Larson Condemns Supreme Court Decision Allowing Use of Trump Voter Purge Database

East Hartford, CT – Today, House Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member John B. Larson (CT-01) released the following statement condemning the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the use of the Trump Administration’s “SAVE” database, which empowers states to use data collected from the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security, to purge voters from the rolls. Earlier this year, it was revealed in court that this database was used to terminate the voter registration of eligible citizens in multiple states. 

“It is beyond disappointing for the Supreme Court to allow the Trump Administration to deploy a database that has already been used to wrongly remove eligible citizens form the voter rolls,” said Larson. “Time and time again, the President and his appointees have proven that they cannot be trusted with people’s confidential records. From attempts by ‘DOGE’ employees to hand data from Social Security to a political group trying to alter elections, to this sprawling database riddled with inaccuracies, this administration’s goals are clear. They will do whatever it takes to get in the way of free and fair elections. If the Supreme Court will not stand up to this clear abuse of power, then Congress must act—and state and local officials should commit to not participating in this voter purge campaign. I will continue to push to pass legislation that gets Trump officials out of the American people’s data at Social Security and protects the right of every citizen to cast their ballot free from fear and intimidation in the United States of America.” 

The Trump voter database follows his threats to “nationalize our elections,” and a push from Republicans in Congress to pass his so-called “SAVE America Act” that would create more barriers for Americans to vote and empower the Department of Homeland Security to purge voters from the rolls.  

Ranking Member Larson’s Protecting Americans’ Social Security Data Act would block political appointees from accessing sensitive data systems at the Social Security Administration and establish privacy requirements in law for beneficiary data and strengthen oversight and civil penalties for any privacy and disclosure violations of Social Security beneficiaries’ personal information. He also joined Rep. Joyce Beatty (OH-03) to introduce the Voter Purge Protection Act, which would put protections into federal law to prevent anyone from improperly removing an eligible voter from the rolls.