President Trump cleans house at the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission
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"Congress deliberately structured the Election Assistance Commission as a bipartisan agency to help states administer free, fair, and secure elections," he said. "These removals leave the agency without leadership and unable to carry out its major responsibilities."

Matt Weil, vice president of governance at the Bipartisan Policy Center, noted in a statement that the EAC has operated without a quorum for much of its existence, yet he called Trump's dismissals "unprecedented" and "a significant loss for one of the federal government's few institutions explicitly designed around bipartisan governance."

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