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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 Trumps 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 Posts source added, I dont 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 USPSs 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/
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Thx for posting this, Yo!
malaise
(268,993 posts)Ditto
Liberal In Texas
(13,552 posts)The USPS would be collateral damage. Of course, repubs are salivating to get their hands on it and privatize it.
Chainfire
(17,537 posts)That he is better at destroying than creating.
Jarqui
(10,124 posts)(rhetorical question)