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Speed ReadsSave the MailNewly installed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy met with President Trump in the Oval Office last week, before a contentious meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) about his controversial new policies at the U.S. Postal Service, . A few days later, DeJoy , including two that oversaw day-to-day operations, and postal employees are now .Trump spokesman Judd Deere the Oval Office meeting was "congratulatory," because DeJoy took over the post on June 15, though "he declined to offer any other details." The measures enacted by DeJoy, a and other Republicans and contractors, have slowed mail delivery — a temporary "unintended consequences" of his cost-cutting measures, he told postal workers in a letter Thursday. DeJoy is also "in frequent contact with top Republican Party officials," the Post reports.The reliability of the USPS is now an overtly political issue after Trump to his opposition to mail-in voting during the 2020 election. Democrats, who have insisted be given to the USPS as part of a COVID-19 deal, "need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots," Trump on Thursday morning. "If they don't get those two items, that means you can't have universal mail-in voting because they're not equipped to have it." Trump later suggested he was using USPS funding as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Pelosi and Schumer.USPS officials have repeatedly said the post office can handle the expected surge in mail-in ballots, .Trump has claimed baselessly and frequently that widespread mail-in voting will lead to significant fraud, and the Republican National Committee and conservative groups are spending tens of millions of dollars to fight mail-in voting expansion, before and after the election, . "The president is afraid of the American people," . "He's been afraid for a while, he knows that on the legit, it'd be hard for him to win, so he wants to put obstacles of participation."

Speed ReadsSave the MailNewly installed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy met with President Trump in the Oval Office last week, before a contentious meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) about his controversial new policies at the U.S. Postal Service, . A few days later, DeJoy , including two that oversaw day-to-day operations, and postal employees are now .Trump spokesman Judd Deere the Oval Office meeting was "congratulatory," because DeJoy took over the post on June 15, though "he declined to offer any other details." The...

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