The Architect of Biden’s Green Gravy Train Is Now Suing to Keep It Alive
At Power The Future, we’ve long warned that the real power behind the Biden-era energy agenda wasn’t the man at the podium, it was the unelected ideologues crafting policy in the shadows. Now we’re watching those same bureaucrats-turned-activists resurface in private practice to cash in and defend the broken system they built.
Case in point: Daniel Jacobson, President Biden’s former general counsel at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), who spent his time in government making it harder to cancel bad grants. Now, he’s out of government and suing the Trump administration in multiple cases to keep those exact same grant dollars flowing to political allies, activist nonprofits, and green special interests.
According to the Daily Caller News Foundation, Jacobson “radically changed the ability of the government to terminate a grant” during his tenure at OMB. After rigging the rules in government, he started his own law firm specifically to help former grantees fight back. As one legal ethics expert put it, “it raises many questions.”
Here’s what’s clear: Jacobson is now involved in at least five lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to rein in billions in wasteful grant, including from the EPA’s notorious $20 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This is the same fund placed under internal review and referred to the Inspector General for potential mismanagement. Yet Jacobson is suing to force the release of these taxpayer dollars anyway.
Power The Future has been saying it all along: these grants were never about climate or equity; they were about patronage. And now the same officials who “bulletproofed” these grants in office are trying to preserve them in court.
The good news? The Trump administration is fighting back. From EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to OMB to HHS, agencies are working to stop the misuse of taxpayer funds and bring transparency to a process that was deliberately hidden from public view.
But this episode should serve as a warning. The climate-industrial complex isn’t just about policy—it’s about power, money, and the lawyers who move between government jobs and activist lawsuits to keep the grift going.
We’re proud to say: Power The Future told you so. And we’re not done holding them accountable.
June 3, 2025