The president made it clear that he would veto the coronavirus relief bill if it included any emergency funding for the agency
With the service itself projecting losses of $2 billion a month during the COVID-19 crisis, Congress was able to squeeze into the bill a last-second $10 billion loan from the Treasury Department to get the agency through the spring.
Even with that loan, Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerald Connolly said the Postal Service would have trouble staying afloat through September. “I’m so frustrated at how difficult it has been for a long time to galvanize attention and action around an essential service,” Connolly told the. “And maybe the pandemic forces us all to refocus on this service and how essential it is and how we need to fix it while we can before it gets into critical condition.”
Trump’s disregard for the Post Office seems to connect to his disdain of Jeff Bezos, the CEO and president of the online retail company Amazon. Bezos also owns the, which is part of what Trump falsely calls the “fake news media,” and accurately reports on all of the president’s
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