More than 50 House Democrats are calling on President Joe Biden to fire and replace all six members of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors, calling them ''complicit'' in Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's ''gross mismanagement'' of the postal system.
The Trump-appointed board can terminate DeJoy, who has drawn strong criticism for the changes he's made at the Postal Service since assuming the position on June 15, 2020, including eliminating employee overtime, reorganizing or eliminating Postal Service leadership and removing mail-sorting machines from postal facilities around the U.S.
"Under the tenure of this BOG, the Postal Service was blatantly misused by President Trump in an unsuccessful gambit to influence a presidential election, the Postal Service is currently failing to meet its own service standards with historically low rates of on-time delivery, and conflicts of interest appear to be a requirement for service," reads a letter signed by 53 House Democrats and sent to Biden Thursday.
"Because of their lax oversight, many families struggling through the pandemic still await delivery of their stimulus checks, credit card statements, or event holiday cards," the letter continues. "The nonpartisan Postal Service Office of Inspector General found that the BOG allowed their hand-picked PMG [Postmaster General] to implement significant operational changes in the milieu of the election and the pandemic without conducting any research into the impacts and ramifications of these changes."
The USPS, which employs nearly 500,000 career employees, has been plagued by delivery delays. Numerous lawsuits were filed over its handling of mail-in ballots during the 2020 presidential election.
DeJoy in late February warned that the postal system is in a ''death spiral'' and needs legislation to help restore it to financial stability.
"My message is that the status quo should be acceptable to no one,'' DeJoy told the House Oversight Committee.
The USPS lost more than $9 billion last year and owes nearly $80 billion in unfunded liabilities because of a congressionally imposed mandate that the organization prepay health costs for future retirees.
DeJoy said he had a 10-year plan to address the problems, though some lawmakers want him gone now.
In a testy exchange with Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., DeJoy said, "You can sit here and think I'm bringing all this damage to the Postal Service," but "the place was operationally faulty because of lack of investment and lack of ability to move forward, which is what we're trying to do."
Asked during the hearing how much longer he intended on staying as postmaster general, DeJoy responded: ''A long time. Get used to me.''
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