US Post Office workers stormed the streets of Washington, D.C. on Monday, protesting President Donald Trump's push to increase profitability in place of $1 billion in taxpayer drainage.
last week, Washington Post Trump reported that he plans to abolish USPS leadership and put independent government agencies under the control of the Department of Commerce.
“There's no hell to demolish the post office!”
Trump said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick would review the USPS and implement “a kind of merger,” the news outlet reported.
“He has a great business instinct and that's what we need and he's going to see it.
Several sources said they posted that Trump was preparing an executive order to begin the changes. However, a White House spokesperson denied that such enforcement action was ongoing.
In December, the outlet claimed that Trump was weighing the privatization of postal agents.
USPS is burdening billions of taxpayers on US taxpayers with annual losses, including $9.5 billion in 2024. Furthermore, despite the $100 billion Congressional relief two years ago, financial records show institutional debt close to $80 billion.
The National Association of Letterers organized a rally on Monday to protest reports that Trump was drafting executive orders to shake up the USPS.
“Today, NALC held an event on Capitol's property and sent a clear message to the White House. The union states in a press release. “Hundreds of NALC members, Labour Party leaders and union members from around the country were present.”
NALC President Brian Renfroe said Trump's allegations to reorganize the USPS “a direct attack on 640,000 post office employees, the universal services we provide, and all citizens who rely on postal services. “He told protesters.
The union failed Remarks USPS' financial burden instead refers to email services as “subsistence agents.”
“NALC is totally opposed to efforts to privatize postal services, reduce services, or fundamentally restructure agents.”
USPS workers in Portland, Oregon Gathered On the weekend.
The association has it I insisted The Trump administration “doesn't value workers” and is “trying to dismantle the USPS and create an inefficient, slow, unreliable, more expensive private version of the postal service.”
meanwhile, Over a wide range Report Of the unreliable and inefficient USPS operations, it has existed for years.
Friday, Trump I said Reporter said, “We want to have a post office that works well and doesn't lose a lot of money. …It's a ridiculous loser for this country. A tremendous amount of money is lost. We I think you can do something. It would be very good.”
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