Now Donald Trump is coming for the Post Office.

Trump reportedly intends to fire the entire independent board that oversees the
United States Postal Service and park the USPS under the control of a MAGA
diehard who just took over as secretary of commerce.

* As of this past Friday, Trump’s hand-picked secretary of commerce is a MAGA
loyalist named Howard Lutnick.

* Lutnick’s chief “qualification” seems to be that he raised millions for
Trump’s 2020 and 2024 campaigns.

* That, in turn, seems to have resulted in Trump putting Lutnick — along with
former professional wrestling magnate Linda McMahon — in charge of his
presidential transition team. (McMahon, of course, has since become Trump’s
secretary of education.)

* This all follows untold damage done to the Postal Service by a different
Republican mega-donor, Louis DeJoy, who Trump installed as postmaster general
during his first term.

Allowing the Trump regime to take over the United States Postal Service is an
obvious step toward the right-wing fantasy of fully privatizing the USPS — so
that one of their ultra-wealthy buddies can make billions while the American
people lose an essential service that they have been able to rely on for
generation after generation.

Privatizing the Postal Service would mean abandoning its essentially public nature.

It would lead to mass closure of post offices that serve as community hubs. It
would decimate rural delivery. It would spike costs for seniors who rely on the
mail for, among other things, critical medicines. And it would destroy the USPS
as connective tissue throughout the country — something we need now more than
ever.

One teeny tiny snag in Trump’s scheme — a pesky little document known as the
Constitution of the United States says that Congress, not the president, has
authority over the USPS. (Also, the current governing structure of the USPS is
established and mandated by law.)

Now, far too many senators and representatives have not been so good lately at
standing up for Congress as a co-equal branch of government — or, frankly, much
more than a MAGA doormat.

But they need to hear from as many Americans as possible that they must defend
the United States Postal Service and refuse to let it be fed into the Trump/Musk
wood chipper.

To Congress: [[link removed]]

The American people need — and are entitled to — an independent, robust, and
uncorrupted United States Postal Service. And the Constitution gives Congress,
not Donald Trump or any other president, authority over the USPS. Do your job.
Stand up to the Trump regime’s attempt to usurp your authority. Do not let Trump
take over the Postal Service. [[link removed]]

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Thanks for taking action.

For progress,

- Robert Weissman & Lisa Gilbert, Co-Presidents of Public Citizen


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