executive overreach

Who Is Running Congress?

Reflect on the words of Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., in his Washington Post article titled “Why Is Congress So Dumb?” Thereby hangs a tale of congressional anemia and languor. The veteran congressman laments, “our available resources and our policy staff, the brains of Congress, have been so depleted that we can’t do our jobs properly. […]

White House Invokes Privilege to Shield ‘Bidenbucks’ Records

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—After President Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to work with private organizations to mobilize voters, senior White House officials asked agencies for “bold ideas” and explained plans to coordinate with “stakeholders.”  One message from the White House, obtained by The Daily Signal, said: “We look forward to […]

Biden Protects Deep State Bureaucrats With ‘Anti-Democratic’ Rule

The Biden administration is proposing a new rule that would further entrench unelected federal bureaucrats from accountability to President Joe Biden or his elected successors.  Key to the new rule from the Office of Personnel Management is the effective “grandfathering” of federal employees into their current category of employment, making it harder for a future […]

Mining Agency Seeks New Resources for LGBTQ Sensitivity

An Interior Department mining agency sought to purge its website and field offices of traditional language that could offend LGBTQ individuals, to comply with an executive order from President Joe Biden.  Employees of Interior’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement are directed to go through all agency messaging and remove language that presumes traditional […]

Biden’s Peace Corps Pushes Multilingual Voter Registration

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—To comply with an executive order from President Joe Biden, the Peace Corps pushed to make its headquarters a voter registration center, upped efforts to register U.S. citizens abroad, and moved to supply multilingual voter registration forms.  The Peace Corps, a federal agency, assigns volunteers to provide services and meet needs […]

DOJ Not Disclosing Plan for Turning Out Biden Voters

The Biden Justice Department continues to claim presidential privilege to block release of its strategic plan to turn out the vote, although at least two other federal agencies have made their plans public.  In defending a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act, the Justice Department is keeping under wraps its plans to implement President […]

Biden OPM Policy Grants Leave to Feds to Vote, be Poll Workers

The Biden administration carved out paid administrative leave to encourage federal bureaucrats and other employees—seen as a loyal Democrat constituency—to volunteer as poll workers.  The administration also requires federal agencies to grant four hours of leave for voting to employees, according to records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act from the U.S. Office of Personnel […]