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@SenDuckworth - Tammy Duckworth
My letter to the USPS Board of Governors can be summarized in two words: Fire DeJoy. https://t.co/A6ng8YODzs
@Real_RobN - 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸
And here’s the USPS inadvertently exposing the 2020 Insurrection they facilitated “We went off the National Change of Address. 23,344 national change of address forms said they moved to another location yet those votes were cast in a election that was determined by 10,000 votes” https://t.co/R3UQd40AIo
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The speaker discusses the final report released to the public, which reveals that 23,344 mail-in ballots were sent to individuals who no longer lived at the address. Despite this, votes were still cast using those ballots. The speaker emphasizes that this is just one example of irregularities in the election, which was decided by a margin of 10,000 votes. They express their confusion and call for the attorney general to address this issue.
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Speaker 0: From 1 to 10 about your report you returned over. Do you believe 10 meaning we showed that and it was monumental? One meaning, well, we didn't really find anything. What do
Speaker 1: you think the report was? I think the final report that was released in public still shows that. I I mean, we have 20 23,344 mail in ballots that were mailed to an address that someone no longer lived in and yet votes were cast on them. And in election that was determined by 10,000 votes. Repeat that again for people
Speaker 0: repeat that again for people, please.
Speaker 1: 23,344 Mail in ballots that were mailed to an address that an individual no longer lived at. They'd moved away. And just so you know, like, what we are looking at, the data source we're looking at is the national change of address form. The national change of address gets filled out when you move and you go to the post office and say, I moved to this address. This is what this is what my new address is.
I want you to forward my mail. So we didn't go off of the neighbor said he moved and he might or might not have moved. We went off for national change of address. 23,344 national change of address forms said they moved to another location unless yet those votes were cast. Like, I can't think of any explanation as to makes any logical sense of that.
Now I've been working with this stuff long enough But there's been many times where I've been like, hey. There's no possible explanation of this. Oh, shoot. Now I learned a possible explanation. Maybe there is.
So I'm willing to give, you know, some Some error and some space there for maybe there's some explanation to it, but I it doesn't make any logical sense to me, and the attorney general needs to answer that. So election was considered over 10,000 votes, and we're talking about 23,344.
Speaker 0: And that's just one thing, folks.
Speaker 1: That's just one thing. That's just one thing.
@profstonge - Peter St Onge, Ph.D.
Turns out Biden's jobs numbers are fake. Because they fail to count between 5 million and 7 million Americans who dropped out of the labor force since Covid. Millions have gone onto government benefits. Millions more downsized their lifestyle, limping along until social security.
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Bidenomics job numbers are questioned as Americans struggle to find work. Unemployment rate may actually be between 6.5% and nearly 8%, comparable to recession levels. Millions of jobless Americans are not counted in official statistics due to various reasons like fear, stimulus checks, and early retirement. Real wages have fallen, leading to second jobs and part-time work. Bidenomics relies on misleading data, but public opinion remains skeptical. Visit PeterStAnsch.com for more information.
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Speaker 0: Apologists for Bidenomics have hung their hat above all on his allegedly amazing job numbers. Yet, on the ground, Americans cannot see it. They report that jobs are hard to find. Quit rates are an abysmal 2.1%, meaning people are afraid to quit their job because they don't think they can find another one. The labor force still has not recovered pre pandemic levels years after the last Californian jogger took their mask off.
So who's right? Joe Biden's statistics or the American people? My colleague, EJ Antony, dug into the numbers. He concludes that the true unemployment rate is not 3.9%. It's actually between 6 a half and nearly 8%.
That would be a typical recession level. In the 1991 recession, unemployment topped at 7.5. The dotcom recession never passed 6.3. Outside COVID, only the 2008 crisis was worse with today's number comparable to early 2008 on the eve of that crash. So how does Joe Biden get to 39?
The first thing to remember is the unemployment rate does not count people who are jobless. It only counts people who are actively looking for work. So if they're living in mom's basement playing Assassin's Creed or sleeping on Skid Row, they are not unemployed. They are, quote, out of the labor force. Statistically, they may as well be retired.
So when you tally up these people, it turns out millions of Americans don't have jobs, but they don't show up in the numbers. To understand why, during lockdowns, over 17,000,000 people were forced into unemployment, another 8,000,000 people immediately left the labor force voluntarily. Some were afraid, some were waiting and seeing, some were happy with stimulus checks that paid more than work, and then graduated on to government benefits that were no questions asked during the pandemic and continued to this day. Others simply retired early, downsizing their lifestyle to limp along to Social Security. So 25,000,000 people of whom only 17 show up in the numbers.
As the economy reopened, millions of those people did return to work, but many never did. Meaning, they're still not counted 5 years later. So depending which data series you use, this gap is between 4,700,000 and 7,000,000 Americans who don't have jobs but are not counted. You add that to the official tally of 6,000,000 unemployed, you go from Bidenomics miracle straight to recession level of jobs despite spending nearly 2,000,000,000,000 in deficits per year. So what's next?
Brought to you by on chain.com. Government numbers will never be accurate for the simple reason that government has a horse in that race. It's the judge in its own case. Happily, there is another metric, real wages. If jobs are in fact plentiful, then employers have to pay more.
If, on the other hand, a man can't find decent work, they will not. So on that metric, EJ hit the nail on the head since Biden was in stalled after inflation wages about falling met almost 2% per year. That's driven millions of Americans to pick up second jobs in part time work, which is typical of a jobs recession. And, by the way, shows up as record jobs growth. The entire Bidenomics gaslight is built on creative statistics and willful misreading of data.
Opinion polls say the American people are not buying it. Of course, they will keep lying anyway. A new episode of the podcast just dropped. Check it out at Peter St. Ansch.com.
Okay. We'll be watching. See you next time.
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The United States Postal Service has altered the delivery method for absentee mail-in ballots, preventing the creation of electronic images that could serve as evidence against ballot fraud. This change follows a series of consolidations that began in 2011 and intensified in 2022, moving operations from over 200 facilities to just 21 regional centers. Recently, USPS officials ordered that ballots not be sent to central sorting facilities, which means no electronic images are generated. This decision, attributed to Amber McReynolds, raises concerns about transparency and accountability in the voting process.
@PeterBernegger - Peter Bernegger
BOMBSHELL - the United States Postal Service recently changed the delivery method of absentee mail-in ballots! They are hiding the evidence of absentee mail-in ballot fraud - by not allowing the evidence to be created in the first place. Here's how and what changed: You can't get the absentee mail-in vote ballot images from the USPS because they are not sending them to the central sorting facilities! Normally, you mail a letter to someone or a bill goes out, it goes to your local post office, then it gets to a central sorting facility. Wisconsin for example has six: Madison, Milwaukee, Oak Creek, Green Bay, N. Illinois and Eagan MN that sorts/handles all mail. Even if mailed to your neighbor 1 house over, that is how the system works. Obama did this in 2011-2012, consolidating the USPS to have less total facilities. Then, the USPS began consolidating its central sorting facilities in August 2022 and continued through February 2023. The consolidation plans included moving delivery operations from over 200 "spoke offices" to 21 regional Sort and Delivery Centers. Where absentee mail-in ballots should go through a central sorting facility: where each and every one would get scanned and an electronic image created. BOMBSHELL: a telecon was held for the higher ups in the USPS, and the order trickled down to all the faculties NOT to send the ballots to central sorting. Meaning no electronic images are being created! Confirmed at three locations in Wisconsin, confirmed at one Regional office of the USPS, confirmed at one location in Colorado. And, it explains why they denied me my FOIA request for said images: because there are none. See letter they sent me attached here. If you remember in 2020 the UPSP was caught deleting evidence of these very electronic images. Still this day they still have not produced them. The UPSP recently directed, less than a month, post offices to NOT send absentee mail-in ballots to central sort. But instead take them to the election clerks. Meaning again: no electronic ballot images are being created in the first place. The USPS is doing this on purpose. And who did this? Amber McReynolds, an Obama/Biden plant at the USPS. "Head of the Zuckerberg Bucks National Vote at Home Institute, Amber McReynolds, was appointed by Biden to the US Postal Service governing board" quote and image with red circles from @pepesgrandma - thank you. @EmeraldRobinson @nataliegwinters @BehizyTweets @PatrickByrne @TrueTheVote @yehuda_miller @JonesNed @elonmusk @Cse_stop_bogus @TuckerCarlson @immutablechrist
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I came across a troubling story about a postal worker in Pennsylvania who was allegedly caught on camera dumping over 300 pieces of mail, including support for Republican Rep Thomas Kean Jr. This raises concerns about what might be happening to other important mail, like Donald Trump's ballots.
