House leaders are setting aside a plan to finance a short-term extension of the Highway Trust Fund with cutbacks in U.S. Postal Service operations after a late barrage of opposition from rank-and-file members.
“The proposal to end six-day [mail delivery] was not well received by a large portion of the Republican conference and appears to be dead,” said a senior House Republican aide. “Other, more viable options are now being considered.”
House Republican aides said the plan collapsed after Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his primary election in Virginia on Tuesday night. Cantor had been behind the idea from the start, they said.
Aides said Republicans did not like the idea of financing a one-year funding patch by using savings spread out over 10 years from cutting most Saturday mail deliveries. Conservative groups such as Heritage Action and the Club for Growth quickly denounced the idea. Democrats had rejected the idea from the start so House leaders could not afford to lose many Republican votes.
House GOP Drops Postal Rescue for Highway Fund | FBAct Insider
Again THANK ME!! As a member of AFP(a Tea Party clone) we defeated Cantor because of his support of amnesty for illegals. This helped the Postal Service. The unions support amnesty because it will give them more members but they are idiots because it will bring down wages.