defend the Postal Service

Now Donald Trump is coming for the Post Office.

Trump reportedly intends to fire the entire independent board that oversees the United States Postal Service and park the USPS under the control of a MAGA diehard who just took over as secretary of commerce.

• As of this past Friday, Trump's hand-picked secretary of commerce is a MAGA loyalist named Howard Lutnick.

• Lutnick's chief "qualification" seems to be that he raised millions for Trump's 2020 and 2024 campaigns.

• That, in turn, seems to have resulted in Trump putting Lutnick — along with former professional wrestling magnate Linda McMahon — in charge of his presidential transition team. (McMahon, of course, has since become Trump's secretary of education.)

• This all follows untold damage done to the Postal Service by a different Republican mega-donor, Louis DeJoy, who Trump installed as postmaster general during his first term.

Allowing the Trump regime to take over the United States Postal Service is an obvious step toward the right-wing fantasy of fully privatizing the USPS — so that one of their ultra-wealthy buddies can make billions while the American people lose an essential service that they have been able to rely on for generation after generation.

Privatizing the Postal Service would mean abandoning its essentially public nature.

It would lead to mass closure of post offices that serve as community hubs. It would decimate rural delivery. It would spike costs for seniors who rely on the mail for, among other things, critical medicines. And it would destroy the USPS as connective tissue throughout the country — something we need now more than ever.

One teeny tiny snag in Trump's scheme — a pesky little document known as the Constitution of the United States says that Congress, not the president, has authority over the USPS. (Also, the current governing structure of the USPS is established and mandated by law.)

Now, far too many senators and representatives have not been so good lately at standing up for Congress as a co-equal branch of government — or, frankly, much more than a MAGA doormat.

But they need to hear from as many Americans as possible that they must defend the United States Postal Service and refuse to let it be fed into the Trump/Musk wood chipper.

To Congress:

The American people need — and are entitled to — an independent, robust, and uncorrupted United States Postal Service. And the Constitution gives Congress, not Donald Trump or any other president, authority over the USPS. Do your job. Stand up to the Trump regime's attempt to usurp your authority. Do not let Trump take over the Postal Service.

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