@WallStreetApes - Wall Street Apes
Pennsylvania: US Postal Worker Alleged Mail Theft Allegedly caught on camera dumping over 300 pieces of mail. You’ll never guess who these alleged mailers were in support of, Republicans Postal investigators open probe, mail in support of “Republican Rep Thomas Kean Jr. (R-Westfield) into a dumpster at a Pennsylvania supermarket” If Postal Workers are doing this, then take a wild guess what these postal workers are probably also doing to Donald Trump mail in ballots…..
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She’s stopping, and the computer won’t record. We have a license plate; it’s from Pennsylvania, but the mail is from New Jersey. I might need to borrow one from you. She mentioned that at 4:23, he was approaching her while she was walking towards the sushi building. The timestamp could be useful.
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Speaker 0: All you have to do is Of course she's stopping. It won't the computer won't record. Yeah. But do you know where she's from with? Something else.
Yeah. We have a license plate. Oh, there you go. She has a Pennsylvania plate, but it looks like the male's from Jersey. I might come bum 1 off of you.
Uh-huh. I might come bum 1. Really? Okay. We'll have a good answer.
Thank you. I don't know if it'll help. She said the tent at 4:23, he was all up on her walking towards the sush building sushi. The time stamp will help you.
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I came across alarming reports suggesting that thousands of postal workers are involved in mail theft, with a significant rise in cases this year. The inspector general noted a 47% increase in closed investigations related to employees compared to 2019. It's concerning that the postal service lacks knowledge about the functionality of its surveillance cameras. I can't help but notice the timing, as this surge in theft coincides with an election year, raising questions about the motives of those entering the postal service.
@WallStreetApes - Wall Street Apes
They were going to steal the election “New government report says thousands of postal workers are stealing the mail” “OIG says the postal service doesn't even know how many of its more than 18,000 surveillance cameras even work” HUGE increase in cases this year (shocker) “The inspector general says investigators closed 47% more cases involving employees last fiscal year compared to 2019” “They're literally getting the job so they can steal mail and quit.” What an amazing ‘coincidence’ that during the election year there is a huge increase in mail workers stealing mail and then they quit…. Just amazing….
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A new government report reveals that thousands of postal workers are involved in mail theft. The inspector general reports a 47% increase in closed cases against employees last fiscal year compared to 2019, totaling nearly 6,000 cases. However, this figure may be an undercount due to insufficient mailroom supervisors and a lack of training to identify theft. The postal police union president highlights that these vulnerabilities are well-known, with criminals exploiting them to steal mail and then leave the job. Additionally, the postal service is unaware of the operational status of many of its over 18,000 surveillance cameras. The lack of transparency on this issue may stem from a desire to protect the postal service's reputation. For more details on the types of workers involved in mail theft, visit mbc7.com.
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Speaker 0: So a new government report says thousands of postal workers are stealing the mail. The inspector general says investigators closed 47% more cases involving employees last fiscal year compared to 2019 with nearly 6,000 cases closed over that span of time. But this number is likely an undercount because the OIG says there aren't enough mailroom supervisors, and the ones that are on the job aren't trained to spot mail theft. The postal police union president says those vulnerabilities in the postal service are public knowledge, and criminals are actively exploiting them. They're literally getting the job so they can steal mail and quit.
I mean, it's amazing. Making matters worse, the OIG says the postal service doesn't even know how many of its more than 18,000 surveillance cameras even work. Why do you think they're not being more public about this problem? I think they're trying to protect their brand. Visit mbc7.com to learn which types of workers are being blamed the most for mail theft.
@SenRandPaul - Senator Rand Paul
USPS should account for the “uncontrollable costs” in their budgeting and stop coming to Congress to bail them out. https://t.co/oMPhvQf4TX
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Milton Friedman once noted that government management often leads to shortages. This applies to the U.S. Postal Service, which was promised a $107 billion bailout in 2020 to achieve financial stability by 2031. However, losses have increased, with $6.5 billion lost in 2023 and projected losses of $9.5 billion in 2024. Instead of cutting costs like a private business would, the USPS has converted over 190,000 workers into higher-paid career roles, worsening its financial situation. Despite spending billions on electric vehicles and facility upgrades, service has declined. Congress has provided $120 billion in funding over four years, but with national debt exceeding $36 trillion, it's time for meaningful reform at the Postal Service.
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Speaker 0: Over 40 years ago, Milton Friedman remarked, if you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years, there'd be a shortage of sand. While Friedman was discussing price controls and output restrictions in oil and gas in Dubai, this same logic can be applied to the U. S. Postal Service. In 2020, Congress was promised that a $107,000,000,000 bailout would put the Post Office out of the roll and out of the hole it has been within 3 or 4 years.
We were also told that the USPS operations would break even by 2,031. Postmaster DeJoyce sat in front of our committee in August of that year and stated, I am absolutely convinced that with some help from Congress and our regulator, we can do it and that there is a bright future ahead for the post office. I argued against giving more taxpayer money to the postal service, suggesting that private business would be better at managing ongoing costs by making the necessary cuts. Unfortunately, my concerns have proven to be correct. The Postal Service's, Delivering for America initiative, the bailout, was expected to yield quick results.
However, the post office lost 6,500,000,000 in 2023 and is set to lose 9,500,000,000 in 2024. That doesn't sound like progress. They were losing $1,000,000,000 a quarter, now they're losing $2,000,000,000 a quarter. Only in Washington can someone point to losing $2,000,000,000 a quarter as a success. Given the continued financial shortfalls, it is entirely nonsensical for the USPS to convert more than 190,000 service workers into career roles since October 2020.
If this were a private business, you'd be doing the opposite. If you were a unionized, corporation in one state, what do they do? They actually move to another state and open in a nonunionized in a right to work state, and that's how they continue to exist. Corporations don't add to their misery by adding and increasing their labor costs. These career roles effectively government career roles effectively allow those workers to make 50% more per hour and create decades of benefits responsibilities that will make breaking even in the future even more difficult.
When we had pension problems in Kentucky, we did the opposite. We ended up changing from a pension, we went to a contribution plan and then we gradually are fixing it. It's still taking a long time because we had the old obligations, but we gradually figured out how to go to a new plan where we wouldn't be stuck with all these pensions. These positions are of insourcing jobs that were provided at lower cost before by private partners who are increasing the cost of the post office. During the Postal Service Reform Act, I argued that no funding should be given to USPS without changes to its labor practices and cost.
