The EPA arms up to protect "our democracy": Agency has spent millions of dollars in taxpayer funding to stockpile military-grade equipment and weaponry.

American Thinker ^ | 01/05/2024 | Mike McDaniel

[SeekAndFind]

Under the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration (MMPA), our military is prepared to fight the trans/pronoun wars, not the real thing. But the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is getting ready to go to actual war. It appears the environment needed more protection than anyone could have imagined:

A resurfaced report that initially flew under the radar claims that President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has spent millions of dollars in taxpayer funding to stockpile military-grade equipment and weaponry. 

In a letter sent to the EPA in September, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee, wrote, “As of September 14, 2023, the Biden administration EPA has already spent $2,892,770 on these items, which is 143 percent more than what was spent during the entire Trump administration.”

Image: EPA Boat at Scanlon Reservoir. Wikimedia Commons.org. Public Domain.

Wow. I know guns and ammunition are expensive, but that’s a lot of hardware! What’s an agency that issues bureaucratic rules and enforces its fiats with paper and lawfare doing arming up?

The congressional investigation into the EPA followed a report from a government watchdog organization that discovered non-law enforcement federal agencies had spent almost $4 billion since 2006 in taxpayer funding to purchase “military-style equipment,” guns, and ammunition.

“The very same EPA that proposed slapping red tape on nearly every farmer’s ditch in Iowa now appears to be armed to the teeth,” Grassley told The Washington Free Beacon. “The Biden EPA already has a reputation for overstepping its bounds, and that makes the agency’s militarization all the more frightening. We need to know what exactly EPA is doing with this equipment, and whether it serves the interests of the American people.”

[SeekAndFind]

Since 2006, the EPA has spent roughly $10 million on advanced weaponry, including “unmanned aircraft, night vision, and radar equipment,” according to The Washington Free Beacon. The outlet reported that while the EPA’s spending has occurred under multiple presidential administrations, it seemingly increased under former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden.

[allendale]

The commissars at the EPA are worried that their agents who venture into rural areas to enforce their edicts will suffer the fate of revenue agents who hiked the mountains of Appalachia.

[Bonemaker]

Congress had to give them the money to do it.

[FlingWingFlyer]

WTF does military equipment and weapons have to do with “da enviomen”? The EPA is getting this stuff to start their culling of the herd. Americans have got to go. They just won’t obey their masters and are ungovernable.

[Hot Tabasco]

Since 2006, the EPA has spent roughly $10 million on advanced weaponry, including “unmanned aircraft, night vision, and radar equipment,”

Only $10 million over 17 years? $10 mil ain't gonna get ya much.......

[Jamestown1630]

I’m so tired of hearing about ‘our democracy’. We are not one, have never been one, were never *intended* to be one.

[wildcard_redneck]

I think that The States should institute a special tax on federal employees living in their state.

[exnavy]

I agree, it is stupidity to call our government democracy. Democracy is mob rule, not what we are.

[OKSooner]

Pre-positioned stuff, for.... guess who?

[Jamestown1630]

“Two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch”.

[momincombatboots]

Along with NOAA, EPA, dept of Ed… and we have done nothing. I believe Cruz exposed this with a video years ago. Nothing but silence from republicans.

[G Larry]

While it's disturbing to see the EPA armed up, I can't imagine them training properly with the gear.

Picture them running into the dark with night vision gear and an M4....neither of which they've practiced with.

Helmet adjustments, Helmet mount functions, IR operation, integrating those with the with proper use of the weapon.....

And heaven forbid they should have to maneuver.....

[flamberge]

I’m so tired of hearing about ‘our democracy’. We are not one, have never been one, were never *intended* to be one.

"Our Democracy"(tm) looks exactly like "Their Fascism".

[kawhill]

Since they tried to classify The North Fork of the Little Arkansas River on my property as a ‘navigable waterway’, which incidentally goes dry in a hot, dry, Kansas summer I figured that was it. They come around here they ain’t going to like it so much. No threat, just a promise.

[vpintheak]

This is completely disgusting; but if SHTF, at least we know another place to go to get some weapons & ammo.

[moovova]

There appear to be a large number of armories out there that will be available to the common man when the SHTF.

[flamberge]

While it's disturbing to see the EPA armed up, I can't imagine them training properly with the gear.

Perhaps they are merely a resupply point for other hostile forces of greater competence.

Just where are those toys stashed anyway?

[Red6]

Wait, soon they will request having armed LE agents.

Every federal department and agency is always looking for ways to expand.

[BenLurkin]

Out of control government is out of control

[Bratch]

How else are they going to uphold the carbon tax?