacey Abrams, without proper oversight or ethical reasoning. When the Trump administration took over, they froze these funds due to concerns of self-dealing and conflicts of interest. A lawsuit was filed to prevent the termination of these grants, but the funds remain frozen as the case continues. This situation is being investigated for potential corruption and abuse of funds.

Hi, everyone. Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton here with our weekly update on social media. Thank you, as always, for joining us. New lawsuit for cleaner elections in California was just filed this week by Judicial Watch attorneys. An important new lawsuit to try to clean up the dirty voting rolls in California. According to the lawsuit, There are over 870,000, 3,000 ineligible voters on the rolls, meaning these are people who have likely died, moved away, or otherwise shouldn’t be on the rolls because it’s just been too long since they’ve last been active. Now, the lawsuit comes on the heels of several other Judicial Watch lawsuits over the years, which have caused the release, most recently of well over, at this point, 6 million names from the voting rolls.

These are people who, as I said, are died, moved away, otherwise ineligible. And until Judicial Watch started filing these lawsuits in federal court, states were simply not cleaning up the rolls. And Judicial Watch actually had a previous lawsuit several years ago against California. I think it settled in 2019. That led to the removal of 1.2 million names from LA county alone, thanks to the settlement. But the problem is the state generally and many other counties haven’t been keeping up. Despite this prior lawsuit, despite the settlement which included, as best I recall, the state alerting counties to their obligations under federal law to clean the rolls, it still isn’t happening.

And so this is an important new lawsuit, and the details are extraordinary in terms of just how awful the voter list maintenance process is in various counties in the great state of California. Now, under the National Voter Registration act, most inactive voter registrations are to be removed after two general federal elections. And I’ll say it once and I’ll say it again, this is how it goes. If you don’t vote in a general federal election, say next year, let’s say you don’t vote in the 2026 congressional election, the county or the state or both are supposed to send you a card.

Hey, Tom, where are you? You didn’t vote. Let us know, are you still there? And if I don’t respond to that card or otherwise vote in the next two federal election cycles, so once every two years, so 28 and then 30, they’re supposed to take my name off the rolls. They’re not doing that in California. It’s a simple process and they’re not doing it. And we had previously sued, I think it was two years ago, we had to dismiss that lawsuit for various reasons. But what happened is in the course of that lawsuit, California admitted, I think, under oath, to having these extra names on the rolls, as we say, in our press release, the new federal lawsuit alleges, based on admissions in prior Judicial Watch litigation, that 873,092 voter registrations have remained continuously inactive for at least three federal elections and some for much longer.

And here are the specifics. I think I got a nice little picture that shows it all. Let’s bring it up here. So this is a promotional picture from the Internet. So look at that. You can still see it. 326,608 names have remained continuously inactive through at least three consecutive federal general elections. That means the person hasn’t voted or otherwise communicated with the state or the county voting officials for three or for six years. At least 151,202 registrants have been inactive for four federal elections. That’s over eight years. 33,922 inactive voters have been around just hanging on the rolls for 10 plus years.

You know, and you can see why we do this in the back here. Look at that quote. Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections. And that’s the key issue here. If you’ve got the dirty voting rolls, it’s a pool from which fraudsters can draw from to vote illegally. That’s why federal law requires these steps that Judicial Watch has highlighted. Now, just in the last few weeks, we’ve highlighted how in Oregon, we settled a lawsuit that resulted in 800,000 names being cleaned off the rolls. A prior Colorado federal lawsuit under this provision of the National Voter Registration act requiring regular cleanups resulted.

Was it 300, 370 something thousand? I think the number was names being cleaned up off the rolls. So that was 1.1 million names in just two states, well over 6 million. And I tell you, if this lawsuit goes forward and these names end up getting removed, we’re talking upwards of well over 7 million names being cleaned up, not by the Justice Department and not by the states themselves, only through legal pressure and litigation from Judicial Watch. So it’s really a remarkable set of circumstances that Judicial Watch is in, that despite the massive voter concern for cleaning up the election rolls and honest elections, that it’s this private watchdog group, our team here at Judicial Watch, our legal team, led by Bob Popper, former DOJ civil rights attorney, and his colleagues, are doing all of this heavy lifting.

