WASHINGTON — 8/3/26 – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, today called on the Postal Service Board of Governors to remove Postmaster General David Steiner, accusing him of using the U.S. Postal Service in an effort to implement President Trump’s election mail executive order, which federal courts have twice held violates the Constitution. In a letter sent today, Krishnamoorthi also demanded answers about USPS’s apparent implementation of the order.

In the letter, Krishnamoorthi argues that Steiner has transformed USPS into a partisan instrument of voter suppression:

“Under your leadership, the United States Postal Service has been transformed into a partisan instrument of voter suppression. You have allowed this institution—trusted for more than two centuries to deliver mail without regard to party or politics—to be pressed into service implementing an Executive Order that federal courts have twice held violates the Constitution.”

President Trump’s March 31 executive order directed USPS to withhold delivery of mail ballots to voters whose eligibility could not be confirmed against a federally compiled voter list. Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia challenged the order as an unconstitutional usurpation of authority reserved to the states and Congress. A federal district court blocked key portions of the order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld that injunction, and the Trump Administration has since asked the Supreme Court to allow the order to take effect before the November midterm elections.

Krishnamoorthi also argues that the Trump Administration’s representations to the Supreme Court are contradicted by USPS’s own apparent implementation efforts:

“The Administration’s own filing presents a troubling contradiction. In urging the Supreme Court to allow immediate implementation, the Department of Justice characterized the Executive Order as merely ‘general policy guidance’ and acknowledged that USPS has not finalized any implementing regulations. Yet USPS’s apparent implementation efforts over the past four months tell a different story.”

Krishnamoorthi argues that Steiner’s repeated refusal to answer Congress has left critical questions about USPS’s efforts to implement the executive order unanswered. The letter details how Steiner failed to respond to multiple requests for information, confirmed during Senate testimony his intention to carry out key aspects of the executive order despite ongoing litigation, declined to answer additional questions in writing, and refused to appear voluntarily before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Because of that pattern of obstruction, Krishnamoorthi concludes that Steiner has forfeited the trust required of his office:

“A Postmaster General who will not tell Congress whether his agency is complying with a federal court order, and who will not appear to answer for that silence, has already forfeited the trust the office requires. I am therefore calling on the Postal Service Board of Governors to remove you as Postmaster General, and I will urge my colleagues on the Committee to join that call.”

Krishnamoorthi requested responses by August 13, 2026, including answers to the following questions:

1. Describe, in detail and with supporting documentation, every implementation activity USPS has undertaken pursuant to the Executive Order to date, including any activity undertaken after the district court’s injunction and after the First Circuit’s July 25 ruling.
2. Identify all guidance, training materials, or instructions issued to postal employees, contractors, or mail processing facilities regarding the handling of election mail under the Executive Order.
3. State whether and how USPS has communicated with state or local election officials regarding implementation, including any communications regarding the voter eligibility lists referenced in the order.
4. Describe, specifically, what implementation-related work has continued, been paused, or been abandoned while litigation remains pending, and reconcile that description with the Department of Justice’s July 27 representation to the Supreme Court that the order is merely “general policy guidance” and that no regulations have been finalized.
5. State whether USPS has suspended, delayed, or modified any implementation activity because of the injunctions issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts or the First Circuit’s July 25 ruling, and if not, explain why not.

The full letter is available here.