Trump Says He Will Order Voter ID for Every Voter

U.S. President Donald Trump said he will issue an executive order to require voter identification from every voter. The announcement came on the President's Truth Social platform on Saturday. He added that there would be no exceptions to his voter ID order and that mail-in ballots would be limited to the very ill and military members who are far away. Trump, who continues to claim that his 2020 presidential election loss was the result of widespread fraud, has long questioned the U.S. electoral system. For years, he has called for the end of electronic voting machines, pushing instead for the use of paper ballots and hand counts, a process that election officials say is time-consuming, costly, and far less accurate than machine counting. We, as a Republican Party, are going to do everything possible that we get rid of mail-in ballots. Earlier this month, Trump pledged to issue an executive order to end the use of mail-in ballots and voting machines ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. However, federal elections are administered at the state level, and it is unclear whether the president has the constitutional power to enact such a measure. In the 2026 midterms, Democrats will be seeking to break the Republicans' grip on both the House of Representatives and the Senate to block Trump's domestic agenda.