President Biden is funneling billions of dollars in federal spending to communities likely to support him in the election, using climate change as a guise. His "Justice40" initiative mandates that 40% of federal investments flow to "disadvantaged communities," which are largely minority communities that vote Democratic.
No president has ever attempted to buy votes as blatantly as Joe Biden. Under the guise of fighting climate change, the president is steering tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending towards communities that are more likely to support him in the election, particularly racial and ethnic groups.
This unprecedented patronage is not authorized by Congress. President Biden is corrupting constitutional government while trying to grease the skids for his own re-election.
While every president uses federal spending to secure political benefits, Biden's actions are both the most targeted and sweeping in American history.
He launched this effort shortly after taking office, signing an executive order in January 2021 on "tackling the climate crisis at home and abroad." The order created a "Justice40" initiative, mandating that 40% of "certain Federal investments… flow to disadvantaged communities."
More than three years later, this initiative covers much of the spending in Biden's signature laws, including the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and the American Rescue Plan, as well as hundreds of existing federal programs.
The amount of money involved is staggering. The infrastructure law alone devotes $68 billion to programs covered by Justice40. Existing programs already had funding streams in the billions of dollars.
When other laws and annual appropriations are added in, the Biden administration is likely spending more than $100 billion – and potentially far more – on initiatives that must now devote four of every 10 taxpayer dollars to "disadvantaged" communities.
The Biden administration created a "screening tool" map showing which parts of the country should get this money. The map identifies census tracts that are "overburdened and underserved" on a variety of measures.
These "Justice40 communities," as the administration calls them, are targeted because they, among other things, have higher dependency, have fewer English speakers, struggle with health conditions like diabetes, and are generally "distressed," among other considerations.
This is a thinly veiled attempt to direct money to minority communities – a fact that the Biden administration never explicitly says but effectively admits with language about "equitable distribution," "environmental justice," and references to tribes and segregation. In effect, Justice40 relies on a crude form of racial profiling to decide who gets billions of dollars in taxpayer money.
The dollars are already flowing. The first Justice40 programs
