Hansi Lo Wang

when the public's data is being used by agencies in new ways.

And the Privacy Act requires agencies to make sure the data they release is accurate and complete before they use them to make decisions or releasing them.

And there are a lot of questions about the quality of this federal data that Trump's order is calling to be used to create these lists.

Well, I think to start off with, to be very clear, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, he has no role at the U.S.

Postal Service.

The U.S.

Postal Service is an independent federal agency that's not part of the Commerce Department.

But Secretary Lutnick has talked a lot about the Postal Service, especially

during the first year of the second Trump administration and bringing up talk of potentially taking over the Postal Service and having it under the Commerce Department.

You know, the thing about this order is it's basically saying the Postal Service would have to come up with lists of eligible voters, get input from states on those lists, and make sure that mail-in ballots are only delivered to the people on those lists.

It's not clear how the Postal Service would actually carry this out.

I talked to the U.S.

Postal Service press office.

A spokesperson told me earlier this week they're reviewing the order.

Union leaders for postal workers have a lot of concerns.

The National Rural Letter Carriers Association president, Don Mastin, said this order would put USPS in a role of determining voter eligibility.

And it's really weaponizing, USPS Mastin said, to undermine voting by mail.

And Jonathan Smith, president of the American Postal Workers Union, said,

said that Trump's order is trying to turn USPS into, quote, a tool to disenfranchise voters.

And Smith pointed out that it's been USPS policy to take what it calls extraordinary measures during general federal elections.