FIRST ON FOX: The high Republican on the House Small Business Committee is accusing the Biden administration of utilizing a key authorities company as its “campaign arm” in a crucial swing state forward of the 2024 election.
“Earlier this month, my colleagues and I sent a letter to the SBA inquiring into their Memorandum of Understanding with the Michigan Department of State. It appears that the SBA is diverting its resources away from assisting Main Street so it can register Democrat voters,” Chairman Roger Williams, R-Texas, advised Fox News Digital.
“Federal agencies should not act as campaign arms for their Administrations, period. Americans have a right to know the extent of the SBA’s involvement, and based on further investigation, it appears even more concerning. I look forward to hearing from Administrator Guzman as to why her agency is engaging in election efforts on the taxpayer’s dime.”
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Small Business Committee chairman Roger Williams is accusing President Biden of utilizing the SBA as a marketing campaign arm. (Getty Images)
It comes as President Biden’s re-election marketing campaign eyes Michigan as a must-win state within the 2024 race. Biden beat former President Trump by lower than 3% there in 2020.
Williams’ committee is investigating the Small Business Administration’s collaboration with the Michigan Department of State on a program “to promote civic engagement and voter registration in Michigan,” in line with a press launch saying the partnership.
The press launch mentioned the Michigan Department of State would “create a unique URL for the SBA to use to drive online visitors to register to vote,” and that the SBA’s Michigan discipline workplace would permit state authorities officers to facilitate in-person voter registration on the federal company’s enterprise outreach occasions. It is a part of an total effort by the Biden administration to develop entry to voter registration, launched by a 2021 government order.
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Williams is concentrating on a partnership began by the Michigan Department of State and Small Business Administration chief Isabel Guzman. (Getty Images)
An investigation by the House Small Business Committee discovered that 22 out of 25 of such outreach occasions have taken place in counties with the best inhabitants of Democratic National Committee (DNC) goal demographics.
Meanwhile, 11 of 15 Michigan counties that confirmed the biggest voter registration improve over the past yr have ranked highest in inhabitants of younger voters and Black voters, in line with the committee – two of the left’s most-sought voting blocs.
Williams despatched a letter final week to SBA Administrator Isabel Guzman demanding extra data on whether or not her federal workplace helps develop Biden’s voter base.
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Biden talks to supporters at a marketing campaign occasion exterior a personal residence within the Cathedral District neighborhood of Saginaw, Michigan, on March 14, 2024. Michigan is a crucial state for Biden to win in November. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP by way of Getty Images)
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“The Committee wrote to you on April 4, 2024, requesting further information about your involvement in voter registration in Michigan. You failed to provide a briefing, narrative response, or any documents by the deadline. The Committee is incredibly concerned that the Small Business Administration (SBA) improperly involved the federal government in America’s electoral processes,” Williams wrote.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Biden marketing campaign and the SBA for remark.