In his first appearance before Congress, U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy tried to tamp down concerns that he was making it more difficult for Americans to vote my mail in the upcoming presidential election, which many will do as the coronavirus continues to spread in their communities. A resident of North Carolina, DeJoy told members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee that he votes by mail himself. “I think the American public should be able to vote by mail,” DeJoy told the committee.
members of the chamber to return to Washington to consider ways to prop up the U.S. Postal Service ahead of November’s presidential election.he wanted to hold up funds for the Postal Service in order to stop universal mail-in voting, which he believes would help Democrats. He has also repeatedly asserted--without offering any meaningful evidence--that voting by mail is subject to fraud.
U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies during a virtual hearing before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee on the U.S. Postal Service during COVID-19 and the upcoming elections, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. There is little debate that the U.S. Postal service is in a “deteriorating and unsustainable” situation, as the Government Accountability Office puts the matter. The GAO says that the post office “has lost $69 billion over the past 11 fiscal years,” as a result of operational inefficiencies and Americans’ changing communications habits, which rely much less on envelopes and stamps than they did in previous generations.
as an overly political and insufficiently experienced pick to serve as the overseer of the nation’s entire mail system.
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