The Biden-Harris administration has seemingly hatched a plan to structurally alter the election so that Democrats maintain power. I sat down with Kyle Brosnan, chief counsel for The Oversight Project at The Heritage Foundation, for this week’s episode of “The Signal Sitdown” to discuss “Biden Bucks” and their potential impact on the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.
With little fanfare in March 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing the agencies of the federal government to increase involvement in American elections by helping to register voters and turn out the vote.
“If you target it neutrally, probably not the worst thing in the world. We want civic engagement in the country,” Brosnan told me.
The implementation of Biden’s Executive Order 14019, however, has been anything but neutral.
Biden’s critics deride the order as “Biden Bucks.”
Biden’s order directed government agencies to submit plans to the White House on how these agencies would promote involvement in U.S. elections. These strategic plans, however, largely have been shielded from the public in the lead-up to the Nov. 5 presidential election.
“Those plans for how they are going to do that should not see the light of day, according to the Justice Department,” Brosnan told me. “And a judge agreed with them and said that [the plans] are not allowed to see the light of day.”
Nevertheless, in a FOIA “blitz,” government agencies mistakenly shared some of their plans with The Oversight Project, as The Daily Signal has reported.
“The Small Business Administration, for example, runs a number of in-state events, outreach events, to help small businesses. They signed a contract with Michigan,” Brosnan said. “Michigan has signed an executive order at the governor’s level to mark the Small Business Administration as an MVRA-designated entity to where the SBA has a hyperlink to where a person working with the SBA can click that link and be registered to vote.”
MVRA stands for the Michigan Voting Rights Act.
“The Small Business Committee in the House has been conducting an investigation,” Brosnan said, “and they found that the locations in Michigan where they’re operating are all in Democrat-leaning voting districts—metro Detroit, etc. Nothing in the Upper Peninsula or rural Michigan. So you don’t see a gun shop owner up in the [Upper Peninsula] being engaged with this, because they’re likely to vote one way.”
“They’re actually implementing this executive order and putting their thumb on the scale for the federal government to support one candidate over another and juice turnout again,” Brosnan told me.
Additionally, Executive Order 14019 authorizes federal agencies to partner with nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, to reach their goals. These NGOs, Brosnan said, are overwhelmingly liberal.
“We got records from a listening session the Justice Department held in 2021, where they invited a bunch of these approved NGOs to come and talk about what they want to do,” Brosnan explained.
These NGOs “pushed pretty radical things,” he said, such as “noncitizen voting” and “felon voting.”
Beyond the chaos that “Biden Bucks” could inject into the presidential race, numerous other infirmities in the U.S. election system could dramatically affect the election results—especially in Arizona and Michigan.
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