{"id":2330955,"date":"2024-08-26T11:12:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/subpoenas-await-if-white-house-keeps-hiding-bidenbucks-plans\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T11:19:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:19:49","slug":"subpoenas-await-if-white-house-keeps-hiding-bidenbucks-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/subpoenas-await-if-white-house-keeps-hiding-bidenbucks-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Subpoenas Await If White House Keeps Hiding &#8216;Bidenbucks&#8217; Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fsubpoenas-await-if-white-house-keeps-hiding-bidenbucks-plans%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=2330955&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 Biden-Harris administration is facing scrutiny from the House Oversight Committee over\u2064 its executive \u2063order, known as Executive Order 14019, which directs federal\u200c agencies to register and mobilize voters. The committee, led by Chairman James\u2062 Comer, has expressed frustration over the administration&#8217;s lack of compliance in providing requested documents and information regarding this controversial directive. <\/p>\n<p>The executive order, issued in March 2021, aims to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidenbucks-laundered-through-education-department-target-likely-biden-voters\/\" title=\"Biden&#039;s funds funneled via Education Dept. to sway probable Biden supporters\">increase voter\u2062 registration<\/a> among non-white populations\u2062 who typically face barriers to voting, claiming these\u2064 groups encounter significant\u2064 obstacles. Critics have raised concerns about potential \u2063bias in favor of Democratic voter turnout, suggesting\u200c that the order may have been influenced by the left-leaning Demos think tank.\u200b Comparisons have been drawn between this initiative and the &#8220;Zuckbucks&#8221; scandal from the 2020 election, which involved \u2063private funding\u2063 influencing \u2064election\u200b administration.<\/p>\n<p>As\u200c the administration has largely disregarded oversight requests, the committee has opened a\u200b probe into\u2064 the legality and transparency of the voter \u200bregistration efforts. Despite requests for specific strategic plans and information about third-party partnerships, the Office of Management and Budget has \u2062provided minimal responses. \u2064If the requested information is not submitted by a specified deadline, the committee may resort \u2062to subpoenas to enforce compliance, emphasizing the\u2064 importance of transparency in electoral processes for public trust.  <\/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>The Biden-Harris administration appears to be stonewalling a congressional probe of its secretive executive order directing every federal agency to register and mobilize voters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The powerful House Oversight Committee is threatening to force the White House to comply if it doesn&rsquo;t quickly turn over the documents and information the committee requested regarding the controversial directive, according to a letter I obtained exclusively from Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., to Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/03\/07\/executive-order-on-promoting-access-to-voting\/\">Executive Order 14019<\/a> on &ldquo;Promoting Access to Voting&rdquo; requires offices under the control of the Biden-Harris administration &mdash; from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/newsroom\/alerts\/uscis-updates-voter-registration-guidance-for-naturalization-ceremonies\">U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/fsapartners.ed.gov\/knowledge-center\/library\/dear-colleague-letters\/2024-02-26\/use-federal-work-study-funds-voter-registration\">Department of Education<\/a> &mdash; to register the millions of people with whom they interact, the many beneficiaries of the programs these agencies administer. Not only that, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-shapiro-joe-biden-turns-the-american-government-into-wokeness-inc\/\" title=\"Ben Shapiro: Joe Biden Turns the American Government Into Wokeness, Inc.\">executive order suggests<\/a> that the agencies partner with putatively nonpartisan third-party organizations to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The White House issued the order in March 2021 with the explicit intent of registering more nonwhite voters &mdash; cohorts that tend to vote disproportionately Democrat &mdash; claiming they face &ldquo;significant obstacles,&rdquo; rooted in discriminatory policies, to participate in elections.<\/p>\n<p>The ideas in the order largely <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/15\/bidenbucks-make-zuckbucks-look-like-chump-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">originated<\/a> inside the leftist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/election-integrity\/report\/biden-executive-order-14019-unlawful-interference-state-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Demos think tank<\/a>, and the order seemingly includes built-in bias toward turning out likely Democrat voters under Democrat-dominated agencies. Due to those factors, plus left-wing NGOs&rsquo; support of and compliance with the order, many have likened this public-private voting initiative to the &ldquo;Zuckbucks&rdquo; effort of the 2020 election, dubbing the 2024 effort &ldquo;Bidenbucks.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Zuckbucks resulted in the corruption of election administration and perhaps the manipulation of election outcomes through its outsourcing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-funded-group-pressuring-elon-musk-to-keep-president-trump-banned-from-twitter\/\" title=\"Soros-Funded Group Pressuring Elon Musk to Keep President Trump Banned from Twitter\">leftist groups funded<\/a> by hundreds of millions in private dollars.&nbsp;Bidenbucks also results in the corruption of election administration and may too lead to the manipulation of election outcomes through the federal bureaucracy&rsquo;s usurpation of state control over elections &mdash; a bureaucracy possessive of virtually limitless resources that&rsquo;s apparently again in cahoots with like-minded left-wing groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ:[READ:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/15\/bidenbucks-make-zuckbucks-look-like-chump-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&lsquo;Bidenbucks&rsquo; Make &lsquo;Zuckbucks&rsquo; Look Like Chump Change<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congress never delegated powers to the administrative state to effectively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/election-integrity\/report\/biden-executive-order-14019-unlawful-interference-state-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interfere in state election processes<\/a>, meaning that interference violates both the consent of the governed and the federalist principles on which our republic is based.