DeJoy recently launched sweeping operational changes to the USPS, including a ban on extra trips by postal workers for on-time delivery, crackdowns on overtime pay and shakeup in agency leadership, which he said were aimed at addressing the agency's dire financial situation.
Critics said those measures led to delays in mail delivery and, as mail-in voting expanded across the nation due to the coronavirus pandemic, may cause possible disenfranchisement in the upcoming election.
The USPS late last month sent letters to as many as 46 states and the District of Columbia, notifying them of possible delays in the delivery of mail-in ballots, potentially resulting in those votes failing to be counted on the Nov. 3 Election Day.
"The Postmaster General and top Postal Service leadership must answer to the Congress and the American people as to why they are pushing these dangerous new policies that threaten to silence the voices of millions, just months before the election," read a statement issued Sunday by top Democrats on Capitol Hill, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
Tensions between Democrats and the administration surrounding the USPS escalated after Trump on Thursday threatened to block the 25-billion-U.S.-dollar funding for the USPS supported by Democrats in a coronavirus relieve bill passed in the House in May. Trump said the money would assist mail-in ballots, which he has repeatedly railed against and claimed the method would cause voting fraud.
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