Trump shrugs off outcry over Postal Service: 'I'm just making it good'
Source: The Hill
President Trump on Monday dismissed a Democratic push for billions in U.S. Postal Service (USPS) funding as a "con game" and shrugged off concerns from lawmakers that he is undermining the agency ahead of November's election.
"Im just making it good," Trump said when asked on "Fox & Friends" about claims that he is "sabotaging" the postal service.
Trump complained that the agency has lost tens of billions of dollars over the last several years, though it is a government-funded service that is not necessarily designed to make a profit.
"Were making it so it is going to be good, and were going to take care of our postal workers above all," Trump said. "Were not firing people, but the way they ran that thing for many years, this isnt a Trump thing
This has been one of the disasters of the world the way its been run.
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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/512288-trump-shrugs-off-outcry-over-postal-service-im-just-making-it-good
onetexan
(13,043 posts)maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)An Inspector General? Or Congressional Hearing?
Impunity.
KPN
(15,646 posts)him. And if the vote doesn't work, it will only be because the election has been once again stolen. In which case, it will be left to us, the people. We must be ready to do here what the people of Belarus are doing there right now.
Wuddles440
(1,123 posts)taking to the streets like the citizens of Belarus because Benedict Donald will not permit anything but total and absolute victory for himself in November and those of "his" party. The voter suppression measures, already a serious problem, will be epic. Putin can only promise to provide some counsel and assistance to him, but can't insure a 100% delivery. It's up to Barr, DeJoy, Powell, and company to drag him across the finish line. I'd anticipate Barr moving against Biden and other Obama associates any day now.
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)like he does everything else.
Auggie
(31,173 posts)PatSeg
(47,501 posts)Auggie
(31,173 posts)Shoot, we could go on forever.
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Kind of like "make america great again" - America was always great (primarily) until he showed up.
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)I don't think there is anything he's touched that hasn't turned to shit.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)it look like he's the hero..............fucking traitor.............
TheRealistRealist
(180 posts)She will respond with a fierce clapback and no real action. My hope is that individual state AGs will quickly charge Dejoy. Hopefully he will rat out Trump and the others behind this fiasco.
yellowdogintexas
(22,264 posts)about not letting this go. It should be on the archives from this morning. I was waking up but I believe there are 3 different stories on the subject.
Of course the TX AG will sit on his hands unless it appears the Republicans will be hurt more than the Democrats. He is the one who wanted to sacrifice our seniors to COVID
Javaman
(62,530 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)GOOD
pandr32
(11,588 posts)Even if he sings a different tune soon we have his own words to use against him--for all that matters.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)That said the USPS had to fund its retirements within 10 years for the next 75.
Biden can call for that to be repealed.
yellowdogintexas
(22,264 posts)I have been livid about that since I first learned of it. The Rs sneaked that one under the wire during the last week of the Congress elected in 2004 before the Democratic Congress of 2006 was sworn in in January.
It is high time that thing was consigned to the dust heap of history
ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)I don't know if it was extended beyond, but others on this board know more about that law than I do.
IronLionZion
(45,457 posts)It's one of the dumbest laws ever passed by Congress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Accountability_and_Enhancement_Act
Politifact rates the financial assertions about the retirement plan as half true since there are other factors involved
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/15/afl-cio/widespread-facebook-post-blames-2006-law-us-postal/
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)then it's brilliant.
In fact, it was probably a GOP thinktank that came up with it TO create a crisis, and then use that crisis as justification for exactly what we're seeing.
Wrecking things is easy.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)It was a looooooooooooooong slippery slope to get here.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)And allowed President Narcissist to say "they're losing billions a year".
Yes, BECAUSE OF YOUR PARTY'S BULLSHIT.
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)If Bush signed this law in 2006 and the deed had to be done in 10 years, the retirements should have been funded by 2017 at the latest.
Botany
(70,517 posts)"Trump complained that the agency has lost tens of billions of dollars over the last several years,
though it is a government-funded service that is not necessarily designed to make a profit."
BTW how many of Trump's businesses' failed to turn a profit.
BTW The postal service is always in hole because the republicans made it so that the USPS has to
fund all of their personal's retirement for 75 years out into the future.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)to "make the Post Office good", but he just didn't get around to it (what with his many golf excursions) until right before the election.
Sure, I believe you, Donny. And so will your brain-dead supporters.
iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)IronLionZion
(45,457 posts)it kept him from making the Post Office great again until now
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)How silly of me not to remember that. It's always the democrats fault! It had nothing to do with his 273 daytime trips to his golf courses since his inauguration. https://www.trumpgolfcount.com/
Damned Democrats.
Cetacea
(7,367 posts)Did DeSorrow not already cut overtime for 100k postal workers?
ananda
(28,866 posts)!!!
SWBTATTReg
(22,143 posts)his own voters being impacted too (i mean, sure they can concentrate the discrepancies in blue cities etc.) but the blue cities are often centers of postal shorting units that cover large geographical areas too, that include republican areas and also, didn't scumbag know of the possible negative impact of prescriptions being delayed, etc.? He does and he's ignoring it deliberately. Another imho impeachable offense.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)Just like everything else he is supposed to be making great.
IronLionZion
(45,457 posts)like how it was maybe 100 years ago
cp
(6,636 posts)aquamarina
(1,865 posts)'I'm just making it good FOR ME'
dchill
(38,505 posts)calimary
(81,322 posts)Never mind. No need to ask, really. We know.
KPN
(15,646 posts)joanbarnes
(1,722 posts)or Trump Foundation good?
cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)It is a fact. Trump is talking?
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)and it is definitely NOT good. He is using his lead touch to stamp out "the light from the city on the hill."
Grokenstein
(5,725 posts)It arrived here in the Bay Area today. That's a HUGE change from the way things have been trending over the past month and a half.
Was it a fluke? Are distribution centers defying orders? Or are Li'l Don-Don and DeJoyless running scared, amping delivery up while seeking other means to fuck mail-in ballots?
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)"Any disbursal of public funds to Donald J. Trump or any member of his family shall be issued by the Manager, Transportation Security Administration Field Office, Post/Rogers Memorial Airport, Utqiaġvik, Alaska, and shall be transmitted to the recipient by First Class Mail utilizing surface transportation exclusively."