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Think the Biden administration isn’t using taxpayer-funded federal
agencies to carry out a get-out-the-vote effort for Democrats? Take a
look at what President Joe Biden’s constitutionally suspect executive
order is doing at the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Email communications and other documents obtained by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project through thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests show the Interior Department’s Bureau of Indian Education
(BIE) feverishly scheming to use students in bureau-operated Native
American K-12 schools to carry voter registration cards home to their
parents. The agency oversees 183 schools on more than 60 Indian
reservations in 23 states, according to BIE’s website. Some 46,000 students attend the schools.
Records also expose Biden’s secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, who “made history when she became the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary,” arguably stepping over the Hatch Act line that bars executive branch officials from engaging in overtly political activities on the job.
“What’s happening now is absolute corruption. A very red line was
crossed by this administration,” Mike Howell, executive director of
Heritage’s Oversight Project, told me on The Federalist Radio Hour podcast.
“We’ve taken for granted in the United States of America that the
president isn’t allowed to use the executive branch to ensure his own
reelection. … The voters get to decide who the president is.”
‘Predatory in Nature’
As The Federalist has extensively reported, Biden signed Executive
Order 14019 within the first month of his presidency. The
innocuous-sounding “Promoting Access to Voting” executive order commands
federal agencies to work with state government offices and leftist
groups to register and mobilize traditionally left-leaning voters.
Howell asserts the GOTV effort is “predatory in nature” because it targets Democrat voters for mobilization, not all voters.
“It’s really ham-fisted how they’ve gone about this in their absolute
desperation,” he said. “We’re seeing a huge uptick in Native American
reservations, prisons, college campuses
— any key demographic that is associated with the left is a target for
the government to activate and to roll into the DNC’s get-out-the-vote
program. They are wholly ignoring sort of any demographic that would
traditionally lean right.”
Case in point, the U.S. Department of Interior’s proposed initiative
to use elementary, junior high, and high school kids in their
vote-delivery scheme.
‘Once Again Weaponizing’
“I’d be interested in your thoughts on this one. Department
leadership is proposing having BIE send home voter registration cards
with students to give to their parents,” Jennifer Segal Wiginton, a
Bureau of Indian Education “team lead” in its Office of the Solicitor,
wrote in a Feb. 24, 2022 email to Brian Quint, attorney-adviser at the
Department of the Interior.
Like many of the communications turned over in the FOIA request, much
of Wiginton’s email is redacted. An earlier email from Wiginton to her
colleague Joshua Berg raises the funding question.
“I think the question is what source of federal funds, if any, is
available for this purpose,” Wiginton wrote in the Feb. 15, 2022 email.
She added she would be “happy to brainstorm further” with Berg, who
served as attorney-advisor with the Division of Indian Affairs -Tribal
Government Services at the time.
Department officials also discussed a plan to provide “return
envelopes with pre-paid postage so that parents and/or guardians [could]
mail in their completed voter registration applications directly to the
corresponding elections office in their state.”
The funding question is very important, particularly because Congress
never appropriated taxpayer dollars to operate a national
get-out-the-vote campaign for Democrats, in Native American school
systems or anywhere else. A lawsuit recently
filed by the America First Policy Institute and the national law firm
of Schaerr Jaffe LLP alleges the Biden administration is violating the
Anti-Deficiency Act through Biden’s sweeping executive order. The act
“prohibits money from being expended from the Treasury in excess of the
amount appropriated by Congress through legislation for that item,” the
lawsuit states.
“The Biden Administration is once again weaponizing federal agencies,
this time to steer taxpayer resources to liberal activist groups who
want to sway the election,” Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, one of
several plaintiffs, said in a statement.
“This is a cynical attempt to turn government agencies into a
Democratic turnout machine, and it’s wrong. That’s why I’m joining this
lawsuit and working to hold the administration accountable.”
Exactly what happened to the suggested plans is unclear. Department
of the Interior officials did not return The Federalist’s multiple
requests for comment.
‘Ambitious Expectations’
Another series of Department of the Interior emails shows the Bureau
of Indian Education working on a plan to increase Native voting through
registration drives at BIE postsecondary colleges and tribally
controlled colleges — Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kan., and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute near Albuquerque.
