The White House sent emails to millions of American seniors crediting Kamala Harris with "historic" Medicare reforms, part of a broader effort by the Biden-Harris administration to secure re-election using resources funded by the taxpayer.
The Health and Human Services email was received by potentially millions of voters enrolled in Medicare, which is used by 66 million people.
The email - which features the presidential seal on top - touts Kamala Harris' role in casting the tie-breaking vote for the Inflation Reduction Act, which passed Congress along partisan lines.
On the surface, the e-mail is an innocuous effort to inform enrollees about changes to Medicare part D, which covers prescription drugs.
"Because Medicare benefits are getting stronger, it is more important than ever to look at your drug coverage for 2025 during Medicare Open Enrollment and make sure you are enrolled in the Medicare Part D plan that is best for you," the email said.
However, the message is a thinly veiled campaign advertisement that credits Vice President Harris with "historic changes to Medicare that are lowering health care costs."
“These historic reforms are a result of the Inflation Reduction Act that I signed into law and that Vice President Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to secure,” the email, written in the voice of Joe Biden, reads.
"Vice President Harris and I believe that health care should be a right, not a privilege," the email says.
Despite the blatant partisan boosterism in the e-mail, the message ends with, "This message is paid for by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It was created and distributed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services."
It is against Federal Election Commission (FEC) rules to use government resources for campaign purposes, but the rules haven't stopped Democrats from adopting a "whole of government" approach to staying in power.
Indeed, the Medicare email is modest compared to some of the more flagrant campaign efforts of this administration.
In what many saw as blatant meddling from a foreign power on behalf of a domestic political party, Ukraine's president recently met with top Harris surrogates like Democratic governor Josh Shapiro at a munitions factory in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state.
The federal government transported president Volodymyr Zelensky on an Air Force Jet to the factory in Scranton, which is also Joe Biden's hometown.
