Biden just got one step closer to replacing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy

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Biden just got one step closer to replacing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy


https://www.alternet.org/biden-replace-dejoy/



Carl Gibson July 25, 2024

Ever since Postmaster General Louis DeJoy — a major Republican donor — was selected to head the United States Postal Service (USPS) in 2020, he's been enacting massively unpopular policies criticized by postal workers and Democrats alike. Now, President Joe Biden may soon be able to replace him.

On Thursday, Politico congressional correspondent Anthony Adragna reported that Biden was nominating former Rep. Val Demings (D-Florida) to fill the last remaining vacancy on the USPS Board of Governors. She, along with former Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, are now awaiting confirmation by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which is chaired by Sen. Gary Peters (D-Michigan).

Should both Demings and Walsh be confirmed, that would give Biden seven appointees on the nine-member board overseeing USPS. And because the Postmaster General's hiring and firing is up to the board and not Biden, that could mean that DeJoy could be removed from his post by the time Biden leaves office in January of 2025.

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Biden appointees have held a majority on the USPS board since 2022, when three of his appointees were confirmed by Peters' committee. However, his appointees have been slow to fire DeJoy given his close partnership with the Biden administration on clean energy policy. Politico reported last year that DeJoy is rolling out a plan to add roughly 106,000 new electric vehicles to the USPS' fleet of mail delivery trucks, with 66,000 of those trucks on the road by 2028. Biden's landmark Inflation Reduction Act allocated $3 billion to the initiative, and DeJoy has partnered with veteran Democratic strategist John Podesta to implement his plan...............................

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U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies during a House Oversight Subcommittee on Government Operations and Federal Workforce hearing on Capitol Hill May 17, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

[riversedge]

1. Val Demings response..........

Link to tweet

[ImNotGod]

2. Sadly not soon enough to stop DeJoy from messing with another mail in vote. nt

[Tadpole Raisin]

3. OMG I can't wait. They may call him a lame duck but if he replaces DeJoy,

Proposes judicial reforms and other things this is going to be a wham bam final six months for Biden.

Yes!!

[Skittles]

4. Biden now has the time to REALLY GET THE JOB DONE

[Igel]

5. You know, I was on a kind of board once upon a time.

Thing about the chair is that at no point was the chair the end all and be all of the board's authority, with the board meeting from time to time to discuss sports or good restaurants locally while drinking a mug of beer or glass of wine and playing bridge or poker or mahjong or checkers.

Usually the chair implemented policies that the board had seen a couple of times, discussed, possibly amended, heard reports on, debated, and approved. (And when the board arrogated too much authority and exceeded what was approved or refused to implement what was approved, consequences followed so either the chair came into closer compliance or found a differently positioned seat at the table.)

Then again, maybe the USPS chair and bylaws really do stipulate that the chair is liege and lord and the board is basically there to keep him company a few times a year.

[librechik]

6. You know what would be good now? Indict Dejoy for his corruption.

I wish I knew something specific to point at. But I'm pretty sure he didn't destroy the USPS without criming.

It's part of the Republican Donor culture.

[orthoclad]

7. Taking him long enough

DeJoy's a criminal. Ignored critical court orders in the 2020 election, destroyed tons of public property, did everything he can to cripple the public Postal Service. But Amazon makes out with all that last-mile stuff.

[former9thward]

8. The last paragraph in the OP goes against the headline.

It points out that a majority of the Board, right now, are Biden appointees. Two more are not going to make any difference. There is no evidence Biden wants DeJoy gone.

[Paladin]

9. The sooner DeJoy gets the boot, the better. (nt)