Instead, no labor changes were made and now Americans are left holding the bag of an ever more bloated Postal Service. The Postal Service has tried to explain away these bad numbers due to the costs that USPS cannot control. But the service is spending $9,600,000,000 on electric delivery vehicles and spending nearly 40,000,000,000 over 10 years to convert and build certain facilities into hubs that so far have resulted in worse delivery and services. In order to keep making these infrastructure updates, the Postal Service has asked to raise its $15,000,000,000 borrowing limit with the Treasury Department. Hardly sounds like a success.
Private sector companies deal with uncontrolled costs all the time, including the same factors USPS faces like inflation and they find a way to provide for their owners and shareholders, but they don't do it by adding more union employment. USPS would count for the uncontrollable cost in their budget by and and stop coming to Congress. You know, you guys should try to fix the problems that keep coming back and asking for more and more. This hasn't stopped Congress, though, from throwing even more money at the postal service. For those counting, that's a 120,000,000,000 in funding and relief in the past 4 years alone.
While 120,000,000,000 is already an astounding number on its own, when you consider the sum relative to our nation's dismal fiscal condition, it suddenly becomes reckless. We're over $36,000,000,000,000 in debt. It's time to do something different. What we're not seeing is anything different at the post office, and I, for 1, say it's about time we have some reform.
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I noticed some intriguing coincidences lately. The postal union made headlines, and I recommend looking into the quantum grammar argument. Rand Paul had a notable exchange with Postmaster General DeJoy regarding USPS's declining volume and employee increases. Following that, Josh Hawley expressed his frustration with DeJoy, indicating he’s had enough of the situation. Additionally, there are discussions about the Trump Transition Team considering canceling the Postal Service's electric vehicle contracts, which seems to tie into a larger executive order on EVs.
@DakotaSidwell - D.Sauce (TIE)
So guys. Here’s a “coincidence” for you. The postal union was in the news today. And if youve never read into the quantum grammar argument you REALLY should.
@DakotaSidwell - D.Sauce (TIE)
This is Rand Paul’s interaction with USPS today…..
@DakotaSidwell - D.Sauce (TIE)
And then Josh Hawley.
@DakotaSidwell - D.Sauce (TIE)
Another coincidence I’m sure.
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I opened a hearing on the U.S. Postal Service's financial struggles, highlighting a nearly $10 billion loss this year and a projected $6.5 billion next year. I pointed out that while inflation from government spending is a factor, it’s not the only issue. Rep. Virginia Foxx and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy discussed recovery efforts after hurricane damage. Rep. Glenn Grothman questioned DeJoy about the inefficiencies of electric mail trucks. I also had a frank discussion with DeJoy and the Postal Service IG about needed improvements and potential private sector solutions.
@GOPoversight - Oversight Committee
📫 Chairman James Comer (@RepJamesComer) opens hearing on oversight of the U.S. Postal Service “The Postal Service is hemorrhaging red ink. “This year’s loss was almost $10 billion. “Next year’s loss is projected to be $6.5 billion. “And with each loss comes an explanation of how much it was out of your control. “Inflation caused by President Biden’s out of control government spending is one factor. But it’s not the only factor.”
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The Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing begins with an acknowledgment of Inspector General Tammy Hull. It has been over three years since Postmaster General DeJoy introduced the Delivering America plan and two and a half years since the Postal Service Reform Act was enacted. Despite challenges, including significant financial losses and past criticisms of the Postal Service's management, DeJoy has made efforts to modernize operations. However, ongoing issues such as delayed mail delivery and high personnel costs remain concerning. The committee emphasizes the need for efficiency and transparency, particularly regarding election mail, while urging DeJoy to provide answers and assurance for future improvements at the Postal Service. The session concludes with a call for bipartisan cooperation to address these challenges.
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Speaker 0: The hearing of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability will come to order. I wanna welcome everyone here today. Without objection, the chair may declare a recess at any time. I now recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. Inspector general Tammy Hull, for being here as well.
It has been three and a half years since postmaster general DeJoy issued the delivering America plan. And two and a half years since the Postal Service Reform Act was signed into law. This law may have eased the way for the Postal Service to reform its business model, but it left the details to mister DeJoy. Mister DeJoy has withstood terrible character attacks by Democrats to include demanding he be tried for treason. I give mister DeJoy credit for delivering a pan to fix the postal service.
Time and space have been provided for him to carry out this work. The difficulty of this task has never been underestimated as it involves completely transforming the US Postal Service into a modern enterprise. This transformation requires competing with some of the most innovative companies on the planet while fulfilling the universal service obligation to deliver the mail, which is a financial challenge. And mister DeJoy started with an organization that had been allowed to follow the disrepair. And I don't think I need to remind anyone in the committee about the disrepair the postal service was in prior to mister Joy's appointment as postmaster general because this committee has legislation over the postal service.
And we had many hearings where, former chairman Elijah Cummings and then, subcommittee ranking member Mark Meadows joined together in publicly criticizing mister DeJoy's predecessor for never even coming up with a plan to reform the post office. However, the postal service's financial solvency today continues to be a major concern. The postal service is hemorrhaging red ink. This year's loss was almost $10,000,000,000 Next year's loss is projected to be 6 and a half $1,000,000,000 And with each loss comes an explanation of how much it was, how much of it was out of your control. Inflation caused by president Biden's out of control government spending is one factor, but it's not the only factor.
When you predicted the postal service could break even, did you not foresee some of these other issues? This includes the civil service retirement obligations, which may be as much as $14,000,000,000. In mister DeJoy's testimony, you stated, sir, how you often have been burdened with excessive oversight to include letters from congress. Believe me, nobody is more aware than I am of the concerns and frustration about the postal service from members of congress than than me. I can't walk down the hall without one of the 434 colleagues of mine, giving me a postal service horror story.
But it comes with the territory. And while this committee is charged with oversight of the postal service at an operational level, we'll we are all members representing our constituents. And the people of Western Kentucky have not been immune to problems that seem to stem from efforts to change postal operation. For example, in Crittenden County, Kentucky, the postal service was delivering bills after they were due. And after being told the county of Crittenden was the problem, it turned out the problem lay with the postal service.
And as the postal network changes, large amounts of mail from Western Kentucky sat in Louisville before finally being sent to Nashville to be sorted. When problems like this occur, members are going to continue to reach out to the postal service just as I did. There are positive signs such as increased revenue and reduced work hours, but we're eager to we're eager to hear where all this is going. And there are things that mister Joy is trying to do in house that would be better left to the private sector. The postal services the postal services added over a 100,000 career employees, but personnel cost and retirement expenses are huge liabilities.
This isn't going to work unless we look for ways to do more with fewer people. That's what the theme of this last election and I think the theme of this new administration is gonna be. How to make government more efficient. We must also address election mail and ballot delivery. We appreciate the effort, mister joy DeJoy and and, your employees in delivering election mail and ballots during this year's election cycle as you have done in every cycle since you've been postmaster general.
But the job to get mail and packages from point a to point b, and it's not to serve as de facto election authority. And while the postal service gains revenue delivering election mail, it also creates an immense burden, not just in terms of resources, but also reputational risk. This committee and in the house recently passed legislation requiring barcoding on ballots that was sponsored by miss Porter from California, our Democrat colleague. This bill will add much needed but not complete transparency to the ballots as they travel through a portion of the postal network. But when extraordinary, measures kick in, there's a gaping hole as ballots are no longer scanned regardless of whether they have a barcode.
