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Lawmakers challenge EPA's attempt to seize $20 billion in funding: 'A smokescreen to ignore congressional spending authority'

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Democratic senators want EPA chief to stop efforts to seize $20 billion earmarked for clean energy projects.

Lee Zeldin , newly appointed EPA administrator under President Donald Trump , has said the EPA discovered the money was fraudulently disbursed.

The funds had been allocated through the Inflation Reduction Act , which Trump has tried to freeze all funding.

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