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Louis DeJoy announced a sweeping leadership shake-up at the Postal Service on August 7, displacing or reassigning 23 senior officials and deepening alarms over delivery slowdowns. In an election year built around mail voting, the optics were catastrophic: a Trump-linked postmaster general was rearranging the agency while Americans were being told to trust the system with their ballots.
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Louis DeJoy announced a sweeping leadership shake-up at the Postal Service on August 7, displacing or reassigning 23 senior officials and deepening alarms over delivery slowdowns. In an election year built around mail voting, the optics were catastrophic: a Trump-linked postmaster general was rearranging the agency while Americans were being told to trust the system with their ballots.
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Louis DeJoy announced a sweeping leadership shake-up at the Postal Service on August 7, displacing or reassigning 23 senior officials and deepening alarms over delivery slowdowns. In an election year built around mail voting, the optics were catastrophic: a Trump-linked postmaster general was rearranging the agency while Americans were being told to trust the system with their ballots.
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