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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,334 posts)
Sat May 9, 2020, 01:23 PM May 2020

Democrats on collision course with Trump and Republicans over Postal Service bailout

House Democrats want the next round of coronavirus aid to include a massive bailout of the U.S. Postal Service, which has, for years, experienced declining revenue exacerbated further by the coronavirus epidemic.

But Republicans and President Trump want significant reforms implemented before providing new funding.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, told reporters she’ll include a $25 billion bailout of the postal service in a massive economic aid package that is likely to top $1 trillion.

"We have to fight for the Postal Service," Pelosi said this week. "And people across the country are all tweeting and writing to me and stuff like that, saying we really — protect our post office."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/democrats-on-collision-course-with-trump-and-republicans-over-postal-service-bailout/ar-BB13OWtD?li=BBnb7Kz

The postal service is written in the constitution. Do your job Repukes.

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Democrats on collision course with Trump and Republicans over Postal Service bailout (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 OP
With Nancy AGAIN! bluestarone May 2020 #1
I do not believe all Republicans would True Blue American May 2020 #2
Hope your right! BUT bluestarone May 2020 #3
Pure bluster SCantiGOP May 2020 #4
Bluster, distraction, and putting the Post Office on the table for a future sales push, empedocles May 2020 #6
Can the Dems also insist that the Bush pension law Be repealed? ResistantAmerican17 May 2020 #7
health benefits according to PolitiFact stopdiggin May 2020 #12
Thx! Health benefits for retirees. ResistantAmerican17 May 2020 #14
Also, a significant number of people receive medication supplies by mail. crickets May 2020 #11
100% correct! True Blue American May 2020 #13
Until Proponents Of Saving The P.O.... jayfish May 2020 #5
Most people don't even know this is going on SCantiGOP May 2020 #9
Is there an explicitly stated reason they are opposing it? In It to Win It May 2020 #8
The real reason is that Trump hates Bezos SCantiGOP May 2020 #10

True Blue American

(17,995 posts)
2. I do not believe all Republicans would
Sat May 9, 2020, 01:31 PM
May 2020

Allow the Postal Service to die. If they do they are dead meat in rural America!

SCantiGOP

(13,874 posts)
4. Pure bluster
Sat May 9, 2020, 01:34 PM
May 2020

The Democrats should put it in the House bill and state unequivocally that they will not accept any Conference Committee bill that does not contain the funding with no radical conditions attached.
There is no way the Senate is going to let that die and force the Post Office to shut down a month or so before the election. For one thing, as fragile as the economy is, the news that the PO will be shutting down would likely trigger a huge stock market decline, since a significant number of Americans still receive and pay their bills through the mail. And millions of dollars of obnoxious political mailers would have to trashed.
Tell the Republicans that we are OK going into the election with the GOP identified as the group that killed the Postal Service.
Force them to back down.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
6. Bluster, distraction, and putting the Post Office on the table for a future sales push,
Sat May 9, 2020, 01:47 PM
May 2020

- and current 'con "campaign contributions".

stopdiggin

(11,395 posts)
12. health benefits according to PolitiFact
Sat May 9, 2020, 03:17 PM
May 2020

and this would help .. but the Post Office has more issues than just this one. Republicans are no friends of the USPS (everything except the military would be better privatized .. including your public schools) .. but the bulk of it's troubles lie in new economic and business models usured in with the internet.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/15/afl-cio/widespread-facebook-post-blames-2006-law-us-postal/

crickets

(25,987 posts)
11. Also, a significant number of people receive medication supplies by mail.
Sat May 9, 2020, 02:18 PM
May 2020

One more strike against basic survival would be too much for many voters trump is counting on.

jayfish

(10,040 posts)
5. Until Proponents Of Saving The P.O....
Sat May 9, 2020, 01:40 PM
May 2020

are able to correctly message to the American people why it's in the position it's in, it'll look more like a fender-bender than a "collision". Why is this so f'ing hard?

SCantiGOP

(13,874 posts)
9. Most people don't even know this is going on
Sat May 9, 2020, 02:02 PM
May 2020

If it became a mainstream issue, with news stories that Amazon, UPS and FedEx would begin delivering your mail, and the cost of a letter would only triple (except in rural areas where it might need to be 10 times higher than now), I don't think the GOP would hold out long against 80% voter disapproval and doomsday scenarios from many large companies that rely on the PO.

SCantiGOP

(13,874 posts)
10. The real reason is that Trump hates Bezos
Sat May 9, 2020, 02:05 PM
May 2020

so he wants to raise the cost Amazon pays to have the PO do the final leg of most of their deliveries. Remember that Bezos also owns the Washington Post.
His stated reason is that the deal the PO has with UPS, FedEx and Amazon is bad, and he has publicly said that they must quadruple their rates to those providers. The PO and all independent analysts say that the deals are good and saves money for both sides.

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