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Republican senators are accusing the Obama Administration of misusing taxpayer dollars by green-lighting $500 million for a United Nations climate change program without first obtaining congressional approval.

The senators now are demanding the department justify the “cloak-and-dagger” contribution to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) – even threatening legal action.

“Lawyers cannot replace the constitutional requirement that only Congress who represent the people can appropriate money,” Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., said. "The Obama Administration is waving a magic wand and writing a half-billion dollar check to a Green Climate UN Fund that they admit was never authorized by Congress.”

At its board meeting in South Korea held in March 2015, the GCF refused an explicit ban on fossil fuel projects. Japan, China, and Saudi Arabia were opposing the ban.