Dear Friend,

Today, Congress is grilling Trump Postmaster General Louis DeJoy,
demanding answers about how he has crippled the U.S. Postal Service,
leading to record-slow mail service.^1

When asked today how much longer he plans to stay in the job, DeJoy said,
“Long time. Get used to it.”^2

We’ll never get used to it. President Joe Biden must act to remove Louis
DeJoy and replace him with someone who will fix the damage.

Demand Progress members and our allies delivered more than 300,000
signatures demanding that DeJoy be fired and to reform the Board of
Governors of the United States Postal Service to fix the mail once and for
all. Today’s hearing makes it clear DeJoy won’t go easily. Will you donate
to help ramp up the pressure?

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Before DeJoy, the standard for the post office was on-time mail delivery
96% of the time. Now, even though the busy Christmas season has passed,
many people are seeing one out of four pieces of mail delayed or lost
completely.^3

DeJoy helped drive those delays by cutting overtime, shutting down mail
sorting machines, and removing public mailboxes. But he has argued that
the only way to “fix” the post office is to raise rates, which is just not
true, and would hurt working Americans during a pandemic.^4

In reality, DeJoy could profit from the downfall of the U.S. Postal
Service, as he’s heavily invested in private delivery service companies.^5

There’s no way that DeJoy should still have a job in government. In order
to remove him, Biden must fill four vacant seats on the Board of Governors
of the United States Postal Service, which can then fire him.^6

More than 90 House Democrats have already called on Biden to immediately
fill the seats, but he still hasn’t acted.^7

DeJoy is just one of the unqualified, corporate-crony Trump appointees who
continue to wreak havoc on the Social Security Administration, Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau, and the Internal Revenue Service, which can
cause major damage to Biden’s agenda. The Supreme Court has said that
Biden has the right to fire many of Trump’s appointees, and Biden has to
step up and clean house.

[ [link removed] ]Will you donate to Demand Progress and help rid the post office of
Louis DeJoy?

Thanks for standing with us.

Robert Cruickshank,
Demand Progress

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Sources:

1. The Washington Post, "Live updates: USPS head Louis DeJoy tells House
panel his strategic plan may include slowing first-class mail,"
[ [link removed] ]February 24, 2021
2. Tweet from Sam Brodey, [ [link removed] ]February 24, 2021
3. NPR, "Postmaster General DeJoy Faces Questioning About Mail Delays,"
[ [link removed] ]February 24, 2021
4. Ibid.
5. CNN, "Financial disclosures reveal postmaster general's business
entanglements and likely conflicts of interest, experts say," [ [link removed] ]August
12, 2020
6. Forbes, "80 House Democrats Tell Biden To Fill Postal Service Board
Vacancies In Order To Oust DeJoy," [ [link removed] ]February 17, 2021
7. The Washington Post, "Live updates: USPS head Louis DeJoy tells House
panel his strategic plan may include slowing first-class mail,"
[ [link removed] ]February 24, 2021
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