{"id":152948,"date":"2024-02-07T08:46:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T13:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=152948"},"modified":"2024-02-07T08:46:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T13:46:17","slug":"john-kerrys-climate-staff-collectively-get-paid-over-4-million-from-taxpayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=152948","title":{"rendered":"John Kerry’s climate staff collectively get paid over $4 million from taxpayers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Power the Future (PTF) filed a freedom of information lawsuit against Team Biden. They alleged that they did not get the information they were seeking related to John Kerry’s staff. John Kerry is the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC). He has a staff under him that, according to the linked article, is collectively paid $4.3 million a year. This funding comes from the taxpayers.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

PTF filed the complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, listing the State Department as the defendant. According to the lawsuit, the agency — which houses the multimillion-dollar SPEC office — has repeatedly refused to disclose the names and job titles of Kerry’s staff while similarly resisting congressional oversight related to the matter.<\/p>\n

“For nearly three years, John Kerry has been jet-setting on the international climate conference circuit while sending taxpayers the bill,” PTF Executive Director Daniel Turner told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Today, we begin the process of teaching John Kerry and Joe Biden that they work for the taxpayers. No one should have to waste resources on litigation, but that is our only option since John Kerry thinks he can keep his office off the books.”<\/p>\n

“The American people are on the receiving end of countless green mandates and rules, gas stove bans and skyrocketing utility bills, with no opportunity for consent or input, and many of these decisions are hatched in John Kerry’s office,” he continued. “That is why it is our hope that this litigation will finally bring to light the information we deserve to know: the staff names, the office goals and budgets, the outside partnerships that peddle influence on Joe Biden’s green agenda.”<\/p>\n

In January, PTF filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the State Department, asking for an underacted list of Kerry’s staff. The request was made after the Boston Herald reported weeks earlier that it had obtained FOIA documents that showed a list of SPEC office staff positions and salaries but redacted the names of the individuals in those positions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has additional information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Power the Future (PTF) filed a freedom of information lawsuit against Team Biden. They alleged that … John Kerry’s climate staff collectively get paid over $4 million from taxpayers<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,238,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warming","category-government-incompetence","category-john-kerry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}