The House Oversight and Reform Committee has called on U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a major donor to Trump’s campaign, to testify on Monday, Aug. 24, regarding major organizational and operational changes he’s implemented since he took the top Postal Service job in May.
“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,” Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney wrote to DeJoy.
Service changes imposed by DeJoy last month include orders that mail be kept until the next day if postal distribution centers are running late and the elimination of overtime for hundreds of thousands of postal workers.
Under Maloney’s bill that the House is planning to take up, postal services and operations that were in place on Jan. 1, 2020, would have to be restored and maintained through 2021 or the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, whichever comes later. That would include undoing changes to overtime pay policies, service standards and closures of post offices or processing facilities.
Widespread mail delays have prompted concerns about mail-in voting this fall. Record numbers of voters are expected to cast mail-in ballots due to the pandemic.
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