The backroom deals this administration makes are shameless.
The amount of money it wastes on pushing its extremist agenda is startling.
That would now include the money it spent to get foreign journalists to write articles pushing climate change.
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The information came to light via a FOIA request by the Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT).
Correspondence between officials from Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) John Kerry’s office and the Office of Global Change (EGC) documented the plan.
An unnamed State Department official wrote, “Jean Foschetti at the FPC mentioned this to me about a week ago.
“Sounds like a great reporting tour idea; basically, the FPC will sponsor multiple foreign reporters to have experiences that educate them on reporting on climate change.
“Can EGC and SPEC take a look and clear?”
A day later, another official responded, “Thanks for sharing … I think this sounds like a fantastic FPC (virtual) reporting tour and I’m looking forward to the stories that will come out of this.”
The event took place in May 2021 over a two-week period.
The State Department states on its website, “The FPC … offered this virtual program to enable journalists to remotely develop their reporting about the United States’ renewed approach to addressing the climate crisis and its innovation and research, particularly in the areas of reducing emissions and renewable energy.”
Michael Chamberlain, director of the PPT, stated, “The American public may be shocked but, unfortunately, not surprised to learn their taxpayer funds are being used to promote climate alarmism around the world.
“The State Department should come clean about which foreign publications, articles, and authors they are forcing American taxpayers to fund.
“However, one thing Protect the Public’s Trust has learned from this FOIA request is that transparency is not one of State’s strengths.
“The more that is revealed the more it becomes clear why the American public’s trust in its government continues its rapid collapse.”
Kerry’s office has an annual budget just shy of $14 million, and this is the nonsense they are using it on.
Source: Fox News
