Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday shared a video to X in which he said the Biden administration wasted $20 billion in taxpayer funds.

Zeldin said in the clip his top priority is the proper stewardship of tax dollars, adding he has “zero tolerance” for waste. He continued by acknowledging an undercover investigation in which a Biden EPA official claimed they were “tossing gold bars off the Titanic” in the final days of the Biden administration.

“The ‘gold bars’ were tax dollars and tossing them off the Titanic meant the Biden administration knew they were wasting it,” Zeldin said. “Fortunately, my awesome team at EPA has found the gold bars.”

The Biden EPA, he claimed, had awarded the $20 billion to eight entities which used the funds with insufficient oversight. Zeldin argued all the "gold bars" which were "tossed off the Titanic" must be returned.

EPA needs to reassume responsibility for all of these funds,” he said. “We will review every penny that has gone out the door."

Zeldin noted he will refer the matter to the EPA Inspector General’s Office, as well as work with the Department of Justice.

“The days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far-left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over,” he added. “The American public deserves a more transparent and accountable government than what transpired these past four years.”

Reacting to the video was Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.

“We have $36 trillion in debt, and the Biden Administration was throwing tens of billions into a liberal slush fund,” he lamented. “Good work, @epaleezeldin.”

“The Biden administration wasted billions of taxpayer dollars through the IRA, and this attempt to avoid oversight and accountability was another abuse of power,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., added. “As chairman of @EPWGOP, I remain ready to support @EPALeeZeldin’s efforts and applaud him and his team at @EPA for bringing this discovery to light.”

President Donald Trump wrote via Truth Social this week he also directed Zeldin to “immediately” reverse course on the Biden administration’s standards on common household appliances.

“I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which were terminated by Crooked Joe Biden, on Water Standards and Flow pertaining to SINKS, SHOWERS, TOILETS, WASHING MACHINES, DISHWASHERS, etc., and to likewise go back to the common sense standards on LIGHTBULBS, that were put in place by the Trump Administration, but terminated by Crooked Joe,” his post reads.