The Final Straw: It's Time for Louis DeJoy to Go

     On March 8th, 2022, Congress passed the Postal Service Reform Act, which is a major victory for the U.S. Postal Service. Since 1970, there has only been one major reform of the United States Postal Service, one that has since been called the most "insane law ever passed by Congress." This 2006 law required the prepayment of benefits to postal service employees and, combined with declining reliance on the USPS, led to the agency going from self-sufficiency to $160 billion in debt and potential bankruptcy by 2024. This led Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to restrict mail delivery, which would not only kill the Postal Service dead, but also drastically affect American elections.

     The Postal Service Reform Act rids the Postal Service of this onerous "poison pill" budget requirement and mandates six-day-a-week delivery. Is it the end of the problems the agency faces? No. Is it a historic bill that will help bring an end to the Postal Service Crisis? Yes. 

     Meanwhile, Louis DeJoy, the man under federal investigation for failing to properly divest from the USPS competitors he made a living in, a man who would make a fortune seeing the Postal Service go under, recently decided to make yet another outrageous move: he outright ignored an executive order by President Biden to purchase electric vehicles, as all federal agencies will be required to do, and instead purchased diesel-powered ones that caused Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson to say Wisconsin had enough jobs after he failed to advocate for them to be built in his home state instead of North Carolina.

     This is the final straw: it's time for Louis DeJoy to go and Douglas Tulino, appointed by President Biden to be the deputy postmaster general, to be appointed the 76th postmaster general. President Biden appointed Anton Hajjar, Ron Stroman, and Amber McReynolds as governors of the USPS Board of Governors, all of whom were confirmed. He has also appointed Derek Kan and Dan Tangherlini to replace John M. Barger and Ron Bloom, respectively (Bloom being the last pro-DeJoy Democrat on the Board of Governors), but they are awaiting confirmation. Meanwhile, President Biden will have the chance to appoint two other governors by the end of 2022. With Democrats having regained their critical 50th vote after the senator from New Mexico recovered from a stroke, President Biden will have a chance no president has ever had: to appoint seven of the nine governors as well as the deputy postmaster general. Now, once Kan and Tangherlini are confirmed, it's time to give him the chance to appoint the postmaster general, as well.