Now, we’re representing in this case two individuals or an individual in a party, is Dan Wagner, who’s an elected member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors. He’s a candidate for the California Secretary of State. So we’re appreciative that Dan put his confidence in us in representing him and his interest as he tries to get the rolls cleaned up. And the American Independent Party of California, which is a third party in California, I think Robert F. Kennedy ran on that party’s line. In June 2025, the U.S. election Assistance Commission, as required by law, issued a report to Congress on various states NVRA compliance.

Citing this report, Judicial Watch pointed out this is not Judicial Watch’s information. This is the Election Assistance Commission, which, which is a federal entity. 20 California counties removed 50 or fewer inactive voters from their rolls between November 2022 and November 2024. 10 of these counties reported zero removals of inactives under the relevant statute during the time period. These 10 counties, if you live in California, listen carefully. If you live there, Alpine, Imperial, Inyo Kings, Mariposa, Mendocino, Plumas, San Bernardino, Tehama and trinity. Counties reporting 50 or fewer removals include Butte, Calusa, Contra Costa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Santa Cruz, Siskiyou, Sonoma, and Tulume.

So this is an incredible indictment of those counties failure to clean up the rolls because people move out by the tens and hundreds of thousands over that period of time, and the idea that they’re not keeping up with them is inexcusable in this day and age. The 20 counties reporting 0 to 50 registrations in that time period that I just disclosed over two years have a combined total of 3.44 million voter registrations. And just altogether they removed 218 people. So that’s. That makes a mockery of the basic duties and responsibilities that these election officials have, but also a mockery of the rule of law that govern their required activity to make sure that the elections are fair and honest by helping ensure the lists are clean or as clean as they can reasonably be.

You know, you may not like to hear this, but it’s true. There’s no requirement the rolls have to be perfectly clean, Right? It’s whether they’re taking reasonable steps to clean up the rolls under federal law. So it’s not like every person on the roll if there’s someone who’s not supposed to be there, oh, there’s a violation of law if they’re still there. Potentially. No, it’s. Are you taking the steps to reassure people that the rolls are being maintained in a reasonable fashion? And I describe what that reasonable fashion is, asking people, you haven’t voted, are you still there? And if they don’t answer you within a reasonable amount of time, you take their names off the rolls.

San Diego county is kind of A contrast to how things are supposed to go. They have 2.2 million registrants, right much, you know, a million less than those 20 counties. And they removed 300,000 voter registrations in the same time period. So one county removed 300,000 voter registrations. 20 counties with a bigger population removed 218. It’s a complete collapse of voter maintenance across a wide swath of the great state of California. And as I said, you know, the numbers of people moving. Now there are people moving from California for reasons other than just life changes. They just want to escape the leftists there.

So you can imagine the numbers are pretty extraordinary. And of course, California is a huge state. So it just stands to reason they’ve got a lot of inflow and outflow of population. Whether or not the politics aside, 660,000 California residents moved out of state in 2024, 690,000 in 2023, and 18, 818,000 in 2022. So what does that add up to? 6 and 6 is 12 and 8 is 20 and another 1.5. So 2.15 million people have moved. And in these 20 counties, they removed two hundred and eighteen names total. If California was actually conducting a general program that makes a reasonable effort to cancel the registrations of voters who have become ineligible because of a change of residence, it would not be possible for these counties to cancel so few registrations under the NVRA in a two year period, Eighteen counties have more voter registrations on their rolls than are people that are above the age of 18 basically living there and eligible to vote.

