By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. As expressed in Executive Order 13788 of April 18, 2017 (Buy American and Hire American), Executive Order 13858 of January 31, 2019 (Strengthening Buy American Preferences […]
Twitter users lambasted the president’s attempt to slow down the United States Postal Service to help his reelection chances. Donald Trump’s tweeted praise of two private sector delivery companies didn’t get the reaction he might have expected. On Friday, the president praised employees at FedEx and UPS for driving through storms to deliver millions of […]
The president on Friday blamed the “Democrat stronghold” US Postal Service for his election loss, even though he appointed a GOP mega-donor to lead it and spent months undermining the agency ahead of the election. “Whistleblowers reveal that the USPS is responsible for tampering with hundreds of thousands of ballots,” Mr Trump tweeted on Friday […]
Some reports indicate that the earliest he can be removed is late 2022 after midterm elections From Donald K. Sherman, deputy director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: Perhaps the most infamous Trump administration official who will remain in government after Trump leaves office is Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a Trump megadonor whose leadership of […]
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS), Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and President Donald Trump late Friday appealed a federal judge’s ruling suspending service changes and requiring aggressive steps to ensure ballot deliveries ahead of the November presidential election, the Justice Department said. The government said it was appealing U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan’s preliminary injunction orders […]
11/11/2020 Joe Biden and his likely incoming administration must make a basic decision about how they will deal with the large and financially troubled U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Option one is to continue, even accelerate, House Democrats’ policy of belligerence toward Republican Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. Option two is to recognize the reality that DeJoy […]
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11/3/2020 Most of the potential legal challenges are likely to stem from the huge increase in absentee balloting brought on by pandemic Republicans have began lodging legal challenges to throw out postal votes as US President Donald Trump faces dire poll predictions on US election day. An embittered election race has seen 300 lawsuits already […]
The postal service was reportedly going to distribute 560 million reusable face masks across the U.S. before White House officials expressed concern that the move would cause “panic.” The United States Postal Service drafted an ambitious proposal in April to send a pack of five face masks to every residential address in the U.S. before […]
President Trump on Thursday attempted to soften remarks he had made hours earlier in which he appeared to confirm that he opposes Democrats’ proposed boost in funding for the U.S. Postal Service because he wants to make it harder to expand voting by mail, claiming his only goal in denying the agency funds is to […]