(Tony Sifert, Headline USA) Rep. Ted Budd, R-N.C., has introduced legislation to prevent President Joe Biden from using executive orders to “fortify” the 2022 and 2024 elections on behalf of the Democrat Party, according to a press release from his office.
Budd’s bill runs counter to Biden’s Executive Order 14019, which commands federal agencies to “evaluate ways in which the agency can, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, promote voter registration and voter participation,” purportedly on behalf of Americans “of color.”
Most problematically, the order suggests that the administrative state partner with “approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations” in order to facilitate get-out-the-vote and mail-in balloting efforts.
“President Biden’s executive order empowering every federal agency to engage in electioneering on the taxpayers’ dime raises serious ethical and legal concerns,” Budd said in a statement accompanying the release. “This sweeping directive is inherently partisan and directed primarily at groups expected to vote for one party over another.”
Co-sponsor Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., told Fox News Digital that Biden’s sleight-of-hand was meant to hide Democrats’ inability to pass similar bills legitimately in Congress.
“We want to expose what he is attempting to do here,” said. “Obviously, the Democrats were unable to pass their House Resolution 1 and Senate Bill 1, which would have hijacked the entire election system in this country and now this little sneaky executive order attempt to achieve some of those goals is being pushed.”
According to political philosopher Michael Anton, Biden’s order amounts to a “federal takeover of state elections.”
“This is a replay, with federal power, of the $400 million in ‘Zuckerbucks’—money donated by the tech-oligarch founder of Facebook—that pre-rigged the last election, but this time with taxpayer dollars, a White House aide (Susan Rice) coordinating, and cabinet agencies like Housing and Urban Development implementing, in conjunction with leftwing NGOs,” Anton wrote.
