When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the nonprofit organizations he controlled would not spend hundreds of millions of dollars as they had in the past to help targeted populations vote in 2024, then-President Joe Biden turned to taxpayers instead. Biden’s Executive Order 14019 was an illegal use of federal resources for political activities, and President Donald Trump was right to rescind the order as one of his first acts in office. Both Congress and the Department of Justice should investigate any employees who carried out Biden’s order.

In theory, it is a good idea that a nonpartisan nonprofit organization should help citizens register to vote. But which voters should be targeted? And how? Democrats used to think any increase in voter participation helped their party. But that has ceased to be true since Trump came along. Now, most low-propensity voters are Trump supporters, which means allies of the Democratic Party, as Zuckerberg used to be, had to be more careful about which communities they spent money registering voters in to achieve a partisan benefit.