Democrats are demanding USPS leaders testify before Congress at an 'urgent hearing' next week

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• Prominent Democrats released a joint statement on Sunday, calling for the postmaster general and chairman of the USPS Board of Governors to testify before the House Oversight Committee on August 24.
• President Donald Trump last week said he would not support a bailout of the USPS in an attempt to sabotage mail-in-voting expansion efforts, although he later backtracked and said he wouldn't reject a bill that included aid to the postal service.  
• The already cash-strapped agency has struggled further due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the new postmaster general has implemented cost-cutting measures that have slowed USPS delivery in some parts of the country. 
• "The Postmaster General and top Postal Service leadership must answer to the Congress and the American people as to why they are pushing these dangerous new policies that threaten to silence the voices of millions, just months before the election," Democrats said in a joint statement. 
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In a joint statement on Sunday, prominent Democrats in the House and Senate announced amped up investigations into recent controversies surrounding the postal service, requesting that officials of the USPS testify before the House Oversight Committee on August 24 at an "urgent" hearing.  

The presence of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and Robert Duncan, the chairman of the USPS Board of Directors were requested for an August 24 hearing, according to a statement from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, and Senate Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member Gary Peters.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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