Three years after the disastrous Biden administration, we know that Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign promise to govern as a moderate is a steaming mess painting. Biden heads one of the most leftist administrations in American history.
What you may not know or this Funded by George Soros activists have a direct line to key Biden agencies that have a lot of power over our economy and whose influence weakens America internationally. Fortunately for taxpayers, Republican lawmakers are shedding airy on the revolving door between left-wing activists and the Biden administration.
Left-wing activists have a deeply dystopian view of the American economy and its role in the world. Progressives believe that capitalism is an inherently unfair system designed to make the opulent richer and the destitute poorer. According to progressives, vast American companies should be cut down to size and smothered in bureaucracy, not lauded as success stories. Instead of defending American economic interests abroad, progressives are cheerleading collusion between Biden bureaucrats and their European counterparts to tax and weaken American companies.
Leftist America Recent economic posture is the glue holding together a constellation of front groups financed by leftist billionaires and foundations like George Soros, Pierre Omidyar, Chris Hughes and the Hewlett Foundation. All of these groups support antitrust legislation that would give Biden bureaucrats fresh power over the economy and spokesman Down Great technology AND corporate media censorship of conservative views.
It would be effortless to dismiss these groups as left-wing cranks if they didn’t have significant influence over the Biden administration. Their greatest coup was the appointment of a progressive activist to head the Federal Trade Commission, an agency with enormous power over the economy. FTC Chair Lina Khan product from the Open Markets Institute, a group funded by Soros that aims to exploit government power to push a progressive social agenda. Khan’s deputy, FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, he called using the FTC’s power to impose a “diversity, inclusion and anti-racism” agenda.
The revolving door between the FTC and left-wing billionaire front groups is moving smoothly. Khan he resisted on unpaid consultants from the nonprofit Omidyar Network to work on antitrust cases. Khan’s chief of staff is Sarah Miller, founder of the Soros-backed American Economic Freedoms Project. Miller’s husband is Bernie Sanders’ former top adviser, Faiz Shakir take over as interim director of AELP when Miller left for the FTC. Elizabeth Wilkins, Biden’s former FTC official, just joined AELP as a senior member.
Not content with merely hurting American companies at home, the Biden administration has attempted to collude with foreign regulators to bring down our companies abroad. The FTC and the Department of Justice sent workers to Europe implement Digital Markets Act, legislation aimed at taxing and regulating America’s largest companies. The EU’s top regulator, Margrethe Vestager, was in Washington bragging about her plans to rob American companies of tens of billions of dollars.
That’s where Biden’s Office of the United States Trade Representative comes in, an agency historically committed to promoting American commercial interests abroad. Under Katherine Tai, USTR was laser-focused on undermining American interests wherever possible. Tai he withdrew years of digital trade demands, most recently made by the Trump administration, which sends a clear signal that USTR would rather concede to Russia and China than stand up for American interests.
Fortunately for all taxpayers, Republican lawmakers are working to rein in left-wing activists shaping the Biden administration’s economic policies. As part of a broader investigation into leftist influence in the Biden administration, House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) he recently demanded that several Soros-backed groups will retain all communications with USTR in connection with their waiver of digital trade rules. House Ways and Means Committee grilled Tai on his digital trade pushback during a recent hearing where Chairman Jason Smith (R-Missouri) argued that “…the Biden administration is trying to reassure progressive activists to ‘woke’ trade and abandon U.S. priorities in in the field of digital trade.
FTC oversight has been a top priority for Republican lawmakers despite the establishment media’s relentlessness lie that Republicans support Khan’s agenda. The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Republican Jim Jordan (Ohio), simply put released a gripping report on Khan’s various abuses of power and ethical lapses. The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), has ongoing probe the FTC’s collusion with left-wing activists and threatened to subpoena the agency if it continues to refuse to comply.
Despite Biden’s campaign promises to govern moderately, progressive activists are pursuing Biden administration policies. Fortunately, Republican lawmakers are using their oversight powers to stop the Soros-funded infiltration of the federal government.
Tom Hebert is the director of competition and regulatory policy at Americans for Tax Reform and executive director of the Open Competition Center.
