New reporting has revealed that the Biden Administration used a Department of Energy program funded by taxpayer dollars to register voters leading up to the 2022 midterm elections.
The Daily Caller reports that the program, the Weatherization Assistance Program, encouraged participants in the program to vote.
The program which aims to reduce energy costs for low-income households was part of a “Get Energized to Vote” program used by the Department of Energy before the 2022 midterm elections. The program, according to the report, specifically targeted the low-income individuals enrolled in the WAP program.
The Daily Caller continues:
“By targeting those individuals who interact with DOEs weatherization program, DOE aims to aid in increasing turnout and reducing the barriers that disabled persons faced at the polls,” a September 2021 DOE memorandum sent to Biden’s Domestic Policy Chief Susan Rice says, according to RealClearPolitics. While nudging WAP recipients to register to vote was a main priority, the memo also reportedly mentioned the intent to target “first time voters, college students, voters with disabilities, and voters with limited English proficiency.”
Former President Joe Biden signed an executive order in March 2021 that required federal agencies to promote voter registration, a policy that President Donald Trump rescinded in March 2025. Under Biden’s order, the DOE directed around 35,000 households participating in the energy welfare program to voting information resources, RealClearPolitics reported.
Established in 1976 under the Carter administration, the WAP aims to provide energy-efficiency services to poor American households, particularly those at or below 200% of the poverty line, according to the DOE. Other agencies under the Biden administration pushed Americans to become registered and active voters, with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) partnering with a left-wing policy group to boost voter turnout, for example.
Prior to 2024, convention wisdom generally held that Democrats fare better in higher-turnout elections. During the 2016 and 2020 elections, voters who had not participated in previous elections favored Democrat candidates, though the 2024 election results divulged from that pattern, with some analyses projecting that Trump’s margin of victory would have been greater if more voters showed up at the polls.
Several attorneys general from around the country sounded the alarm, claiming the law prevents federal agencies from encouraging partisan voting, but did so anyway.
The Biden Administration is accused of using the federal bureaucracy to register voters.
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