WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The House of Representatives will pass a $25 billion support package for the US Postal Service in a one-day session on Saturday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement on Wednesday.
The House Speaker added that she issued the statement after speaking to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy about his alleged pause in operational changes that are delaying the mail and threatening to disenfranchise voters.
She claimed that those changes directly jeopardized the November US election and disproportionately threatened to disenfranchise voters in communities of color.
The US administration and congressional Democrats have disagreed over the issue of mail-in ballots in the upcoming presidential election.
Donald Trump has said that mail-in ballots pose a risk of widespread fraud in the upcoming election, citing the botched New York congressional primary race as an example. He added that the planned reform was to boost the efficiency of the Postal Service and save billions of dollars. Trump’s opponents say they believe the changes are delaying the mail and threatening to disenfranchise voters.
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