Trump’s Postal Service Mess Starts Looking Like a Ballot Problem, Not a Budget Problem
The Postal Service uproar deepened on August 17 as Postmaster General Louis DeJoy agreed to testify before Congress after a barrage of complaints about delayed mail and operational changes. What was supposed to be a routine cost-cutting story had become a political firestorm because those changes landed right in the middle of a pandemic election that was expected to rely heavily on mail ballots. Trump’s own hostility to mail voting kept turning the whole episode into something darker than a management dispute.
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Trump’s Postal Service Mess Starts Looking Like a Ballot Problem, Not a Budget Problem
The Postal Service uproar deepened on August 17 as Postmaster General Louis DeJoy agreed to testify before Congress after a barrage of complaints about delayed mail and operational changes. What was supposed to be a routine cost-cutting story had become a political firestorm because those changes landed right in the middle of a pandemic election that was expected to rely heavily on mail ballots. Trump’s own hostility to mail voting kept turning the whole episode into something darker than a man…
The Postal Service uproar deepened on August 17 as Postmaster General Louis DeJoy agreed to testify before Congress after a barrage of complaints about delayed mail and operational changes. What was supposed to be a routine cost-cutting story had become a political firestorm because those changes landed right in the middle of a pandemic election that was expected to rely heavily on mail ballots. Trump’s own hostilit…
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