Tell the U.S. Senate:

Don't let Donald Trump and his hand-picked Postmaster General undermine our constitutionally created Postal Service. The Postal Service ties our nation together with critical services. The House's HEROES Act includes a $25 billion grant to the Postal Service. Now, the Senate must pass legislation that supports the U.S. Postal Service. 
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The Postal Service has tied our nation together, providing essential services since our country's founding. And it creates thousands of middle-class jobs in the process. Now, the Trump administration is dead set on attempting to undermine it. 
 
Add your name! Join the EPI Policy Center to demand the Senate save the U.S. Postal Service. The Trump administration is blocking essential emergency funding the USPS needs to stay afloat during this pandemic.
 
This spring, Donald Trump threatened to veto the CARES Act if it provided any support to the Postal Service. But Trump's efforts to sabotage the Postal Service have not ended there. In mid-June, Trump continued his campaign against the USPS by appointing Louis DeJoy, a North Carolina businessman and Republican fundraiser as the new Postmaster General.
 
DeJoy has wasted no time in ordering major changes to how the Postal Service operates. The service cuts he has implemented, such as eliminating overtime and late trips, leaves mail to be delivered the next day. This could harm the integrity of the November elections, which will rely heavily on mail voting due to the pandemic.
 
The slowdown also seems aimed at pleasing President Trump, who makes no secret of his dislike of the Postal Service.
 
Undermining the Postal Service has wide-ranging consequences, and could eliminate thousands of middle-class jobs for people across our country. In my recent analysis on EPI’s blog, I show that postal workers are twice as likely to be military veterans as non-postal workers, because veterans benefit from preferential hiring in federal jobs and many have skills sought by the Postal Service. And one in five postal workers is Black, nearly double Black workers’ share of the non-postal workforce.
 
Join the EPI Policy Center to demand the Senate act to save the U.S. Postal Service. The Trump administration is blocking essential emergency funding that the USPS needs to stay afloat during this pandemic. Sign the petition demanding that the Senate provide direct aid to the USPS, not a federal loan whose terms must be approved by the Trump administration.
 
Postal workers and their unions have long defended the Postal Service against efforts to privatize it or force it to operate like a for-profit business rather than a public service. Most Americans will be hurt if Trump succeeds in gutting the Postal Service, but workers—the Postal Service’s fiercest champions—will be hurt most of all.
 
Thank you for all you do to fight for an economy that works for all of us, not just the privileged few.
 
Monique Morrissey
Economist, EPI Policy Center
 
P.S. To learn more about how the Trump administration's attacks on the USPS impact working people and the upcoming election, watch this recent interview that I gave with Yahoo Finance.
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