Even in a drama-filled election, unlike any other, postmaster general Louis DeJoy and his assault on the postal service was conspicuous.
After Trump appointed the businessman to run the agency, DeJoy largely failed in his mission to help the former president discourage voters from voting by mail, but evidence suggests that his policies and pandemic have slowed down the postal service. . Now many, including Democratic lawmakers, are urging Biden to act quickly to remove him and the Trump majority council from the UnitedStates Postal Service.
Although Biden does not have the authority to remove DeJoy himself, he can immediately appoint a Democratic majority council that can fire the postmaster general, but the government has yet to act. Many then asked why?
“We think he can move fast and move fast and be fat. There is no debate about anyone being confirmed by the Senate, so let’s make it strong and powerful,” he said. Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union.
But it may take a while before that happens. Representative Gerry Connolly‘s chairman of the government’s subcommittee, which oversees the postal service, described DeJoy as a ‘major problem’ and called on Biden to fire the entire board, but told the Guardian he did not a fair question to ask why the president did not act during the first three weeks in office.
‘Give him some time. We have big problems – a pandemic, big economic challenges – he has to make cabinet appointments, he has his environmental agenda, ‘Connolly added. “But it should be on the priority list and I believe it will be too.”
Representative Tim Ryan, who sent a letter to Biden in January urging him to ‘clean up’, stressed that late payment of bills, late checks and delayed delivery of medicines caused problems for many Americans and stressed the urgency. Although DeJoy has refused to release 2021 timely delivery data, December figures released in lawsuits show that only about 40% of first-class mail arrives on time – up from 92% the previous year.
Read more about Tom Perkins’ report here: Democrats request Biden to fire Trump’s ally of the USPS, the postal service.