Biden Admin Officials Subpoenaed Over Taxpayer Money Used to Help Biden Win Michigan

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A GOP-led House committee has issued subpoenas to two Biden administration officials amid allegations that the executive branch agency they work for is funneling taxpayer resources to the key battleground state of Michigan to help President Joe Biden win reelection.

Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas), chairman of the House Committee on Small Business, issued a pair of subpoenas on May 7 to Tyler Robinson, special adviser to the Small Business Administration (SBA), and Arthur Plews, chief of staff to the SBA. The Republican lawmaker said the move was necessary due to the SBA’s refusal to comply with the committee’s investigation into the agency’s potential electioneering activities on behalf of the president.

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The committee is investigating the circumstances of a first-of-its-kind voter registration agreement that the SBA entered into with the Michigan Department of State in March, which the committee fears may be calibrated to benefit Democrats over Republicans.

The agreement, officially referred to as a memorandum of understanding, involves Michigan officials collaborating with the SBA to drive online visitors to register to vote. It also lets Michigan officials to use the SBA’s Michigan field office to carry out in-person voter registration at the SBA’s small business outreach events.

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Looming large in the background is President Joe Biden’s Executive Order 14019, which states, “The head of each agency shall evaluate ways in which the agency can, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, promote voter registration and voter participation.”
Various government agencies—including the Department of Justice, the Department of Education, and the Department of Agriculture, to name just a few—are carrying out campaigns to sign up new voters.

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