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden-Harris administration has divulged little about the order beyond press releases and a handful of agency-specific documents. It has routinely ignored oversight requests from Republican lawmakers. It has rebuffed relevant questions from journalists, as I found in reporting on the directive for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2023\/07\/26\/conservatives_oppose_secretive_biden_voting_order_as_bidenbucks_-_federal_zuckbucks_on_steroids_968461.html\">RealClearInvestigations<\/a> last summer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But documents unearthed by the Heritage Foundation&rsquo;s Oversight Project via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/the-oversight-project\/election-integrity\/biden-bucks-executive-order-14019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Freedom of Information Act<\/a> and the Foundation for Government Accountability&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/fga-v-doj\/\">litigation efforts<\/a> have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/severe-addiction-rise-feared-as-at-home-drinking-soars-in-lockdown-ireland\/\" title=\"Severe Addiction Rise Feared as At-Home Drinking Soars in Lockdown Ireland\">raised alarm bells<\/a> that the order may constitute a thinly veiled taxpayer-funded Democrat get-out-the-vote effort.<\/p>\n<p>Troubled by the administration&rsquo;s lack of transparency, and dubious of the legality if not constitutionality of the executive branch engaging in voter registration work, the House Oversight Committee opened a probe into the directive in May.<\/p>\n<p>As I reported for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2024\/05\/13\/exclusive_house_oversight_cmte_probing_biden_voter_mobilization_order.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>, Comer then asked Director Young for a slew of documents and information regarding the order. These included the strategic plans each agency was to produce to execute the order, a list of the third-party organizations with which the executive branch had partnered and the grounds for approving those partners, and the constitutional or statutory basis for the order.<\/p>\n<p>Comer&rsquo;s follow-up letter indicates that over three months later, OMB has produced nothing other than a &ldquo;short letter response&rdquo; &mdash; one month past the original May 28 deadline of the oversight request. <\/p>\n<p>The perfunctory OMB letter, which I obtained and reviewed, maintains that the order &ldquo;does not direct agencies to take any action to register to vote any individuals who are not legally entitled to vote&rdquo; &mdash; in a seeming bid to blunt claims raised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.alabama.gov\/index.php\/newsroom\/wes-allen-exposes-federal-government-policy-providing-voter-registration-forms-non\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">state <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/top-red-state-official-demands-answers-biden-executive-order-attempting-register-illegals-vote\">officials<\/a> that authorities are potentially registering illegal aliens to vote under the order. OMB refers the House Oversight Committee to individual agencies &ldquo;regarding activities [they have engaged in] under the order.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OMB has not given the committee any of the documents sought nor even a timeline detailing when it might produce them &ldquo;despite several requests&rdquo; from investigators, according to the letter. Should OMB fail to produce the requested documents by Sept. 2, Comer says the committee &ldquo;will consider additional measures, including use of the compulsory process&rdquo; &mdash; which could include subpoenas &mdash; &ldquo;to gain compliance and obtain this critical material.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In response to my inquiries in connection with the letter, Comer said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One of the first steps in election integrity is ensuring a transparent process before, during, and after election day. The American people deserve to know how the Biden Administration&rsquo;s voting executive order is being implemented, and who the outside groups are that are being granted access to federal property. If there truly is no partisan bias in the executive order&rsquo;s implementation, OMB and the Biden-Harris Administration should have no problem cooperating with the Oversight Committee&rsquo;s investigation. Instead, the White House is continuing to stonewall the Committee&rsquo;s efforts to provide transparency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The House Oversight Committee&rsquo;s escalation in its effort to obtain information about the order follows news that attorneys general from nine states recently <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/14\/states-file-federal-lawsuit-seeking-to-shut-down-bidenbucks\/\">filed suit<\/a> against the Biden administration seeking to halt the order and ultimately have it declared unlawful and unconstitutional. As The Federalist recently <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/19\/republicans-are-finally-catching-up-on-the-lefts-biggest-rig-of-2024-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, this is one of several challenges to the executive order winding its way through the courts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Should the House Oversight Committee ultimately obtain the requested documents and information, it could prove pivotal in bolstering the plaintiffs&rsquo; cases against the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>But with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-governor-debate-on-for-oct-24-after-hurricane-delay\/\" title=\"Florida Governor Debate on for Oct. 24 After Hurricane Delay\">early voting starting<\/a> in just three weeks, even an immediate nationwide injunction would mean the Biden-Harris administration will have been working to register and mobilize potentially millions of voters, in cahoots with like-minded NGOs, for over three years.