{"id":24466,"date":"2026-04-24T10:31:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=24466"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:33:13","slug":"merkley-wyden-colleagues-fight-back-against-trumps-executive-order-restricting-vote-by-mail-press-usps-on-unconstitutional-executive-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-wyden-colleagues-fight-back-against-trumps-executive-order-restricting-vote-by-mail-press-usps-on-unconstitutional-executive-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley, Wyden y sus colegas se oponen a la orden ejecutiva de Trump que restringe el voto por correo y presionan al Servicio Postal de EE. UU. por la inconstitucionalidad de la orden ejecutiva.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington DC <\/strong>\u2014 Oregon\u2019s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden joined over 30 of their Senate Democratic colleagues in introducing the Absentee and Mail Voter Protection Act (Absentee MVP Act)<\/em>. The bill would defend the right to vote by mail, uphold the integrity of our elections, and block President Trump\u2019s illegal, unconstitutional executive order attacking mail and absentee ballots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cOregonians know that vote by mail has been a cornerstone in holding secure, accessible, high-integrity elections for decades,\u201d said Merkley. \u201cTrump\u2019s anti-voter executive order is an outrageous and unconstitutional power grab that threatens to silence voters by letting the president interfere with lawful ballots. That\u2019s not how democracy works. The ballot box is the beating heart of democracy, and I\u2019m fighting to protect the right of every eligible voter to make their voice heard.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cOregon\u2019s vote-by-mail system has long proven itself the safest and easiest way to vote,\u201d said Wyden. \u201cDonald Trump is scared of that track record in our state and elsewhere because he knows a free and fair election this November has his party heading for major losses. Trump\u2019s plot to change the rules with just months to go until the midterms is an illegal assault on election integrity, and this bill would stop his coward\u2019s scheme in its tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

El Absentee MVP Act<\/em> would nullify Trump\u2019s unlawful March 31, 2026 executive order that aims to illegally re-write federal election rules or any similar order and prohibit the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and any other agency from spending funds to implement actions in the President\u2019s unconstitutional executive order. At its core, Trump\u2019s executive order would give the USPS sweeping new authority to decide which voters may cast ballots by mail by ordering the USPS to reject and refuse delivery of lawful ballots unless states comply with newly established federal eligibility lists. Those who do not comply with these restrictions would face serious consequences: election officials, mail carriers, and others who send or deliver ballots to voters the administration considers ineligible could face criminal charges and states and local governments forfeit federal funding. To lay the groundwork for this override of existing state and federal voting laws, the order also tasks DHS with building state-by-state rosters of voting-age American citizens \u2014 drawn from federal data sources widely considered to be incomplete and unreliable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to nullifying the executive order, the Absentee MVP Act<\/em> bars any similar executive orders and provides additional limits on the Trump Administration\u2019s attempts to implement the actions in the executive order, including by:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n