“We’ve asked that you be added to a meeting with OPM [U.S. Office of
Personnel Management] to discuss BIE funding various voting rights
initiatives at Haskell and SIPI. You may well be in listen only mode,
but given that the leadership has had some ambitious expectations as to
BIE’s role in this process, we’re trying to keep the BIE team in the
loop,” wrote Sam Ennis, an assistant solicitor in the Division of Indian
Affairs, in a March 22, 2022 email to Wiginton and Quint.
A plan was included in the records disclosed but, again, mostly
redacted. It noted “top five actions or activities,” including
“assisting the public with voter registration, mail ballots and other
aspects of voting.” Also included, a section on “Legal Issues By State —
in those states which we decide to allow BIE schools act [sic] as a
repository for applications and then submit on behalf of parents
(following rules for voter registration agencies as a precaution).”
Howell, from the Heritage Oversight Project, said the records
obtained show the federal agency “basically picking Indian reservations
only in deep blue areas.”
“They’re picking the hardest left demographics in the swing states
and doing things as loony as sending kids home with packets to give
their parents to fill out,” the election integrity expert said. “They’re
enlisting the children to go after the parents. It’s just really,
really predatory.”
‘Using Their Official Authority’
Documents also show the Department of the Interior running up against
an 85-year-old federal law aimed at preventing “pernicious political
activities.”
Heather Gottry, a “designated agency ethics official” in the
solicitor’s office, was charged with dealing with vetting the GOTV
language in official remarks and speeches. In an email dated June 14, 2022, Gottry
notes the involvement of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel in making
sure Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s voting pep rally speech and column
comport with the Hatch Act. The law bars executive branch employees,
with the exception of the president and vice president, from overt
political activities while on the job.
While permissible for an Interior employee to make public remarks
highlighting the agency’s efforts to formally designate the
Department-operated colleges as voter registration agencies, “OSC has
advised that it is not permissible under the Hatch Act to do so in a way
that appears that the federal employee is using their official
authority or influence to interfere with or affect the result of an
election, by showing support for or opposition to a political party or
candidate,” the bureaucrat wrote.
She warned that, “ty[ing] GOTV language to an official issue or
advocacy on an issue… raises concerns about whether they are using their
official authority or influence to encourage those listening to the
speech to vote for candidates who share same viewpoints.” OSC advised
that “the inclusion of GOTV language in official remarks/speeches should
not be targeted to specific demographic or other groups…”
After proposing edits and comments, the legal team signed off on the
secretary’s remarks, redacted in the email. Haaland’s op-ed, published
in her official capacity, targeted a Native American audience — and
seemed to trip over the Hatch Act line. The op-ed, headlined “Our ancestors survived against all odds, we owe it to them to vote,” reeked of progressive politics.
“Recent attempts such as closing certain polling locations, limiting
early voting, changing polling location hours, and even drawing maps to
hush the voices of specific populations are consistent attempts to
restrict voting access,” the secretary complained, painting election
integrity laws with a far-left brush.
“With President Biden’s support, we are working with states to expand
access to voting at Department of the Interior-operated post-secondary
Tribal institutions. In May, I was proud to announce that Haskell Indian
Nations University (Haskell) in Kansas and the Southwestern Indian
Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) in New Mexico will be designated voter
registration agencies under the National Voter Registration Act. This
action seeks to remove barriers to voting by allowing these institutions
to facilitate voter registration opportunities for enrolled students
and members of those communities.”
Another Biden administration endorsement for Bidenbucks and the party
that created the questionable executive order. The biased review comes
as federal agencies refuse to turn over relevant and unredacted
documents to government watchdog organizations — and Congress.
Howell’s confidence in a free and fair election in November is
dwindling “because of things like Bidenbucks or what we’re calling
Kamala Campaign Cash, or things like trying to imprison your chief
political opponent or, you know, shooting him in the face,” he said.
“This election has been interfered with in so many substantial ways that
there is a delta that President Trump will have to overcome.” [SOURCE]
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