They want federal agents to coordinate with local and state governments and for those governments to have jurisdiction over federal agents who break the law. And they want federal agents to have standardized uniforms like those of regular law enforcement, not paramilitaries. Democrats said White House offers were insufficient to address their concerns, although the White House did not make its position public. Trump is adamant that Republicans must win the 2026 elections and so is calling for new election laws, claiming that Democrats can win elections only through the illegal votes of undocumented immigrants. That information includes confidential data from the Social Security Administration, accessed by the Department of Government Efficiency.

Source: Washington Post February 14, 2026 06:28 UTC