Trump’s new executive order to save integrity of elections needs to be codified by Congress to stick

Democratic Party backlash over the president’s election integrity order cemented the left’s obstruction to anything that comes out of the Trump White House.

“An executive order saying that the sky is blue would be challenged at this point.”

Last week, President Donald Trump aimed to fulfill another campaign promise as he issued an executive order that, in part, required government-issued proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. Racking up lawsuits with the same zeal that builds up the debt clock, suppression narratives were accompanied by claims of administrative overreach.

“There are multiple problems with it,” argued Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin (D) to The Hill. “The president of the United States does not control voting laws. The states control voting laws in America, and Congress can regulate, but Congress has not passed anything the president’s talking about.”

Included in the president’s order was the assertion that, “It is the policy of my Administration to enforce Federal law and to protect the integrity of our election process.”

In addition to pushing a “voter-verifiable paper record,” Trump also directed the Department of Government Efficiency to “review each State’s publicly available voter registration list and available records concerning voter list maintenance activities” in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security.

FREE, FAIR, and HONEST Elections.

“This will go a long way towards ending it [election fraud]. There are other steps we will be taking…We’ve got to straighten out our elections.” – @POTUS

Proof of citizenship
Prevent foreign interference
Prosecute election crimes pic.twitter.com/nlftxgHCi5

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 25, 2025

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and the Democratic National Committee were joined by the party’s campaign committees and the Democratic Governors Association in filing one of several suits against the order Monday in which they argued the effort to ensure election integrity would “threaten to disenfranchise lawful voters” and impede voter registration.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic Party’s vice presidential candidate in 2024, went as far as to promote a “shadow government” after Trump’s order, pushing the idea to a crowd in Texas, “so when all these things come up every single day, we’ve got an alternate press conference telling the truth about what things are happening, tell them what’s going on.”

“I’ve seen voter suppression up close as someone who has run in Georgia numerous times,” claimed Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock (D). “Officials in Georgia looked at the anatomy of my win the first time around, and they came after it with surgical precision. I had to beat them in court in order to win my race. And so we’re seeing the president play out of the same playbook writ large.”

Countering the senator’s argument, Republican National Committee spokesperson Abigail Jackson pointed The Hill to record voter turnout in Georgia in 2022 and 2024 with Georgia’s election integrity law.

“Now Democrats are running the same tired playbook on President Trump’s new executive order, but the American people won’t fall for it.”

Similarly, Deputy White House Press Secretary Harrison Fields said, “The Democrats continue to show their disdain for the Constitution, and it continues to show in their insane objections to the president’s commonsense executive actions to require proof of U.S. citizenship in an effort to protect the integrity of American elections.”

“The Trump administration is standing up for free,  fair, and honest elections, and asking this basic question is essential to our Constitutional Republic,” he added.

Meanwhile, Honest Elections Project Executive Director Jason Snead, whose group favored the administration’s action on election integrity, agreed that it was up to the legislature to codify Trump’s efforts into law.

“Congress acting here would be able to go further than what the executive order can do,” he told The Hill. “This doesn’t absolve Congress of its responsibility, I think, to protect the federal elections, and it doesn’t absolve the states, either.”

As for the broken record objections voiced by leftists, Snead contended, “Quite literally, almost anything is being challenged if it comes out of the Trump administration. An executive order saying that the sky is blue would be challenged at this point.”

Staff Writer

Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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