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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,919 posts)
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 01:51 PM Apr 2020

Trump to U.S. Postal Service: Drop Dead

“We told them very clearly that the president was not going to sign the bill if [funding for the Postal Service] was in it,” an official from President Trump’s administration told the Washington Post when discussing the $2 trillion Coronavirus Relief Aid that passed weeks ago.

Trump made it clear that he would veto the bill if it included any emergency funding for the agency that is already on unsteady ground, a situation that has been worsened by the coronavirus pandemic. The Post’s source added, “I don’t know if we used the v-bomb, but the president was not going to sign it, and we told them that.”

According to the report, the president is using a false claim that higher internet shipping rates imposed on companies like Amazon, FedEx and UPS would increase the USPS’s budget and help its 600,000 plus workers.

But the director of physical infrastructure at the Government Accountability Office told the Post that rate hikes would likely lead to shipping businesses looking elsewhere or even creating their own delivery methods, thus offsetting USPS revenue gains created by a rate increase.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-postal-service-drop-dead-982458/

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Trump to U.S. Postal Service: Drop Dead (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2020 OP
K&R SheltieLover Apr 2020 #1
Malaise to Don the Con malaise Apr 2020 #2
He wants to hurt Amazon and Bezos, not necessarily the USPS. Liberal In Texas Apr 2020 #3
Trump again proves Chainfire Apr 2020 #4
Wonder how the postal workers will vote in 2020 now .... Jarqui Apr 2020 #5

Liberal In Texas

(13,546 posts)
3. He wants to hurt Amazon and Bezos, not necessarily the USPS.
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 01:58 PM
Apr 2020

The USPS would be collateral damage. Of course, repubs are salivating to get their hands on it and privatize it.

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