The Democratic-run House demanded that leaders of the USPS testify at an emergency oversight hearing Aug. 24 on mail delays as concerns grow that the White House is trying to undermine the agency during the pandemic while states expand mail-in voting
The House Oversight and Reform Committee said it wants to hear from new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and from the chair of the Postal Service board of governors, Robert Duncan. With heightened scrutiny of its operations, the agency is now requesting a temporary rate increase, from mid-October through Christmas, though probably not for first-class letters.
The lawmakers included House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney, the committee chair, along with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which oversees the Postal Service.
“What you are witnessing is a president of the United States who is doing everything he can to suppress the vote, make it harder for people to engage in mail-in balloting at a time when people will be putting their lives on the line by having to go out to a polling station and vote,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
Trump, who spent the weekend at his New Jersey golf club, derided universal mail-in voting as a “scam” and defended DeJoy as the right person to “streamline the post office and make it great again.” But Democrats, in their statement announcing the Aug. 24 hearing, said changes made by DeJoy at his agency constitute “a grave threat to the integrity of the election and to our very democracy." They asserted that DeJoy “has acted as an accomplice in the president’s campaign to cheat in the election, as he launches sweeping new operational changes that degrade delivery standards and delay the mail.
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