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