So that’s a pretty good indication that you’re not cleaning up the rolls. You’ve got more people on the voting rolls than voters by population. Judicial Watch’s federal lawsuit confirms California has a dirty voting rolls crisis with thousands of old names on the rolls going back at least 10 years. Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections. And California and its counties must take immediate steps to clean the over 870,000 dirty voting rolls on the list. So this is a huge lawsuit, huge lawsuit on behalf of the rule of law and election integrity in California. And there’s really nothing comparable like it.

Now, the Justice Department has sued, thankfully many states. I think 29 states have fought the Justice Department in terms of refusing to turn over voting rolls as the Justice Department conducts its own investigation of the voting rolls. But those lawsuits, however much necessary, aren’t resulting in voting roll cleanups. Our lawsuits are. They’re taking a different tact in their approach. They’re trying to understand what’s on the rolls, get states to remove noncitizens, etc. But here we’re in federal court trying to enforce the rule of law, you know, and as Our settlementsorgon show, Colorado, we settled in New York City, Washington, D.C.

they agreed to do what we asked them to do to clean up the rolls. It’s not just we’re fighting Democrats and the Democrats refuse to turn over, you know, clean up the list. No, we sue states run by Democrats, states run by Republicans and both settle with us, both agree, Judicial Watch, we’re going to clean up the rolls. Now, they never agree that we’re right and they were wrong because it’s a settlement. But you know, you sue, they clean up the rolls. It’s pretty hard to argue it’s anything other than the lawsuit that caused one thing to happen from the lawsuit.

So when it comes to election integrity, on issue after issue, Judicial Watch is on the front lines. I’ve talked to you about cleaning up the voting rolls. We’ve talked in the past about our efforts to take the race based insanity out of congressional gerrymandering. We’ve been successful in that, in making our arguments to the public and to the courts. And the left now is going crazy because those race based districts are going the way of segregation, really, because that’s what they are. They’re segregationist districts. Purposefully, just terrible stuff. And then of course, separately we have these lawsuits to ensure that ballots that arrive late are not counted because we have an election day, not an election week, not an election month.

And we have a case pending right now before the Supreme Court of the United States that is, according to observers, likely to result in a big victory where the Supreme Court finds that you can’t count ballots that arrive late because election day under federal law means the ballot’s got to get there by election day in order to be counted. What a great victory for the rule of law if that happens. And that could come down really any day between now and the end of next month, the end of June. And that will result if we win now, of course, knock on wood.

Who knows, Maybe we’ll lose. But if we win, it could mean that 30 states got to change their rules and elections are going to be a lot more honest or you’re going to have more confidence in the elections because you’ll know that you’re not going to have numbers change days and weeks after election day as a result of late ballots arriving that people are immediately suspicious of. So just great, great work by Judicial Watch. And you know, this town is famous for people who yap a lot, and I yap a lot, too, sometimes. But we sue, we investigate, and there’s no one doing the wide scope of election integrity work in the United States that Judicial Watch is doing on behalf of the rule of law and clean and fair elections.

Just great work. And I know we’ve saved elections as a result of doing that, and we will save elections in the future as a result of the work we’re doing now. Just great stuff. So in the news this week was the settlement between President Trump, his family and his family’s businesses, and the IRS that resulted in a compensation fund funded initially with 1.776 17 $76 billion of taxpayer money to compensate victims of government weaponization. So you can imagine the left is furious about it. And I don’t mean the left in a partisan sense. I mean the left in a bipartisan sense.

Anti Trump Democrats, anti Trump Republicans, and the usual, you know, Trump haters in the media. What happened is a left wing contractor for the IRS stole Trump’s IRS forms and the IRS forms of countless other Americans and leaked them to the media, including the New York Times, who then mischaracterized them in a way to make Trump look like a bad guy. Outrageous violation of the law, relatively speaking, they gave him a slap on the wrist. The courts and I think in the Biden administration, the guy who stole the records and Trump filed a civil rights lawsuit and he settled it.

