House approves bill to send $25 billion to Postal Service and halt changes

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Source: CNN

(CNN)The House approved legislation Saturday to allocate $25 billion to the US Postal Service and ban operational changes that have slowed mail service around the country.

The bill passed 257-150, largely along party lines, with Democrats supporting it. More than two dozen Republicans joined Democrats in voting for the measure, defying House GOP leaders and President Donald Trump, who actively urged Republicans to oppose it. On the eve of the vote, the White House threatened to veto the bill. The measure isn't expected to reach Trump's desk, however, as the Republican-held Senate is unlikely to vote on it.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had predicted bipartisan support for the USPS legislation ahead of the vote Saturday.

"We will pass the bill and it will be in a bipartisan way today and then we will send it to the Senate," Pelosi said, adding that Republicans "will be hearing from their constituents because this hits home -- not receiving your mail in a timely fashion, hits home."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/politics/postal-service-house-vote-funding/index.html

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The corpulent creep in the Whitehouse has threatened a veto. Go right ahead Trumpy. It won't win you any votes. It'll likely have the opposite effect.

Note: This is an update of an earlier story

[The Daily Irishman]

1. It won't even Get to Trump

Moscow Mitch will let it die in the Senate.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. House Democrats pass $25bn bill to fund US Postal Service

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill to fund the US Postal Service, amid ongoing complaints by Democrats that the Trump administration is attempting to sabotage the delivery of mail-in ballots ahead of the presidential election in November.

The Democratic bill, which passed on Saturday despite opposition from Republicans, would provide $25bn in aid for the USPS and prioritize election mail as “first class”, to ensure ballots arrive in time to be counted in an election in which the coronavirus pandemic will cast a shadow over in-person voting.
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On Saturday the Democratic chair of the House oversight committee, Carolyn B Maloney of New York, released internal USPS documents from a briefing to DeJoy on 12 August.

Maloney said DeJoy had been warned of “steep declines and increasing delays nationwide over the last two months as a result of his drastic operational and organizational changes”.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/22/house-democrats-pass-25bn-bill-fund-us-postal-service