House Republicans this week will scrutinize the Biden administration’s energy and environment spending as the Trump administration has sought to freeze and claw back the money.
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will take up the issue during its first hearing of the year, said Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Ala.), the panel’s chair, and Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), who leads the full committee.
It’s unclear which programs the committee will target. But the Biden administration in its final years worked to dole out billions of dollars approved in the Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and other laws.
“In its final months, the Biden-Harris Administration handed out billions of dollars in energy and environment grants and loans at an unprecedented pace, exacerbating concerns that appropriate vetting and due diligence reviews may not have occurred for some of these awards,” Guthrie and Palmer said in a statement.
