Summary
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) agreed to cut 10,000 jobs under pressure from Elon Musk, sparking outrage from Democrats.
Rep. Gerald Connolly warned that Musk and DOGE could push for USPS privatization, harming rural and vulnerable communities.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy defended the cuts, citing USPS’s financial struggles and praising DOGE’s cost-cutting approach. Musk has openly supported privatization.
Postal worker unions pledged to fight any threats to employees’ rights. The USPS has already reduced its workforce by 30,000 since 2021.
“FINANCIAL STRUGGLES”
IT’S.
A PUBLIC.
SERVICE.
WE PAY TO HAVE.
NOT. A FUCKING. BUSINESS. YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES TWATS.
USPS budget was in the black until they were forced to prefund benefits for 75 years - something nobody else is required to do.
The “financial difficulties” they face are completely imposed on them by the government.
This bill was passed with bipartisan support.
For over a decade, the United States Postal Service has been plagued with the onerous burden of prefunding its retiree health care benefits as mandated by the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) of 2006. The mandate requires the Postal Service to prefund its retiree health care benefits 75 years in advance, paying for retirement health care for individuals who haven’t been born yet, let alone enter the workforce.
Exactly, the USPS is forced to be unprofitable for the sole purpose of being able to do shit like this.
Then don’t vote to approve the budget.
We have to vote to pass the budget or Elon shoot the hostage a second time and then we’ll get blamed for it.
But that wouldn’t be proper!
clutches pearls
DeJoy was installed exactly to make a shift towards privatizing USPS. Don’t think this isn’t part of the same plan. These grifters see only dollar signs for themselves.
IIRC DeJoy owns 2 or 3 competitors to USPS, so yeah.
Also Biden had 4 years to remove DeJoy, which is one of the biggest indicators to me he works for the same rich masters
Biden couldn’t unilaterally do that, but laws don’t mean anything anymore and he should have just done it and sent him to an ice detention center in Louisiana
Still don’t get what gave “doge” the authority to do any of this shit.
Thoughts and Prayers for the Democrats’ outrage. Someone really oughta do something. 🤦
Louis DeJoy (born 1956 or 1957[citation needed]) is an American businessman serving as the 75th U.S. postmaster general. He was appointed in May 2020 by the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service (USPS). Prior to the appointment, he was the founder and CEO of the logistics and freight company New Breed Logistics and was a major Republican Party donor and fundraiser for Donald Trump.[1] DeJoy is the first postmaster general since 1992 without any previous experience in the USPS and the first postmaster general in U.S. history to come directly from the board of a privately owned competitor to the public–private partnership of the USPS entity.[2] His companies still hold active service contracts with the USPS, generating controversy over conflict of interest.[3]
