Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are surviving comments made Friday by President Donald Trump on reforms to the U.S. Postal Service.
Trump has not established a specific plan, but he criticized the post office and spoke about how it would improve during the commerce oath Howard Luttonick.
“We want to have a post office that works well and doesn't lose a lot of money, and we're thinking about doing that,” Trump said in an oval office reporter. He told the group. “And that would be in the form of a merger, but I think it will remain a postal service and will work better over the years.
“This was an incredible loser for this country and the incredible amount they lost,” he added. “And I think we can do something very good and keep it in a very similar way, but whether it's a merger, we have very much that we have elsewhere. I'll use some of the talented people to avoid losing so much.”
Following his remarks, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee wrote to Trump, urging him to abandon plans to reform the USPS. hill It has been reported.
“Reported efforts to dismantle postal services as an independent institution would directly undermine the affordability and reliability of the US postal system,” said ranking member Jerry Connolly (D-VA) and panel. Other members wrote in letters. “We recommend that you immediately abandon any plans to either privatize postal services or undermine postal services' independence.”
The letter continued Report from Washington Post The 45th and 47th Presidents have launched the USPS board of directors and absorbed USPS into the Department of Commerce.
Connolly rebutted in a letter that such changes would require council cooperation.
USPS is not funded by Congress and earns revenue from services, but the report says it is mandatory to reach all US mailboxes “where private companies are not obligated to do it.” .
“Congress has stipulated a clear and important mission of postal services to provide efficient, reliable and universal services to all Americans,” Connolly continued. “Reported plans for postal services are timely and affordable for life-saving drugs, mail-order voting, important financial documents and letters from loved ones, especially in rural or less profitable areas where the private sector rejects. It will put the price delivery at risk. For service.”
Connolly also said that USPS reforms will not place independent institutions on the “path of fiscal sustainability,” but instead “putting the entire postal service and postal network into political interference, changing government priorities and price. It claimed it could be spiked.
Trump's comments and a Democrat letter also came after General Louis DeJoy, appointed Prime Minister in Trump's first administration, announced earlier this week that he would resign.
