Biden admin used taxpayer funds to ‘sponsor’ foreign journalists attending climate change ‘reporting tour,’ emails reveal
- December 21, 2022
Kari Acosta, 365political
Fox News Digital reported last year that the Biden Administration used taxpayer funds to “sponsor multiple foreign journalists to attend an educational “tour” to educate them about climate change reporting.
Protect the Public’s Trust obtained internal emails from government watchdog projects. They show that in March 2021, Office of Global Change and John Kerry’s Special Presidentialenvoy for Climate exchanged emails to discuss a proposal to sponsor international journalists.
The Foreign Press Centers, an agency within the Bureau of Global Public Affairs, was lined up to sponsor the reporting tour — “Combating the Climate Crisis Through U.S. Innovation.” Innovation. The department also provides “authoritative American information sources” to foreign news outlets.