Biden Admin

Former GAO Board Member Horner Updates GAO’s Pre-SOTU Prescience, Courtesy of The Pipeline GAO previously wondered aloud what it must have been like for a Biden White House aide tasked with writing this week’s State of the Union address. Having spent weeks crafting an opus of appeals to Congress over Biden’s “climate” agenda, reality barges in and scrambles the planned…

“All of these are unnerving symptoms of how distracted this team are by ideological hobby horses, no matter how many wake-up calls reality arranges for them.” Imagine being a Biden White House aide tasked with writing tonight’s State of the Union address. Having spent weeks crafting an opus of appeals to Congress over Biden’s “climate” agenda, reality barges in and…

Documents produced by the Treasury Department in FOIA litigation with Energy Policy Advocates lay out the apparent manufacture of the Administration’s “race to the bottom” narrative deployed to support increasing the U.S. corporate income tax rate. These records bring to mind the White House’s recent behind-the-scenes enlistment of a helpful press corps to change the tone of reportage on economic…

Other agencies have complied re lower-ranking officials, but not for Kerry, McCarthy Today, the nonprofit governmental transparency group Energy Policy Advocates (EPA) filed an open records lawsuitagainst the United States Department of State seeking records including and relating to the required ethics clearance and recusal process for Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Change John Kerry, who is employed by or…

Trade press and other news reports yesterday confirmed something GAO readers know, which is that the Biden Administration is transparently re-running the Obama Year 1 “climate” playbook, to obtain praise from foreign leaders and energize the annual climate “Conference of the Parties” — this time, COP26 (or #Flop26 on Twitter). President Biden has signaled unambiguously that, at both this weekend’s Rome G20 meeting…

We already know of some loose compliance with disclosure and recusal matters in the Biden Administration, specifically pertaining to its push to impose the “climate” agenda without congressional authorization — expected to soon manifest itself in an Environmental Protection Agency filing before the DC Circuit next Friday, 10/29/21 in State of New York et al. v. EPA (in a major sue-and-settle…

Surely — Again — Glasgow “Timing is a coincidence”: Biden EPA Replaying Obama EPA Trick for a “GHG NAAQS”? Sue-and-Settle also reappearing to avoid rulemaking, legislation So, this is fascinating, as well as potentially huge — and rather scandalous, as environmental policy scandals go. The Biden Administration appears set to subtly affirm in October a “‘Back Door’ Climate Plan” —…

Today’s Wall Street Journal editorial “The Electric Vehicle Welfare State: Car makers back the Biden climate agenda in return for subsidies and higher consumer prices” notes, among other things: Yep: h/t Elvin Bishop, how long has this been going on? Courtesy of Energy Policy Advocates: Nope. Longer. A little more about this from when it first got, well, rolling, did manage…

NHTSA is expected tomorrow to issue new global warming standards dictating what sort of vehicles Americans can drive. GAO is engaged in long-running public-records litigation with Carlson’s employer from whom she took a leave of absence to perform this job, UCLA Law School (technically, Regents of the University of California). That suit seeks certain records sent to or from Carlson…