WASHINGTON– The Board of Governors of the UNITED STATE Postal Service is supporting for an attempted requisition by the Trump management and has actually maintained outdoors guidance to combat any kind of exec order to that impact, according to 2 resources with understanding of the board’s strategies.
The board’s 9 participants, that are designated by the head of state and validated by the Senate, held an emergency situation conference after the Senate validated Howard Lutnick for business assistant on Wednesday, the resources stated. In December, Lutnick initially reviewed his strategies with President Donald Trump to liquify USPS management and fold up the company right into the Department of Commerce, according to among the resources.
No exec orders targeting the Postal Service remain in the jobs, according to 2 White House authorities, though they recognized there have actually been discuss means to make it extra effective in addition to the remainder of the federal government.
The Washington Post first reported a possible requisition of USPS.
UNITED STATE President Donald Trump talks, as he authorizes an executive order in the Oval Office, at the White House in Washington, D.C., UNITED STATEFeb 14, 2025.
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In the Oval Office, throughout Lutnick’s swearing in event Friday, Trump disclosed that his brand-new business assistant “will be looking” at USPS.
“He’s going to look at it, he’s got a great business instinct, which is what we need, and he’ll be looking at it. And we think we can turn it around, but it’s — it’s the Postal Service,” Trump stated in reaction to concerns from press reporters. “We’re losing so much money with the Postal Service, and we don’t want to lose that kind of money. So the Secretary and some others that have talent, that kind of talent, we’ll be looking at it.”
USPS reported a web revenue of $144 million for the initial quarter of this , the very first time the company uploaded an earnings because 2006, according to the Pew Research Center.
The postal board thinks any kind of executive order would certainly be unconstitutional, considered that the Postal Service is authorized by the Constitution and was developed by an act ofCongress It’s additionally not likely that Trump would certainly have the ability to privatize the company without legislative authorization.
Mark Dimondstein, the head of state of the American Postal Workers Union, stated in a declaration any kind of requisition effort would certainly be an “attack on the postal service.”
“The takeover would reduce service, especially to rural America, raise rates, close post offices and profit from what is property owned by the American people,” statedDimondstein “We ask all our customers to join us in the fight to maintain our vibrant, independent, and public United States Postal Service and to oppose these illegal acts.”
During his initial management, Trump looked at eliminating what’s referred to as the global solution commitment, a government need that routes the Postal Service to supply mail to all united state citizens daily, despite where they live. If the Trump management looks for to do away with USPS, it can affect countless individuals count on the Postal Service for important mail, consisting of drugs, specifically in backwoods.
The conversations on USPS come as the just recently developed Department of Government Efficiency, led by technology billionaire Elon Musk, has actually reduced lots of government programs and reduce hundreds of federal government work throughout the initial month of Trump’s 2nd term. The cuts belong to an initiative by Trump and Musk to revamp the federal government.
Any initiatives to take apart the Postal Service would certainly not be an abnormality under the Trump management, which has actually looked for to fold up elements of USAID and the Department of Education right into various other companies. At the very same time, most of Trump’s relocates to apply quick modifications have actually come across lawful obstructions in the courts.
Republican Louis DeJoy, head of the USPS for the last 5 years, revealed strategies to tip down as postmaster basic today. During the change, DeJoy consulted with participants of the inbound Trump management and it really did not work out, according to one resource with understanding of the conference, that stated DeJoy and Lutnick have additionally had a controversial partnership.
After 2020, when countless Americans, primarily Democrats, elected by mail throughout the coronavirus pandemic, DeJoy’s partnership with Trump never ever defrosted, according to a resource accustomed to the head of state’s reasoning on the USPS and mail-in ballot. Trump slammed the method in 2020 and condemned his loss to Joe Biden on it.
“Trump doesn’t view the USPS as a service,” the resource stated, despite the fact that words remains in its name. “He still has issues with mail-in voting.”
