U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today joined their Senate colleagues in calling for election-denier Kurt Olsen’s removal as Director of Election Security and Integrity at the White House.
Call on the White House to remove Kurt Olsen from his position as Director of Election Security and Integrity.
Occurrences
Evidence
Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley joined colleagues in calling for Kurt Olsen’s removal as Director of Election Security and Integrity and sent a letter to White House officials.
Senator Alex Padilla led a letter, cosigned by Ron Wyden and ten other Democrats, calling for Olsen’s immediate removal from his SGE role for exceeding legal limits and promoting debunked claims.
Assessments
The promise was to call on the White House to remove Kurt Olsen, not to guarantee that the White House actually removed him. Evidence from May 18, 2026 and May 20, 2026 shows Ron Wyden cosigned and was publicly identified in Senate letters demanding Olsen’s removal from his White House election security role. Because Wyden took the promised oversight action while serving in office, this counts as delivered in the same term.
Documented evidence shows Sen. Ron Wyden explicitly joined and cosigned formal letters and press releases (May 18 and May 20, 2026) calling on the White House to remove Kurt Olsen as Director of Election Security and Integrity. Those actions directly satisfy the promise to call for Olsen's removal, and occurred while Wyden was in office, so the pledge is delivered in the same term.