A bombshell 200-page federal report has put hard numbers and internal government documents behind what millions of American Christians already knew in their bones: the Biden administration used the machinery of the federal government to punish them for their faith. The report, produced by the Trump administration’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias and backed by over 1,100 footnotes and 300 pages of exhibits, is a government-to-government accounting, agency by agency, case by case.
The Task Force, chaired by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and coordinating the findings of 17 federal departments and agencies, was established pursuant to Executive Order 14202. “No American should live in fear that the federal government will punish them for their faith,” Blanche said. “As our report lays out, the Biden Administration’s actions devastated the lives of many Christian Americans. That devastation ended with President Trump. The Department of Justice will continue to expose bad actors who target Christians and work tirelessly to restore religious liberty for all Americans of faith.”
The Biden DOJ requested an average prison sentence of 26.8 months for pro-life defendants prosecuted under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, compared to 12.3 months for pro-choice defendants. Pro-life defendants were ultimately sentenced to an average of 14 months, while pro-abortion defendants received an average of just three months.
The Biden FBI investigated, monitored, tracked, and scrutinized traditional Catholics — treating those who attended the Traditional Latin Mass and held orthodox views on life as potential domestic terrorists, putting them on an FBI list.
One of the most notable enforcement actions taken during the Biden administration was a $37.7 million fine against Grand Canyon University for allegedly engaging in deceptive advertising, despite the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit finding no evidence of wrongdoing by the Christian school. Liberty University also faced a $14 million fine for allegedly violating a federal law requiring transparency about public safety issues at institutions of higher education. By contrast, when the Pennsylvania State University violated the same law by failing to report acts of child molestation by assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, it was fined just $2.4 million, and when Michigan State University was found to have violated the law by not reporting illicit sexual behavior by team physician Dr. Larry Nassar, its fine was $4.5 million.
When the Department of Homeland Security conducted faith-based outreach between March 2023 and January 2024, the agency met with 20 Muslim organizations and 18 Jewish organizations, but just two explicitly Christian groups. “This disparity is notable given that Christians comprise an estimated 62 percent of the U.S. population,” the report states. DHS employees also alleged that, within the workplace, they were directed to avoid explicit references to Christian celebrations like Christmas, while similar directives were not issued for holidays observed by other religions.
The Biden administration weaponized the Bostock Supreme Court decision to override religious liberty across the DOJ, HHS, EEOC, the Department of Education, HUD, the Department of Labor, and the USDA. The day after Biden was sworn into office, career employees at the Justice Department urged reversal of a Trump-era memo that had directed the department to “respect its employees’ right to express traditional views” regarding marriage and gender identity. Career employees called the memo “an affront to the dignity of our transgender employees.”
The Biden EEOC expanded Title VII beyond its statutory authority, effectively dismissing sincerely held religious beliefs regarding sexual orientation, gender identity, and abortion as “discrimination in hiring cloaked as religious practice.”
A Christian nurse at the University of Vermont Medical Center was coerced into participating in an elective abortion despite clearly expressing her sincere religious objections. The report describes this case as emblematic of the Biden administration’s approach to conscience enforcement: when the scope of federal protections was legally contested, the administration chose the least protective interpretation of those protections for religious objectors.
The Johnson Amendment — which prohibits nonprofit organizations, including churches, from political advocacy — was also selectively enforced. New Way Church in Florida was investigated after a school board candidate spoke at the congregation, and Grace Church in St. Louis faced scrutiny for outlining the positions of local candidates. By contrast, the report found no public indications that the Biden administration opened investigations into the more than 1,600 faith leaders who backed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
The Biden DOJ advised White House senior leadership that federal employees’ religious objections to COVID vaccines were “insincere” or “not religious.” The EEOC estimates it received over 10,000 charges of discrimination related to COVID-19 since January 2021 — with nearly 9,800 alleging a Title VII violation for failure to accommodate religious exemptions — yet the agency’s response was described in the report as “anemic.”
The report draws on internal emails, prosecutorial memos, and case files from the Biden administration’s own paper trail.
The 2026 Task Force Report is a formal, government-issued acknowledgment that for four years, the power of the United States federal government was systematically turned against its own Christian citizens.
