{"id":2316513,"date":"2024-07-31T08:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidenbucks-plan-uses-native-american-kids-in-voting-scheme\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T08:14:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:14:04","slug":"bidenbucks-plan-uses-native-american-kids-in-voting-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidenbucks-plan-uses-native-american-kids-in-voting-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bidenbucks&#8217; Plan Uses Native American Kids In Voting Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidenbucks-plan-uses-native-american-kids-in-voting-scheme%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2316513&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article \u200bdiscusses allegations that the Biden administration&#8217;s \u200dU.S. Department of the \u200dInterior is using federal resources to conduct a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) effort for Democrats. Specifically,\u200b it highlights an email communication suggesting that\u2064 the\u2063 Bureau of Indian \u200dEducation (BIE) could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-congresswoman-sounds-alarm-over-potential-voter-registration-of-non-citizens\/\" title=\"NY congresswoman raises concern about possible voter registration of non-citizens\">distribute voter registration cards<\/a> to students in Native American K-12 schools for them to \u200ctake home to their parents. This \u2063initiative raises questions about the legality and ethics of using federal agencies to organize voter\u200d registration, particularly as\u200b it\u200b appears to target demographic groups that lean Democratic. Critics, including Mike Howell from the Heritage Foundation, describe the effort as \u200b&#8221;predatory&#8221; and a potential violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits executive branch officials\u200c from engaging in partisan political \u2062activities while on\u2064 the job. Additionally, the\u2064 article\u2064 mentions ongoing legal challenges \u200basserting that taxpayer funds should not\u200d be used \u200dfor such partisan initiatives, emphasizing the concerns over\u2062 the administration&#8217;s\u2062 compliance \u200bwith appropriations laws. The\u2063 report portrays these activities as \u2064part of a broader strategy to mobilize \u2063left-leaning voters\u2062 while neglecting those who \u200dmay lean towards the right.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Think the Biden administration isn&rsquo;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&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-bar-does-democrats-dirty-work-by-tarring-opponents-right-before-midterms\/\" title=\"DC Bar Does Democrats\u2019 Dirty Work By Tarring Opponents Right Before Midterms\">constitutionally suspect executive order<\/a> is doing at the U.S. Department of the Interior.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Email communications and other documents obtained by the Heritage Foundation&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/oversight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oversight Project<\/a> through thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests show the Interior Department&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bie.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bureau of Indian Education<\/a> (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, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bie.edu\/topic-page\/tribally-controlled-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> BIE&rsquo;s website. Some 46,000 students attend the schools.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Records also expose Biden&rsquo;s secretary of the Interior, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/secretary-deb-haaland#:~:text=Secretary%20Deb%20Haaland%20made%20history,serve%20as%20a%20cabinet%20secretary.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deb Haaland, <\/a>who &ldquo;made history when she became the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary,&rdquo; arguably stepping over the <a href=\"https:\/\/osc.gov\/Services\/Pages\/HatchAct.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hatch Act <\/a>line that bars executive branch officials from engaging in overtly political activities on the job.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s happening now is absolute corruption. A very red line was crossed by this administration,&rdquo; Mike Howell, executive director of Heritage&rsquo;s Oversight Project, told me on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/breaking-down-bidenbucks--60865882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Federalist Radio Hour podcast<\/a>. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve taken for granted in the United States of America that the president isn&rsquo;t allowed to use the executive branch to ensure his own reelection. &hellip; The voters get to decide who the president is.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Predatory in Nature&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>As The Federalist has extensively reported, Biden signed Executive Order 14019 within the first month of his presidency. The innocuous-sounding &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/promoting-access-voting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Promoting Access to Voting&rdquo; executive order <\/a>commands federal agencies to work with state government offices and leftist groups to register and mobilize traditionally left-leaning voters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Howell asserts the GOTV effort is &ldquo;predatory in nature&rdquo; because it targets Democrat voters for mobilization, not all voters.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s really ham-fisted how they&rsquo;ve gone about this in their absolute desperation,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;&ldquo;We&rsquo;re seeing a huge uptick in Native American reservations, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/29\/targeting-felon-votes-with-bidenbucks-democrats-court-the-criminal-caucus\/\">prisons<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/27\/bidenbucks-laundered-through-education-department-target-likely-biden-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> college campuses<\/a> &mdash; any key demographic that is associated with the left is a target for the government to activate and to roll into the DNC&rsquo;s get-out-the-vote program. They are wholly ignoring sort of any demographic that would traditionally lean right.