The Trump administration’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias alleged Thursday that the Biden administration systematically discriminated against Christians during its four years in office, releasing a 200-page report that catalogued grievances across education, tax enforcement, abortion-protest prosecutions, and religious exemptions from vaccine mandates.
“When Christian beliefs about morality and human nature conflicted with the Biden Administration’s views, religious rights often suffered,” the report stated, according to the Associated Press. The task force, created by President Donald Trump and housed inside the Justice Department, included numerous Cabinet secretaries and drew on complaints from conservative Christian organizations.
The report did not accuse the Biden administration of suppressing church worship itself on a large scale, the AP noted. Instead, it argued that the administration “zealously pursued actions to limit Christians’ ability to act in accordance with their faith” on policy questions where conservative Christian positions conflicted with administration priorities — abortion access, gender identity, school curriculum, and vaccine requirements.
In a section on abortion-related enforcement, the task force contended that the Biden-era Justice Department sought severe penalties for anti-abortion activists who illegally blockaded clinics while taking threats to pregnancy resource centers less seriously. It cited the case of a group convicted in federal court after invading and blockading a Washington abortion clinic — individuals Trump pardoned in 2025.
The report also accused Biden of “replacing Easter” with Transgender Day of Visibility, which fell on March 31, 2024, the same day as Easter. In fact, Biden issued proclamations honoring both occasions. The task force called Biden’s 2024 Easter messaging a “profound lack of consideration for the Christian faith.”
Melissa Rogers, who served as executive director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships under Biden, contrasted the two presidents’ Easter conduct. “President Biden spent Easter and Orthodox Easter wishing Christians worldwide joyful Resurrection Sundays,” she told the AP, “not by pretending to be Jesus, by tweeting profanities, and by attacking the pope.” She noted Biden’s devout Catholicism and said his officials routinely met with Christian and other faith leaders on immigration, sanctuary security, and COVID-19 vaccination efforts.
The report faulted federal regulators for telling a Catholic hospital in Oklahoma to extinguish a chapel candle deemed a fire hazard for patients on oxygen; the hospital was allowed to keep the candle burning after installing a barrier and warning notice. It also cited fines imposed by Biden’s Education Department on Grand Canyon University and Liberty University — penalties the Trump administration later rescinded or cleared.
Jim Simpson of Georgetown’s Center on Faith and Justice said the report “falsely deems policy disagreements to be evidence of anti-Christian bias rather than the normal functioning of a pluralistic democracy.” He noted that Christians make up nearly two-thirds of the U.S. population and characterized the report’s framing of them as a persecuted minority as inaccurate.
Amanda Tyler of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty said the report’s “cherry-picked anecdotes” do not establish a pattern of persecution. “Focusing government resources on this narrow issue while ignoring or discounting the much more widespread instances of anti-religious discrimination against other faith groups in the U.S. further harms religious freedom for all,” she told the AP.
The report arrives as another Trump-created body, the Religious Liberty Commission, prepares its own findings based on hearings that featured many of the same grievances.