00:00the gentleman times expired i now recognize mr burleson from missouri
00:05thank you chairwoman thank you to our witnesses for being here i just want to remind people
00:10there's a huge difference between money that an individual voluntarily gives to a non-profit or
00:17charity and the money that is that is forcibly taken from taxpayers and funneled through this
00:25town into into a non-profit or charity there is a huge difference correct mr walter absolutely
00:34mr krikorian yes of course mr turner yes and miss yento wouldn't you agree there's a huge difference
00:42there's a difference okay there's a difference in accounting and auditing and there is thank you
00:47thank you i'm going to get my time back here it's a simple question so here with that being said
00:54the problem that i it doesn't seem like anyone is recognizing is that we forcibly took money from
01:00taxpayers and then these groups then it was appropriated through the biden administration
01:08billions billions of taxpayer dollars to organizations that were stood up overnight
01:15organizations that didn't have a long-standing history these were not not profits for example the
01:20a the investigate free press investigation revealed that of the 27 billion dollars was granted to the
01:26ep through the epa 20 billion went out the door to eight non-profit groups um right but right after
01:35biden lost the election 20 billion dollars shoved out the door immediately several of them were formed
01:42that year in in august of or since august of that year so mr walter did your organization do you guys
01:52get billions of dollars when republicans are in charge we have never taken a penny from any level
01:58of government across four decades of existence mr turner sir if i got two billion dollars from the
02:05taxpayers i'd be in jail right now mr kikorian we have had contracts in the past with the census bureau
02:12and the justice department but nobody's given us two billion dollars uh if you know anybody who's in
02:17the market for that i'm uh giving my phone number yeah so i think that here here's the point to the american
02:23people when the republicans are in charge we're not doling out your money to our friends and our family
02:30we're not raiding the coffers we're not putting america into more debt and more debt and more debt
02:36to fund these non-profits look mr walter if somebody wants to give to stacy abrams new venture her
02:43non-profit they can do that right she could stand up a non-profit absolutely but the question is
02:49mr kikorian nobody wants to nobody wants to open up their checkbook right i wish uh yeah i've been working
02:57on that and that's the very reason why they come to this town is to convince lawmakers their friends
03:04their family member their ally to write a check that no one in the private sector would want to write
03:10for it for an effort that no one really would want to want to believe in um mr turner is it true that the
03:17biden senior climate policy advisor jae wise directed five billion dollars to coalition for green capital
03:27yes and let's point out she worked for the coalition for green capital right she previously worked for
03:34them yes so she sent money to the organization that she five billion dollars is that not blatant
03:42corruption mr turner and not only that sir five billion dollars is very difficult to spend five
03:48billion dollars is an absurd amount of money we heard a congresswoman talk about the jet that president
03:53trump got that was four hundred million dollars this is five billion dollars it's impossible to
03:59spend five billion ethically yeah to put that in context i remember being in the state of missouri
04:04and missourians at one point we spent whenever i was a lawmaker we spent five billion for all the
04:11school districts in the state of missouri okay so they funded every school district the state funds
04:17that was five billion um how much money did the might did the biden administration give specifically
04:23to rewiring america initiative where mrs abrams was brought on as a senior counsel approximately two
04:30billion dollars two billion dollars so let me get this straight progressive loyalists like abrams
04:39and other senior admin officials left the admin and feathered their nest on their way out
04:45with with our taxpayer dollars correct correct thank you madam chair i yield back the gentleman yields i now
04:53recognize mr
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