In a recent episode of All in With Chris Haynes on MSNBC, the host interviewed Stacy Abrams. She reacted to President Donald Trump’s recent remarks about her $1.9 billion clean energy program. The president attacked her for corruption and said he was pulling her funding. Users on social media reacted to a clip of the interview by mocking Abrams and her wasteful spending.
“One of the ironies of the attack on you, and I’m going to play, what he did was that my understanding is the program at the source of this whole thing is a program to lower costs for people,” Haynes began.”I’m going to play what he had to say, and then I’m going to ask you to explain what the program is that was such an obvious, ludicrous laugh line for the Republicans.”
He then played a clip of Trump’s historic address to Congress. The president was listing off examples of wasteful government spending when he turned his attention to Abrams. “$1.9 billion to recently-created decarbonization of homes committee headed up, and we know she’s involved, just at the last moment, the money was passed over by a woman named Stacey Abrams. Have you ever heard of her?” the president said.
After the clip played, Hayes asked Abrams, “Okay, so what? What is this organization? What is your relationship to it? And what does it do?” The woke Georgia Democrat responded,” In 2023 and 2024, I led a program called [re]vitalizing DeSoto. We worked in a tiny town in south Georgia to demonstrate that by replacing energy-inefficient appliances with efficient appliances, you can lower your costs.”
“And in fact, we accomplished that for 75% of the community, they got appliances that are lowering their bills. Right now, we have one woman who saw her electric bill cut in half from $180 to $98 that’s what we delivered,” she explained. ” And based on that program, a coalition of organizations, famous organizations, came together and said to the EPA,’ if we can do this here we can do this for millions more Americans, let us invest the money of America in lowering the cost for Americans’ and the EPA said ‘okay great, go for it.’”
Conservatives online were incensed by what they saw as bribery. “The EPA-Stacey Abrams grift revealed: @staceyabrams just told MSBNC’s @chrislhayes that the Biden EPA gave her $2 billion to buy people new home appliances to reduce electric bills. So Democrats upgraded vote buying from Obama phones to Biden refrigerators,” said Fox News contributor Steve Milloy.
“2 billion dollars to inform people energy saving appliances save energy?? This was a scam and payback for a staffing firm she was connected to rigging the 2020 election in Fulton county,” another account reacted. “So it took $1.9B to save $90 I’m so confused right now. …. Billion?? Like with a real B??” one post reacting to the event read.
$2 billion went to 116 homes in DeSoto GA for new appliances? That’s $17.2 million for each home! Home much got funneled to Harris’ campaign? How much went in Abrams’ pocket? Other democrats campaign funds? Harris did have a $1 billion campaign!” asked one user. “Wait a minute. You’re buying ppl appliances with tax payer’s money so they get lower energy costs? How is that legal? I’d like new appliances to lower my cost but I cant afford it because i have to pay taxes!!!” another comment read.
