US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy resigns

Louis DeJoy has resigned as postmaster general of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) amid uncertainty about the agency’s future under President Trump.

DeJoy had notified the USPS board of directors in February that it was “time for them to begin the process of identifying his successor.” His resignation on Monday expedites that process and leaves Deputy Postmaster General Doug Tulino in charge until a permanent replacement is found.

“While our management team and the men and women of the Postal Service have established the path toward financial sustainability and high operating performance – and we have instituted enormous beneficial change to what had been an adrift and moribund organization – much work remains that is necessary to change our positive trajectory,” DeJoy said in a statement first reported by Reuters.

DeJoy had served as Postmaster General since May 2020. He previously donated to GOP political campaigns.

The USPS has been under intense scrutiny in recent years, and Trump has indicated major changes could be coming for the agency as he and billionaire adviser Elon Musk seek to slash the size of government.

Trump said last month he was considering bringing the Postal Service under the control of the Department of Commerce, calling the USPS a “tremendous loser” of money.

“It’s been just a tremendous loser for this country, tremendous amounts of money they’ve lost,” Trump said at the time. “And we think we can do something that will be very good and keep it a very similar way, but whether it’s a merger or just using some of the very talented people that we have elsewhere so it doesn’t lose so much.”

Trump has previously mused about privatizing the Postal Service, and in 2020 the agency drew his ire amid his tirades against mail-in voting. Trump in 2020 opposed funding for the Postal Service as part of a stimulus package, suggesting the money was so the organization could take in mail ballots.

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