Analysis: 4 early takeaways from the contentious House hearing on the Postal Service
to a much less friendly Democratic-controlled House committee. Here are four takeaways from his testimony so far.
DeJoy didn’t really have a specific answer to why he didn’t share this memo with Congress or whether he had concerns about mail delays through his changes, although under pressure from Democrats he used stronger language than before to describe mail delays. “We are very concerned with the deterioration and service and are working very diligently [to fix it],” he said.But overall, DeJoy gave Democrats an opening to make their central case, which is that his actions are politically motivated.
DeJoy is a wealthy former logistics manager who was a major Republican donor and President Trump ally before being picked for the job by a Republican-controlled board overseeing the Postal Service.
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