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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Trump fires last members of election commission, inciting fears of midterm ‘chaos’

Donald Trump in black suit and yellow tie, walking onto a stage holding a leather folder.
Donald Trump during the 2026 Nato summit in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday. Photograph: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Donald Trump has terminated the remaining members of the independent, federal commission that assists election administration officials nationwide just a few months before the midterm elections, multiple outlets reported on Thursday.

The remaining three commissioners of the four-member bipartisan commission ⁠were forced out on Thursday in different ways. The one Republican appointee resigned and the other ⁠two, Democratic, appointees were notified of their terminations via email from ​the White House presidential personnel office.

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