Biden-Harris Admin Called Out for Taxpayer-Funded ‘Electioneering’ After Seniors Receive ‘Beyond Inappropriate’ Letter
The article discusses a controversy surrounding a communication from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) promoting Vice President Kamala Harris’s role in the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act. This communication has been criticized as inappropriate electioneering, especially coming so close to an election, as it appears to promote Harris, a key Democratic candidate. Jim Geraghty, writing for National Review, expressed concern that the lengthy message improperly utilized taxpayer funds for what he called ”straight-up electioneering.”
Critics point out that while the message ostensibly provides information about Medicare Open Enrollment, it mainly serves to tout “historic reforms” attributed to President Joe Biden and the administration, with multiple mentions of Harris. The concerns raised touch on potential violations of the 1939 Hatch Act, which restricts certain political activities of federal employees. Some social media users echoed these sentiments, calling the use of government resources for political messaging “beyond inappropriate.” The article ultimately highlights growing frustrations with perceived misuse of government communications for political gain, drawing attention to wider issues of federal compliance with election laws.
Considering all they have done to destroy both freedom and the rule of law, establishment operatives’ latest act of jaw-dropping chutzpah might actually rank among their more mundane transgressions.
On Monday, Jim Geraghty of National Review reported that one of his readers received an from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) touting Vice President Kamala Harris’s tie-breaking vote in the passage of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
On the social media platform X, Geraghty and others denounced the taxpayer-funded as “straight-up electioneering” and “beyond inappropriate.”
As Geraghty noted, the 1939 Hatch Act “limits certain political activity of federal employees while they are on duty, in the federal workplace, or acting in their official capacity.”
Those limits could include “workplace speech with an arguable nexus to policy … particularly if it occurs close to or is intended to influence an election.”
If election-related “workplace speech” could violate federal law, then what about an official HHS to prospective voters?
The had no obvious non-partisan purpose besides alerting recipients to Medicare Open Enrollment. Thus, it probably should have taken no more than one or two paragraphs to provide a brief explanation and link.
Instead, the appeared as a lengthy message directly from President Joe Biden. It went on for ten paragraphs, touting “historic reforms” and the work of “my Administration.”
Worse yet, it mentioned Harris twice.
“Vice President Harris and I believe that health care should be a right, not a privilege. I encourage you to take advantage of these new, lower-cost benefits as part of stronger, better Medicare coverage that you deserve,” the final paragraph read.
The reference to Harris in the final paragraph appeared only because of her standing as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. No honest and reasonable person could believe otherwise.
On X, Geraghty called it “straight-up electioneering that doesn’t belong in a taxpayer-funded official communication.”
This is straight-up electioneering that doesn’t belong in a taxpayer-funded official communication to seniors from HHS, one month or so before Election Day:https://t.co/UlRVViooV4 pic.twitter.com/ZNgnGhvz8q
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) September 30, 2024
Another X user called it “beyond inappropriate.”
Beyond inappropriate! Our tax dollars being spent on political campaigns, bad.
— Mike Center (@mcenter) September 30, 2024
The ’s slippery wording, of course, could not conceal its obvious intent.
“I think they crossed the line. The does not say vote for Kamala. But that is clearly the purpose of the ,” another X user wrote.
I think they crossed the line. The does not say vote for Kamala. But that is clearly the purpose of the .
— Chris (@ChrisFwn6svfw2j) September 30, 2024
The idea that the Biden regime would ignore federal law should strike us as shocking — shocking!
Or, maybe not.
After all, Biden and Harris have ignored federal law by facilitating a border invasion and thereby abetting child trafficking.
More broadly, the deep state and its minions in Big Tech have repeatedly interfered in elections, whether by suppression of election-related news or by direct endorsement of the establishment’s preferred candidate, in this case Harris.
With help from weaponized law enforcement, the Biden regime has also thrown political opponents into prison — a hallmark of despotic banana republics.
Establishment operatives have repeatedly indicted and prosecuted former President Donald Trump. And many Americans have good reason to suspect the deep state of far worse.
Meanwhile, federal law enforcement officials have yet to bring charges against a single (powerful) client of the late accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
So far, none of the people involved in those myriad lies and crimes have suffered consequences.
Thus, surely one of dubious legality will not unsettle the consciences of such tyrants.
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