Katie Porter decimates Louis DeJoy's tenure as postmaster in just 90 seconds

 

On Monday, Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) posted a blistering takedown of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, highlighting the rapid decline in service at USPS on his watch.

Specifically, Porter grilled a witness about a recent audit showing the deterioration of delivery times under DeJoy's tenure.

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Katie Porter decimates Louis DeJoy's tenure as postmaster in just 90 seconds

On Monday, Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) posted a blistering takedown of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, highlighting the rapid decline in service at USPS on his watch.

Specifically, Porter grilled a witness about a recent audit showing the deterioration of delivery times under DeJoy's tenure.

"The audit found that by the spring of 2020, mail delivery was right around 92 percent — that is 92 percent of the mail got there within the standard of on time," said Porter in a hearing, holding up a whiteboard displaying the data. "That dropped to 80 percent by the fall of 2020, and by January of 2021 was hovering around 61 percent. I realize this has gone up somewhat since then, but I wanted to ask you, when did Mr. DeJoy take over as postmaster? Do you know?"

"The summer of 2020," said the witness.

"The summer of 2020," repeated Porter. "So June of 2020. And what happened after he took over? Did the rate of on-time mail delivery go up or down?"

"Went down," said the witness.

"I'm a professor, and I used to do a lot of grading," said Porter. "And 92 is considered widely like an A-minus, 80 is considered hanging on, hanging on to the lowest possible B. 60 percent is at best a D-minus. The Postal Service delivers 48 percent of the world's mail. It is an institution, it is a civic treasure. And we let it get all the way, what you found, is we let it get all the way down to that D-minus level."

DeJoy cannot be fired directly by President Joe Biden, as he serves at the pleasure of the USPS Board of Governors. Since taking office, Biden has appointed several new governors, but Democrats still don't have a practical majority because one of the nominally Democratic appointees, Ron Bloom, is a Trump appointee and supporter of DeJoy. Biden will have more appointments open up in the new year.

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On-time mail delivery has plummeted under Postmaster Louis DeJoy\u2014forcing veterans to wait longer for prescriptions, seniors to scramble to pay bills without their Social Security checks, and communities to feel less connected.\n\nPostmaster DeJoy needs to go.pic.twitter.com/NxVivkOQZt

— Rep. Katie Porter (@Rep. Katie Porter)1637025581

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The House Oversight and Reform Committee obtained documents from the General Services Administration, which leased the Old Post Office building to Trump for his hotel.

Pedestrians pass the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., in 2016.Bill O'Leary / The Washington Post via Getty Images file

Oct. 8, 2021, 9:36 AM EDT

By Rebecca Shabad

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump provided “misleading information about the financial situation” of his hotel in Washington while he was in office, according to the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

The committee, which recently obtained documents from the General Services Administration, found that Trump reported his hotel in downtown D.C. brought in $150 million in income while he served in the White House, but the hotel actually incurred more than $70 million in losses.

“By filing these misleading public disclosures, President Trump grossly exaggerated the financial health of the Trump Hotel,” the committee said Friday in a news release.

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In a statement, a spokesperson for the Trump Organization called the committee's assertions "intentionally misleading, irresponsible and unequivocally false" and said the former president's company had rescued a "crumbling asset which was costing American taxpayers millions of dollars each year."

"Simply stated, this report is nothing more than continued political harassment in a desperate attempt to mislead the American public and defame Trump in pursuit of their own agenda," the spokesperson added.

When Trump first applied to lease the Old Post Office Building in 2011 for his hotel, he also provided the federal government with information that the committee said “appeared to conceal certain debts.” Records show Trump specifically didn’t show outstanding balances for properties he owned in other major cities like New York, Chicago and Las Vegas, the panel said.

The committee also said the newly obtained documents show that from 2017 through 2020, the Trump International Hotel in D.C. received about $3.7 million in payments from foreign governments, which it said raises “concerns about possible violations of the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause.”

While he served in the White House, Trump also received “a significant financial benefit” from Deutsche Bank that allowed him to postpone making payments on the $170 million loan for the hotel, the committee said.

“Mr. Trump did not publicly disclose this significant benefit from a foreign bank while he was president,” the committee said.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., chairwoman of the committee, said Friday that her panel will continue to pursue its probe of Trump’s lease of the property. The committee has been investigating the issue since Trump was in office.

“For too long, the president has used his complex network of business holdings to hide the truth about his finances,” Maloney said. “The committee will continue to vigorously pursue its investigation until the full truth comes to light so that Congress can address the unresolved ethics crisis left by Trump and prevent future presidents from profiting off of the presidency.”

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Today’s Action: Ending the federal prohibition on cannabis? Not possible with the filibuster in place!

Crucial legislation is still being stopped before it even has a chance to be debated by Mitch McConnell’s minority veto (AKA the filibuster), and it’s putting legislation that could dramatically change the lives of millions of Americans — including the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, which is still building up support. 

The bill would legalize cannabis at a federal level and help regulate it, which is a huge step in granting freedom to nonviolent offenders, ending the war on drugs, and relieving capacity in the prison system. It doesn’t make sense for someone in California or Illinois to be in possession of a significant amount of THC legally, while someone with that same amount of substance in another state could be imprisoned.

We can’t fix any of it with the filibuster in place.

Call (202.224.3121) or write your senators and call for an end to the filibuster and their support of Schumer’s Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act! 

Legalizing marijuana doesn’t just help those incarcerated for possession – it helps those ‘merely’ arrested or convicted for possession as well, which can lead to lost employment, ineligibility for public housing, suspended drivers licenses, and restrictions on student loans.

And the racial disparities in marijuana-related arrests are well-known; a black person is anywhere from four (national average) to fifteen times (in certain areas) more likely to be jailed than a white person in our country. The filibuster has been historically used to uphold racist Jim Crow laws, so it’s not surprising it’s still being used to deepen racial disparities today.

We’re long overdue for a national overhaul of marijuana laws, if only for how our government and police forces have weaponized it, targeting our most vulnerable and oppressed communities. 

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It’s been weeks since the Supreme Court allowed Texas to criminalize abortion, and the American people are still waiting for federal measures to protect abortion seekers. Abortions are still ostensibly protected by the Constitution as decided in Roe v Wade, and yet those who seek or provide the important health care service can still be threatened with retaliation and unjust obstacles.

Even this past week Governor Greg Abbott has said he will not even look at a bill that would provide exceptions for rape and incest in the heartbeat bill. It’s clear that today’s Republican Party is devoid of humanity for women, and we urgently need our leaders to band together and codify the freedoms guaranteed by Roe v Wade.

Call (202-224-3121) or write your Senators to demand an end to the filibuster, and the passage of federal abortion protections immediately through the Women’s Health Protection Act!

The House recently passed a sweeping health bill that addresses the attacks on abortion care by state officials. It would protect national abortion access without medically unnecessary and, frankly, cruel restrictions such as waiting periods, mandatory ultrasounds, and biased counseling. It would confirm the right to abortion for healthcare providers, requiring them to provide that care. 

But none of that can pass with the filibuster in place. We need everyone calling and writing their Senators, demanding an end to the archaic filibuster and a resumption of their legislative obligations.

Call (202-224-3121) or write your Senators and tell them to end the filibuster and pass the WHPA, before the Supreme Court and state governments further gut a woman’s right to choose! 

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