WASHINGTON – The U.S. Postal Service’s board of directors is trying to take over for the Trump administration and retains external lawyers to fight any executive orders to fight the impact.
Sources said nine members of the board were appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, holding an emergency meeting after the Senate confirmed on Wednesday howard Lutnick’s confirmation as the Secretary of Commerce. Lutnick first discussed his plan with President Donald Trump in December to dissolve USPS leadership and place the agency in the Department of Commerce, a source said.
Two White House officials said there was no executive order against the Post Office, although they acknowledged there was a discussion about ways to make it more effective with other federal governments.
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U.S. President Donald Trump spoke when he signed an executive order from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, USA on February 14, 2025.
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In the Oval Office, when Lutnick was sworn in at the ceremony Friday, Trump revealed that his new Commerce Secretary “will be “looking” at the USPS.
“He wants to look at it, he has a great business instinct, and that’s what we need, and he’ll look at it. We think we can turn things around, but it’s – it’s the postal service.” The problem. “We lost a lot of money in the postal service and we don’t want to lose that money. So, the secretary and other talented people, that talent, we will study it.”
USPS reported net profit of $144 million for the first quarter of the fiscal year, the agency’s first issuance profit since 2006, according to data from the Pew Research Center.
The Postal Committee believes that, given that the postal service is Authorized by the Constitution It was created by the Congress bill. It is unlikely that Trump will privatize the agency without Congress’ approval.
Mark Dimondstein, president of the U.S. Postal Workers Union, said in a statement that any attempt to take over would be an “attack on the postal department.”
“Taking over will reduce services, especially in rural America, pay raises, closing post offices and profit from property owned by the American people,” Dimondstein said. “We ask all our clients to join our struggle to keep us full.” Vibrant, independent and public U.S. Postal Service and oppose these illegal acts.”
During his first administration, Trump watched as the removal of so-called universal service obligations, a federal requirement directed the postal service to provide mail services to all U.S. residents every day, regardless of where they live. If the Trump administration tries to eliminate USP, it could affect millions of people relying on postal services for critical mail, including drugs, especially in rural areas.
Discussions about USP, a discussion of the recently formed government efficiency division led by tech billionaire Elon Musk, have cut dozens of federal plans and first in Trump’s second term Thousands of government jobs were cut in the month. The cuts are part of Trump and Musk’s efforts to overhaul the federal government.
No effort to demolish the Post Office under the Trump administration is unusual, which attempts to fold aspects of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Department of Education into other agencies. Meanwhile, many of Trump’s moves to implement rapid changes have encountered legal obstacles in court.
Over the past five years, Louis Dejoy, a Republican of the USPS chief, announced plans to resign as postmaster this week. During the transition period, Dijoy met with incoming members of the Trump administration and things were not going well.
After 2020, when millions of Americans (mostly Democrats) voted for emails during the coronavirus pandemic, Dejo, according to a source familiar with the president’s thoughts on USPS and mail-in voting, Yi’s relationship with Trump has never thawed. Trump criticized the practice in 2020 and blamed Joe Biden for his losses.
“Trump does not view USP as a service,” the source said. “He still has mail-in voting issues.”
