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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Teams Up With DOGE to Gut USPS (truthout.org)
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A planned reduction of 10,000 workers stoked fears that the US Postal Service is on a path toward privatization.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No he didn’t. See above.

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Ron Bloom, a Democratic Trump appointee, threw his support behind the postmaster general. Republican members on the board were in the minority, but with Bloom backing DeJoy, it didn’t matter.

. . . It’s tempting to simply count members by party, which shows the board with four Democrats, four Republicans, and an independent. But with one of the Democrats having been appointed by Trump, and one of the Republicans having been appointed by Biden, the partisan lines aren’t as neat as they might appear.

That doesn’t help any. Obviously.