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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI don't understand: It was Congress that passed the stimulus bill
But Trump wants to withhold funds from the Postal Service until it charges archenemy Bezos' Amazon higher prices.
Can he do this? Was he going to veto the bill unless the Postal Service was not included?
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I don't understand: It was Congress that passed the stimulus bill (Original Post)
question everything
May 2020
OP
The three stimulus bills passed and signed did not have postal money included
jimfields33
May 2020
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Eliot Rosewater
(34,282 posts)1. It isnt past Moscow Mitch is it?
(Everyone remember, Mitch McConnell is a traitor)
jimfields33
(19,382 posts)2. The three stimulus bills passed and signed did not have postal money included
The fourth on does but is still going through the process.
Hestia
(3,818 posts)3. You wouldn't think so on PO. I thought if anything law, regulation, etc. can't be overturned with
majority votes. Maybe it wasn't, but what administration actually took steps to de-fund the PO? It's one thing to talk about it, but to actually *do* it? I do think this is MIHOP rather than LIHOP.
Every time someone mocks him or derides his decisions -- to paraphrase the song: "Oops there goes another National Park; oops there goes the Post Office."
