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U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil has issued a stern ultimatum to five cabinet chiefs in the Biden administration, demanding compliance with his committee’s subpoenas within five days or be subject to “further consequences for noncompliance.”
The Wisconsin Republican, who chairs the Committee on House Administration, sent additional letters on Monday to Biden’s attorney general and the Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Labor secretaries.
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In the letters, he expressed growing impatience with their refusal to provide documents related to Biden’s voter registration scheme, which is viewed as constitutionally dubious.
Steil demands Biden’s stonewallers turn over the requested documents by Friday.
“The Department should produce those documents required by law to comply with the subpoena in good faith. Failure to promptly comply with the subpoena will leave the Committee in a position where it will require compelled transcribed interviews of numerous Departmental employees and pursue additional remedies for noncompliance with a Congressional subpoena,” the congressman wrote in the letters, exclusively provided to The Federalist.
The Biden administration has faced numerous challenges in demonstrating “good faith,” and this is not the first instance of non-compliance with congressional subpoenas.
Federal agencies have been notably uncooperative in releasing records connected to Biden’s “Promoting Access to Voting” executive order, which is perceived as an attempt to leverage the executive branch for Democratic election and re-election efforts.
It has been six weeks since Steil issued subpoenas to 15 cabinet secretaries and department heads, urging them to provide the requested records. These June subpoenas were a follow-up to Steil’s initial request for documents related to Biden’s Executive Order 14019, which was made a month earlier.
As of now, the committee has not obtained any records aside from documents that were already disclosed through press releases and Freedom of Information Act requests, according to Steil. In essence, the Biden administration is openly defying the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, disregarding the authority of the legislative branch.
“Clearly, the letter and production of documents you provided did not comply with the subpoena, were not comprehensive, and virtually all documents that were listed in the ‘Schedule to Subpoena’ were not included in the production,” the congressman wrote in his warning letter to Xavier Becerra, secretary of Health and Human Services.
In March 2021, Biden signed an executive order that was framed as an effort to increase voter turnout.
However, documents obtained by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project and other watchdog organizations revealed that far-left groups were collaborating with federal and state agencies to conduct targeted voter registration and mobilization drives aimed at turning out traditionally Democrat voters.
Critics have dubbed this initiative “Bidenbucks,” a reference to the substantial funding provided by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg during the Covid-restricted 2020 election. The majority of these funds were directed to Democratic strongholds in order to target left-leaning voters. As previously reported, “Bidenbucks” is making “Zuckbucks” appear insignificant.
Republican members of Congress have been trying to obtain information about a certain program, but they have been facing resistance from the administration.
The Administration Committee is interested in finding out the exact amount of taxpayer money involved in the program and what it is being used for, all without needing approval from Congress.
When subpoenaed, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provided the committee with records that were already available. However, the agency did not provide any documents regarding its plans to register voters at its numerous locations across the country, as pointed out in a letter from Steil to the secretary.
President Biden’s executive order mandated federal agencies to develop a strategic plan for implementing a voter registration campaign. However, the departments under congressional scrutiny did not include this information in their inadequate responses to the subpoenas.
They also omitted communications related to left-wing groups allegedly assisting the administration, including organizations such as AFL-CIO, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Vot-ER.
Watchdog groups have received documents from within HHS’ Administration for Children and Families referring to “Action items and milestones” tied to the executive order, as well as an “updated spreadsheet, with revised action items and milestones.” The agency failed to send those communications to the committee.
“Additionally, it is troubling to the Committee that the Department would comply with its statutory obligations under the FOIA statutes and release documents to the public and yet fail to comply with a Congressional subpoena,” Steil wrote.
The committee received just one document from Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice, which Steil’s letter describes as politically weaponized. The document, titled “Know Your Voting Rights: Your Guide to Federal Voting Rights Laws,” was already accessible on the agency’s website.
Under Garland’s leadership, the DOJ, responsible for law enforcement, has consistently acted as if it is exempt from the law. Earlier this year, a federal judge criticized the DOJ after department officials instructed two employees to avoid participating in depositions for the Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into Biden.
“The rules apply to you all too,” U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes scolded department lawyers at a hearing in April, NBC News reported.
Earlier this month, House Republicans filed a lawsuit against Garland, demanding that he hand over the audio recording of Biden’s interview with the special counsel overseeing the president’s classified documents case.
Biden reportedly avoided criminal prosecution because the special prosecutor believed that in court, the elderly man would come across as sympathetic and well-meaning with a poor memory, similar to how he appeared during his interview.
On the deadline for complying with the congressional subpoena, the DOJ invoked executive privilege to deny releasing the audio recording.
The letter from Steil to Adrianne Todman, acting secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, criticized the agency for failing to release a “significant amount of documents.”
According to Steil, HUD only provided four documents, one of which related to a Biden administration policy granting federal employees paid time off to vote.
The agency reportedly has selected locations across the United States to “register voters as the Department issued guidance ‘to executive directors of more than 3,000 public housing authorities’ on ‘run[ning] voter registration drives through public housing agencies,” Steil wrote.
“Moreover, federal housing officials have advised local agencies on the process of applying to become a voter registration agency, as well as setting up ‘drop boxes for ballots on the premises,’” the chairman added.
The leftist groups working on and often leading the federalized GOTV efforts learned a lot in 2020 from Zuckerbucks and the efforts to target left-leaning voters.
“Intentional efforts to engage these voter[s]” in the months before the 2020 election were critical in turning out low-income voters in the all-important swing states where Biden’s margin of victory was approximately 3 percent or lower, according to a report from the leftist “Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.” Far-left Common Dreams noted the targeted campaigns as “crucial in toppling” Republican President Donald Trump.
The leftists are at it again, this time using the full force of the federal government and taxpayer resources to target millions more left-leaning voters. Steil said the American people deserve answers from the secretive Biden administration.
“The Biden-Harris administration continues trying to hide their strategic plan to use federal taxpayer dollars for partisan, get-out-the-vote activities,” the congressman told The Federalist. “We know these agencies have developed and begun implementing get-out-the-vote efforts, yet they continue to defy our subpoena request.”
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