Funding Leftism, Making Power Grabs: The Biden Administration’s Bureaucratic Radicalism

Given the incredible scale of the federal government and the steady delegation of power from Congress to the agencies of the executive branch, these direct channels of authority provide an Administration with many opportunities to move its agenda for- ward while bypassing the legislative process envisioned by the Constitution. [...] Senate Republicans took Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to task for this, and the Administration subsequently backed down.24 To the detriment of the nation, the bulk of the Biden Administration’s whole-of-government scheme is moving forward. [...] Despite the tremendous amount of spending autho- rized for the programs subject to the NOFOs above, both the IIJA and the CHIPS Act have struggled to produce noteworthy projects, causing conster- nation within the Administration. [...] The Biden Administration is taking the side of a radical movement that seeks to warp core facets of human existence.46 The Centers for Disease Control gave an astonishing $125 million grant to the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) in 2023 for a multi-year project to change public health institutions.47 The language BACKGROUNDER | No. [...] Choosing to devote billions of dollars to California’s dysfunctional high-speed rail project—in addition to previous rounds of federal hand- outs—only makes sense in the context of the activist left’s infatuation with rail.49 The purchase of 20 million doses of COVID-19 pediatric vaccines in 2023 involved layers of policy failure, since children are at low risk of severe infection and there is ins.