Biden Aide Admits Under Oath SHE Controlled the Autopen

The push to get at the truth of who really authorized the use of Joe Biden’s autopen got a little closer to being uncovered during Congressional testimony yesterday.

A top White House aide to Biden testified under oath that she was in fact the one in charge of the Autopen.

And during her sworn testimony before Congress, Neera Tanden not only admitted to controlling Biden’s Autopen…

She also detailed an approval process for applying the President’s ‘auto’ signature to documents that DID NOT INCLUDE her direct interaction with Biden.

Nor did the process even include confirmation that Biden himself had authorized the use of ‘his’ signature, via the Autopen.

This is Neera Tanden immediately following her Congressional testimony, almost RUNNING away from reporters as soon as they asked about Biden’s health:

Here is the White House staffer who was really running the Biden presidency via autopen.

Neera Tanden. Nobody elected her. Most people don't even know her name.

America is screwed if there is no accountability. This is one of the biggest scandals in U.S. history pic.twitter.com/ykh7hD5ixt

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) June 25, 2025

If you’re like me, she might look familiar.  But you might not be able to place her at first.

I finally realized where I had seen her — on CNN — where she often argued with Scott Jennings and attacked President Trump.

Here she is not long ago doing just that, while offering excuses for the President SHE just admitted she signed for without verifying his direct permission to do so!

Here is Scott Jennings going at it with the 46th president, Neera Tanden.

This clip aged like milk. pic.twitter.com/NdsXwDfd3i

— Jacktron (@jacktronprime) June 25, 2025

Talk about hypocrisy!

Tanden answered questions before the House Oversight Committee during which she stated she controlled the Autopen on Biden’s behalf for a period spanning 3 different years of his term!

But the real eye-opening testimony came when she described the approval process, as reported by Fox News:

A former top aide to President Joe Biden said she was authorized to direct autopen signatures but was unaware of who in the president’s inner circle was giving her final clearance, according to a source familiar with the aide’s closed-door testimony in front of Congress Tuesday.

Neera Tanden, the former director of Biden’s Domestic Policy Council, testified for hours Tuesday during an interview in front of the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating the former president’s mental acuity and his use of an automatic signature tool that allowed aides to sign pardons, memos and other important documents on Biden’s behalf.

During Tanden’s interview before Congress, which lasted more than five hours, she told lawmakers that, in her role as staff secretary and senior advisor to the former president between 2021 and 2023, she was authorized to direct autopen signatures on behalf of Biden, an Oversight Committee official told Fox News.

But Tanden, who said she had limited interactions with Biden, described an approval process that left her in the dark about who specifically was giving final approval on the decisions to use the automatic signature tool, sources told Fox News.

Tanden testified that to get approval for the use of autopen signatures she would send decision memos to members of Biden’s inner circle. However, she added that she was not aware of what actions or approvals took place between the time she sent the decision memo and the time she received it back with the necessary approval. (Emphasis added.)

Neera Tanden literally admitted to signing the President’s name on documents without verification that HE had given approval!

With Tanden’s admission that the ‘inner circle’ gave her permission to apply Biden’s Autopen signature, she opened up the next logical question…

What corrupt quid pro quo was going on behind the scenes?

One popular X account asked that question this way:

Biden the Figurehead, Tanden the Executor

The June 24 revelations confirmed what critics have long suspected: Joe Biden was no longer exercising the powers of the presidency.

Whether due to cognitive decline, political shielding, or deliberate administrative design, he wasn’t…

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) June 25, 2025

Here’s the full text of that post and the next questions that need to be answered:

Biden the Figurehead, Tanden the Executor

The June 24 revelations confirmed what critics have long suspected: Joe Biden was no longer exercising the powers of the presidency.

Whether due to cognitive decline, political shielding, or deliberate administrative design, he wasn’t governing. Tanden was.

And that raises urgent constitutional questions:
•Who authorized her to sign legally binding documents?

