With President Donald Trump’s approval rating falling to unprecedented levels and just over seven months remaining until voters decide whether to let his party retain unified control of Washington, President Donald Trump is moving ahead with plans to crack down on the voting method he believes to have enabled his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.

The president plans to sign an executive order on Tuesday purporting to ban the United States Postal Service from sending absentee or postal ballots to any voter who does not appear on a list he has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to establish with the help of the Social Security Administration.

It orders DHS to provide each state with the list of Trump administration-approved voters at least 60 days before the November 3 general election while simultaneously directing the Department of Justice to prosecute state election officials who ignore the federal voter list and utilize a state’s own voter rolls when sending out ballots to registered voters.

Details of the order were first reported by the conservative Daily Caller website, which cited a White House fact sheet provided to the outlet. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Independent.

Trump’s latest attempt to restrict postal balloting comes nearly a year after he issued a March 2025 order purporting to assert sweeping presidential control over numerous aspects of American elections which have long been the responsibility of each of the 50 American states under the U.S. Constitution.

That order, which has been largely blocked by at least three separate federal courts, purported to mandate that the federal Election Assistance Commission require proof of citizenship from voters registering to vote with a national voter registration form.

It also attempted to require states submit their voter rolls to DHS for examination by the formerly Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, and purported to cut off federal funds from states that allow the counting of mail-in ballots postmarked before Election Day but received after.

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