No other organization was a bigger thorn in the side of former President Joe Biden’s administration than the Oversight Project.
The group sued the Biden administration about 100 times on issues ranging from lawfare to illegal immigration during the former president’s tenure. Biden may be gone, but the Oversight Project continues to push for answers to this fundamental question of the Biden era: Who was really in charge?
Recent revelations about the former president’s use of an auto-pen machine—brought to light by the Oversight Project—paired with Biden’s limited knowledge of the documents he signed, suggests the answer was not Joe Biden. Yet, some Republicans on Capitol Hill, because of their victory in the 2024 elections, are no longer as interested in that question and would rather act as if the last four years didn’t happen.
Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, joined “The Signal Sitdown” to discuss how to hold Biden and his ilk accountable for the damage they’ve done to the country.
“Going into the Trump administration [in 2016], the Left did tremendous amounts of damage to advancing policy in the first half of the Trump administration when he had unified control by just creating scandal, litigation, propaganda, everything,” Howell said, reflecting on the system that was weaponized against President Donald Trump.
”What Obama and his ilk were able to do to all sectors of government and society was really well thought out in an evil way,” Howell explained. “They basically took the 9/11-era tools that were supposed to be pointed at Islamic terrorists and pointed them at domestic enemies.”
“There was this asymmetrical fight going on. The Left dominates here. The Right just thinks that they’re congressmen that send letters, they like their heroes and the calvary coming across the ridge, and that just wasn’t the case at all,” he continued. “The Left, through the Russia hoax and everything else, stopped President Trump’s first administration, when it had unified control of the House and Senate, from getting much done.”
“That’s the power structure that Trump, in ‘16, was going against,” Howell told The Daily Signal. “They tried to take him out a million different ways before he even got there. And it happened through his first presidency.”
Even worse, he added, “It’s still happening today. There’s people on the Right who are doing it to him, too.”
Biden became the beneficiary of this power structure in 2020, and his administration put it to great use in an attempt to fundamentally change the country. Race, LGBTQ, feminism, all have roles to play in the scheme, but the biggest is unfettered illegal immigration.
“[The Left is] not reproducing, they’re not focusing on family,” Howell explained. “They’re not educating. So they’re importing instead, and they’re doing so illegally, and that was the fundamental idea behind the border crisis.”
“This is a compounding problem that needs to be addressed,” he added. “The demographic change that Biden ushered in was for purely political purposes. It’s a new voter base.”
For Democrats, “to do anything that could be perceived as anti-illegal would be a disaster for them with their base. They worship at the altar of the illegal alien,” Howell said. “They have a hierarchy of people they think are most important. It appears that the illegal alien male, particularly, is rising to the top.”
“Republicans… they just don’t take it seriously enough,” Howell said. To undo the damage Biden did, Howell claimed annual deportations need to be in the millions, but the current deportation system “doesn’t have the capacity for mass deportations.”
”There’s no way that I believe they’re going to do this stuff,” Howell said of Republicans on Capitol Hill tasked with providing the resources to increase deportations and investigations into left-wing corruption of the American system.
“Stop putting your faith in Congress,” he concluded.