And rather than take billions in damages that I think he was owed, he gave up the billions and settled the case and said, this is what you need to do. You need to have a compensation arrangement for other victims. I’m not going to get the money. Victims of the weaponization of government under Biden, et cetera, are going to be eligible to apply and get the money. And the way it’s going to work is there’s something called the judgment fund in the Justice Department that is used to pay judgments and to settle cases before they go to trial in terms of claims against the federal government, various agencies and such.

And that’s not a terribly transparent system because if it settles before trial, you may not get the information, it’s not public. But this compensation arrangement that he’s set up is going to be much more transparent because according to the founding document or documents, they are going to disclose who gets the money and how much. I think that’s their goal. And it’s going to be run and who’sis by five people appointed by the Attorney general, fireable by President Trump. Now, of course, everyone’s screaming that this is outrageous. You know, the January 6th people who were abused, they should be abused again by being denied access to any vehicle to compensate them for the misconduct and abuse targeting them.

They don’t want President Trump or his allies to be able to at least be made partially whole for the damages they suffered as a result of the lawfare run by the Biden gang, the deep state, Obama, etc. Now, the rules haven’t been put out there, but supposedly a bunch of Republican senators who don’t give a rat’s tail about what the Deep State did to countless Americans are furious about it and want to restrict it, if not destroy it. And they’re so furious, they left town for a week plus long vacation for Memorial Day. Do you get a week vacation for Memorial Day? Do you get a 10 day vacation for Memorial Day? I doubt you do.

Right. But the Senate and Congress does and they didn’t want to. They were planning to have some. Bill to fully fund dhs finally, because they’re still not getting the money they’re supposed to. There’s still this shutdown debate. And rather than just do that, as they were planning to do, they left town because they were so angry that President Trump gave up the opportunity to get billions of dollars through litigation and settlement and instead directed the government to start compensating victims of weaponization in a more transparent way than otherwise they would be able to. Any American would be able to see under the current way of taking care of people who’ve made credible allegations of being victimized.

So that’s where we are. You have Republicans in the senate fleeing Washington, D.C. because they’re mad that Trump is trying to help citizens, most of whom would be supportive generally of the people who are abandoning them now. I’m outraged about it, you know, and everyone else is supposed to say, everyone’s out there saying it’s a slutch fund. It’s no such thing. If you’ve got a claim, you should be able to try to pursue it. I don’t think any of the January 6th defendants were properly prosecuted. I don’t think these were good faith prosecutions. They were treated differently than others similarly situated.

President Trump, I mean, there’s no doubt he was victimized. Countless others, Trump’s aides, others were just harassed out the wazoo by these leftists running the Biden administration. I mean, and the crimes continue. Did you see what happened this week? They just prosecuted or indicted a former, well, I guess a current, I don’t know if they’ve been fired yet. But a senior Justice Department official for stealing a sealed document about one of the Trump investigations and sending it to her home emails or private emails using a disguised name, like calling it a, call it a chocolate cake recipe or bundt cake recipe.

These documents were under seal. They weren’t hers to steal. And at the same time, she’s supposed to be investigating lawfare against Trump and she’s continuing it. The lawfare hasn’t stopped against President Trump. And frankly, a lot of the objections and the threats around this compensation fund are further, are further developments in the lawfare. Oh, don’t you dare give away taxpayer money to someone who was destroyed as a result of the Biden Vendetta and the January 6th jihad, because we’ll come after you too. It’s threats upon threats from these leftists. And to see Republican senators buy into it, I guess it’s no surprise.

Look, the Republican Senate controlled Senate didn’t pass the SAVE Act. It’s not because of the filibusters, because Republicans don’t support the SAVE act. Not all of them, but enough of them don’t. And I don’t even think it’s their principled position. I think it’s because they hate Trump. And you’re seeing the same thing over this ballroom fight. The President wants to is in the process of building a ballroom to better accommodate guests of the White House, provide better security. For the complex generally. And Congress was trying to push through some extra money to support making the ballroom complex, which includes offices for the first lady and other White House staff, hardened, and they don’t want to do that.

