House Oversight Committee Calls Postmaster General to Testify at an ‘Urgent Hearing’

House Democrats are holding a hearing on new operational changes being made at the U.S. 📮Postal Service (USPS).

In a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) said, “I am writing to request your testimony at an urgent hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Reform.”

“The hearing will examine your sweeping operational and organizational changes at the 📮Postal Service, which experts warn could degrade delivery standards, slow the mail, and potentially impair the rights of eligible Americans to cast their votes through the mail in the upcoming November elections,” she added.

Maloney continued to noted that DeJoy’s staff previously said he would not be available testify before Congress until September 17.

She continued, “Over the past several weeks, there have been startling new revelations about the scope and gravity of operational changes you are implementing at hundreds of postal facilities without consulting adequately with Congress, the Postal Regulatory Commission, or the Board of Governors.”

“Your testimony is particularly urgent given the troubling influx of reports of widespread delays at postal facilities across the country—as well as President Trump’s explicit admission last week that he has been blocking critical coronavirus funding for the 📮Postal Service in order to impair mail-in voting efforts for the upcoming elections in November,” she added.