The rank of the Committee on Supervision and Reform, rep. James Comer, R-Ky., Testified Friday before the House Rules Committee that there have been “no delays” throughout the U.S. Postal Service, despite reports of problems – provoking criticism from Democrats.
“Unfortunately, this is part of the problem,” Rep said. Carolyn Maloney, DN.Y., chair of the House Oversight and Reform Committee. “Some Republicans would prefer to close their eyes, put their hands over their ears, and shake their heads in the ground.”
The Postmaster-General, testifying Friday before Congress, acknowledged a “dip in service levels.”
“We all feel bad about what the dip in service level has been,” Louis DeJoy said Friday, before saying recent changes, including the removal of mailboxes and sorting machines, preceded his June appointment.
“We will implement processes and procedures that advance each election post, in some cases prior to first-class emails,” DeJoy said, although he said he would not reverse previous orders that clear sorting machines.
“There is no intention to do that. They are not necessary, sir,” DeJoy told Senator Gary Peters, D-Mich.
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The USPS has been closely monitored following reports of delayed mail delivery – and the president’s remarks suggesting that they are deliberately blocking USPS funding to prevent post-voting.
In recent days, GOP lawmakers have tried to view delayed mail reports, broken sorting machines and the removal of mailboxes as “collusion theories.”
“Recently, Congress Democrats, in a broadly coordinated effort under your leadership, have sought to spread unspoken conspiracy theories across the USPS for political gain,” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Wrote to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. D-Calif., And Maloney in a letter Wednesday.
“These unsubstantiated theories claim that the USPS is removing mailboxes to prevent citizens from voting by mail, that the USPS does not have enough funding and will be insolvent before the November elections, and that the USPS lacks the infrastructure to deliver mail-in votes. from and to voters, ”McCarthy added.
But according to the postmaster general’s testimony Friday, McCarthy and Comer’s claims of ‘conspiracy’ for political gains appear inaccurate.
McCarthy and Comer did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News.
“Unfortunately, this is part of the problem. “Some Republicans would prefer to close their eyes, put their hands over their ears and support their heads in the ground,” Maloney said in a statement Friday.
“I believe there are other Republicans who talk to their constituencies and recognize that the American people do not want anyone to play with the Post Office,” Maloney added. “They want their mail, their medicines and their post-in moods delivered on time, and that’s exactly what our bill does.”
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The House of Representatives is set to vote on the Delivering for America Act on Saturday, in an attempt to provide $ 25 billion in funding for the USPS to get them through the election.
Although the White House has already warned that they will veto the bill if the House passes it.
The letter warning of a veto cites that the bill “would arbitrarily give USPS $ 25 billion in” emergency “taxpayer funding, without linking that funding to the COVID-19 pandemic like the upcoming elections.”
But House Democrats have already tried to tie the funding to the current pandemic by including the funds in the previous economic stimulus package, which the White House rejected.
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“They want $ 25 billion for the post office. Now, they need that money to run the post office so it can take all those millions and millions of votes,” Trump said in an interview with Fox Business’ ‘Morning with Maria,’ ”Last week after the incentive package was blocked.
“But if they do not get those two items, that means you can not have universal mail-in-vote because they are not equipped to have it,” Trump said, referring to a separate $ 3.5 billion Democratic lawmakers asked to help the Postal Service with the rise in post-a-vote polls during the pandemic.
