{"id":37439,"date":"2025-02-21T10:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=37439"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:11:06","slug":"trump-expected-to-take-control-of-u-s-postal-service-fire-postal-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2025\/02\/21\/trump-expected-to-take-control-of-u-s-postal-service-fire-postal-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump expected to take control of U.S. Postal Service, fire postal board"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Washington Post<\/a> -2\/21\/25 – President Donald Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the 250-year-old mail provider and trillions of dollars of e-commerce transactions into turmoil.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Trump is expected to issue an executive order as soon as this week to fire the members of the Postal Service\u2019s governing board and place the agency under the control of the Commerce Department and Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to six people familiar with the plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The board is planning to fight Trump\u2019s order, three of those people told The Washington Post. In an emergency meeting Thursday, the board retained outside counsel and gave instructions to sue the White House if the president were to remove members of the board or attempt to alter the agency\u2019s independent status.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Two of the group\u2019s GOP members \u2014 Derek Kan, a former Trump administration official, and Mike Duncan, a former chair of the Republican National Committee \u2014 were not in attendance, according to a person familiar with the gathering. The two did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Trump\u2019s order to place the Commerce Department in charge of the Postal Service would probably violate federal law, according to postal experts. Another executive order earlier this week instructed independent agencies to align more closely with the White House, though that order is likely to prompt court challenges and the Postal Service by law is generally exempt from executive orders.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Members of the Postal Service\u2019s bipartisan board are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Trump, at Lutnick\u2019s urging, has\u00a0mused about privatizing the Postal Service<\/a>, and Trump\u2019s presidential transition team\u00a0vetted candidates to replace Postmaster General Louis DeJoy<\/a>, a retired logistics executive and GOP fundraising official who took office in 2020 during Trump\u2019s first term.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cThere is a lot of talk about the Postal Service being taken private,\u201d Trump said in December. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot different today, between Amazon and UPS and FedEx and all the things that you didn\u2019t have. But there is talk about that. It\u2019s an idea that a lot of people have liked for a long time.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cThis is a somewhat regal approach that says the king knows better than his subjects and he will do his best for them. But it also removes any sense that there\u2019s oversight, impartiality and fairness and that some states wouldn\u2019t be treated better than other states or cities better than other cities,\u201d said James O\u2019Rourke, who studies the Postal Service at the University of Notre Dame\u2019s Mendoza College of Business. \u201cThe anxiety over the Postal Service is not only three-quarters of a million workers. It\u2019s that this is something that does not belong to the president or the White House. It belongs to the American people.\u201d<\/div>\n
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After this story was published, a White House spokesperson said no such executive order was planned.<\/strong><\/em> A representative for Postal Service did not respond to a request for comment.\u00a0Read more at the Washington Post<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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