House Demands Investigation into Possible Biden Adm. Ethics Violation

Another day, another possible ethics violation by someone within the Biden administration.

This time, it is Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona.

According to members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Cardona has violated the Hatch Act.

The Hatch Act

According to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, the Hatch Act is a “federal law passed in 1939, limits certain political activities of federal employees, as well as some state, D.C., and local government employees who work in connection with federally funded programs. ​

“The law’s purposes are to ensure that federal programs are administered in a nonpartisan fashion, to protect federal employees from political coercion in the workplace, and to ensure that federal employees are advanced based on merit and not based on political affiliation.”

This law was often overlooked in terms of pointing out violations, but that changed rather dramatically once Donald Trump was in office.

Democrats hawked the administration and regularly pursued charges, which in turn has led to the Biden administration being watched like a hawk.

Several members of Biden’s administration have already been called out for violating the act, and we can now add Cardona to that list for an email that was sent out bashing Republicans.

The committee wrote a letter to Special Counsel Hampton Dillinger earlier this week referencing an email from July 2024 that Cardona’s office sent to “student loan borrowers.”

In that letter, Cardona referenced “Republican elected officials” three times as the reason the legislation was blocked in Congress.

The email, in part, stated, "In recent weeks, several federal courts have issued rulings in lawsuits brought by Republican elected officials who are siding with special interests and trying to block Americans from accessing all the benefits of the most affordable student loan repayment plan in history – the SAVE (Saving on a Valuable Education Plan).”

Reading through the email, there is little doubt that the letter is a violation, but the question then becomes what will happen to Cardona.

The letter is already out there, and voters have seen it, so the damage has already been done.

I hope that the special counsel recommends a very stiff penalty to be paid to deter things like this from continuing.

Clearly, these slaps on the wrist are not working, so it is time to make an example of someone better than Cardona who has thumbed his nose at our Constitution countless times already.