AMAC EXCLUSIVE
Less than six months out from Election Day, troubling signs are emerging that President Joe Biden is using government power and weaponizing taxpayer dollars to retain his grip on the Oval Office.
As Fox News recently reported, the House Committee on Small Business issued a subpoena to the Small Business Administration (SBA) over its lack of transparency regarding the Biden administration’s efforts to promote voter registration in the key battleground state of Michigan—a move that looks like a blatant attempt to use government resources to register voters for Biden.
The subpoena was issued to SBA Chief of Staff Arthur Plews and Special Advisor Tyler Robinson on May 7 when they failed to attend a scheduled interview and hand over documents relating to a program that is, according to the House Committee, “diverting its resources away from assisting Main Street so it can register Democrat voters” in Michigan.
The program in question, which was announced in March, was created to “promote civic engagement and voter registration in Michigan” and was touted as a “first-of-its-kind collaboration” between the SBA and the Michigan Department of State.
“Protecting and strengthening our democracy is critical to our economic success and a core goal of the Biden-Harris administration,” SBA Administrator Isabel Guzman said about the program, pledging to “help connect Michiganders to vital voter registration information from the State of Michigan” and “help facilitate voter registration and civic engagement, so their voices are heard.”
Notably, the House Committee on Small Business found that 22 of the 25 voter outreach events set in motion by the SBA program “have taken place in counties with the highest population of Democratic National Committee (DNC) target demographics.”
According to Fox, the Michigan program originated with a 2021 Biden executive order on promoting “access to voting,” which has been slammed by House Republicans for going “beyond the power of the President and the statutory authority given to federal agencies.” Among other far-reaching directives, the order calls for “soliciting and facilitating approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations and State officials to provide voter registration services on agency premises.”
The committee made clear that Tuesday’s subpoenas—which mark the first time in history the House Committee on Small Business has subpoenaed the SBA—were issued only because SBA officials failed to voluntarily comply with the Committee’s oversight requests.
“It is unconscionable that during such a precarious time for our nation’s small businesses, the sole federal agency created to serve as their advocate is instead utilizing their limited taxpayer resources and time to advance partisan political campaigns,” Rep. Dan Meuser (R-PA) told Fox regarding the program.
Of course, the notion that the Biden administration is actively coordinating with Michigan’s Democrat administration to boost voter registration raises the prospect that similar, perhaps even more under-the-radar initiatives are underway in other swing states.
The SBA program is not the only instance of the Biden White House’s efforts to boost Democrat voter registration. As Gabe Kaminsky of the Washington Examiner reported earlier this month, during Biden’s first year in office, the White House convened a Zoom meeting with progressive activists seeking to implement “sweeping election policy changes.”
Though the meeting was initially branded as “nonpartisan,” documents have revealed that meeting attendees were overwhelmingly aligned with left-wing causes and included the likes of a former Stacey Abrams operative, Black Lives Matter activists, left-wing think tank staffers, and employees of organizations that promote far-left priorities like open borders and defunding prisons.
Moreover, the left also has a well-established history of weaponizing nonprofits to keep Democrats in power—yet another systemic advantage that the GOP apparatus has largely failed to grapple with.
The fact that the Biden administration is ostensibly wielding the muscle of the federal government to increase its electoral prospects should be of grave concern to every American—regardless of political affiliation—who purports to care about preserving the democratic process and maintaining the integrity of our institutions.
These reports are also surfacing at a time when Biden is trailing presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump by as much as six points in national polling, as well as in the swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia—lending further credence to the notion that the Biden team is using agencies like the SBA as campaign arms to boost liberal turnout in crucial swing states like Michigan.
Thankfully, this week’s Washington Examiner report has reportedly captured the attention of House Republicans, who are vowing to “use every tool at [their] disposal to stop these blatant political acts.”
As the November election fast approaches, Republican leaders should be taking every possible measure not only to investigate and expose the left’s election interference strategies, but also to stop them in their tracks and counter them with thorough, effective, and innovative conservative get-out-the-vote initiatives that will set the stage for Republican landslides up and down the ballot this fall.
If the GOP is serious about delivering victories for conservatives in 2024 and beyond, it has no choice but to grapple with the left’s election interference campaign before it’s too late.
Aaron Flanigan is the pen name of a writer in Washington, D.C.
