WASHINGTON D.C. (KEYT) – The White House has created a website as part of its lobbying efforts for a bill still making its way through Congress, a potential illegal use of taxpayer funds noted members of Congress in a letter to a federal watchdog Monday.
"We urge the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to issue a determination quickly as to whether the White House is violating the AntiLobbying Act through this use of taxpayer funds to influence of Congress in the consideration of this extreme anti-voter bill," opened Monday's letter signed by Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, Senator Alex Padilla, and Ranking Member of the Committee on House Administration, Representative Joe Morelle of New York. "This webpage appears to be a prima facie violation of restrictions on the use of appropriations for explicit appeals to the public to contact Members of Congress to support pending legislation."
The website, which remains active as of the publication of this article, urges visitors to contact their Senators regarding the passage of the SAVE America Act (H.R. 7296), which passed the House already and is awaiting a vote in the Senate to become law.
The bill that would amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require the presentation of a form of identification compliant with the REAL ID Act of 2005, that proves U.S. citizenship.
Acceptable forms of identification include:
- A REAL ID
- A valid U.S. Passport
- An official U.S. military identification card as well as a U.S. military record of service showing that the applicant was born in the United States
- A valid government-issued photo identification card issued by a Federal, State, or Tribal government showing that the applicant was born in the United States alongside one of six additional forms of identification
Image from the lobbying website using official letterhead of The White House captured on Feb. 24, 2026.
"Sometime in the past several weeks, the White House created and launched a public standalone webpage on the official White House website devoted primarily to promoting the lobbying of Congress in favor of the SAVE America Act," noted Monday's letter. "This bill could disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans by requiring onerous and burdensome proof of citizenship for voter registration and would force all 50 states to provide state voter list data to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), among other provisions."
Claims of potential violations of federal law by the Trump Administration regarding partisan lobbying efforts using taxpayers websites is not new.
During last year's shutdown, federal agency websites posted partisan messages blaming the minority party for the shutdown,