Chamber member Nancy Pelosi announced Sunday that her chamber will be recalled later this week to vote on legislation that would allow the U.S. Postal Service to change services that were in place earlier this year.
Lawmakers are currently on August break, but the plan is for them to return on Saturday, a senior Democratic aide told Reuters.
The House would presumably concentrate on the ways in which it advocates Trump’s postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, undermining the agency for the November election.
Trump has said he opposes funding the cash-backed USPS because he wants to prevent a rise in mail-in-vote during the coronavirus pandemic.
The expected vote comes as the post office on Sunday promised that no more mailboxes or e-mail machines would be removed until at least after the election.
Kim Frum, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Postal Service, told CNN that the collection boxes will remain where they have been for the next 90 days over concerns about customers that some have been removed.
Frum also said it is his standard procedure for the agency to remove annual mailboxes with less trade.
“Based on the leak tests, boxes are identified for potential removal and messages are placed on boxes to give customers a chance to comment before the decision on removal is made,” Frum said.
Frum added the “process is one of the many ways in which the Postal Services are adapting to our infrastructure to adapt our resources to declining mail volumes.”
Earlier Sunday, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told the network that all e-mail machines would remain in place.
“There are no sorting machines that go offline between now and the election. That’s what my Democratic friends are trying to do to instill fear in them. That does not happen, ‘Meadows told CNN’s State of the Union.
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