Toward the end of former President Joe Biden’s time in the White House, a $50 million chunk of the $1 billion in grants that were awarded to nonprofit groups went to a New Mexico charity, the Tribal Energy Consortium, and now tax experts say the grant must be vetted because of the group’s ties to another grant recipient.

The Trump administration is investigating the grant, along with other Energy Department grants made under Biden, and the TEC hasn’t yet gotten the money, reports the Washington Examiner.

The probe will include an examination of the TEC’s ties with a federal grant recipient who reportedly has a record of mismanaging finances, a source told the publication.

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