The “Bidenbucks” executive order directing federal agencies to boost voter participation has gone the way of the Biden administration.
President Donald Trump eliminated Executive Order 14019, which President Joe Biden signed in March 2021, calling for federal agencies to partner with private “voter-advocacy groups” and to develop “strategic plans.”
Trump signed what amounted to an omnibus executive order that scrapped almost 80 executive actions taken by Biden. The title was “Initial Recissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.”
Congressional scrutiny and watchdog groups, such as the Foundation for Government Accountability, which sued for records on the order, were “enough to slow-roll implementation of the order to ensure that people, and not partisan bureaucrats” decided the 2024 election, said Stewart Whitson, senior director of federal affairs for the foundation.
“President Trump should be commended for getting rid of the ‘Bidenbucks’ scandal,” Whitson told The Daily Signal. “This shows the president is committed to stopping weaponized government.”
Whitson later added, “Now, it’s about accountability.”
The group intends to continue its litigation in the appeals process to find out which federal bureaucrats were involved in election activities when implementing the order.
Repealing the order is an important first step, but shouldn’t be the end of it, said Ken Cuccinelli, national chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative.
“President Trump is correcting a great injustice by simply canceling Biden’s EO 14019, by which he sought to enlist the federal government to accomplish his own (and ultimately Kamala Harris’) re-election as president,” Cuccinelli, a former Virginia attorney general, told The Daily Signal in an email. “With the new and open administration, we should finally learn what really happened under EO 14019, as the Biden administration continuously and illegally stonewalled all efforts at transparency.”
As noted in my book “The Myth of Voter Suppression,” Demos, a liberal think tank, drafted the Biden initiative and was among the private groups to implement the order, which has been largely shrouded in secrecy.
Biden’s Justice Department also has refused to release its strategic plan, citing “presidential privilege,” in a lawsuit brought by the Foundation for Government Accountability, a government watchdog group. The House Administration Committee subpoenaed federal agencies for records on how the order was being implemented, but the Biden administration didn’t comply.
The Daily Signal first reported using various public records requests that under the order federal agencies cooperated with numerous left-leaning advocacy organizations, such as Demos, the American Civil Liberties Union, the League of Women Voters, the Brennan Center for Justice, the Stacey Abrams-founded Fair Fight Action, and other organizations. Many of the records were obtained through requests from states or smaller agencies.
Trump should be credited for not keeping the order in place for his own political ends, said Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative at The Heritage Foundation.
“Donald Trump, instead of keeping an illegal program in place to help Republicans get elected as Biden thought it would help Democrats get elected, got rid of it altogether,” von Spakovsky told The Daily Signal.
The Biden White House regularly defended the order as promoting access to voting. Also, the platform adopted at last year’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago heralded the Biden election order.
“Within the first 100 days of his presidency, President Biden signed an executive order directing an all-of-government effort to promote access to voting,” says the 2024 Democratic platform, agreed to by convention delegates. “Agencies have taken historic action to help veterans, college students, Native Americans, and other underserved communities register to vote.”
Under Biden’s executive order, the Internal Revenue Service, the Obamacare exchanges, and the U.S. Bureau of Prisons have been among the agencies most active in promoting voting, according to a report by a coalition of liberal groups led by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights last spring, when the order was two years old.
Many congressional Republicans, as well as government watchdog groups, expressed concern about federal agencies’ engaging in partisan political activity in violation of laws such as the Hatch Act, a law that prohibits federal employees from using work time or resources for partisan political activities.
Fred Lucas is chief news correspondent and manager of the Investigative Reporting Project for The Daily Signal.
Reprinted with permission from The Daily Signal – By Fred Lucas
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Sounds to me that an awful lot of people need to go to jail because of this election rigging scam.
More winning for the People. Thank you Mr. President
It’s so sad to see just how damaging Joke Biden truly was. Seriously, this was as close to a one party state that we’ve ever come, and it was worse than most of us thought. President Trump is rescuing the US from what could have led to the end of everything as we know it. That’s not hyperbole, that’s what was happening, bit by bit.
Biden is rightfully shamed by the daylight on his election schemes, fraud, lawfare, criminal pardoning, illegal immigration, and the illegitimate financial fortune he made as “president”. Thank goodness for Trump’s passion, knowhow, persistence, and love of country. There should be no more “democrats” in elected office. The practice of electing them simply must stop, as they are too preoccupied with corruption, and, just too irresponsible to lead.
The whole past administration should face the tribunal of the people and be treated the same way they’ve treated all the enemies of the state. In this case it would be fitting, that’s what they are, traitors , selling their own country for the bowl of gruel.