And in California, for example, ballots can be accepted long past election day as long as they're postmarked. It leaves postal employees in the position of applying this postmark. To me, there's too much room for bad behavior in that scenario or the accusation of bad behavior. This issue must be closely examined moving forward, particularly in considering the patchwork quilt of election laws across the thousands of election authorities. Some of these election laws impose absurd expectations on the postal service.
For example, allowing voters to request a ballot that comes from a printer across the country the day before the election. That's just not feasible. In closing, we know the postal service has a job to do, but so do we in congress. We need you, mister DeJoy, to answer our questions and give us reason to believe things will turn around at the postal service, which is something that I think this committee hopes for in a bipartisan manner. With that, I now yield to the ranking member for his opening statement.
@GOPoversight - Oversight Committee
Rep. Virginia Foxx (@virginiafoxx) and U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy discuss post office recovery after hurricane damage. https://t.co/C1VjgkNRIb
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Thank you for being here. My district in the southeastern U.S. suffered from Hurricane Helene, impacting postal facilities. How many post offices in North Carolina are still closed, and how long will they remain so?
Currently, about 10 post offices are closed, down from 30 after the hurricane, affecting 3 million delivery points.
The Fleetwood post office is too small for its volume and relies on the Boone post office, causing delays. Can we expect Fleetwood to be moved or rebuilt?
Despite efforts, USPS is projected to lose $9.5 billion this year. Is the Delivering for America plan effective?
We just issued Delivery for America 2.0 to improve performance and revenue. We aim to cut costs by $5 billion and grow revenue by $3 billion.
How do you determine the limits for postage rate increases? After years of not raising prices, we must adjust for inflation to sustain operations.
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Speaker 0: Thank you, mister chairman. And I wanna thank both of our witnesses for being here. I think my colleagues on both sides have done a good job of expressing our concerns about the status of reforms and performance of the post office. Mister DeJoy, as you know, my district in many areas across the southeastern United States were hit hard by hurricane Helene at the end of September. The storm brought catastrophic flooding and widespread damage that did not spare postal facilities in its path.
Can you tell me how many post offices in North Carolina remain closed and how many have been reopened? And if you don't have the answer readily, it's okay if you give it to me later. And how long do you expect the closed post offices to remain closed?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Congresswoman Fox. I believe we have about 10 post offices now that still are without service. We have mobile units that we have put in place. I will tell you that when the hurricane hit, we lost about 30 post offices, and we're down about not able to get to about 3,000,000 delivery points and subsequently progressed down to about 20,000 right now that are closed.
Speaker 0: You put on your mic.
Speaker 2: We've got a couple of people, myself included, having a little trouble hearing you all. If you could pull the, mics closer and and speak into the microphone, that would that would help. Thank you. And I'm sorry to interrupt you, doctor Fox.
Speaker 0: That's okay. I want to go on to another local issue. The Fleetwood, North Carolina post office, very small facility and fast growing community, is too small for the mail volume it receives. And we understand many of the Fleetwood routes are run out of the boom post office nearly 18 miles away, which is delaying the delivery of mail and cost mail carriers time and the UPS money. My staff was told the fleet with post office could not be moved to a larger facility, although one is available unless a disaster struck the post office.
Well, it was destroyed by flooding. Can we now expect the Fleetwood post office to be moved or rebuilt as a larger facility so that the long and wasteful transfer of mail to and from the Boone post Office can be eliminated. It's been a constant source of frustration for many of my constituents and I'm going to follow-up on this Mr. DeJoy because I have other questions to ask you. You stated a few years ago your goal was for the postal service to break even by 2023.
However, as we've heard today, the USPS continues to lose money each year and is on track to close this year with a $9,500,000,000 loss. Is the delivering for America plan still up to the task of helping the postal service finally breakeven?
Speaker 1: The, Look, we just issued Delivery for America 2.0, which is just reinforcement of the initiatives that we have to improve operational performance, recognize the diminishing mail volumes that we are handling in the marketplace and reclaiming our position in the package business. So I'll drive to reduce cost, grow revenue, so we can put more product into our carriers' bags, which have to go to 161,000,000 addresses 6 days a week, which by law, okay, which is over half our cost, which is a pretty fixed environment. So we are pursuing these initiatives. We have introduced new products that have grown package revenue significantly and have other products coming down the line once we get the network in order and the changes in the service standards that we need. So absent other extraordinary issues that face us, this is the best plan that I've seen around town in a long time.
We're planning we will get $5,000,000,000 out of additional cost and we will grow our revenue by additional $3,000,000,000 And if the OIG wants to put a forecast in as to when we will break even, she has those numbers, she can do it.
Speaker 0: Thank you, mister DeJoy. I use the post office a lot. I send out a lot of mail every week from my office from me personally, so I'm very acutely aware of the service, the time and the cost. At what point do increases in postage rates start destroying demand and decrease the volume of mail to economically unsustainable levels? And you've said you're going to raise postage rates to the extent possible.
How do you determine what constitutes, quote, the extent possible?
Speaker 1: So we have operated under a defective to the tune of $50,000,000,000 that the organization was not able to raise their prices. When I got here, we finally got the approval to raise prices and we had 20% inflation, of which I get to charge prices after we incur the inflation. I'm always in arrears. 80%, 75% of the price increases that we charge were due to inflation and were not at the inflation rate. An organization like ours, which has labor and physical distribution assets, that would be negligent not to do any price increases, especially after 50 years.
We are trying to reduce our costs significantly, okay, and grow our revenue to create an integrated mail and package network that winds up funding the delivery of mail into rural communities like yours. That is the strategy we're working on.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Mr. DeJoy. I'm way over time. I apologize, Mr. Chairman.
@GOPoversight - Oversight Committee
Rep. Glenn Grothman (@RepGrothman) grills U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on the cost inefficiencies of EV mail trucks. https://t.co/M59GbQDn6x
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First-class stamp prices vary globally, with the UK around $2.20 and Europe about $1.50. The U.S. is lower, comparable to countries like Ecuador. Regarding electric vehicles, there are no specific requirements, but a plan is in place to acquire 106,000 vehicles over five years, with 66,000 in the next year. The Postal Service is assessing the cost benefits of electric versus gas vehicles, factoring in infrastructure and maintenance costs. While electric vehicles have advantages, the transition is gradual due to installation constraints. On diversity, the organization focuses on performance-based hiring and promotion, with diversity goals managed by HR, ensuring a diverse workforce while prioritizing mail delivery.
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Speaker 0: You said that your first class stamps are lower than other countries. I wasn't aware of that. Could you give us a little story as to where the first class stamp is today in, say, Canada or Mexico or the UK?
Speaker 1: UK is about $2.2 for a stamp. Paris, Europe's Europe's in the $2 range, $1.50. I'm sorry.
Speaker 0: What's Canada and Mexico?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have a I can get you a chart, but we're at the we're down with, Ecuador and countries like that. Most of the most of the industrial world is in a dollar 50 dollars plus range.
Speaker 0: Okay. Overall, next question, are there any requirements with regard to electric vehicles for the post office?
Speaker 1: No, we have a plan to deploy electric vehicles. We have a commitment to buy we have a plan to buy 106,000 vehicles over the next 5 years, of which 66,000 will following year on the acquisitions we have will be
Speaker 0: Do you have any statistics as far as the cost of gas versus electric?
