Nailed it

“Here: the taxpayers would just waste it”

My Three-Letter Response to the Dems' Caterwauling About 'Unelected Officials': EPA

In its earliest days, the EPA was largely focused on protecting the environment. That's not what the 21st-century incarnation of the agency is tasked with. It's now a climate change hysteria propaganda factory and the primary vehicle for Democrats to dole out taxpayer-funded favors to Big Green. 

It's a grift factory. 

Here's the kicker that the Dems won't dare mention: the EPA has over 14,000 employees, none of whom are elected. When there is a Democrat in the Oval Office, the agency is on a steady cycle of steroids, growing bigger and more powerful by the day. These people have the power to kneecap entire industries that they decide aren't a good fit with their Climate Church New World Order.

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Regarding their "shadow government" fantods, what the Dems are really upset by is the fact that Musk and DOGE are in the business of exposing all of the shadowy stuff that they've been up to. Their myriad boondoggle rabbit holes are being discovered, cleared out, and closed up.