A nonprofit watchdog group is urging Congress to investigate whether former President Joe Biden was aware of certain executive orders after the organization discovered there was “no evidence” that Biden was aware of multiple climate policy executive orders allegedly signed with an autopen.
According to Fox News, Power the Future, an organization that advocates for American energy, recently reviewed eight executive orders that the watchdog group believes were signed by autopen. The watchdog group claims that while the executive orders represented major changes in America’s energy policies, there was “no evidence” that Biden had publicly spoken about the policy changes.
Power the Future Executive Director Daniel Turner told Fox News, “These are not obscure bureaucratic memos; these were foundational shifts in American energy policy, yet not once did Joe Biden speak about them publicly.”
In a recent letter to House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), Power the Future said, “In light of the growing evidence that actions purportedly taken by the former president may not have been approved or signed by him, but instead promulgated by a small coterie of advisers in his name without his knowledge or over his signature using an ‘autopen,’ the need for congressional access to information has grown in importance with these revelations.”
According to Power the Future’s website, the executive orders in question include a pledge that the federal government would achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, an Arctic drilling ban, an offshore drilling ban, and a mandate for “clean energy” artificial intelligence centers.
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“Congress deserves to know how or whether these executive actions were authorized, and whether the former President was aware of such orders before they were implemented by the federal bureaucracy,” Power the Future said in the letter obtained by Fox News. “Were these actions taken on behalf of the president and purporting to execute his authority undertaken with the president’s knowledge and approach? It appears incumbent upon Congress to inquire, about all parties involved in these actions, who instructed them to do what, when.”
Turner told Fox News that the Biden administration directed hundreds of billions of dollars to “pet green projects” and “punished” the fossil fuels industry in the United States. Turner emphasized that the American people “deserve to know” who was behind the executive orders since there is “no evidence that Biden ordered it, directed it, or was even aware it was happening in his name.”
“This autopen scandal is evidence that these green EOs are invalid, and the instigators should be thoroughly investigated by the DOJ for violating the trust of the American people and perpetuating a great fraud on the nation,” Turner added.
