Call it a sign of the times: The Biden administration using your tax dollars to campaign for President Joe Biden.
Literally.
In a letter to Shalanda D. Young, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, takes aim at an Executive Office memo “strongly” encouraging federal agencies to erect signs declaring costly public infrastructure projects around the country have been funded by President Joe Biden. Forget the fact that American taxpayers will fork over trillions of dollars — in present and future treasure — to fund the ill-named Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (aka the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law), the ironically named Inflation Reduction Act, and other debt-racking spending initiatives in which boondoggles abound.
As Ernst notes in her letter, a February 2023 Controller Alert suggests strategies, “including the use of public signage, to increase the transparency of projects funded in whole or in part” by the spending packages. The idea, according to the memo, is to make taxpayers aware just how effective “Government efforts to invest in our Nation’s infrastructure and competitiveness” have been.
And who’s paying for this awareness campaign? Why, taxpayers, it appears.
‘BIL is a BFD’
But this is no mere public service announcement. The signs are taxpayer-funded campaign ads for Biden’s re-election, Ernst says.
“[A]t the White House’s direction, the Department of Transportation, Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and other agencies are treating taxpayer money like campaign donations, purchasing and placing thousands of campaign signs