Speaker 1: Well, you know, Congressman, I was in the crossfire of a whole bunch of issues and did not agree to put electric vehicles into our fleet until we had the appropriate cost benefits to The IRA program, which was approved by this Congress, gave us $1,900,000,000 for infrastructure costs and gave us $1,200,000,000 for new vehicle costs, of which we have put together a plan that does in fact work for the Postal Service with that particular, with those particular cost structures. We have, we are buying special purpose long term vehicles that'll last us 20, 25 years at a relatively good cost with the with the Aira offset. And all my infrastructure will be paid for this set of vehicles coming out. We, we're studying the charges now as it moves forward. We have our routes set up for this type of service.
Some of these vehicles we don't have to charge for 3 days. And the cost, I believe, when I look back at the cost improvements that we get, it's only when we get out to the cost of all the 10, let's say a battery lasts 10 years. There is cost benefit to us on maintenance and fuel and so forth for the 10 years. It's when you go to buy that new battery using today's battery cost that it puts us over to could put us over to return.
Speaker 0: Given your druthers, would you rather have gasoline powered vehicles if your sole goal was to save money?
Speaker 1: So my need was to have vehicles now, like 5 years ago.
Speaker 0: Yes, just straight up and down. If we wanted to save money in the next 10 years, would you feel better if we said it would be all good?
Speaker 1: I feel good where we are. I mean, we
Speaker 0: Well, it can't be right. It's half of each, which is less expensive. They can't be identical. Maybe they are identical. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Once look, this is a time constraint. Once installed, the places that were installing, we couldn't put electric vehicles everywhere and we couldn't put electric vehicles in overnight, okay? But once installed, and if you don't have you offset the capital costs, which we have, it's a it's a pretty decent thing. It's a nice vehicle. We have better monitoring on it and it's lower in maintenance.
Speaker 0: I'll give you another question because I'm almost running out. We were talking this morning. Do you have any people in the post office which you'd refer to as DEI professionals, people who are focused on that sort of thing, either with regard to people you hire or with regard to government contracting?
Speaker 1: Congressman, this is a hardworking focused boots on the ground organization. We have our normal in terms of a plan, we have our diversity goals, but that is just handled by our basic HR department. And we are a diverse group of diverse organizations, mostly focused on delivering mail and tax.
Speaker 0: Does that affect who you hire or who you promote?
Speaker 1: I mean, we pay it. You can look at my organization and look at and see what the make your own judgment on it. But I have I hire and relocate people based on intensive evaluation of their performance, and I believe most of the organization, you know, does that.
Speaker 0: Thank you.
@GOPoversight - Oversight Committee
Chairman Comer (@RepJamesComer) has a candid conversation with the U.S. Postmaster General and U.S. Postal Service IG about necessary postal improvements and potential private sector solutions. https://t.co/vWjHkiBRBG
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Postmaster DeJoy, while I appreciate your efforts to improve the Postal Service, my concern remains the financial losses. The public wants government efficiency, and while privatization is often suggested, no private company is willing to handle universal mail delivery. However, there are opportunities for partnerships in mail sorting.
Your reorganization plan aims to streamline operations, but we need to ensure it effectively reduces costs and improves performance. The Postal Service has significant unfunded mandates and obligations that impact finances.
We need to explore legislative changes to help the Postal Service break even. Additionally, the Office of Inspector General is researching costly obligations, including retirement funds, and will provide insights on potential solutions. It's crucial to address postal rates and staffing to enhance efficiency moving forward.
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Speaker 0: Postmaster DeJoy, we hear everybody has ideas on how to make the Postal Service better. My concern, as you know, is the hemorrhaging of cash. As I said in my opening statement, I appreciate the fact that you were willing to take this job on. I appreciate the fact that you have a plan and you're trying to implement that plan. That's what we want.
That's what we want with Doge. That's what the American people want. They want people trying to make government more efficient. I think you're trying to do that. When we talk about efficiency, especially members on this side of the aisle, we think of privatization.
And you'll have people say, Oh, we should privatize the post office. The problem with that is nobody wants the to deliver the mail to every house in America 6 days a week and and operate all those retail postal facilities. There's no private company in the world that wants it. So a lot of of my friends on in my party need to realize that there's no private company that wants to do that. But there are private companies that are interested in in mail sorting.
There are private companies that are interested, which is where I think a lot of the problems are from people on both sides of the aisle. You know, there there's issues with mail getting lost and sorting the mail. Are you open to any type of privatization, any type of pilot projects or anything like that with different facets of the Postal Service? I know you we privatize the logistics of the mail, but are there other areas of
Speaker 1: privatization that you would be open to, partnerships and
Speaker 0: things like that? That that you would be open to, partnerships and things like that?
Speaker 2: So we we we cut we cut first first of all, with with congress and administration asked me to have a discussion about initiatives, I as as I did in the first administration when I came in, and the next administration that came in, and this administration, and all the congresses, I will work with you to understand, what it is that you want us to consider, and I will work very hard to to either, identify that we could could do it or to to say that it's just not gonna work for us. Let let me say when I came in, we had 500 different places with contractors, our people, and so forth doing random things. Okay? In in terms of how to process that. I have to get that down to 225 fully functional operations with with high precision.
I think I can do that. Okay? But we have a lot of rules and a lot of a lot of, you know, critique and resistance. I just want to move 5% of of the of the local canceled mail 5% of the mail from, from, 60 locations into, into a major sorting centers sorting centers close by so we can so we can handle that. I had I had, like, 20 senators stop me.
Speaker 0: Right. I understand.
Speaker 2: I had Oh,
Speaker 0: I know they all called me. They all called me.
Speaker 2: Calling me about what mail machine I was moving out of a plant.
Speaker 0: Right. And I and I know that. Believe me. I know that. I can't go to the bathroom without a senator representative stopping me and, giving me a a postal horror story.
But it but at the end of the where we are now, do you do you think your reorganization plans work? And do you think that we're going to, improve performance and cut our losses? I mean, the the goal of the postal service is to is to break even, and and we're not doing that.
Speaker 2: We no longer have a monopoly. We have an obligation. We have 39,000,000,000
Speaker 1: dollars I I moved I know as much about it.
Speaker 2: Process $75,000,000,000 to deliver it. I have to reduce the 75,000,000,000 to 70 or or something. I have to grow our package business. I gotta move everything together. That is the that that is the deal.
I think that we can be vibrant. We can serve the American people. We can cover a lot of our cost. Okay? And then we could look at things in the Congress that I have, $10,000,000,000 of unfunded mandates, things that you require us to do that cost us money.
Speaker 0: Well, in our postal reform bill that we passed in a bipartisan manner out of this committee, which became law, we provided funding, and we changed a lot of the liability obligations that you had. And we've tried to help the Postal Service. You know, it's been disappointing,
Speaker 1: the law says
Speaker 2: It's so mandated that we deliver to 167 and 66 days a week. Do you know what kind of cost that is, mandating?
Speaker 0: I do. I do. But again, the post if there's a way that we can make this thing break even, if there's something legislatively that we can do, I'm more than willing to to try to to help with that. But, you know, the days of of bailouts and and handouts are over. I mean, the American people spoke loud and clear.
And as I said, I jumped in on Mr. Palmer's questions, I worry about that EV money sitting around, that it may be clawed back. I think there are lots of areas where there's going to be significant reform over the next 4 years. And there are I'm just I'm on your side. I'm the advocate.
