The Danger of Trump’s Plan for a Private USPS

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President Donald Trump is taking aim at the US Postal Service.

According to a Thursday report from the Washington Post‘s Jacob Bogage, the president plans to fire the members of USPS’ board and hand the keys to the agency over to the Department of Commerce.

A White House spokesperson denied the report, just for Trump himself to go on and confirm it on Friday.

Trump’s new target is actually an old one. During his first term, the White House pushed to break up and sell off the Post Office—one of the most favorably viewed government agencies—in a 2018 plan: “A privatized Postal Service would,” among other things, “make business decisions free from political interference.”

Watch Mark Dimondstein, the president of the American Postal Workers Union, respond to Trump's new plan. Then, head over to MotherJones.com where Dimondstein explains to Mother Jones the threat of a private interests to the US Postal Service:

"The Post Office takes in about $80 billion a year in revenue. Those on the private side of the industry want their hands on that money because when it’s in the public domain, they can’t use it to generate private profits."

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