The Senate finally confirmed President Biden’s last two nominees to the Postal Service Board, which means that the President has a majority that can fire Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
It took 15 years, but a bipartisan group of Senators has scored a historic victory and stopped the destruction of the USPS.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that the Senate would put the finishing touches on the bipartisan postal reform bill this week.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that the Senate is close to passing the reform bill that will save the USPS.
The signs are growing Louis DeJoy’s days are numbered as Postmaster General as President Biden will replace two of his allies on USPS Governing Board.
According to Biden administration spokesperson Michael Gwin, the White House is working to address issues with the United States Postal Service. President Biden has made clear his feelings on the current leadership of the Postal Service and the challenges it faces, and his team is working as quickly as possible to fill board vacancies so…
Ron Bloom, a former Obama administration official and labor leader, has been elected to serve as chair of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors. Bloom replaced Robert “Mike†Duncan, a former Republican National Committee chair who remains on the board as Governor. Bloom says he plans to “revitalize” USPS and restore its functionality, a…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says the choice to undermine the 2020 general election and gutting the United States Postal Service (USPS) makes President Donald Trump and Republicans “enemies of the state.” “We take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. And sadly, the domestic enemies to our…
Trump claims that he is not slowing down the mail, but he is threatening to veto the House’s bill to provide $25 billion in USPS aid.
Former Postal Service regulator Ruth Goldway said that Trump’s post office sabotage is all about spreading panic and scaring people into not voting.
Trump’s Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has told local post offices that they are not allowed to reconnect disconnected mail sorting machines.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told Postmaster General Louis DeJoy that his sabotage pause is not good enough and he must undo the USPS damage.
A new television ad created by MoveOn Political Action warns seniors in three vital swing states about President Donald Trump’s attacks on the United States Postal Service (USPS). The ads are set to air in Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania, states the president won in 2016 but that are very much in play during this year’s…
Representative Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) says President Donald Trump, amid repeated attacks against mail-in voting and the United States Postal Service (USPS), is “doing everything he can to undermine people’s confidence in our democracy.†“That is a sin. We’ve got the longest lasting democracy on the face of the planet,†Bustos, who is the Chairwoman of…
The AARP has entered the debate about the ongoing crisis at the U.S. Postal Service. The group, which represents the interests of millions of older Americans, has urged the organization to be more transparent. The American Association of Retired Persons wrote to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in a letter released on Tuesday. They called on…
Nancy Pelosi has issued a stark warning about Donald Trump’s attacks on the U.S Postal Service. She told Congressional Democrats that undermining the post office put democracy at risk. The Speaker of the House made the comments in a letter calling the chamber back into session. Democratic lawmakers will attempt to address the crisis at…
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to reconvene the Senate to address problems with the United States Postal Service (USPS) amid reports that the Trump administration is interfering with the postal service to impact November’s general election. “Good for [Speaker] Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for bringing the House back. I…
President Donald Trump attempted to blame Amazon for problems with the United States Postal Service (USPS) as his administration faces heightened scrutiny amid reports that they’re interfering with the postal service to impact November’s general election. “Amazon and other companies like it, they come and they drop all of their mail into a post office, 
Bernie Sanders has warned that Donald Trump is trying to suppress the vote in November’s presidential election. He pointed to the crisis at the U.S. Postal Service. The Vermont Senator spoke to Chuck Todd on Meet the Press on Sunday and accused the President of trying to undermine Americans’ ability to vote in 2020. “What you are…
Speaker Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Schumer called out Trump for abusing his power to cheat in the election by slowing down the mail.
Progressive PAC VoteVets has released a new ad repudiating President Donald Trump for his attacks against the United States Postal Service (USPS). The video features narration highlighting the military deferments Trump received when he was younger (he crafted the now-infamous “bone spurs” excuse to get out of serving in Vietnam. The narrator also points out…
Lt. General Russel Honore called for a march on Washington to stop Trump’s from hurting the troops and veterans by slowing down the mail delivery.
Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential campaign slammed President Donald Trump, accusing him of “sabotaging” the United States Postal Service following remarks Trump made in which he appeared to admit as much. “The President of the United States is sabotaging a basic service that hundreds of millions of people rely upon, cutting a critical lifeline for rural…
Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif) accused President Donald Trump of deliberately sabotaging the United States Postal Service as he’s mounted more attacks against vote-by-mail initiatives. “Trump put Postmaster DeJoy in charge of the postal service to dismantle the USPS & sabotage vote by mail. New procedures are causing massive delays,†Waters tweeted. She added: “Trump &…
In a statement, American Postal Workers Union (APWU) President Mark Dimondstein slammed President Donald Trump and his administration in response to a Washington Post report that the president is using the coronavirus pandemic to cripple the United States Postal Service (USPS). “It’s a power grab to destroy the public Postal Service,” Dimondstein said. “The Post’s reporting…
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) won another victory in the battle against privatizing mail delivery as the Postal Service has quietly backed off of a plan to close 82 mail processing plants.
People across the country saw what package delivery will look like if the Postal Service is privatized after both UPS and FedEx ruined Christmas by being unable to delivery holiday packages on time.
One of the reasons Republicans drool to end the USPS is that it delivers millions of parcels every single day, and at a low cost that keeps private carriers’ (FedEx and U.P.S.) prices in check.
