Trump eyes privatizing US Postal Service, citing financial losses - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : People who will work on the "Department of Government Efficiency," a nongovernmental panel led by tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, have also held preliminary conversations about major changes to the Postal Service, said two other people familiar with the matter, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect private talks.
50% : Among sitting members, three are Republicans, and two of those are Trump appointees.
48% : But he feuded with the nation's mail carrier as president in 2019, trying to force it to hand over key functions - including rate-setting, personnel decisions, labor relations and managing relationships with its largest clients - to the Treasury Department.
46% : In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Trump threatened to withhold emergency assistance from the Postal Service unless it quadrupled package prices, and his treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, authorized a loan for the mail agency only in exchange for access to its confidential contracts with top customers.
39% : When he returns to office, Trump could have several options to exert control over the mail agency - though he may not have the authority to unilaterally privatize it.
25% : Told of the mail agency's annual financial losses, Trump said the government should not subsidize the organization, the people said.
24% : Trump has long had a tense relationship with the mail agency.
24% : Ahead of the 2020 election, Trump said the Postal Service was incapable of facilitating mail-in voting because the agency could not access the emergency funding he was blocking.
21% : Republicans asked repeatedly about clawing back funding for the agency's new fleet of electric delivery trucks, mounting financial losses, and about what executive actions Trump could take to bring the service to heel.

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