{"id":230849,"date":"2026-04-03T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/wyden-warns-social-security-chief-trumps-voter-database-is-blatant-voter-suppression\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:32:00","slug":"wyden-warns-social-security-chief-trumps-voter-database-is-blatant-voter-suppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/wyden-warns-social-security-chief-trumps-voter-database-is-blatant-voter-suppression\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyden warns Social Security chief: Trump\u2019s voter database is \u2018blatant voter suppression\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wyden warns Social Security chief: Trump\u2019s voter database is \u2018blatant voter suppression\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/wyden-warns-ssa-chief-trump-voter-database-blatant-voter-suppression\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-04-03 12:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., warned Social Security Administration chief Frank Bisignano that any follow-through on President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order creating a new database of U.S. voters using agency data would be viewed by Democrats as a conscious choice on the part of SSA officials to participate in \u201cblatant voter suppression.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFacilitating Donald Trump\u2019s directive to create a flawed voter database would be willing participation in blatant voter suppression ahead of consequential midterm elections,\u201d Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, wrote in a letter to Bisignano sent Friday.<\/p>\n

The executive order, issued March 31, directs the Homeland Security secretary, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the commissioner of the Social Security Administration to compile lists of American voters for each state, including their supposed citizenship status.<\/p>\n

To build the lists, the agencies would rely on the controversial Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database that DHS has been building under the Trump administration, as well as Social Security and federal citizenship and naturalization records.<\/p>\n

Those lists would then be transmitted to states, most of which have already rejected previous Trump administration efforts to collect voter data or dictate voter registration lists. Another section of the order would direct the postmaster general to develop a similar state-by-state list of voters eligible to vote by mail.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe clear intent of this executive order is to undermine vote-by-mail and disenfranchise eligible voters,\u201d Wyden wrote. \u201cSSA has a duty to ensure its data is not misused as part of this effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wyden echoed numerous state officials and election experts in calling the Trump administration\u2019s executive order an unconstitutional encroachment by the executive branch on election authorities that the U.S. Constitution clearly delineates to Congress and the…<\/p>\n

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