Washington – The Board of Governors of the American Postal Service strengthens the attempt to take Trump administration and remained external defending to fight any executive order in this regard, according to two sources with the Committee Plans.
Nine members of the Board, which appointed the president and confirmed the Senate, held an emergency meeting after the Senate confirmed Howard Lutnick for the secretary of trade, the sources said. In December, Lutnick first talked about his plans with the President Donald Trump to dissolve USPS leadership and folded the agency in the trade department, according to one of the sources.
No Executive Order Aim at the post office service, according to two white houses, although they acknowledged that they discussed ways to make it more efficient together with the rest of the Federal Government.
Washington Post first reported potential download of USPS.
In the oval office, during the wandering sworn on the Friday, Trump discovered that his new secretary for trade “watch” on USPS would.
“They’ll take a look at him, he has a great business instinct, we need and he will look at him. And we think we can turn it, but that is – it is the postal service,” Trump said in response to journalists’ questions. “We lose so much money with the postal service and we don’t want to lose that kind of money. So the secretary and some others who have talent, such a talent we will look at it.”
The USPS reported a net profit of 144 million dollars for the first quarter of this fiscal year, the first time the agency published a profit since 2006. year, the Pew Research Center is stated.
The postcode believes that any executive order would be unconstitutional, considering that the postal service Authorized by the Constitution And he created an act of congress. It is also unlikely that Trump will be able to privatize the Agency without the approval of the Congress.
Mark Dimondstein, President of the American Union of Postal Workers, told any attempt to takeover would be “attacking the post office.”
“The download would reduce the service, especially in rural America, raising the rate, close mail and profit from what is owned by American people,” Dimondstein said. “We ask all our customers to join us in the fight to maintain our vivid, independent and public postal services of the United States and to oppose these illegal acts.”
During his first administration, Trump dated what is known as the universal service obligation, a federal request that directs the post office to provide mail services to all US residents, no matter where they live. If Trump administration wants to deviate with USPS, it could affect millions of people who rely on the postal service for critical mail, including medications, especially in rural areas.
Discussions about USPS come as a recently determined department of government efficiency, which has led the technical billionaire elon musk, decreased dozens of federal programs and reduced thousands of government work during the first month of Trump Second Mandate. The cuts are part of Trump and Musk efforts to remove the Federal Government.
All the efforts to disassemble the postal service would not be an anomaly within the Trump administration, which sought to fold aspects of USAID and the Department of Education in Other Agencies. At the same time, many Trump’s moves for the implementation of Swift changes met on the legal blocks of the road in the courts.
Republican Louis Dejoy, the Head of the USPS in the last five years, announced plans to deviate as a general postal language this week. During the transition, Deyjoy met with members of the incoming trump administration and did not go well, according to one source meeting, which said Dayy and Lutnick also had a controversial relationship.
After 2020. When millions of Americans, mostly democrats voted during Coronavirus Pandemic, Dejone’s relationship with Trump never thawed, the source is stated with the president of the USPS and voting for the president. Trump criticized the practice of 2020. year and blamed his loss to Joe Biden on it.
“Trump doesn’t look at the USPS as a favor,” the source said, although it was in her name. “There are still problems with the voting.”
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