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 agency did not immediately respond to requests for comment about whether the two men would appear before the House committee.
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.
Funding a cash-strapped Postal Service has quickly turned into a top campaign issue as Trump presses his unsupported claim that increased mail-in voting will undermine the credibility of the election and Democrats push back. His chief of staff tried on Sunday to counter criticism that Trump was trying to stifle turnout with national and battleground state polls showing him facing a difficult path to reelection against Democrat Joe Biden.
The agency in the meantime is now seeking a short-term end-of-the-year rate increase, according to a notice filed Friday with the Postal Regulatory Commission. The reasons: increased expenses, heightened demand for online packages due to the coronavirus pandemic and an expected increase in holiday mail volume.
Democracy is being driven into unchartered zone. Elections no longer bring sanity but like ZANU PF in Zimbabwe legislators'business is to enact laws that are partisan. The debate is hidden in the agenda by mutating politicians - protecting their jobs using unsuspecting voters.
Democrats! GOP don't want to support the postal service. Dive by Drop Your Ballot. DrivebyDropBallot RETWEET!
realDonaldTrump
ask yourself, how much government control do you want? start doing some research instead of just taking one side and running with it. too much work to research then you shouldn't be voting at all
Pathetic you all are more worried about mail than a stimulus bill.. absolutely pathetic
Fake narrative as per normal of the left wing nuts. Blah blah blah we are the victims blah blah. In case you didn’t catch that it’s a left wing idiot
If it's such an emergency why wait a week. it's nice to know that you don't think the unemployment situation and the extra money running out for people is also a crisis ! TRUMP2020ToSaveAmerica
“...Democrats want to make the problem worse with their new voting laws... The biggest way to expand voter fraud is to expand voting by mail.”
So glad they want to work. Maybe they can get something done that will actually help the citizens.
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The only people undermining the agency is the Democrats who refuse to pass the funding.
Wycked_Yum WARNING! WARNING! TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS ARE NOW RIGGING THE 2020 ELECTION!! REMOVING MAIL BOXES! ON THE STREET! EVERYONE AND ALL MUST GET UP AN DEFEND 2020 ELECTION...THIS IS LIFE AND DEATH SITUATION! DEMAND CONGRESS TO DEPLOY THE MILITARY TO PROTECT OUR ELECTION !!!! Retweet
Obama removed thousands
This is only an emergency because Biden is about to get his ass whipped in the election! The Post Office has been losing Billions of dollars a year for most of the time Pelosi, Biden, Schiff and Schumer have been in office. It now is important? Please....
I can't believe something is being done!! Please let something be done!!!!
The USPS has been broke & broken for years. How come no one fixed it before now ? SpeakerPelosi
Pelosi is corrupt as hell!
Wow your going to come back to save the post office. But can’t comeback to help the people 🤔
The mob will come for you soon enough, They always eat their own in the end.
I just had a census representative stopped by my house. I told him to mail the cenus information to me using the USPS. The government seems not to care about voting privileges why should I care about the census. The Bruce Lee style. The art of fighting without fighting.
That Trump's such a freaking asshole I can't stand him I see why people don't like him and hate that clown bet your ass come election time I'm voting for BidenHarris they can't let that idiot stay in there another 4 years no way in hell he's gotta go hopefully everyone votes
scandal bigger than watergate! Dems are cheaters!
New Jersey still does not have their July election results due to mail in voting. Why do the Dems want mail in voting so bad that they are actually willing to work now?
And of course any Dem loss will automatically be deemed fraud, right? Who can’t see this game?
The post office is a distraction. He’s lying to delegitimize the election results before the fact. Keep repeating the truth. Repetition makes it real.
kfdmnews
Glad House Oversight Committee will meet to SaveUSPS . Use threat of 'inherent contempt” to subpoena Postmaster General DeJoy. StopDeJoyNOW FireLouisDeJoy
Glad House Oversight Committee will meet to SaveUSPS . Use threat of 'inherent contempt” to subpoena Postmaster General DeJoy.
The post office has been having issues with wayyyy before Trump came along. Have Congress stop making the Post Office pre pay future employees retirement. Let’s talk about the Post Offices OSHA violations for the past 30 years. Don’t talk about saving the PO y’all don’t mean it
ARREST THEM IF THEY DO NOT SHOW - my VOTE IS ALL I HV LEFT IN THIS CORRUPT GOVT‼️‼️
Si are donnyt and billybarr going to invoke some 'in the interest of national security' bullshit PEAD to hearby order and forbid these folks from testifying?
Yes, about time! And when MAGAts talk about how they respect Veterans, remind them how much Republicans have hurt them with USPS sabotage by DeJoy 😠 USPostalService USPSDeliversHealth VeteransAgainstTrump USPS2020VOTE USPSForever
Good to see the comics are still healthy in MSM.
