The House just passed a bill to provide $25 billion in emergency funding to USPS, but the White House has already threatened to veto it

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• The US House of Representatives on Saturday passed legislation that includes $25 billion in aid to the postal service.
• The legislation also aims to reverse the new postmaster general's cost-cutting measures to USPS and prohibits him from enacting changes until January 2021.
•  The bill passed 257 to 150, with mostly Democrats in favor of it. Twenty-six GOP members also voted in favor.
• Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a former Republican donor who appeared before the Senate on Friday, said previously he would halt all changes to USPS until after the election.
• The Trump administration has previously opposed the legislation, and it's likely dead on arrival in the Republican-led Senate.
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The House of Representatives on Saturday passed legislation to provide $25 billion in emergency funding to the US Postal Service that will also roll back some of the controversial cost-cutting measures implemented by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. 

The legislation passed 257 to 150 along party lines, with the support of members of the Democratic majority. Twenty-six Republicans voted in favor of it.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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