The Daily Fuckup

The Federal Election Commission’s weekly digest for May 26 through May 30, published on May 30, 2025, shows one Trump-related item for May 28: a filing in DNC v. Trump, the case challenging President Donald Trump’s February executive order as it applies to the commission.

That matters because the filing is part of an ongoing court fight over whether the White House can direct the legal posture of an agency Congress designed to operate independently. The FEC’s case page says the lawsuit was filed on February 28 and attacks the order as unlawful as applied to the commission.

The May 28 entry itself is procedural. It does not show a new campaign-finance action by Trump or a fresh enforcement push inside the agency. It shows the litigation moving forward, with the dispute over the FEC’s status still alive on the docket.

Background filings in the case have pressed that same point more directly. In a March 26 amicus brief, former commissioner Ellen Weintraub argued that the executive order would make the FEC answer to the president instead of remaining independent. The May 28 digest does not repeat that argument, but it does keep the underlying lawsuit in view.