During a recent press conference, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R. WV) revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency issued $50 million of the $40 billion allocated to the agency by the Inflation Reduction Act to a pro-Hamas group called the Climate Justice Alliance.

In fairness, the EPA isn’t entirely to blame for this. According to a press release quoted by Fox News, the EPA denies issuing the money to CJA and says the grantmaking process doesn’t go beyond the applications the agency receives. Legally, the agency’s staff cannot obtain additional information about applicants and can only base their decision to approve or deny funds on grant applications. However, once the grant is approved and funds sent, the group is legally bound to report their expenditures to the EPA every quarter. If any improprieties exist, the EPA can hold the organization responsible.

The problems is that a lot of federal agencies are headed and staffed by radicals making any accountability on the part of the EPA questionable at best. Regardless, the optics on this looks really bad, especially since (if you review their website) the Climate Justice Alliance is about supporting Hamas with a little climate change rhetoric mixed in.