Postmaster General Louis DeJoy,
the Trump loyalist who tried to
essentially dismantle the post
office in a year when
there was going to
be an influx of mail-in voting,
is still clinging to his job.
He's still the postmaster general.
And you really need the Board
of Governors to vote to oust him.
Biden should work on that.
But in the meantime, he has put
forward a ten-year plan for
the post office.
Which, looks like it would actually
harm the way the post office
operates, giving the delivery
companies that he's invested
in a little bit of an edge,
a little bit of an edge [LAUGH]
when it comes to making a profit.
So the sweeping 58-page plan,
that he titled Delivering for
America promises to make the Postal
Service more competitive.
Wrong, it's not, and more modern,
including a new energy-friendly
fleet of delivery vehicles,
upgrades to post offices and
uniforms.
New technology,
such as mobile devices for
letter carriers, and
new employee training.
Now, there have been previous
reports about how there was this
initial plan to move its fleet of
vehicles to electric cars.
But Louis DeJoy, despite what you
might read in the CNN piece,
actually decided to move in
a different direction and work with
a third party that would produce
vehicles that are not as clean as
what the original plan was.
So don't buy that framing.
He's not actually doing something
that would be better
than the previous plan in moving to
an electric fleet of vehicles for
the post office.
But there's more of
a catch to this.
So it also calls for dialing down
delivery time expectations, which
it notes the system has been unable
to meet over the past eight years.
So remember,
Louis DeJoy has a vested interest
in watching the post office fail.
Because he's literally invested in
competitors to the post office.
So he's like, yeah, yeah.
We're going to
get some new uniforms,
maybe some new employee training.
I'm going to lie about what I'm
going to do with the fleet of
green vehicles.
But that one center piece of what
the post office is going to do,
yeah, we're going to screw that up.
That's what we're going to do, and
we're going to call that Delivering
for America.
See, this is how the right wing
brands things that they do, right?
They'll do horrific things, but
they'll brand it as,
Focus on the Family.
Focus on the Family is this right
wing organization that was,
I don't know if it still exists,
awful, awful.
Terrorizing gay people in
the country, that's what they did.
That's what Focus on
the Family was.
And this titling,
this framing, Was,
just really reminds me of that.
Because he's not trying to
deliver for
America he's trying to deliver for
himself and other shareholders for
these other companies that the post
office serves as a competitor to.
>> And the problem, Ana, is again,
it's the Democrats.
They're in power,
and oftentimes they take on all of
the worst traits and
instincts of Republicans,
ie suckling at the power teat of
the corporate class, right?
But they never take on the good
stuff, meaning Trump gets elected
into office.
At the CFPB, which is a company,
I mean, excuse me, a government
agency, which, by the way,
all they did for their job was take
money from banks after they engaged
in criminal, illegal behavior, and
gave it back to citizens.
That was the entire point of that
government agency.
There's no way to paint them as
anything but that.
So what the Trump administration
did was, we're not going to try,
we can't demonize a company that's
just giving money
to American citizens,
we're just going to destabilize it.
We're just going to make it
ineffective.
We're going to empower a guy
over there who's going to
tell everybody who works there,
put your pens and papers down.
We're no longer prosecuting people,
we're no longer doing our jobs.
That's what we do when we get into
power, right?
As soon as we get in, if somebody
had an Obama, if Obama ever said hi
to your mother, you were fired and
you were out of there.
Immediately, and
everybody understood that.
The Dems get in power, they're just
like, yeah, we'll probably
get to getting the postmaster got.
That guy was, no, he was actually
pretty good in the George Bush,
let's get him in here and
let's do this.
They never do this on the other
side.
They're like, no,
we're in power now,
get y'all butts outta here.
And so it just annoys me, man.
Biden should have had this dude
canned already, I know- >> So-
>> He can't directly fire
the guy himself, but, Jesus Christ.
And, by the way, not even just this
guy was a Trump appointee.
He actively tried to sabotage your
campaign.
So just for that alone,
you gotta go after him, hard.
But instead, we get 53-page report
about how he's making America mail
again or something.
[LAUGH] >> Well, okay, so
let's talk about the process of
getting rid of the DeJoy.
because I agree with you,
it should be a priority,
because the post office is so
important.
I mean, think about the service it
provides to rural parts of the
country that otherwise would not
get any type of delivery service.
Because FedEx, UPS,
it's too expensive for
them to deliver packages there.
They actually rely on the post
office to finish their deliveries
to rural parts of the country.
But the post office is incredibly
popular government agency.
Relative to
other delivery companies,
they're far more affordable.
Now, in order for Biden to get rid
of DeJoy, you're right,
he can't do that directly.
And what he would need to do is
appoint people on the Board of
Governors who then get to make
that decision.
And so getting rid of DeJoy,
as CNN reports,
is not a clean-cut process.
The president does not have
the power to
remove the postmaster general.
Only the Postal Service Board of
Governors, which is comprised
of members nominated by
the president and confirmed by
the Senate have the power to do so.
And DeJoy continues to have
the support of
the Trump-appointed board.
So right now,
what Biden is trying to do is fill
the vacant seats on the board with
supporters of his own agenda.
And look, I don't care if
they're supporters of his agenda.
I just want people who actually
understand the importance of
protecting the post office, right?
So obviously,
the Board of Governors right now
does not feel that way.
They don't have that principle, and
that's an issue.
So right now, the current board
consists of two Democrats and
four Republicans, which leaves
three seats open for Biden to fill.
Let's go,
let's fill them right away.
Biden now has the power to stack
the board with supporters of his
agenda and vision for
the giant agency.
With three open seats, and another
two members over their term limit,
Democrats are calling on Biden to
do just that.
So do it, and nominate a new slate
of board members who could
eventually overthrow DeJoy.
It would be best if
it's sooner rather than later.
But it is kind of miraculous that
this man, who engaged in some of
the worst behavior to undermine
the 2020 elections, still has that
position of power in an important
and popular government agency.