The Democrats warned in a letter that changes new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy implemented would 'disenfranchise voters' on Nov. 3.
measures in any final pandemic spending bill that would roll back the operational changes and give the agency $25 billion in one-time funding.
At Wednesday's briefing at the White House, Trump railed against the Postal Service's handling the vast amount of mail-in voting during the pandemic and the funding request. "The post office has been run poorly for many, many decades," he said."Great people in the post office, incredible people but they've had very bad leadership for many years."
He added,"And the bill’s not going to happen because they don't even want to talk about it because we can't give them the kind of ridiculous things that they want." CLARIFICATION: : An earlier version of this article imprecisely described Louis DeJoy's relationship to President Donald Trump. Although DeJoy is an ally of Trump and a donor to his campaign, he was appointed to the job of postmaster general by the postal service's board of governors, not directly by Trump.
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