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From CNBC: U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress he signed an agreement with Elon Musk’s DOGE government reform team to provide assistance to the money-losing agency as it works to address “big problems.”
USPS, an independent government agency with 635,000 employees that lost $9.5 billion last year, has been exempt from DOGE-directed federal employee reductions. DeJoy told Congress in a letter seen by Reuters that USPS plans to reduce its workforce by 10,000 workers in the next month through a voluntary early retirement program first announced in January. The Post Office has cut 30,000 jobs since 2021.
DeJoy said the agreement with DOGE and the General Services Administration will allow the government reform team to “assist us in identifying and achieving further efficiencies…. The DOGE team was gracious enough to ask for big problems they can help us with.”
DOGE is working across the government to cancel contracts and shrink agencies.
DeJoy cited a number of issues, including management of retirement assets and its workers’ compensation program by other government agencies, unfunded mandates and burdensome regulatory requirements.
The $78 billion-a-year agency has been going in the hole for several years, losing over $100 billion since 2007. As electronic communications have increased, the Postal Service has experienced an 80% decline in first-class mail volume since 1997.
DeJoy has reportedly already been taking DOGE-like steps to restructure the post office over the last five years. He blames the Postal Regulatory Commission, saying it “is an unnecessary agency that has inflicted over $50 billion in damage to the Postal Service by administering defective pricing models and decades-old bureaucratic processes.”
BREAKING: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress today that he signed an agreement to work with DOGE to cut jobs and spending.
The USPS is planning to eliminate 10,000 jobs in the next 30 days through a “voluntary early retirement” program. pic.twitter.com/YeJ5xDSdCO
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) March 13, 2025
Democrats and union leaders are already fuming:
BREAKING: Ranking Member @GerryConnolly’s Statement on DOGE infiltration of @USPS: https://t.co/dK4oPCX1qE pic.twitter.com/aTrbwlyXPz
— Oversight Committee Democrats (@OversightDems) March 13, 2025
My statement on DOGE at USPS 👇🏼https://t.co/3zGKPADrzD
— Brian L. Renfroe (@BrianRenfroe19) March 13, 2025
USPS is working with DOGE. USPS has unique challenges and some strong leaders. pic.twitter.com/s9KKnZaehy
— Aaron Rubin (@AaronandML) March 13, 2025
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