Defending America’s Future Elections Act

Key Points

• The bill would cancel Trump's March 2025 executive order on election integrity, saying it goes beyond presidential authority and improperly tries to set federal election rules.
• It specifically bars the Department of Government Efficiency from using any federal money to access state voter registration lists, list-maintenance records, or federal immigration databases.
• Sponsors argue the Constitution gives control over election time, place, and manner to Congress and the states, not the president, making the executive order an overreach.
• The findings claim the executive order is illegal, unconstitutional, and could strip voting eligibility from large numbers of Americans if allowed to stand.
• The bill notes that existing federal voter registration law, in place since 1993, already does not require documents proving citizenship, suggesting the new order changes settled practice.