Consider the Biden administration is n’t using taxpayer-funded federal authorities to carry out a get-out-the-vote efforts for Democrats? Take a look at the U.S. Department of Interior’s compliance with President Joe Biden’s lawfully questionable professional order.  ,
The Bureau of Indian Education ( BIE ) of the Interior Department is reportedly planning to use students in bureau-operated Native American K-12 schools to bring their parents voter registration cards, according to emails and other documents obtained by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project through thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests. The company oversees 183 colleges on more than 60 American misgivings in 23 states, according to BIE’s site. Some 46, 000 individuals attend the institutions.  ,  ,
Records also reveal that Deb Haaland, Biden’s interior secretary, “made history” as the first African American cabinet secretary, crossing the Hatch Act line, which prohibits professional branch employees from engaging in blatant social behavior at work.  ,
” What’s happening today is absolute problem. A pretty red line was crossed by this management”, Mike Howell, senior director of Heritage’s Oversight Project, told me on The Federalist Radio Hour audio. The leader is not permitted to use the professional unit to secure his own reelection, according to “we’ve taken it for granted in the United States of America.” … The president’s choice is up to the citizens.
Predatory in essence, in my opinion.
As The Federalist has heavily reported, Biden signed Executive Order 14019 within the first quarter of his administration. Federal agencies are collaborating with state authorities offices and leftist organizations to record and mobilize usually left-leaning voters thanks to the benign-sounding” Promoting Access to Voting” executive order.  ,
He asserts the GOTV work is “predatory in character” because it targets Democrat electors for mobilization, no all electors.
” It’s definitely ham-fisted how they’ve gone about this in their overall desperation”, he said.  ,” We’re seeing a massive upsurge in Native American reservations, prisons, college campuses — any important statistical that is associated with the left is a target for the government to install and to move into the DNC’s get-out-the-vote program. Any group of people who have typically lean right are completely ignored by them.
Case in point, the U. S. Department of Interior’s proposed effort to employ elementary, junior high, and high school kids in their vote-delivery system.  ,
When Again Weaponizing
” I’d be interested in your opinions on this one. Department administration is proposing having BIE take home voting membership cards with students to provide to their parents”, Jennifer Segal Wiginton, a Bureau of Indian Education “team prospect” in its Office of the Solicitor, wrote in a Feb. 24, 2022 message to Brian Quint, attorney-adviser at the Department of the Interior.  ,
Like many of the contacts turned over in the FOIA demand, little of Wiginton’s message is redacted. The money issue is raised in an earlier contact from Wiginton to her coworker Joshua Berg.
” I think the question is what cause of federal money, if any, is applicable for this purpose”, Wiginton wrote in the Feb. 15, 2022 message. She continued, adding that she would like to” think about it more” with Berg, who at the moment served as an attorney-advisor for the Division of Indian Affairs-Tribal Government Services.  ,
Additionally, department officials discussed a proposal to send kids and/or guardians ‘ completed voter registration applications directly to the appropriate elections office in their state with the following information: “return letters with pre-paid shipping.
The money issue is crucial, especially since Congress has not authorized a national get-out-the-vote plan for Democrats, in African American school systems, or anywhere else. The Biden administration’s sweeping executive order, according to a lawsuit brought by the America First Policy Institute and Schaerr Jaffe LLP, is alleged to violate the Anti-Deficiency Act by the American-First Policy Institute. According to the lawsuit, the act “prohibites money from being used from the Treasury in excess of the amount that was authorized by Congress through legislation for that item.”  ,
” 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. It’s wrong to use cynical tactics to turn government institutions into a Democratic turnout machine. That’s why I’m joining this lawsuit and working to hold the administration accountable”.
It’s unclear exactly what transpired with the proposed plans. The Federalist’s numerous requests for comment were not returned by department of the interior.  ,
Expectations with Ambitiousness
The Bureau of Indian Education is engaged in a plan to increase Native voting at BIE postsecondary colleges and tribally controlled colleges, including Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute near Albuquerque and Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, according to another pair of Department of Interior emails.  ,
We want to talk about BIE funding various voting rights initiatives at Haskell and SIPI while meeting with OPM [ U.S. Office of Personnel Management]. We’re trying to keep the BIE team informed, wrote Sam Ennis, an assistant solicitor in the Division of Indian Affairs, in an email sent to Wiginton and Quint on March 22, 2022, in which case you might be in “listen only mode.”  ,
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 titled” Legal Issues By State- In those states where we decide to allow BIE schools to act as a repository for applications and then submit on behalf of parents ( following rules for voter registration agencies as a precaution )” ( sic ).
According to Howell of the Heritage Oversight Project, the records obtained reveal that the federal agency “basically picks Indian reservations only in deep blue areas.”
The election integrity expert said that they are choosing the swing states ‘ hardest left demographics and engaging in behaviors as shady as returning kids to their parents ‘ packets for filling out forms. ” They’re enlisting the children to go after the parents. It’s just really, really predatory”.
‘ Using Their Official Authority ‘ ,
Additionally, documents reveal that the Department of Interior is in conflict with 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. The Office of Special Counsel’s involvement in making sure Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s speech and column adhere to the Hatch Act is documented in an email from June 14 to June 2022. With the exception of the president and vice president, the law forbids executive branch employees from engaging in blatant political activity while employed.  ,
The Bureaucrat wrote that it is against the Hatch Act to use an official position of authority or influence to interfere with or affect the outcome of an election by showing support for or opposition to a political party or candidate. However, it is permissible for an Interior employee to make public remarks highlighting the Department’s efforts to officially designate the Department-operated colleges as voter registration agencies.  ,
She cautioned that using official authority or influence to encourage those who are listening to the speech to vote for candidates who share the same views raises questions about whether they are using their official authority or influence when using [GOTV language ] to address an official issue or advocacy on an issue. OSC advised that “it should n’t be a problem for a particular demographic or other groups” to include GOTV language in official remarks or speeches.
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.  ,
The secretary criticized recent attempts to restrict voting access, painting election integrity laws with a far-left brush, and restricting early voting, changing polling location hours, and even drawing maps to hush the voices of specific populations.  ,
” 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 accordance with the National Voter Registration Act, I was pleased to announce that Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute ( SIPI ) in New Mexico and Haskell Indian Nations University ( Haskell ) in Kansas will be designated as voter registration organizations. By enabling these institutions to make it easier for enrolled students and residents of those communities, this action aims to remove voting restrictions.
Another endorsement by the Biden administration for the organization that wrote the dubious executive order. Federal agencies are refusing to turn over relevant and unredacted documents to Congress and government watchdogs as a result of the biased review.  ,
Howell claimed that “because of things like trying to imprison your chief political opponent or, you know, shooting him in the face,” that his confidence in a free and fair election in November is declining. There is a delta that President Trump will have to overcome because of the numerous significant ways that this election has been impacted.
The Federalist’s senior elections correspondent, Matt Kittle, is. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
