Federal guardrails weakened—how is election integrity being protected?

As your constituent, I’m writing because I cannot reconcile the President’s public claims that he is “serious” about election integrity with the administration’s actions that appear to weaken—or decimate—key federal guardrails and oversight functions that help protect lawful, secure elections. First, the Election Assistance Commission (EAC)—the bipartisan federal body that distributes election grants, oversees testing and certification of voting systems, and maintains the national voter registration form—has been effectively vacated after the White House removed its remaining commissioners. When an agency exists to provide nationally consistent best-practice guidance and support to state and local election officials, leaving it headless so close to major elections raises serious questions about whether election integrity is being prioritized over political control. Second, the Federal Election Commission (FEC), which regulates campaign finance transparency and enforcement through commissioner votes, has reportedly been unable to do much of its core work due to a prolonged lack of quorum—leaving enforcement and policy actions at a standstill. That matters for integrity: when campaign finance rules cannot be applied through the mechanism Congress designed, the public loses an important layer of accountability. Third, at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)—a primary hub for election cybersecurity support—reporting describes large-scale personnel reductions, program shutdowns, and the end of federal support functions that helped states and localities defend their systems. If adversaries are operating against election infrastructure, reducing the staffing and tools devoted to election defense appears to contradict any claim of seriousness about integrity. Finally, reporting indicates parallel reductions in election-related capacity across other federal intelligence and law-enforcement channels, including disbanding of an FBI foreign-influence task force and restructuring that reduced core election-threat functions in the intelligence community and related offices. Tell me, what specific steps will you demand from the administration to restore these guardrails—and what measurable commitments will you seek to ensure that election integrity is protected through capacity, transparency, and lawful enforcement rather than hollow declarations? Impartial, bipartisan election administration and security are essential precisely because elections must be trusted by every voter—regardless of party. When federal oversight, cybersecurity support, and enforceable campaign-finance guardrails are weakened or left headless, the result is not just administrative disruption; it is diminished confidence in the fairness and legitimacy of outcomes. I urge you to press for steady, bipartisan capacity at the EAC and FEC, and sustained, nonpartisan election cybersecurity support, so that integrity is protected through functioning institutions and measurable results—not rhetoric.