So these crazed anti Trump Republicans in the Senate are putting the President of the United States and the White House staff and all the visitors to the White House at risk because of the ballroom. I mean, I know there are a bunch of people who think, well, Tom Fitton, all he does is he hates Democrats. That’s ridiculous. I don’t a hate anyone. I don’t like ideologies. But this is an example of politicians who are nominally conservative acting in reprehensible ways. And I’m calling them out. So call your senators. Ask them what they think about denying funds to people abused by the Biden regime, trying to make them whole.

Ask them what they think about denying necessary security protections to President Trump. Ask them what they think about using their anger over President Trump. As an excuse to leave town and not fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, our immigration enforcement, etc. And abandon the White House and the American People to who knows what type of security threats because of their craziness about being anti Trump. So again, on this compensation fund, Trump gave up billions to make sure that Americans got a little bit of money who were victimized by, by the Biden regime, the Obama regime and the deep state.

And the left is furious and Republicans are angry at him for it. Incredible. Speaking of anger directed at Trump, of course, you know, it’s not political, it’s deadly. He was nearly killed at Butler in 2024. And we still don’t have the full information about the shooting led to the death of Mr. Compatori. We’re starting to get piecemeal records from the FBI after two years. And all the information that we got previous about what happened up in Butler came from local law enforcement who actually took more seriously the public’s right to know. And accordingly, we had a piece of litigation up in Pennsylvania.

So what happened is that Ken Silva of Headline usa, a reporter who was investigating this issue on his own because the big media wasn’t really interested, it looks like he filed a Pennsylvania Right to Know request on information about the Butler shooting, seeking access to the recording and related records. The Bethel Police Department, Beth El Park Police Department denied the request. On appeal, the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records affirmed the denial, asserting the audio because they knew there was this, what is what turned out to be a 911 audio recording of the shooter’s father calling in the night of the shooting after it happened.

They said it was exempt from disclosure, citing its alleged connection to an active criminal investigation by the FBI and Pennsylvania State Police. So we had to go through. We got a lawyer in Pennsylvania we’re working with, file a petition with the court for review. And then we asked the court to look at the material in camera, which means privately, you know, not publicly. And the court granted the request, reviewed the material privately, and ultimately ordered the release to Cannon Judicial Watch. And the audio is not pleasant to listen to, knowing what went on. So this is the father of Thomas crooks, who called 911 around 11 o’ clock the night of the shooting.

Let’s listen to the audio. Park Police, Allegheny with a transfer. Go ahead, caller. Hi. Hi, yes, my name’s Matthew Crook. I was calling in regards to my son Thomas. He belongs to the Clairton Sportsman Club in Clairton. And I don’t have the number for Jefferson Police on hand. The reason I’m calling is he left the house here at about a quarter to 2 this afternoon. And we’ve gotten no contact from him, no text messages. Nothing’s been returned and he’s not home yet. That’s totally not like him. So we’re kind of worried, not really sure what we should do.

Okay, and you’re at. Yeah, all right. I was like, hold on one second. What’s the phone number for you? All right. How old is he? He’s 20 years old. And you said it was about quarter to two today? Yeah, about quarter to two this afternoo. Like I said, he belongs to the Clairton Sportsman Club or gun club. And he took a rifle of his out there. And it’s routine. He always does it, but he’s usually back within two hours. We’ve been texting him, leaving him messages on his phone. He’s not been returning any of our texts or messages, which is totally not like him.

And we’re going on 11 o’ clock and he still hasn’t come back or contacted us. So we’re kind of worried. We don’t know if he’s been in an accident or if something else happened to him. Okay. I was going to say just keep your phone handy and I’ll get somebody to come and help you. Okay. Okay. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. You’re welcome. So another piece of the puzzle, right? And it’s raising some questions about what was going on at the home, why they were concerned he didn’t show up, you know, and other sorts of questions that I’m sure were pursuedi would hope were pursued by law enforcement, you know, and it’s not to accuse anyone of crimes beyond what we already know about.

