WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 -- U.S. House Oversight Committee on Sunday called for the chief of the country's postal service to testify before the panel about the cost-cutting overhaul to the agency, which lawmakers worried would sabotage the presidential election later this year with expected surging of mail-in ballots due to the coronavirus pandemic.
"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," House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat, wrote in a letter on Sunday to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in May this year and assumed office in June.
"Your testimony is particularly urgent given the troubling influx of reports of widespread delays at postal facilities across the country - as well as President Trump's explicit admission last week that he has been blocking critical coronavirus funding for the Postal Service in order to impair mail-in voting efforts for the upcoming elections in November," said Maloney, who originally scheduled the hearing for September but decided that the hearing be held on Aug. 24.
The committee also seeks testimony from Robert Duncan, the Board of Governors chairman of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS).
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