General Postmaster Louis Dejoy plans to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the US postal service budget, and he will do so with working with the Elon Musk’s Department of Government’s effectiveness, according to a letter sent to members of Congress on Thursday.
DOGE will help USPS tackle “big problems” of $ 78 billion a year, which has sometimes fought in recent years to remain fluid. The agreement also includes the general service administration in an attempt to help the postal service identify and achieve “further efficiency.”
USPS brought such issues as incorrect management of the agency’s pension assets and workers’ compensation programs as well as a number of regulatory requirements described by the letter as “limiting normal business practice.”
“This is an effort that is in line with our efforts, as we have achieved a lot, there is much more to do,” Dejoy wrote.
Critics of the agreement fear that the negative effects of the cuts will be felt throughout America. The Democratic American Rep. Gerald Connolly from Virginia, who was sent the letter, said it would be undermined and privatized to turn the postal service to DODE.
“This capitulation will have disastrous consequences for all Americans – especially those in rural areas and difficult to reach areas – which depend on the postal service every day to provide mail, medicine, ballots and more,” he said in a statement.
The USPS currently employs about 640,000 workers who are tasked with delivering deliveries from inner cities to rural areas and even remote islands.
The service is planning to cut 10,000 employees in the next 30 days through a voluntary leadership program within the lead.
Neither USPS nor Trump administration immediately responded to E -emails from Associated Press with request for comment.
The agency announced earlier plans to reduce its operating costs by more than $ 3.5 billion annually. And this is not the first time thousands of employees have been cut. By 2021, the agency cut 30,000 workers.
As the service that has served as an independent entity since 1970, has struggled to balance the books with the decline of first -class mail, it has fought from President Donald Trump and others that it is privatized. Last month, Trump said he may have put USPS under control of the trade department in what would be a takeover of the executive branch.
The National Association of Letter Carrier’s President Brian L. Renfroe said in a statement in response to Thursday’s letter that they welcome anyone’s help in tackling some of the agency’s biggest problems, but stood firmly against any step to privatize the postal service.
“Healthy Sense Solutions is what the postal service needs, not privatization efforts that threaten 640,000 post -employees’ jobs, 7.9 million jobs tied to our work, and the universal service that every American is dependent on daily,” he said.
Dejoy, a Republican donor who owned a logistics company, was appointed to lead USPS in Trump’s first period in 2020. He has been subjected to repeated challenges during his tenure, including the Covid-19 pandemic, waves in post-in election polls and efforts to dampen losses through costs and service cuts.