WASHINGTON – The US Postal Service Governors Council is preparing to try to seize by the Trump administration and kept outside the lawyer to fight any executive order in this sense, according to two sources with knowledge of the council’s plans.
The sources said that the nine members of the Board of Directors, who were appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, held a emergency meeting after the Senate Howard Lootnick confirmed to the Minister of Commerce on Wednesday. In December, Lootnick discussed for the first time his plans with President Donald Trump to solve USPS and fold the agency at the Ministry of Commerce, according to one of the sources.
There are no executive orders targeting postal service in business, according to White House officials, although they admitted that there were talks about ways to make them more efficient with the rest of the federal government.
Washington Post I mentioned for the first time A possible acquisition of USPS.
In the Oval Office, during the Lootnick insults at Friday, Trump revealed that the new Minister of Trade will “discuss” at USPS.
“He will look at it, and he has a great work instinct, which we need, and he will look at. Trump said in response to questions from the journalists:“ We think we can turn it, but it is – it is the postage service. ”We lose a lot of money with the postal service, and we do not want To lose this type of money. So the secretary and some others who have talent, this type of talent, will look at it. “
Usps has reported a net profit of $ 144 million for the first quarter of this fiscal year, the first time that the agency has made a profit since 2006, according to the PEW Research Center.
The Postal Council believes that any executive will be unconstitutional, given that the postal service Approved by the constitution It was created by the Congress law. It is also unlikely that Trump is able to privatize the agency without the approval of Congress.
In a statement, Mark Damastein, President of the American Burrican Workers Union, said in a statement that any attempt to acquire would be a “post offensive attack.”
“The acquisition would reduce the service, especially to the rural areas of America, raise prices, close post offices and benefit from the property owned by the American people,” said Damastein. “We ask all our customers to join us in the battle in order to maintain the vibrant, independent and public mail service and oppose these illegal acts.”
During his first administration, Trump got rid of getting rid of what is known as the comprehensive service commitment, a federal condition that directs the postal service to provide mail services to all residents of the United States daily, regardless of where they live. If the Trump administration is seeking to get rid of USPS, it may affect millions of people depending on the postage service of critical mail, including drugs, especially in rural areas.
Discussions related to USPs come at a time when the recently established government of government, led by Elon Musk, has reduced dozens of federal programs and has reduced thousands of government jobs during the first month of Trump’s second month. These cuts are part of Trump’s effort and musk to reform the federal government.
Any efforts to dismantle the postal service will not be anomalous within the framework of the Trump administration, which has sought to fold the aspects of the United States Agency for International Development and the Ministry of Education in other agencies. Meanwhile, many Trump’s moves to implement rapid changes have faced legal road barriers in the courts.
Republican Luis Degoy, President of USPs, has announced over the past five years, plans to step down as the director of the post office this week. During the transition, Digoy met with members of the Trump administration received and did not go well, according to one source with the knowledge of the meeting, who said that Digoy and Lietenik had a controversial relationship.
After 2020, when millions of Americans, most of them Democrats, voted by mail during the Korona Virus pandemic, did not raise Digoy’s relationship with Trump, according to a source familiar with the USPs thinking and vote on the mail. Trump criticized this practice in 2020 and blames his loss to Joe Biden.
“Trump does not see Usps as a service,” the source said, although the word is in its name. “He still has problems to vote on the mail.”