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<hr>\n<p>      Ben Weingarten is editor at large for RealClearInvestigations. He is a senior contributor to The Federalist, columnist at Newsweek, and a contributor to the New York Post and Epoch Times, among other publications. Subscribe to his newsletter at weingarten.substack.com, and follow him on Twitter: @bhweingarten.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden-Harris administration seems to be obstructing a congressional investigation into its covert executive order that instructs all federal agencies to register and mobilize voters. The influential House Oversight Committee is warning that it may compel the White House to comply if it does not promptly provide the requested documents and information related to this contentious directive, as indicated in a letter I exclusively obtained from Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., addressed to Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young. <\/p>\n<p>Executive Order 14019, titled \u201cPromoting Access to Voting,\u201d mandates various agencies under the Biden-Harris administration\u2014ranging from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services\u2014to register millions of individuals they interact with, including beneficiaries of their programs. Furthermore, the order encourages these agencies to collaborate with supposedly nonpartisan third-party organizations for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Issued in March 2021, the White House&#8217;s directive aims explicitly at increasing registration among nonwhite voters\u2014groups that typically lean Democratic\u2014arguing they encounter &#8220;significant obstacles&#8221; due to discriminatory practices when trying to participate in elections. The concepts behind this order largely stemmed from ideas developed by the left-leaning Demos think tank and appear biased towards mobilizing likely Democratic voters through government agencies controlled by Democrats. This initiative has drawn comparisons with &#8220;Zuckbucks,&#8221; a controversial effort during the 2020 election funded by private donations aimed at influencing election outcomes; some are now referring to this new initiative as &#8220;Bidenbucks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zuckbucks was criticized for corrupting election administration potentially leading to manipulated results through partnerships with leftist organizations backed by substantial private funding. Similarly, Bidenbucks could compromise electoral integrity while possibly allowing federal bureaucracies\u2014equipped with vast resources\u2014to undermine state control over elections alongside aligned left-wing groups.<\/p>\n<p>Congress has not granted administrative bodies authority over state electoral processes; thus any interference contradicts both democratic consent principles and federalism foundational tenets of our republic.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden-Harris administration has shared minimal information about this executive order beyond press releases and limited agency-specific documents while consistently ignoring oversight requests from Republican lawmakers. It has also dismissed pertinent inquiries from journalists regarding this directive.<\/p>\n<p>However, documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests by Heritage Foundation\u2019s Oversight Project have raised concerns that suggest this order might be a thinly disguised taxpayer-funded effort aimed at boosting Democratic voter turnout.<\/p>\n<p>In response to worries about transparency\u2014and skepticism regarding both legality and constitutionality concerning voter registration activities conducted by the executive branch\u2014the House Oversight Committee initiated an investigation into this directive in May. As reported previously for RealClearPolitics, Comer subsequently requested numerous documents related specifically to how each agency planned on implementing the order along with details on partnered third-party organizations involved.<\/p>\n<p>Comer\u2019s follow-up letter indicates that more than three months later OMB had only provided a brief response\u2014a month past their original deadline without delivering any requested documentation or even outlining when such materials might be available despite multiple requests made by investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Should OMB fail again in producing these essential documents before September 2nd, Comer warns that additional measures\u2014including potential subpoenas\u2014will be considered necessary for compliance.<\/p>\n<p>In light of my inquiries linked with his letter, Comer stated:<br \/>\n&#8220;One fundamental step toward ensuring election integrity is maintaining transparency throughout all phases surrounding Election Day&#8230; The American public deserves clarity on how President Biden&#8217;s voting executive order is being executed along with identifying outside groups accessing federal resources&#8230; If there truly exists no partisan bias within its implementation then OMB should readily cooperate.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The escalation from Congress seeking information about this executive order coincides with recent lawsuits filed against it by attorneys general across nine states aiming not only halt its enforcement but also declare it unlawful or unconstitutional\u2014a situation highlighted recently by The Federalist amidst ongoing legal challenges facing said directive.<\/p>\n<p>If ultimately successful in obtaining these sought-after records\/information via oversight efforts\u2014it could significantly strengthen plaintiffs&#8217; cases against President Biden&#8217;s administration.<br \/>\nHowever\u2014with early voting commencing shortly\u2014the potential impact remains concerning given how long such initiatives may have already been underway involving collaboration between government entities &amp; like-minded NGOs targeting millions ahead of upcoming elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":698,"featured_media":2330956,"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\/08\/Bio-acoustic-fish-fence-at-Barkley-Lock.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[33530,7001,32127],"class_list":["post-2330955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-bidenbucks","tag-subpoenas","tag-white-house"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Bio-acoustic-fish-fence-at-Barkley-Lock.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330955","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\/698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}