Hansi Lo Wang

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.

This is stuff the public usually doesn't see, but USPS doesn't.

does a lot of extra mail collections and deliveries and special sorting plans at processing centers in those last weeks before a federal general election to make sure that mail and ballots, especially ones that are returned close to a deadline, are delivered as quickly as possible to election officials.

So this order really goes against what a lot of postal workers see as their core mission, which is to move the mail.

The short answer is no.

This is a self-funded government agency legally required to deliver the mail six days a week to almost every address in the country.

And it's mainly funded not by tax dollars, but by selling stamps and service fees at a time when fewer people and businesses are using the mail.

You know, the Postmaster General told Congress just last month, USPS is months away from running out of money and it may not be able to deliver Valentine's Day cards in February 2027.

unless Congress steps in and maybe lets it borrow more money, change its pension system, or pass other reforms.

But this order from President Trump is really the latest example I see of the Trump administration attempting to pressure the Postal Service to do its bidding.

And recently, the Trump administration completely overhauled plans for a test for getting a more accurate count for the 2030 census.