Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump has signed an order that seeks

to create a list of confirmed U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote in each state and use the U.S.

Postal Service to verify mail-in ballots. Trump says the order is foolproof. Commerce Secretary

Howard Lutnik says the maneuver will make elections more reliable.

What the president is doing today is he's going to make sure that mail-in ballots are safe,

secure, and accurate, and will have a clear distinction. If you voted by mail, you will have it

on the envelope, obviously not on the ballot, but on the envelope. So we will know

a million mail-in ballots. There'll be a million envelopes and you'll be able to know exactly,

correctly, that citizens voted. But election experts say the order will face legal challenges.

The Justice Department is seeking sensitive voter data from states and is engaged in more than

two dozen lawsuits for that information. The administration claims it needs the data to enforce

state's voter list maintenance. President Trump is expressing frustration with allies who've been

unwilling to join the U.S. in Israeli war against Iran. Today, he told them to go get your own

oil as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz sent average U.S. gas prices past $4 a gallon for regular gas.

As NPR's of Tom Bowman explains, top U.S. military officials and allies have expressed concerns over the war.

Military officials were telling both the White House and Capitol Hill, they were concerned that the allies were not part of this

war, number one, number two, they were worried about U.S. casualties, and also they were concerned

about the U.S. missile inventory getting critically low. But it is amazing, though, I think, that

people talk about how easy it would be. I just think they completely

mischaracterized what would happen once they started down the road to war. NPR's Tom Bowman

reporting. The State Department says it's tracking threats against U.S. citizens in Saudi Arabia,

and it's urging them to stay indoors and away from windows, as NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports.

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