Trump mandates citizenship question on election ballots — and cuts funds if states don’t comply
New York Post3 days ago
Trump Signs Order Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote
Above: Donald Trump delivers remarks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on March 24, 2025. Image copyright: Win McNamee/Staff/Getty Images News via Getty Images
The Spin
Republican narrative
The executive order is crucial to maintaining the American constitutional Republic, securing election integrity, and preventing voter fraud by ensuring only eligible US citizens can vote in federal elections. Implementing basic and necessary safeguards against illegal voting is essential to maintaining faith in the democratic process and conducting free, fair, and honest polls.
Democratic narrative
This is an executive power grab and amounts to voter suppression that could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters, particularly affecting poor and elderly citizens who lack easy access to required documentation. In the name of solving a virtually non-existent problem of non-citizen voting, Trump just burdened would-be voters with time-consuming and costly bureaucratic paperwork.