With the Biden-Harris administration running the federal government as an extension of the Democratic National Committee, it’s no wonder that the Department of Health and Human Services pushed out what amounts to a pro-Kamala Harris political ad to potentially tens of millions of Medicare recipients
Now a complaint is urging the Office of Special Counsel to investigate whether HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and other federal employees ran afoul of an 85-year-old federal law that prohibits them from engaging in political campaigning on the job.
”The email was entirely political in both its purpose and language, it was sent to citizens who are Medicare recipients from an official government email address and from an official department,” asserts the complaint, filed Monday by the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT). “This type of political advocacy from a government agency targeting citizens who interact with it is exactly the type of politicalization of government functions that the Hatch Act is designed to prevent.”
On Sept. 28, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sent out an email to Medicare recipients praising Vice President Kamala Harris for her involvement in the absurdly named Inflation Reduction Act. Estimated to cost as much as $1.2 trillion, the package funds a host of leftist pet climate change projects and other initiatives. Massive government spending has sent inflation soaring.
The email on changes in Medicare prescription drug benefits, ostensibly written by President Joe Biden, proclaims that the “historic reforms are a result of the Inflation Reduction Act
