WASHINGTON (AP)– Your Home Oversight Committee has actually invited the brand-new postmaster general to appear at a September hearing to analyze functional modifications at the U.S. Postal Service that are causing delays in mail shipments throughout the nation.
The plan enforced by Louis DeJoy, a Republican fundraising event who took over the leading task at the Postal Service in June, gets rid of overtime for hundreds of thousands of postal employees and orders that send by mail be kept till the next day if postal warehouse are running late.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a New York City Democrat who chairs the Oversight panel, said the Sept. 17 hearing will focus on “the need for on-time mail shipment during the ongoing pandemic and upcoming election,” which is expected to include a major growth of mail-in tallies.
President Donald Trump has actually warned that allowing more people to vote by mail will result in a ” CORRUPT ELECTION” that will “CAUSE THE END OF OUR GREAT REPUBLICAN CELEBRATION,” despite the fact that there’s no proof that will occur. Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and other leading administration authorities regularly vote absentee themselves.
Recently, Trump even drifted on Twitter the prospect of postponing the Nov. 3 election– a concept legislators from both celebrations quickly shot down.
Trump said Monday that the cash-strapped Postal Service is ill-equipped to include the expected increase of mail-in tallies to its responsibility to provide mail and plans from the boom in internet shopping.
” I don’t think the post workplace is prepared for a thing like this,” Trump said at the White House.
Trump likewise has called the Postal Service “a joke” and said plan shipping rates should be at least 4 times greater for heavy users like Amazon. But shipping and packages are really a to