USPS House vote, House Democrats push Saturday vote on $25B

USPS House vote, House Democrats push Saturday vote on $25B.

As President Donald Trump continued to lambast the Postal Service, House Democrats on Monday pressed forward with their efforts to address the political firestorm over whether the USPS can manage an influx of mail-in ballots this November.

After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said over the weekend she would call the House back this week, a senior House Democratic aide told ABC News Monday that the House is expected to vote Saturday on a measure that will include $25 billion in new funding for the post office.

The bill also would seek to reverse operational changes made to the agency since January 2020 that many Democrats say will hurt handling ballots.

Per an aide, the $25 billion number was requested directly by the USPS Board of Governors. The aide notes that the Board is "100% Trump appointees."

For weeks now, lawmakers have expressed concern about the ability of the Postal Service to meet the demands of an election which will see more voters casting their ballots by mail due to the coronavirus pandemic. Those concerns were amplified last week when the Postal Service issued warnings to states that it could not guarantee all ballots cast by mail would arrive in time to be counted.

Democratic lawmakers have also raised flags about the man at the helm of the agency, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a former Republican donor who only recently took control of USPS and who has since implemented rollbacks that Democrats say have slowed the delivery of the mail as the agency flounders due to budget shortfalls.

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