Time for all Americans to relieve the Marxist Democrats are Communists–plain and simple
I also read that DJT revoked farcical Feaux-chi’s security detail. MAGA!!!!
It is despicable that our own president could even think of doing so many criminal acts while in office. He and his family are even more corrupt than Clinton and the O’Bama’s. I hope everyone remembers how disgraceful these Democrats are and not put them back in the White House for a long, long time!!
American citizens thank you President Trump for the elimination of Bidens March 2021 executive order #14019. Another discovered attempt to cheat on the single most needed right of all Americans, the right to vote and have it counted without outside attempts to cheat, to build hidden groups to cheat, and to extend ineptness to new heights of disgusting action, Investigate, collect evidence, and charge those who were engaged.
God Bless Donald Trump!!! I hope FJB is having a tantrum as Americans enjoy WINNING again!!! MAGA!!!!
Victory Hooray
GREAT!!
This is just the surface of how embedded the Deep State was in ‘skewing’ the voting while using our tax dollars to do it. Makes me so angry how many people went along with it,
I am constantly confused and concerned about Democrats and their lack of accountability and transparency!! I know a lot of dealing is done in DC and none of us are even aware of it!! This is only one of the reasons that the government needs to shrink significantly!!! The Democrat Party is trying to destroy us as a country and I’m not even sure what issues are theirs, what do they want besides their seeming love for woke, transgenders, deviates, criminals and anyone who isn’t American!!
Another BIG WIN for We, The People – authored by our wonderful President, Donald Trump! We are SO PRIVILEGED to have such a man for all seasons in our WH!!!
Looks to me like Congress should be investigated to see whgy they did nothing to stop this. They spent only 138 days on the job and never even passed a budget (again).
The entire Democratic Party belongs behind bars. Imo
Again Trump can only pull the plug . We need to help and clean out the dead fish out of the swamp.
Have no doubt Obama is responsible for all of slow Joe’s actions !!!! Everybody saw slow Joe’s performance at the debate !!!!!! Joe’s dementia didn’t just start at the debate !!!! Anybody remember the report on Joe’s handling of classified documents ???? A lot of people needs to be held accountable I think when people within the administration are faced with the possibility of going to prison they might come clean and expose the real culprit !!!!!!
Biden boasted of the election scheme after the 2020 “election”. It is the only way that fool got elected.
Hmmm, it seems as if the far left wing Marxist tactics of eliminating the two party system was in full swing under the command of Biden’s puppet masters. Right Obama? You know the self proclaimed “Constitutional scholar” who wanted to “fundamentally transform America” socialist. What else would you learn sitting at the foot of Franklin Marshall Davis, his self avowed Communist tudor.
Corrupt Biden even tried to turn federal agencies to vote for stinking democrats, the man should be in jail.
Federal agencies have nothing to do with voter registration etc etc. They should do the work of their agency or departments and leave unfair and fraudulent election to the Justice dept. But what did the DOJ do the last 4 years? Nothing. Prosecuting Trump. Blaming Trump. Go to court and manipulating the truth events. The MSM hiding the truth and telling lies, was their daily occupation. And now these poor woke people find out wow Trump did this and he did that and he has only been president for 5 days. Trump sits down with people and listens to what they have to say. Did Biden ever do that? Or Harris? Did she sit down with border patrol agents and listen to the problems they were encountering? No. She went to the border,10 miles away from it. No a change is coming and is knocking down all the disasters of the past 4 years and common sense is being returned. The woke America is disappearing into the America we all knew and loved. A republic.
I live in California where voter fraud is rampant. No voter ID is required because they say it prevents the poor among us from voting. Well guess what, the poor among us in California who live on welfare programs, must show ID to get welfare benefits. They all have ID, unless they are illegally in California. So, citizens who want to vote most likely already have ID. The only ones that can’t vote are illegals! If my whole family didn’t live in California I would move out of here!!
Some one should investigate the $350M Zuckerbucks that went into influencing the 2020 election, but I suppose he covered himself by going to Mar a Lago and ‘kissing the ring”
THE VERY THOUGHT OF IT IS ELECTION MEDDLING.
I believe we will slowly find out that Joe’s admin was not good for the country.
Did Zucker bucks through Arabella Associates LLC money laundering groups also influence the 2024 elections, as they did so dangerously in 2020? Is the Administration only exploring the Biden -bucks interference with electoral integrity of 2024?
DRAIN BABY DRAIN
Ya gotta love The Donald.
Amen! ????
Brilliant!