It’s no longer implied or innuendo, today Donald Trump clearly tied his refusal to fund the post office to mail-in voting. It happened during an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo.
Trump’s war on the post office, and mail-in voting, is escalating. The Washington Post writes:
Trump, who has been railing against mail-in balloting for months, said the cash-strapped agency’s enlarged role in the November election would perpetuate “one of the greatest frauds in history.” Speaking Wednesday at his daily pandemic news briefing, Trump said he would not approve $25 billion in emergency funding for the Postal Service, or $3.5 billion in supplemental funding for election resources, citing prohibitively high costs.
“They don’t have the money to do the universal mail-in voting. So therefore, they can’t do it, I guess,” Trump said. “Are they going to do it even if they don’t have the money?”
All this is only strengthening the call from Democrats to fund the USPS.
Wednesday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney and 173 other House Democrats wrote a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy calling for “the reversal of policies that have worsened the crisis facing the Postal Service and exacerbated a dramatic increase in delayed and undelivered mail.” The letter read in part:
“The United States Postal Service is a pillar of our American Democracy that is enshrined in the Constitution, which empowers Congress to ‘establish Post Offices and Post Roads.’ The Postal Service provides critical services for the American people: delivering medicine to seniors, paychecks to workers, tax refunds to millions and absentee ballots to voters. .”
Listen to what MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough had to say about this today.
