# Ellen Weintraub

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What Next - Washington’s Most Broken Institution?

The Federal Election Commission can barely get anything done. With its commissioners stuck in partisan gridlock, one is finding new ways to make sure election law is upheld.  Guest: Ellen Weintraub, commissioner at the FEC. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Pl…

What Next - Washington’s Most Broken Institution?

The Federal Election Commission can barely get anything done. With its commissioners stuck in partisan gridlock, one is finding new ways to make sure election law is upheld.  Guest: Ellen Weintraub, commissioner at the FEC. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Pl…

What Next - America’s Top Elections Official Isn’t Happy

The Federal Election Commission was designed to prevent the parties from going rogue with overly punitive campaign finance regulations. But what’s paralyzed FEC is something less partisan, and more principled: Democrats think the government should enforce campaign spending laws. Republicans don’t. …

What Next - America's Top Elections Official Isn't Happy

The Federal Election Commission was designed to prevent the parties from going rogue with overly punitive campaign finance regulations. But what’s paralyzed FEC is something less partisan, and more principled: Democrats think the government should enforce campaign spending laws. Republicans don’t. …

The GOP turns to Congress after the Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship

The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, but Justice Brett Kavanaugh gave Republicans a blueprint on how they can proceed. Plus, new reporting that President Trump earned at least $1.4 billion in income from various crypto businesses last year. And the Supreme Court lifts spending caps for …

Election officials threatened with jail after Trump’s inaccurate election fraud speech

July 19, 2026; 10am: President Trump is undermining American elections again, this time with a team of loyalists and without guardrails. Ellen Weintraub, whom Trump fired without cause from the FEC, explains why this is cause for alarm; David Rohde provides updates on two American servicemembers ki…

“Where is the line?”

New evidence and whistleblowers further incriminate the President, Republicans are running out of believable excuses, and Joe Biden’s campaign weighs the best response. Then Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub talks to Jon about the crime of soliciting foreign interference in a U…

Recode Decode: FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub

Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the FEC works, how it tries to defend elections from foreign influence, and why the Commission is currently immobilized by a lack of "quorum" — in other words, it doesn't have enough members to launch or co…

Elections Integrity (Federal Election Commission)

It's the same question every election season: can we trust our voting system? To get a straight answer, we talked to someone who spent more than two decades inside the agency that polices money in American politics. We get into what the Federal Election Commission actually does (and what it doesn’t…

US Midterms: Could Trump use ICE to try and intimidate voters?

Will the US Midterms be free and fair? Voters will head to the polls on November 3rd, in elections which look set to be difficult for Donald Trump and the Republican Party. But is Trump preparing to cast doubt on the vote before we even know the results? In this episode of TrumpWorld, former Federa…