•How many billions were distributed under autopen signatures?

•Which NGOs benefited and what role did they play in Democratic electoral operations?

Congressman Scott Perry, a Republican out of PA, was one of the few House members to openly talk about Tanden’s closed-door testimony.

Yes… you got that right — it was a closed hearing with no cameras allowed.

Why would that be kept under wraps?

Why are the answers to these questions STILL being hidden from ‘we the people’!?

Here’s what Rep. Perry had to say about the implications of Tanden’s testimony before Congress this morning on Fox News:

Did President Biden ever have any clue about what his autopen signed, or were his handlers going behind his back all along? Whether or not you voted for him, nobody voted for Neera Tanden or anyone else complicit in one of the greatest coverups in presidential history. pic.twitter.com/avVlZxNhf5

— Rep. Scott Perry (@RepScottPerry) June 25, 2025

Rep. Perry highlighted something I’ve heard Rep. James Comer, Chair of the House Oversight Committee, mention several times.

It is going to be hard to confirm that Biden’s Executive power was usurped, even if that’s exactly what happened.

That doesn’t mean the matter should be dropped — but it does mean this is going to be an uphill battle, even with aides like Tanden sitting in the hot seat under oath.

And speaking of aides in the hot seat… you might be wondering why Neera Tanden agreed to testify to begin with.

In short, because President Trump REFUSED to shield her — and 8 others — using Executive Privilege.

And that means we are likely to see more corroborating testimony before Congress in the coming days along these same lines.

While that doesn’t mean any of them are likely to willingly incriminate themselves in the process…

It does mean that there may soon be enough sworn testimony from inside Biden’s White House, with a little cross-checking, to prove what many already suspect IN SPITE of the unwillingness by aides to cover up what really happened.

Gary Lawkowski, President Trump’s deputy White House counsel, dropped the news that she had lost any hope of Executive Privilege at Tanden’s feet prior to her testimony, according to the New York Post:

The White House counsel Tuesday said ex-Biden aide Neera Tanden is not shielded by executive privilege and thus must provide “unrestricted testimony” on former President Joe Biden’s mental acuity.

The decision was issued before Tanden appeared before the GOP-led House Oversight Committee for closed-door testimony Tuesday to give insights for the panel’s investigation of Biden’s cognition and use of autopen.

Executive privilege is the right that presidents enjoy to keep some of their internal communications confidential. It was invoked by several alumni of the first Trump administration during Democrat-led congressional scrutiny.

“After balancing the Legislative and Executive Branch interests, as required under the accommodation process, it is the President’s view that this presents an exceptional situation in which the congressional need for information outweighs the Executive Branch’s interest in maintaining confidentiality,” wrote Gary Lawkowski, deputy White House counsel, in a letter to Tanden.

“President Trump has determined that he will not assert immunity to preclude you from testifying before the House Oversight Committee,” he added.

Lawkowski stressed that the probe is aimed at “determining the validity of prior executive actions,” which is why it’s “an exceptional situation.”

Tanden served as a senior adviser to Biden from 2021 to 2023. Early on, Biden nominated her to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), but she lacked the votes needed because of a party defection by former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV), who cited her mean social-media posts, among other concerns.

Later, Biden made Tanden his director of the Domestic Policy Council to help advise on critical policymaking issues.

As that NYP article detailed, the mainstream media’s attempt to characterize Neera Tanden as some low-level WH aide is nothing but a smokescreen.

Not only was she a SENIOR ADVISER to the President, but she was the DIRECTOR of his Domestic Policy Council.

That means she had direct involvement in SHAPING policy issues… during a time when it is being claimed the President of the United States was allegedly unable to keep those issues straight in his own head.

That same person, with ne’er a vote to her name, also signed on the dotted line, potentially wielding Executive power on the very policy issues SHE shaped.

That’s not a good look, at best.  And it could be an unconstitutional usurpation of Presidential authority, at worst.