Washington – Following adjustments to U.S. Postal Service fee discounts. Leading to widespread delays in mail delivery, several states oppose legal action against the Trump administration that would prevent the company from making operational adjustments in the run-up to the November election.
Michael Kelly, leader of Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, showed CBS News that Herring’s workplace had spoken to attorneys general in several other states about possible legal options.
Herring said in a statement that state officials will ensure that all votes are counted in November, whether mailed or in person.
“My colleagues and I are currently running to what Trump and DeJoy are doing, if they have ever violated or are more likely to break the law, and what team we have at our disposal to prevent President Trump’s continued attack on our postal service and our democracy,” he said.
State and federal officials are rushing to shore up the postal service after their new post office, Louis DeJoy, a Republican donor and president Trump’s best friend, implemented a series of operational adjustments designed to pull the liquidity firm off the bankruptcy limit. In addition to rearranging the upper echests of the postal service, DeJoy reduced and prohibited postal staff from making more overdue mail trips, leading to delays in mail delivery and a build-up of letters and packages.
Delays resulting from DeJoy’s operational adjustments occur when many states hold a larger postal vote for the November election to protect the electorate from the coronavirus pandemic. But Trump has spent the last few weeks attacking the vote by mail, saying with little evidence that it incites voter fraud.
While the House passed a coronavirus relief program in May that would provide the postal service with $25 billion, and a bipartisan senator organization enacted a law to provide the company with the same injection of money, discussions between Democratic leaders and the White House on a broader issue. coronavirus relief measures are stagnant.
Last week, the president stated that depriving the postal service of more federal assistance would undermine efforts to expand voting by mail, but then gave the impression that it was moving away from the suggestion that it was opposed to an injection of aid to the troubled agency.
Anticipating the influx of mail-in ballots expected for the November elections, the postal service warned 46 states that mail ballots would possibly not be counted in time because their mail-in voting agreements are “inconsistent” with post-delivery standards.
Concerned that millions of Americans may be deprived of the right to receive the privilege of the overdue elections, Democratic leaders in either house of Congress demanded that DeJoy and Robert Duncan, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Postal Service, answer questions from the House’s Committee on Government Reform and Oversight next week. about the agency’s new policies.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also called lawmakers early in Washington for a special consultation to vote on a law that would prevent the Postal Service from making adjustments to its operations.