DeJoy will appear before the House Oversight Committee on August 24 to answer for the Trump administration's apparent plan to delay the mail before an election dependent on mail-in voting
Photo: Getty Images In the past few days, Democrats have responded rapidly to Trump’s stated plan to sabotage the United States Postal Service in order to severely limit mail-in voting during the pandemic election.
While the bill is not expected to pass the Republican-controlled Senate, Democrats did schedule a hearing with Postmaster General and Trump mega-donor Louis DeJoy, who agreed on Monday to testify before the House Oversight Committee on August 24, according to a report from Politico.
Maloney is one of the House’s more effective questioners, and the testimony is expected to be contentious: The New York representative, who authored the bill to delay USPS changes, has already called for a House Oversight investigation into DeJoy’s tenure at the agency, where he came on as an outsider in May.
House Democrats beyond the Oversight committee are also considering action. While representatives Peter DeFazio and Alma Adams have called for DeJoy to resign, Ted Lieu and Hakeem Jeffries have requested that the FBI open a criminal inquiry into the Postmaster’s actions. “Multiple media investigations show that Postmaster DeJoy and the Board of Governors have retarded the passage of mail,” the representatives wrote on Monday in a letter to FBI director Christopher Wray.
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