My grandmother spent her career as a mail carrier in Ribble in Phoenix, Tennessee. I am on the side of the post office. But I'm telling you, there are lots of ideas that I don't know whether they'd be advantageous or not to the postal service, but there are a lot of ideas out there about significant changes. And I I just I hope that you're given an opportunity to implement these these reforms. The problem is with the losses and and I'm over I gave Mr.
Raskin 2.5 minutes extra, and I'm going to ask one more question to the Inspector General. So in light of the losses this year and projected losses next year, does the Office of Inspector General have any ideas or solutions as to how we can limit the losses or even get to the objective of trying to breakeven?
Speaker 3: We've done some work in particularly in our research area where we've identified, some where some of the costly obligations that I spoke of earlier, relate to the postal service, particularly around the, retirement funds in in that area. We're also doing some research work that should come out, I think, in the spring or early summer on, other posts around the world. This this the problems the post service has experienced are not specific to the United States. Post around the world have have struggled Are
Speaker 0: are postal rates too cheap? Is that anything that you thought about? I mean, is it is it, are they too expensive? And that's limiting the the bit I mean, these are questions you all need to look into if you have it. Yeah.
We did. And and if if an obligation for retirement, obviously, that's a huge expense, a huge liability. Should we be hiring more people at the Postal Service? I mean, I I and and is there are there private sector solutions? These are things the IG's office needs to look at.
And and and again, I'll say this, this committee has jurisdiction over over the inspector general. I have found there are good inspector generals, there are average IGs, and there are poor IGs. And and we're trying to work with the new administration on identifying which is which. And and, you know, so we need the IGs to work with us because finally, this town is fixing to get serious about being more efficient. So we'll be in communication with that.
My time's expired
reSee.it AI Summary
I’m frustrated with the USPS spending $10 billion on electric postal trucks, costing about $166K each. The contractor promised to produce 80 trucks a day but has only delivered 93 in nearly two years. This feels like a waste of money and part of a flawed Green New Deal initiative.
@RepMTG - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸
Here’s another HUGE waste of money by the USPS! $10 BILLION for electric postal trucks adding up to around $166K each. The defense contractor was supposed to build 80 a day but has only made 93 in almost two year. This is a Democrat Green New Deal scam that’s throwing your money away. It has to stop!
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
How can the data systems be so bad?
@kylenabecker - Kyle Becker
JUST IN: Secretary of State @MarcoRubio has just informed USAID workers that he only needs 294 of them. There are 14,000 people who work at the agency. The DOGE Effect. https://t.co/debKfe2Kum
@charliekirk11 - Charlie Kirk
Headline yesterday: "DOGE visits the IRS." Headline today: "IRS expected to lay off thousands, starting next week." This is what an action-based administration looks like. https://t.co/mef8SvJGJh
@libsoftiktok - Libs of TikTok
BREAKING: Michelle King, Acting head of the Social Security Administration RESIGNS after dispute with DOGE staff - NYP Yesterday Elon Musk revealed there were nearly 20 million dead people on the Social Security database https://t.co/lqcjEqwQwx
@AForeman1970 - Adam Foreman
Head of the Postal Service, Louis Dejoy is stepping down after losing $9.5 BILLION in 2024. In 2023 he lost $6.5 Billion. USPS has seen a 80% DECREASE in volume of mail but ADDED 190,000 employees Can we just say they were part of the trafficking so we can execute him? https://t.co/KcEp32dzgk
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You keep asking about the post office's business model, but I didn't create the laws governing it; I'm just trying to fix the issues I inherited. You're exaggerating the hiring increases.
No one in the private sector would advise increasing employee numbers with a declining business. Instead, we insourced 190,000 jobs by hiring contractors at lower wages and benefits, which is inexplicable.
The reform of shifting costs isn't real reform; it's just moving debt to another account within the government. The main goal was to escape healthcare and pension costs. But government employees have dramatically higher healthcare and pension costs compared to contractors. By hiring more government employees instead of contractors, we're compounding the problem we were trying to solve three years ago.
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Speaker 0: You mentioned in your testimony that the post office is different than other areas of government that it has to operate like a private business. You also mentioned that about, 80% of the volume of first class mail has gone down over time. Can you think of a private business where 80% of what they're, you know, doing to make money is going down in volume that would actually increase their employees?
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, senator, you keep asking I mean, I didn't make the laws that follow that organized the United States Postal Service. Okay? I came in, as I said, to the condition that we had, and I'm trying to fix it. Now you exaggerate the hiring aspects.
Speaker 0: I know no one in in private practice or investors who, know, give advice to a corporate board who would say, you have a declining business model. We're gonna increase the numbers. But then when you have a choice of hiring contractors that won't be paid the same wages or pension benefits or health care benefits that you pay your employees, that you're up a hundred and 90,000. You've insourced a hundred and 90,000 jobs. And and it's just sort of inexplicable.
The whole point that of the reform of shifting the cost is not really reform. It's a shell game. We just took a bunch of things that are still cost on your books, we put them on somebody else's books somewhere else in government. It's still a massive cluster in a way that the debt problem is just shifted over to another account. But in doing that, the main thing you were trying to get away from was health care costs and pension.
Right? And so if you compare a contractor or a contracted employee to an in to a government employee, an insourced employee, and you compare the health costs and the pension costs, they're dramatically higher for insource. So by increasing your number of people who work for the government as opposed to contractors, you're compounding the same problem. You were here with us three years ago saying, we can't handle all these other expenses. We need to shift them somewhere else.
And so the reform package did that. But in contrast, then you could continue to hire more people instead of saying, well, we have all these extra costs associated with government
@GuntherEagleman - Gunther Eagleman™
This is the Postmaster who just resigned from the USPS. When confronted with the outrageous waste, he covered his ears like a stubborn child. We need to rid our government of everyone like this, immediately. https://t.co/wL4QKQrS6A
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You are bankrupting the postal service through reputation alone. You are responsible for the fall of the postal service and its lack of accountability. No, Congress is responsible for the fall of the postal service. With all the AI and computer systems, you are worse than someone hand-delivering the mail.
This is the response that the postmaster gave Congress when he doesn't like what he hears. He literally covered his ears and gave himself a grade of A. With that, I rest.
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Speaker 0: You were greeted by The United States people, and they don't use your service anymore. You bankrupt. That is not true. You bankrupt this through your reputation only. Growing.
Through your reputation is growing. You are responsible for the fall of the postal service and the lack of accountability. Congress is responsible for the fall of postal service. Congress is responsible for the fall of postal service. Congress is responsible for the fall of the postal service.
With all the my watch, the same stuff happened in With all the AI, with all the computer systems, you're worse than if I took a call or to yourself. And picked up the mail and delivered it two miles down the road. That's you. I hope you got that on camera. This is the response that the postmaster just gave Congress when he doesn't like what he hears.
Literally covered his ears and gave himself the grade of A. And with that, sir, I rest.
@GuntherEagleman - Gunther Eagleman™
When does @DOGE and @elonmusk start auditing USPS? Just a few stats found on Grok: - FY 2024 recorded a net loss of $9.5 billion. - FY 2023 recorded a net loss of $6.5 billion. - Since 2007, cumulative losses exceed $100 billion. What other company could lose over $100B and stay in business? Pictured below is a photo of the new truck that costs an average of $59,600 per unit, with over $2.98B invested in the overall project.
