WASHINGTON D.C. (KEYT) – The White House has created a website as part of its lobbying efforts for a bill still making its way through Congress, a potential illegal use of taxpayer funds noted members of Congress in a letter to a federal watchdog Monday.
"We urge the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to issue a determination quickly as to whether the White House is violating the AntiLobbying Act through this use of taxpayer funds to influence of Congress in the consideration of this extreme anti-voter bill," opened Monday's letter signed by Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, Senator Alex Padilla, and Ranking Member of the Committee on House Administration, Representative Joe Morelle of New York. "This webpage appears to be a prima facie violation of restrictions on the use of appropriations for explicit appeals to the public to contact Members of Congress to support pending legislation."
The website, which remains active as of the publication of this article, urges visitors to contact their Senators regarding the passage of the SAVE America Act (H.R. 7296), which passed the House already and is awaiting a vote in the Senate to become law.
The bill that would amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require the presentation of a form of identification compliant with the REAL ID Act of 2005, that proves U.S. citizenship.
Acceptable forms of identification include:
A REAL ID A valid U.S. Passport An official U.S. military identification card as well as a U.S. military record of service showing that the applicant was born in the United States A valid government-issued photo identification card issued by a Federal, State, or Tribal government showing that the applicant was born in the United States alongside one of six additional forms of identification Image from the lobbying website using official letterhead of The White House captured on Feb. 24, 2026."Sometime in the past several weeks, the White House created and launched a public standalone webpage on the official White House website devoted primarily to promoting the lobbying of Congress in favor of the SAVE America Act," noted Monday's letter. "This bill could disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans by requiring onerous and burdensome proof of citizenship for voter registration and would force all 50 states to provide state voter list data to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), among other provisions."
Claims of potential violations of federal law by the Trump Administration regarding partisan lobbying efforts using taxpayers websites is not new.
During last year's shutdown, federal agency websites posted partisan messages blaming the minority party for the shutdown,
A pop-up on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's webpage taken by Your News Channel author on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025.Additionally, agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation were tasked with searching for Texas legislators refusing to participate in proceedings to alter the state's congressional districts and a pressure campaign targeting multiple state legislators in Indiana to redraw the Hoosier state's Congressional boundaries before the next election cycle were cited as potentially illegal lobbying efforts by Senator Padilla in December of last year in a letter directed to the Office of Special Counsel.
Allegations of violations of federal lobbying prohibitions have dogged the Trump Administration since his first term and in February of last year, the President fired the Senate-approved Director of the Office of Special Counsel, a federal watchdog tasked with investigating the violations, just one year into his five-year term.
The former Director officially ended his legal attempts to retain the position in March of 2025.
Last month, a federal judge dismissed the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit seeking access to Californian's private voter information, describing the attempt as, "unprecedented and illegal" and later the same month, over a quarter of the U.S. Senate signed onto a letter opposing demands for voter information nationwide.
"The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) seeks an unprecedented amount of personal information related to California voters from California’s unredacted voting rolls. The requested information includes the names, social security numbers, home addresses, voting history and other sensitive information of nearly 23 million Californians," wrote federal Judge David O. Carter in his dismissal. "The centralization of this information by the federal government would have a chilling effect on voter registration which would inevitably lead to decreasing voter turnout as voters fear that their information is being used for some inappropriate or unlawful purpose. This risk threatens the right to vote which is the cornerstone of American democracy."
The U.S. Constitution states in Article I, Section 4 that decisions regarding, "the times, places, and manner of holding Elections" are delegated to Congress and managed by each state.
The Section does not mention any executive branch position, office, or department.
"[T]he States are merely an "agent" for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them," argued President Trump in a Truth Social post on Aug. 18, 2025. "Democrats are virtually Unelectable without using this completely disproven Mail-In SCAM. ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS. I, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WILL FIGHT LIKE HELL TO BRING HONESTY AND INTEGRITY BACK TO OUR ELECTIONS. THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!!"
On March 25, 2025, President Trump signed election-focused Executive Order "Preserving and Protecting The Integrity of American Elections" tasking various parts of the federal government with making sweeping changes to elections nationwide.
Since May of last year, the Department of Justice has requested voter information from at least 44 states and Washington D.C. according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
Ten states have provided full statewide voter registration lists, including the nation's second most populous state, 23 states and Washington D.C. have not.
The image below from the Brennan Center for Justice, breaks down state compliance with the Department of Justice's changes to federal elections. States shaded in yellow are being sued for not turning over voter information, states in green have not provided voter registrations, states in blue have only provided publicly available voter lists, and states in red have provided full voter registration information.
North Dakota is in orange because it has received a request from the Justice Department to schedule a meeting about sharing its voter registration information.
"These nationwide efforts point at a larger pattern than the DOJ’s stated purpose—one that involves collecting sensitive, personally identifying information of nearly every voter in America on an unprecedented scale and then utilizing that information in a completely different context than what the information was provided for," noted Judge Carter in his dismissal last month. "The taking of democracy does not occur in one fell swoop; it is chipped away piece-by-piece until there is nothing left. The case before the Court is one of these cuts that imperils all Americans."
So far, federal judges in California and Oregon have dismissed the Department of Justice's lawsuits seeking protected information about voters.
"It is clear that the White House’s legislative push is driven by the hope of partisan gain by changing election administration policy and that they are acting without regard to the law in their attempt to rewrite voting rules prior to the 2026 midterm elections," argued the two signatories of the oversight request letter Monday. "This legislation has already passed the House of Representatives on an extremely narrow, overwhelmingly party-line vote, and the President and some Senators are publicly calling for even changing Senate rules to ensure passage of this legislation."
On Feb. 19, 2026, President Trump personally tied the passage of the SAVE America Act to electoral outcomes stating that if the bill passes both chambers and was signed into law, "[W]e’ll never lose a race. For 50 years, we won't lose a race."
Monday's bicameral letter specifically requests that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) provide a determination of the use of taxpayer funds for the online lobbying effort.
"Over the years, GAO has addressed similar issues arising within various federal agencies and has consistently stated that clear appeals to the public to contact Members of Congress about pending legislation are the types of public communications that are prohibited," noted Monday's letter.
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