Dem Lawmaker Asks Postmaster General If His ‘Backup Plan’ Is To Be ‘Pardoned Like Roger Stone’

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is being confronted about his planned operational changes at the U.S. 📮Postal Service and whether his political affiliation has played a role in any of those decisions.

Appearing before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, DeJoy was pressed on a series of reforms he has implemented during his tenure.

Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) shared examples he has seen of prolonged delays in mail delivery. One example he shared came from a constituent who said it took 12-days for her letter to reach a Social Security office that was 20 miles away.

Another example cited a local, new story that found that 📮Postal Service trucks were “being forced to leave on schedule even when completely empty.”

“Imagine it, 53-foot trucks forced to travel hundreds of miles completely empty due to your so-called reforms… That’s not efficiency. That’s insanity,” he said.

He went on to claim, “For anyone thinking of voting absentee, the effect of your policies is to unilaterally move up election day from November 3rd to something like October 27th, and if you force more empty trucks on the highway, you will be able to single-handedly move up election day even earlier.”

Watch the exchange below:

Cooper went on to reference an NPR story that found that more than 500,000 absentee ballots have been invalidated for late delivery, and ripped into DeJoy, “How dare you disenfranchise so many voters when you told the Senate committee last week that you had a sacred duty to protect election mail.”