@ordinarygirl1 - Sibyl🇺🇸♥️🌹🩷
This is the Postmaster who just resigned from the USPS. This man presided over the US postal service that lost hundreds of billions of dollars under his watch year after year after year. This behavior speaks volumes！ https://t.co/5jZuKUNSkv
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You bankrupted the postal service through your reputation alone. You are responsible for its fall and the lack of accountability.
That is not true, the postal service is growing and Congress is responsible for the fall of the postal service. I am trying to fix it.
On your watch, with all the AI and computer systems, the postal service has gotten worse. You're worse than if I took a horse and delivered it two miles down the road. This is the response that the Postmaster just gave Congress when he doesn't like what he hears. Literally covered his ears and gave himself the grade of A.
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Speaker 0: You were greeted by The United States people, and they don't use your service anymore. You bankrupt.
Speaker 1: That is not true.
Speaker 0: You bankrupt this through your reputation only.
Speaker 1: Growing.
Speaker 0: Through your reputation
Speaker 1: is growing.
Speaker 0: You are responsible for the fall of the postal service and the lack of accountability
Speaker 1: congress is responsible for
Speaker 2: the fall of the Oh, so is congress
Speaker 1: I am trying to fix I am trying to fix
Speaker 0: On your watch. The postal service.
Speaker 2: With all
Speaker 0: the AI.
Speaker 1: Before my watch, the same stuff happened in
Speaker 0: the AI with all the computer systems. You're worse than if I took a horse
Speaker 1: to yourself.
Speaker 0: And picked up the mail and delivered it two miles down the road. That's you. I hope you got that on camera. This is the response that the postmaster just gave congress when he doesn't like what he hears. Literally covered his ears and gave himself the grade of a.
And with that, sir, I rest. Good.
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
Shifting people from low to negative productivity jobs in the government sector to high productivity roles in the commercial sector will greatly improve the average standard of living
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
BREAKING: Federal judge rules that President Trump can continue mass firings of federal workers. Unions sued last week to block the administration from firing federal workers and granting buyouts to employees who quit voluntarily. https://t.co/wbrzqcuiJZ
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I'm preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and merge it with the Department of Commerce. Postal board members and their teams will be fired soon. I want a Post Office that works well and doesn't lose money, and I believe this change will improve its operations.
@BehizyTweets - George
BREAKING: President Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and merge the agency with the Department of Commerce. Postal board members & their teams will be fired imminently. Earlier, President Trump said, "We want to have a Post Office that works well and doesn't lose massive amounts of money ... It'll remain the Postal Service, and I think it'll operate a lot better than it has been over the years."
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We're exploring ways to improve the Postal Service, which has been losing significant amounts of money. One option is a potential merger with the Commerce Department. The goal is to create a more efficient postal service. Whether it's a full merger or simply leveraging talented people from other departments, we aim to reduce the losses. The Postal Service will remain, but we believe we can significantly improve its operations and financial performance. We're considering all options to keep it very similar to what it is now, but in a way that prevents it from losing tremendous amounts of money.
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Speaker 0: There are reports that you are considering merging The United States with the commerce department. Can you operate while we're doing something
Speaker 1: you're doing? We wanna have a post office that works well and doesn't lose massive amounts of money. And we're thinking about doing that, and it will be a form of a merger. But it will remain the postal service, and I think it will operate a lot better than it has been over the years. It's been just a tremendous loser for this country, tremendous amounts of money being lost.
And we think we can do something that'll be very good and keep it a very similar way. But whether it's a merger or just using some of the very talented people that we have elsewhere so it doesn't lose so much, it's losing a tremendous amount of money.
@BehizyTweets - George
U.S. Postal Office workers lined the streets of D.C. to protest President Trump's plan to take over the agency and make it efficient. "And to the White House, we say HELL NO! HELL NO! HELL NO! to dismantling the Postal Service." https://t.co/Ua1L4Hk1DL
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To the White House, we say no. No to dismantling the postal service. Solidarity forever. Thank you.
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Speaker 0: And to the White House, we say Hell no. No. Hell no. Hell no. Hell Hell no.
Hell Hell no. Hell no. Hell no to dismantling the postal service. Saladary forever. Thank you very much.
@its_The_Dr - Johnny Midnight ⚡️
President Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and merge the agency with the Department of Commerce. Do you support this? https://t.co/7lz1auyPkj
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We're exploring ways to improve the Postal Service, which has been losing significant amounts of money. One idea involves a merger, possibly with the Commerce Department, to enhance its efficiency. While it would remain the Postal Service, the aim is to make it function much better than it has in the past.
Alternatively, we might leverage talented individuals from other departments to help reduce the financial losses. The goal is to find a solution that preserves the Postal Service's core functions while significantly improving its financial performance, whether through a merger or by utilizing existing expertise.
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Speaker 0: There are reports that you are considering merging The United States with the commerce department. Can you operate while we're doing something
Speaker 1: you're doing? We wanna have a post office that works well and doesn't lose massive amounts of money. And we're thinking about doing that, and it will be a form of a merger. But it'll remain the postal service, and I think it'll operate a lot better than it has been over the years. It's been just a tremendous loser for this country, tremendous amounts of money being lost.
And we think we can do something that'll be very good and keep it a very similar way. But whether it's a merger or just using some of the very talented people that we have elsewhere so it doesn't lose so much. It's losing a tremendous amount of money.
@SenJoniErnst - Joni Ernst
Biden's $3 billion EV fleet for @USPS is lost in the mail! ✉️ Just 93 of 50,000 vehicles have been delivered. I am canceling the order and returning the unspent money to sender: the taxpayers!
@FoxNews - Fox News
DOGE lawmakers look to defund Biden's anemic-paced $3B EV postal truck 'boondoggle' https://trib.al/Xl2uY8C
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@WallStreetApes - Wall Street Apes
It’s insane this was allowed to happen - The average salary at the Department of Education was roughly $144,000 per year - That number increased in 2025 to $145,489 per year - There are an estimated 4,144 employees at the DoE - That’s $602,906,000 annually JUST IN SALARIES https://t.co/YNIKzh4j77
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The Department of Education has over 4,000 employees with an average salary exceeding $144,000. The Trump administration considered laying off half the department. The department's mission is to provide student achievement and prepare for global competitiveness.
US test scores are declining; in 2022, the US ranked 16th in science, 9th in reading, and 34th in math, and scores have fallen since 2018. The Department of Education funds schools with $80-85 billion in loans and grants, but often with strings attached, such as critical race theory and gender ideology.
Shutting down the Department of Education would return that money to the states, which could then fund school choice programs. This would allow parents in low-income neighborhoods to move their children to better schools, creating a competitive market. The speaker believes this would be better for children and the country, despite the political opposition.
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Speaker 0: Absolutely no sense. The average salary at the Department of Education is over a hundred and $44,000. And guess what, folks? There's over 4,000 employees at the Department of Education as of 2024. So that's a lot of salaries.
You add that up. I can't even count that high. It's insane. It's over millions and millions of dollars in salaries at the Department of Education. Now unless you've been living in Iraq, you've heard Department of Education in the news recently.
There's been talk by the Trump administration. Oh, the Trump administration. I'm so scared. I don't wanna go. I can't go with that, right, if you're a democrat.
Well, let's break it down. Let's look at some stuff. So last week on Tuesday, they actually shut the Department of Education down on Wednesday. Didn't shut it down completely. Shut it down for one day for security reasons, I guess, but they did try to lay off half of the Department of Education.
