The embattled postmaster general is set to testify in front of the Senate on Friday and the House on Monday over concerns about funding and the election.
Embattled Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Tuesday he was “suspending” cost-cutting changes to the U.S. Postal Service that had slowed mail service, resulting in an outcry over the likelihood of delays in deliveries of absentee and mail-in ballots in November.
DeJoy said he was pausing much-criticized initiatives meant “to secure the success of this organization and its long-term sustainability” in order “to avoid even the appearance of any impact on election mail.”that he didn’t want to approve additional funds for the Postal Service because he thinks voting by mail will hurt his reelection chances.
But some of the damage already done by DeJoy’s moves is likely to last at least through the election. “They want $3.5 billion for something that will turn out to be fraudulent, that’s election money, basically,”. “They want $25 billion, billion, for the post office. Now, they need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots. Now, in the meantime, they aren’t getting there. By the way, those are just two items. But if they don’t get those two items, that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting.
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