White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said he supports a piecemeal approach to dealing with issues including Postal Service funding. “If we can agree on postal, let’s do it.”
WASHINGTON—Democratic lawmakers called for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to testify before Congress this month as concerns mounted over mail delays ahead of the November election.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Senate Democrats announced the Aug. 24 hearing and called for Mr. DeJoy and Robert Duncan, chairman of the postal service Board of Governors, to appear.it can’t promise it will deliver all mailed ballots in time to be counted. The White House and congressional Democrats have sparred in recent days over operational changes at the postal service and potential funding measures intended to ensure that it can handle the expected flood of mailed ballots for the November election.
Amid a mounting financial crisis at the agency, Mr. DeJoy has put in place cost-saving measures in recent weeks, including reducing deliveries outside normal service. The Postal Service has removed some mail-sorting machines from places it says they weren’t needed. The changes led to complaints of delivery delays and spilled over to wider concerns about the presidential election.
Mr. Trump has said that universal mail-in voting would leave the tally subject to fraud and errors. Democrats say the president is trying to sabotage the election. Research isn’t definitive on whether mail-in voting benefits either political party.
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