So what does this mean exactly? What what what does this mean exactly? What's been going on? Why would they wanna shut it down? Well, I'll tell you a few things, in my opinion, why they wanna shut it down.
Let's look at the mission statement of the Department of Education. What's the mission statement? Our mission is to provide student achievement and prepare for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring access. Equal. Okay.
Okay. That's their mission statement. So let's look at three different things to where there might be reason to actually shut this thing down. Number one is the test scores. So the Department of Education started under Carter administration in 1979.
And so from 1979 to 2025, are we getting better? Are we getting worse? And so I looked at the last several years and it's been pretty much the same, getting pretty much worse over time. If you look at the last several years, could Google it up. Mark, you do get the numbers.
Well, I'll tell you. You Google it up. It was on austinstatesman.com. Let's put it that way. Here's a few things though.
The test scores the last test scores I saw was in 2022. The United States ranked sixteenth in science, ninth in reading, and thirty fourth in math. That's not good numbers in my opinion. You're we are a world superpower. Economically, the most powerful country in the world.
Militarily, the most powerful country in the world. But I'm thinking about our future. I don't know if that's I don't think that's good. Sixteenth in science, ninth in reading, and thirty fourth in math. Now you go back and look from 2018 to 2022.
Are we getting better or getting worse? We're getting worse. Science fell three points in sign or three points in science, one point reading, and 13 points in math. We fell 13 points in math since 2018. That's not good.
So that's probably a reason why you wanna shut down the Department of Education. And so the Department of Education for years and years also, they would fund the schools, right? They fund the schools across The United States. And they have 80 to $85,000,000,000 that is dispersed in loans and grants to schools across The United States. But a lot of times there's strings attached with that money.
Strings attached in the form of critical race theory, gender ideology. Yeah. We'll give you the money, but you're gonna support this. You're gonna do this and this. So they're telling the unelected bureaucrats in department education, no, you and I didn't vote for the department education.
Unelected bureaucrats dictating what your kids, your and I kids learn in school. And of course the school districts take the money because they're running a business and stuff like that. But there's lot of stuff that's been going on, the wokeness that's been going on in your school district that's been funneled down from the Department of Education. That's just the bottom line. CUSTOMER two, you got test scores going down, you got strings attached, money that's coming from the Department of Education.
So what happens exactly? What do you do? So if you shut the Department of Education, you take that 80 to 85,000,000,000 dispersion back to the states, you give that money back to the states, you shut the Department of Education down. The states can use it for their school choice program, the underfunded school choice program. And so what does that do?
You want equal access in your mission statement? Well, think about it. There's kids in that were born into low income neighborhoods, bad schools. And so the parents, you give that money back to the parents and they can make the decision. They can make the decision to move their child, give the money to move their child and go to another school, a better school that has better teachers, better test scores and everything like that.
And so you can have a competitive market actually within the school districts. And, you know, the democrats don't like that either because teacher unions really don't like that. But you want equal access, you want educational excellence. You put it back into the parents and let them make that decision. And that's better really for the kids.
So it the the problem is this thing is very political. And so the second if you're a democrat, you hear the word Trump wants to shut it down. Oh, I don't like that. And and and instead, you should actually be thinking what's best for the children. Are you getting better pay for your buck by having the Department of open?
Or you get your better bank for your buck actually putting that money back in The States. And from my opinion, I think it's better to have it back in The States where you can not spend all that money and have that money back in the hands of parents to make the best decision for their children. And I think that's what's best for the country.
@SenJoniErnst - Joni Ernst
President Biden's $3 billion for a @USPS EV fleet is lost in the mail with just 93 out of 50,000 vehicles delivered after three years. I am canceling this boondoggle and returning the funds to sender - the taxpayers!
reSee.it AI Summary
I shared some shocking findings from our DOGE team’s investigations. We uncovered misuse of funds, like a $4B COVID relief fund used for lavish parties and loans given to deceased individuals. We also found that taxpayer money supports questionable projects, such as alpaca farming in Peru, while only a fraction reaches the intended recipients. Additionally, federal retirement processes are absurdly inefficient, taking six months to complete. Our team, including members who sacrificed their education for this mission, is dedicated to rooting out fraud and waste in government spending.
@RedWave_Press - RedWave Press
A DOGE member reveals the Department of Education had a $4B C*VID fund, and people were taking that money and using it to rent out Caesars Palace and stadiums for parties. “And so the one change that DOGE made… was we had the simple requirement that if you draw down money, you must first upload a receipt.” “And upon [enacting this policy], nobody drew down any money anymore.”
Video Transcript AI Summary
The Treasury pays out $5 trillion per year, and previously, payments lacked budget codes, obscuring their purpose. A $4 billion COVID fund in the Department of Education had no receipt requirements, leading to funds being used to rent Caesars Palace and stadiums for parties.
When a receipt upload requirement was implemented, fund drawdowns ceased, even though the receipts were not verified. Fraud often starts small and hidden, but escalates over time if unchecked, eventually becoming brazen, such as renting out stadiums.
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Speaker 0: So actually, lot of great work at the treasury this week. One of the crazy things at with regards to the treasury is that when a payment is made and the computers of the treasury actually pay about $5,000,000,000,000 per year like crazy amounts, there was formerly not a budget code on there. So if some payment was made you didn't know actually what it was for. It could have been for anything. Yeah.
There was a a $4,000,000,000 COVID fund in the Department of Education and there was no receipts required so people could just draw down on it. And when people looked into it, this wasn't just before us. They found that money was being used to rent out Caesars Palace for parties, rent out stadiums, etcetera. And so the one change that Doge made with Pharm Education is we had the simple requirement that if you draw down money, you must first upload a receipt. That was the only change that was made.
You must upload your receipt and upon doing so, nobody drew down any money anymore.
Speaker 1: Yes. But we we didn't say that we'd check the receipt. You could send a fake receipt. You could send a picture of your dog. Anything.
Anything. Anything. And and they but as soon as we asked for anything at all, they were suddenly the requests were like, oh, we don't need it anymore. That's interesting. They were renting Caesar's Palace?
Yes. They were like basically partying on the tax share of money. Stadiums? Yes. Leasing stadiums.
Leasing stadiums. For what? For parties, basically.
Speaker 0: For parties?
Speaker 1: Yes. That's a big party. It's a big party. You'd think if you were stealing, you'd start small. They do start small.
But then over what happens is over the years so generally, the fraud starts out small and they try to hide it. But then year after year, if nobody stops the fraud, it gets more and more brazen. And and every year it gets bigger until they're literally renting out stadiums. I like in I think a million dollars to rent out a stadium? Fraud infra infragrante delecto.
Okay? We're talking at scale.
@RedWave_Press - RedWave Press
Our tax dollars went to a former Taliban member and private jet flights for employees at the “Institute of Peace.”
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Babies and d*ad people are getting hundreds of millions of your tax dollars for their small businesses.
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Congrats you are funding alpaca farming in Peru and improving the marketability of peas in Guatemala through jam.
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Save the baby pandas!
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It takes federal employees 6-months to retire. https://t.co/yl8sJ4dQpc
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There is a law that requires the U.S. Postal Service to have a balanced budget even though they have lost money every year since 2007. https://t.co/C6eFaUtnso
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Meet"'Big Balls" https://t.co/WnF5JOXeLJ
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DOGE employees have sacrificed everything to serve our country, including dropping out of Harvard University. https://t.co/I3jAFnTlnH