But this is the shooting, near killing of the President, of the former President of the United States at the time, candidate for president, killing of another innocent American, traumatizing of the country, Part of a spate of left wing political violence that continues almost to this moment. We don’t have the details and the only reason we get the details we are been getting, we have been getting is because of Judicial Watch. So in addition to this audio we received from Bethel park, the police department there, we forced out the release of this information. We received basic photos of the shooter at the.

Just before he was involved in the shooting. And here, this is the photo that Judicial Watch obtained through a Right to Know request, a FOIA request up in Pennsylvania. People say, well, that video, that photo came out, it came out because of Judicial Watch. I mean, you may recognize the video. You can see they were close enough to read his phone. Whoever took the picture of him from law enforcement. And then we received new FBI records recently that showed that he was causing a commotion, the shooter and saying anti Trump things and then went up on the roof and shot Trump.

It’s crazy. Further indictment of the lack of security there. This guy’s causing a commotion with Trump supporters fighting about Trump and there’s no police around. This is crazy. And here we have the father, probably 10 hours after the shooting death because he was killed, crooks was killed. We have the video of that, of his remains. Pretty graphic stuff. I’ll show you here. Be warned. Pretty bloody mess. And his body. And they still didn’t put two and two together where he was residing. I’m not quite sure how quickly they moved. So all sorts of questions and you know, I don’t know the answers to these questions.

I’m just asking you a few questions, you know, could be just investigation. Took a while to get to his home. But why is it Judicial Watch getting this basic information about one of the biggest news stories in our lifetimes? Two years later, we’re still not getting all the information from the Secret Service and the FBI. Inexcusable. And I’ve been talking about the security of the president and I don’t think the President is secure enough. And the political class in this city don’t give a rat’s tail about the President’s safety. They don’t. And I mean Republicans and Democrats, Not all Democrats, not all Republicans.

Too many Democrats, way too many Republicans. Inexcusable. So more will be coming. And I’ll let you know when we get more on the threat to President Trump’s life and what the Secret Service is and isn’t doing and the details of the assassination attempts on him thus far. So you may have seen this story. Back when the Trump administration first came into office, Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator, essentially put a halt to spending billions of dollars and tried to claw back billions of dollars in green New Deal type funds that were pushed out the door during the last year of the Biden administration.

So the Biden people had all of this money, billions of dollars, and they couldn’t spend it fast enough if they followed the rules. So they changed the rules and started pushing the money out to essentially left wing front groups. There was no reason for doing it ethically or in terms of even combating climate change. It was just get the money out the door because they were afraid the Trump people would come in and stop it from going out the door. And one of the groups that got the money was tied to Stacey Abrams, the perennial seemingly candidate for public office, a Democrat who is notorious for challenging elections she loses and suggesting they’re all rigged and things that I guess Democrats are allowed to do but Republicans aren’t.

And she, a company associated with her received $2 billion in this last minute spending spree by the Biden gang. It came out of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction fund and it was to a nonprofit, Power Forward Communities, which had been tied to, as I said, the candidate she had run for governor at one point, Stacey Abrams. The taxpayer funds awarded in April 2024 were from a $14 billion national clean investment Fund program established under the Biden administration’s massive and incorrectly named Inflation Reduction Act. It was actually an inflation increasing act. The grant was awarded to finance so called residential decarbonization.

I’d like to see. I mean, can you imagine Power Forward Communities, which was established in 2023, so just the year before they got $2 billion a year tax money is a coalition of nonprofits which includes partners like Rewiring America, Enterprise Community Partners and Habitat for Humanity. Abrams reportedly played a pivotal role in establishing the group, which in its first few months of operation reported just $100 in revenue. So they go from getting $100 in revenue to begin with to a year later getting a $2 billion grant from the Biden gang. In early 2025, following the start of the second Trump administration, the EPA, under Administrator Lee Zeldin ordered grants made via the National Clean Investment Fund be frozen due to ongoing investigations into what the agency called.

