01/20/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/20/2025 19:25
January 20, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Donald Trump today signed a wave of executive orders, including one targeting voting rights. Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen,released the following statement:
"The Biden administration tasked federal agencies with taking a logical step of giving people the ability to register to vote when they engaged with them. Now, in clear pursuit of fewer registered voters on the books, Trump has rolled back this common sense EO intended to make registering to vote easier in America."