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Bill Moyers
The USPS scandal isn't just about Donald Trump.
During the Obama years, the US Postal Service Board of Governors did not have a quorum for 5 years. Why?
The obstruction of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
He blocked all of President Obama's nominations to the board. All of them.
And then when President Trump was elected, McConnell began filling the posts. Every single man (and they're all men) currently serving on the USPS board of governors was appointed by Donald Trump.
Learn more about the history of conservatives and their quest to privatize the US Postal Service in my podcast interview with researcher Lisa Graves at BillMoyers.com/Podcast
BREAKING: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said he is suspending changes to the U.S. Postal Service until after the November election.
Bill Moyers
Don’t be fooled by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s tactical retreat. The crisis isn’t over. Ten facts frame the story of how Trump is using the pandemic and the United States Postal Service to undermine the integrity of the presidential election.
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10 Things to Know About Trump’s Post Office Scandal – BillMoyers.com
Bill Moyers
In my new podcast, I interview Lisa Graves, one of the nation’s foremost experts on how special interest groups work to distort our political system.
If you've been monitoring Republican efforts to hobble the US Postal Service in recent weeks, you'll want to listen to this interview.
The truth, says Graves, is that "this outlier idea of privatizing our Postal Service is not a recent idea. It’s one that Charles Koch has been staking for more than 40 years.
And Charles Koch, as many people know, is one of the richest men in America, one of the richest men in the world. And he runs a privately held conglomerate known as Koch Industries. Back in the early 1970s, he started funding men who were pushing the idea of privatizing our Postal Service."
Listen to the whole interview at my website...
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Bill Moyers Podcast: The Plot to Kill the US Postal Service
Researcher Lisa Graves tells me how the Koch Brothers and other speci
"It’s a hard story to cover effectively, but journalists have to find a way because democracy depends on it this fall," writes media columnist Margaret Sullivan.
WASHINGTONPOST.COMPerspective | Trump’s attacks on the Postal Service deserve sustained, red-alert coverage from the media
It’s a hard story to cover effectively, but journalists have
Obama isurging voters and elected officials to take steps to “protect the integrity” of November's election.
Obama Says Trump Is Trying to ‘Kneecap’ the Postal Service BLOOMBERG.COM Obama Says Trump Is Trying to ‘Kneecap’ the Postal Service
Trump Makes Clear His Opposition to More Money to Support Mail Voting
By Emily Cochrane and Hailey Fuchs
The president’s remarks fueled alarm among Democrats that he is seeking to undercut the election and sow confusion about the outcome.
Robert Reich
All the way back in March, Trump said the quiet part out loud. He believed that funding vote-by mail would lead to “levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” Now, he is blatantly sabotaging the institution that helps millions of Americans vote securely every year: the Postal Service. He’s appointed a Postmaster General whose policies have deliberately slowed mail and has refused to sign a stimulus deal that includes funding for the USPS.
And today, Trump connected the fairly obvious dots: he went on Fox News and admitted that defunding the Postal Service in the middle of a pandemic will disrupt its ability to effectively process the mail-in ballots that millions of Americans will submit in lieu of going to the polls. The playbook here is simple: instead of trying to woo voters, Trump and Republicans are just going to try and disenfranchise as many people as possible before November.
The Post Office is a vital American institution and the attempts to destroy it are an assault on us all. For every day the GOP continues to sabotage the USPS, a veteran is going an extra day without their medication and an already struggling small business is going under.
Republicans, I have to ask you — is it worth it?
Robert Reich
It’s almost hard to keep track of the multi-pronged effort to sabotage the United States Postal Service. Yesterday Trump admitted he wanted to defund the USPS in order to prevent mail-in voting, and last week his handpicked Postmaster General Louis DeJoy reorganized the agency’s structure to centralize power around himself. And now, postal workers are sounding the alarm as mail sorting machines are getting removed without an explanation. A Post Office source lamented, “On top of cutting the overtime needed to run the machines, can you imagine the [overtime] needed to do this [the] old hard way?”
This is a four-alarm fire, friends. Trump is trying to steal the election in plain sight. Congress must act immediately and exercise the full force of its powers to stop the sabotage of the USPS before it’s too late. And we must all make plans to vote as soon as possible to ensure our ballots get counted. Check your registration, check your state’s deadline for requesting a mail-in ballot, and make sure everyone you know does the same. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
NEWS.YAHOO.COM
Postal workers are sounding the alarm as mail sorting machines are removed from processing facilities
It's not just business as usual at the United States Postal Service.
The new postmaster general is shaking up the Postal Service — and some workers are alarmed.
"Mail is beginning to pile up in our offices, and we're seeing equipment being removed," said Kimberly Karol, a postal clerk and union leader.
Bill Moyers
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"President Trump says the U.S. Postal Service is incapable of facilitating mail-in voting because it cannot access the emergency funding he is blocking, and made clear that requests for additional aid were nonstarters in coronavirus relief negotiations."
WASHINGTONPOST.COM
Trump says Postal Service needs money for mail-in voting, but he’ll keep blocking funding
NPR.ORG
Postal Workers Decry Changes And Cost-Cutting Measures As a result of the new postmaster general's plans to shake up the agency, "mai
WSJ.COM | 作者：WSJ OPINION
Opinion | The Post Office’s Problem Isn’t Trump
Democrats cry sabotage. But mail volume is way down, and the USPS is losing billions of dollars.
The Wall Street Journal
WSJ Opinion
: The post office is meant to be self-sufficient, but it hasn’t broken even for years. Democrats cry sabotage, but it’s a Blockbuster service in a Netflix world.
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A sudden change in federal guidelines on coronavirus testing came this week as a result of pressure from the upper ranks of the Trump administration, a federal health official close to the process tells CNN
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Audra Melton for The New York Times
Daily CommentTrump’s Unprecedented Attacks on Our Public-Health System
The President’s refusal either to lead or to recognize the leadership of others has made it impossible to develop a national plan to combat the coronavirus.
By Michael Specter
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Stephen Hahn, F.D.A. Chief, Is Caught Between Scientists and the President
By Sheila Kaplan
Many medical experts — including members of his own staff — worry about whether Dr. Hahn has the fortitude and political savvy to protect the scientific integrity of the F.D.A. from Mr. Trump.
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