So in early 2025, Zeldin’s team at the EPA, the new Trump team, essentially froze the money being spent under this $14 billion program. And they said they had serious concerns that there was self dealing and conflicts of interest on qualified recipients and reduced government oversight. In fact, part of the deal was the money was sent out specifically with less government oversight. So remember that, you know these people that are complaining that President Trump shouldn’t in a transparent way give no more than $1.776 billion to people victimized by weaponization, happily let the Biden gang give away billions and billions of dollars to allied groups for no reason at all.

In terms of public interest. I mean, they say greenhouse gas, but that’s not what the money could have been used for, effectively. In February 2025, Zelda and Zpa announced that they would try to take steps to get the money back. Zeldin cited comments from a former Biden EPA political appointee who described disbursements made through the Greenhouse Gas reduction fund as akin to tossing gold bars off the Titanic. I mean, that’s how desperate they were to spend the money. The Biden’s own people were saying it was like throwing gold off the Titanic. And they knew what they were doing.

They wanted to get the money out before Trump took over. So they were able to halt the payments, at least temporarily, while Citibank, the banking entity used to help move or transfer the grants, froze the payments after recommendations from the FBI. Then they filed a lawsuit against the EPA and Citibank, this is the Stacey Abrams affiliated entity, to prevent the termination of the grants. So they’re telling the courts, oh, taxpayers have no interest in combating fraud and we should get the $2 billion without anyone asking any more questions. Anti Trump Judge Tanya Chutkan issued a temporary restraining order requiring the government to spend money that she knew wouldn’t they would ever get, they would never get back.

And thankfully that was overturned. On appeal, the appellate court found that the lower court had abused its discretion in issuing the injunction and rescinded the injunction. And the funds remained frozen as the case is ongoing because the appellate court said, look, once the funds go out the door, it’s over. So this looked like a mess. Right? And I’m sure Lee Zeldin and the FBI internally, they got when pretty obviously something was amiss, right? And that’s why they took these really wonderfully aggressive steps. Lee Zeldin deserves significant credit for stopping this abuse as much as he could in a timely way.

But my guess is there’s even more there than we know. And that’s why we sued just the other day under the Freedom of Information act for information on the $2 billion scheme involving Stacey Abrams and the Biden gang. They wanted to push this money out to Stacy’s group, her affiliated group, and not only that, their allies, the recipients of the money, tried to go to court to make sure they still got it despite objections from law enforcement. Incredible. As the Biden administration was collapsing in 2024, it lawlessly rushed out billions in cash to left wing interest groups in a way that encouraged fraud and abuse.

The Trump EPA team should disclose and expose every single document about this massive Biden corruption scandal. I’m sure you agree. So, Lee Zeldin, if you’re watching, call your office, tell them to give us all the documents because we don’t want to have to fight in court about it, but we will if necessary. So Memorial Day is a special holiday. It is the day on which we commemorate the ultimate sacrifice by fighting men and women, defending our liberty, defending our Constitution, defending our nation, defending our God given rights. It’s particularly special for me because the official memorial day, traditionally at least, is May 30, which is my birthday.

The federal government is pretending memorial day is May 25. So the government’s off and that’s when all the commemorations were will occur. And you know, I’d like to think that Judicial Watch honors the sacrifice of the men and women who died for us through the work we do to protect our Constitution and hold our government accountable to the law. And I’d like to think we honor their sacrifice in the work that we do. We have many great veterans here, obviously, at Judicial Watch, but we know this freedom isn’t free. I often joke, you know, the most dangerous thing I do is I get into a cab.

And when you think the dangerous things our men and women in the armed forces do, it’s just on a day to day basis. It’s just incredible. And the sacrifices they’ve made since the beginning of our country deserve more than just one day of commemoration. And so I pray for the souls of all the fallen. I pray for their families, I pray for their descendants, and I certainly pray for those with us today who have lost loved ones in the defense of our country. So God bless America, God bless them and God bless you on this wonderful Memorial Day.

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