House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil sent letters on Wednesday to fourteen Trump administration agencies seeking information related to an ongoing investigation into the Biden administration’s taxpayer-funded get-out-the-vote operation that aimed to elect Democrats.
Less than two months after taking office, then-President Joe Biden issued an executive order mandating federal agencies register and mobilize voters “with the express intent of increasing election participation among minority groups that tend to vote disproportionately Democrat,” as Ben Weingarten explained in these pages. The order instructed agencies to enlist the help of “nonpartisan third-party organizations … to provide voter registration services on agency premises.”
As Weingarten reported, “A since-deleted but archived Demos analysis indicates that, if fully implemented, the order could lead to 3.5 million new or updated voter registrations annually — a massive figure considering recent presidential elections have been decided by mere thousands of votes in a handful of states.”
“Federal funds should not have been used to influence our elections,” Steil said in a statement first obtained by The Federalist. “We had hoped the Biden administration would be transparent and cooperate with our investigation by turning over their strategic plans, but that was not the case.”
The letters — first obtained by The Federalist — were sent to the following agencies: Department of Homeland Security, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of the Interior, Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of Transportation, Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of State, Department of the Treasury, and Department of Agriculture. […]
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