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, the U.S. Department of Interior&rsquo;s proposed initiative to use elementary, junior high, and high school kids in their vote-delivery scheme. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Once Again Weaponizing&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;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,&rdquo; Jennifer Segal Wiginton, a Bureau of Indian Education &ldquo;team lead&rdquo; in its Office of the Solicitor, wrote in a Feb. 24, 2022 email to Brian Quint, attorney-adviser at the Department of the Interior.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like many of the communications turned over in the FOIA request, much of Wiginton&rsquo;s email is redacted.&nbsp;An earlier email from Wiginton to her colleague Joshua Berg raises the funding question. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think the question is what source of federal funds, if any, is available for this purpose,&rdquo; Wiginton wrote in the Feb. 15, 2022 email. She added she would be &ldquo;happy to brainstorm further&rdquo; with Berg, who served as attorney-advisor with the Division of Indian Affairs -Tribal Government Services at the time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Department officials also discussed a plan to provide&nbsp;&ldquo;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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>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 l<a href=\"https:\/\/americafirstpolicy.com\/assets\/uploads\/files\/AFPI_v._Biden-1-Complaint_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">awsuit <\/a>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&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-top-immigration-adviser-biden-agenda-would-fundamentally-erase-very-essence-of-americas-nationhood\/\" title=\"Ex-Top Immigration Adviser: Biden Agenda \u2018Would Fundamentally Erase Very Essence Of America\u2019s Nationhood\u2019\">sweeping executive order<\/a>. The act &ldquo;prohibits money from being expended from the Treasury in excess of the amount appropriated by Congress through legislation for that item,&rdquo; the lawsuit states.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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,&rdquo; Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, one of several plaintiffs, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/americafirstpolicy.com\/issues\/afpi-files-federal-lawsuit-challenging-biden-admin-effort-to-turn-federal-agencies-into-partisan-voter-registration-machines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement.<\/a> &ldquo;This is a cynical attempt to turn government agencies into a Democratic turnout machine, and it&rsquo;s wrong. That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m joining this lawsuit and working to hold the administration accountable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Exactly what happened to the suggested plans is unclear. Department of the Interior officials did not return The Federalist&rsquo;s multiple requests for comment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Ambitious Expectations&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>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 &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/haskell.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Haskell Indian Nations University<\/a> in Lawrence, Kan., and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sipi.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute <\/a>near Albuquerque.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;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&rsquo;s role in this process, we&rsquo;re trying to keep the BIE team in the loop,&rdquo; wrote Sam Ennis, an assistant solicitor in the Division of Indian Affairs, in a March 22, 2022 email to Wiginton and Quint.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A plan was included in the records disclosed but, again, mostly redacted. It noted &ldquo;top five actions or activities,&rdquo; including &ldquo;assisting the public with voter registration, mail ballots and other aspects of voting.&rdquo; Also included, a section on &ldquo;Legal Issues By State &mdash; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yes-biden-is-hiding-his-plan-to-rig-the-2022-midterm-elections\/\" title=\"Yes, Biden Is Hiding His Plan To Rig The 2022 Midterm Elections\">voter registration agencies<\/a> as a precaution).&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Howell, from the Heritage Oversight Project, said the records obtained show the federal agency &ldquo;basically picking Indian reservations only in deep blue areas.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;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,&rdquo; the election integrity expert said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re enlisting the children to go after the parents. It&rsquo;s just really, really predatory.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Using Their Official Authority&rsquo;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>Documents also show the Department of the Interior running up against an 85-year-old federal law aimed at preventing &ldquo;pernicious political activities.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Heather Gottry, a &ldquo;designated agency ethics official&rdquo; in the solicitor&rsquo;s office, was charged with dealing with vetting the GOTV language in official remarks and speeches. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.heritage.org\/23_CU-Interior-Dept-Voting-EO-FOIA-Production-3.pdf\">email dated June 14, 2022<\/a><strong>, <\/strong>Gottry notes the involvement of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel in making sure Interior Secretary Deb Haaland&rsquo;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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While permissible for an Interior employee to make public remarks highlighting the agency&rsquo;s efforts to formally designate the Department-operated colleges as voter registration agencies, &ldquo;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,&rdquo; the bureaucrat wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She warned that, &ldquo;ty[ing] GOTV language to an official issue or advocacy on an issue&hellip; 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.