They are looking to do this in the slowest way possible bec they have no intention of fixing any perceived mail issues before the election, because if they did, then they can't blame the loss they know they're going to have in Nov on some kind of fraud.
Don't do it USPS
cooperchip1 We do have evidence. Trump testified that is what he's doing. He also said he slowed down testing. Could we prosecute him for murder and post office tampering?
the USPS undermines itself. I get mail from the previous tenant all the time. What if I get her ballot? Should I fill it out? Who's to stop me?
Good
Get rid of Louis DeJoy.
Close the post office on Saturday. No mail on the weekends. That should save a significant amount. And reinstall the sorting machines. Taking them out was not a money saving idea.
Get the red faced pig DeJoy
DBChirpy USAPO is as old as Founding Father Ben Franklin. Trump’s breaking USA institution as old as USA: to block, slow, affringe, voting. Every hearing: House/Senate is composed of Both parties: up to GOP to prove what Trump is doing is Not corruption of institution. Reuters
MainePublic
So when Trump wins the USPS will be the excuse the Dems use this time instead of the electoral process. Is this what I see being set up
Only Jesus is the answer. There is no other way. PrimeSundayService
An emergency means now, not a week from now. Get it together Dems
'concerns' lol he's done it and openly admitted it and you're still calling it concerns. Way to farm that content.
SubpoenaLouisDeJoyNOW
Trump administration is already undermining. People that have been registered to vote for years have not received their registration voting cards that they usually get around July or August.
NewsRadio930 This is an actual joke! So convenient to bring up now!! How about a federal investigation into the 11,000 plus nursing home deaths 😢 in NY
It's not 'amid concerns' fuckers.
Mail in voting is a bad idea.
Maybe they could testify as to why they are in massive debt?
For TheDemocrats Trump-USPS interference is the new Trump-Russia hoax.
The Dems are ‘going postal’...
Obama knew the Postal Service was failing back in 2008! This isn’t something new under the Trump administration!
“Concerns” you can put in the headline that he literally said it out loud on Fox News
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LOL. And you thought the Democrats couldn't come up with a more lunatic conspiracy theory then the Russian collusion hoax.
He has to go
'trying'?
18 U.S. Code § 1701. Obstruction of mails generally
That's 8 days away. A lot of damage can be done in 8 days.
Why that long instead of next week?
Trying to undermine? TRYING?!?!
Provide proper funding and this all goes away.
8 whole days from now! What urgency! What alarm! What breakneck speed! Sloths! Come back and GET TO WORK! NOW!
I’m just happy if my carrier delivers OUR mail. 😀We’ve gotten mail meant for neighbors, people in our development & some other developments around town. Where will my ballot go? Whose & how many ballots will show up in our mailbox? Unknown.
La poste US a de très sérieux problèmes qui demandent de reformes et mesures importantes pour mieux la fiabiliser et la rendre encore compétitive dans ses activités.. A c stade, la poste ne rassure pas un bon déroulé de votes par correspondance sans fraude ni ingérence extérieure
Concerns? The guy admitted to it.
Yet you go on vacation and not vote/pass legislation for Covid-19 relief....sad times....wish you cared about American people instead of lining your own pockets...love to take money away from Americans and screw us every chance you get...hope you can sleep at night...
Emergency on Aug 24. HouseDemocrats: Stipulated, y'all are meaningfully less-awful than the Ryan-led GOP majority.
The postal service has been a mess for decades and now this is trumps problem or fault is there anything the Dems will not blame on him. This is getting tiring and gross
Of course Trump has to cheat again cause he knows he is going to lose.
I want Katie Porter to question him.
dinga1957 Don't Demand. Subpoena!
How about tomorrow ImpeachDeJoy
Great. Now will they arrest him when he doesn’t show?
HOUSE & SENATE DEMOCRATS....
Ridiculous. Let Americans lose housing, unemployment, ect, while we Vaca. Oh wait, we need an emergency session for the post office. Which BTW, has been on the chopping block for years and years.
The democrats new hoax conspiracy theory is upon us
Obama's 2014 budget cut 100,000 USPS workers. The 15% mail sorting machines are out for regularly scheduled maintenance BEFORE the big rush, just like you would do the regularly scheduled car tune up BEFORE you take a long trip.
Y aura pas de vote par correspondance ni par la poste moins encore par mails pour amenuiser sérieusement les niveaux de risques de fraudes et ingérences extérieures aux élections du 03 novembre 2020 ! Là c déjà précis et clair.. Ça n'est pas la Housse qui va le changer !
Nail the scumbaggios.
'concerns' he literally said that's what he's doing!
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Good! Nail Trump's ass to the wall and all of his corrupt cronies too!
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