Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is in the hot seat over aggressive new strategies that have upended the United States Postal Service just ahead of the presidential election in November. In the 2016 campaign, DeJoy donated more than $440,000 to the Trump Victory Fund, the inaugural committee and the Republican National Committee, the Raleigh News & Observer reported. It gets worse. DeJoy and his wife, Aldona Wos, may claim up to a total of $75,815,000 in assets from U.S. Postal Service competitors, according to government records.
And the mail has been slowed down amid the pandemic that is forcing people to vote by mail safely. And Trump has come out in full force against voting by mail, the very process he uses to cast his ballot.
The House Oversight Committee is calling for DeJoy to testify at an “urgent” congressional hearing later this month over cost-cutting measures that will leave the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) ill-equipped to handle a rise in mail-in voting. Alarm bells have been going off since the timing of these measures is suspicious, and Trump is flailing in the polls.
“Over the past several weeks, there have been startling new revelations about the scope and gravity of operational changes you are implementing at hundreds of postal facilities without consulting adequately with Congress, the Postal Regulatory Commission, or the Board of Governors,” the committee’s chairwoman, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), wrote in a letter on Sunday to DeJoy.
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“Your testimony is particularly urgent given the troubling influx of reports of widespread delays at postal facilities across the country — as well as President Trump’s explicit admission last week that he has been blocking critical coronavirus funding for the Postal Service in order to impair mail-in voting efforts for the upcoming elections in November,” Maloney added.
Mahoney said that a hearing examining operational and organizational changes at USPS will be conducted on Aug. 24. The New York Democrat had initially been planned for a hearing in mid-September, but she said that recent reports have compelled her to speed up the timeline to late August.
Trump’s own commission on voter integrity commission disbanded in 2018 after it uncovered no evidence to support claims of widespread voter fraud. And now that Trump is lagging behind presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, the president is screaming about voter fraud once again.
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