&rdquo; OSC advised that &ldquo;the inclusion of GOTV language in official remarks\/speeches should not be targeted to specific demographic or other groups&hellip;&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After proposing edits and comments, the legal team signed off on the secretary&rsquo;s remarks, redacted in the email. Haaland&rsquo;s op-ed, published in her official capacity, targeted a Native American audience &mdash; and seemed to trip over the Hatch Act line. The op-ed, headlined <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyinterlake.com\/news\/2022\/jul\/25\/our-ancestors-survived-against-all-odds-we-owe-it-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Our ancestors survived against all odds, we owe it to them to vote,&rdquo;<\/a> reeked of progressive politics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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,&rdquo; the secretary complained, painting election integrity laws with a far-left brush.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;With President Biden&rsquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-more-gop-officials-refuse-to-follow-bidens-federal-election-takeover-others-are-mum\/\" title=\"As GOP Officials Resist Biden&#039;s Election Control, Some Stay Silent\">designated voter registration agencies<\/a> 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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>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 &mdash; and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/30\/exclusive-house-committee-gives-cabinet-secretaries-5-days-to-release-bidenbucks-docs\/#:~:text=efforts%20of%20Democrats.-,It's%20been%20a%20month%20and%20a%20half%20since%20Steil%20issued,made%20a%20month%20before%20that.\">Congress.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Howell&rsquo;s confidence in a free and fair election in November is dwindling &ldquo;because of things like Bidenbucks or what we&rsquo;re calling Kamala Campaign Cash, or things like trying to imprison your chief political opponent or, you know, shooting him in the face,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;This election has been interfered with in so many substantial ways that there is a delta that President Trump will have to overcome.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. 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.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you believe the Biden administration isn&#8217;t leveraging taxpayer-funded federal agencies to promote a get-out-the-vote initiative for Democrats, consider the actions stemming from President Joe Biden&#8217;s potentially unconstitutional executive order at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Documents and email communications acquired by the Heritage Foundation\u2019s Oversight Project through numerous Freedom of Information Act requests reveal that the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) is actively planning to distribute voter registration cards with students in bureau-operated Native American K-12 schools, encouraging them to take these cards home to their parents. The BIE manages 183 schools across more than 60 Indian reservations in 23 states, serving approximately 46,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>The records also highlight Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland\u2014who made history as the first Native American cabinet secretary\u2014potentially crossing boundaries set by the Hatch Act, which prohibits executive branch officials from engaging in overt political activities while on duty. Mike Howell, executive director of Heritage\u2019s Oversight Project, expressed concern about what he sees as corruption within this administration: \u201cA very red line was crossed&#8230; The voters should decide who becomes president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s Executive Order 14019, signed early in his presidency under the guise of &#8220;Promoting Access to Voting,&#8221; instructs federal agencies to collaborate with state offices and left-leaning organizations to register and mobilize typically Democratic voters. Howell describes this effort as &#8220;predatory&#8221; because it specifically targets Democratic constituencies rather than all voters.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Interior has proposed using elementary through high school students for voter registration initiatives\u2014a plan that raises significant ethical questions regarding funding sources since Congress has not allocated taxpayer money for a national get-out-the-vote campaign aimed at Democrats or any other group.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there are indications that BIE is working on strategies to enhance Native voting participation through registration drives at tribal colleges like Haskell Indian Nations University and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute. However, many details remain redacted due to ongoing investigations into potential violations of federal laws designed to prevent political misconduct within government agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns have been raised about whether these efforts violate established laws such as those preventing misuse of official authority for political gain. Despite warnings from ethics officials regarding compliance with regulations like the Hatch Act during public speeches or initiatives related to voting rights advocacy within federally operated institutions, there appears to be an ongoing push towards mobilizing specific demographics aligned with Democratic interests.<\/p>\n<p>As scrutiny continues over these actions and their implications for election integrity moving forward into November elections\u2014amidst claims that they represent an attempt by federal agencies under Biden&#8217;s direction to influence electoral outcomes\u2014the situation remains contentious among various stakeholders involved in governance and electoral processes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2316514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-30-at-11.08.16-PM-1024x523.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[33530,36753,36694,36754,36752],"class_list":["post-2316513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-bidenbucks","tag-election-influence","tag-native-american","tag-social-policy","tag-voting-scheme"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-30-at-11.08.16-PM-1024x523.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2316513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2316514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}