Postmaster Louis DeJoy has agreed to work with the Elon Muskreid Government Efficiency Office (DOGE) on reforms at the US Postal Service (USPS).
In a letter to Congress on Thursday, DeJoy said he was plan The Associated Press (AP) reported to cut 10,000 employees and billions of dollars from the agency's budget.
Fox News It has been reported He signed a contract with the General Services Bureau, saying USPS “has a broken business model, which is very necessary and not financially sustainable without core changes.”
Dejoy's letter continued:
Fixing a broken organization that experienced nearly $100 billion in losses and was projected to lose another $200 billion without bankruptcy proceedings is a challenging task. Using such a broken business model, it is even more difficult to fix large, important, cherished, cherished, misunderstood, and significantly legislative and overregulated organizations.
The news comes after Dejoy said in February that he intended to step down from his role and asked the Postal Service Commission to start looking for alternatives.
“DeJoy, a Republican donor who owned the logistics business, was appointed to lead the USPS during Trump's first term in 2020. Email-in election voting and Efforts to incur losses “Through reduced costs and services,” according to an AP article on Thursday.
There are currently 640,000 people working for USPS. Employment cuts are expected to occur over the next 30 days via a voluntary early retirement program.
In December, it was reported that President Donald Trump was considering privatizing the USPS. Months later, in February, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee began to worry about the comments Trump made about reforms to the agency, according to Breitbart news.
Trump said: And although it becomes a form of merger, it remains a postal service and I think it will work better over the years. ”
As Doge works to reduce government waste, its own calculations reveal that it has saved taxpayers $105 billion so far, according to Breitbart News.
