US POSTAL CHIEF TO FACE CONGRESS QUIZ ON PLOT TO CRIPPLE MAIL-IN VOTING

The heads of the US Postal Service (USPS) have agreed to testify before the House of Representatives about financial cuts, Democrats said on Monday, amid concerns over delays to mail-in ballots in the November election, Sophie Wingate wrote for Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) on August 18, 2020.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and Chairman of the USPS Board of Governors Robert Duncan are set to face the House Oversight Committee on August 24, its chair Carolyn Maloney said in a statement. 

"The American people want their mail, medicines, and mail-in ballots delivered in a timely way, and they certainly do not want drastic changes and delays in the midst of a global pandemic just months before the election," Maloney said. 

Democrats accuse DeJoy - a recent appointee of Donald Trump and a major donor to the president - of launching sweeping operational and organizational changes to slow mail delivery, and therefore support Trump's efforts to hamper the expansion of mail-in voting amid the coronavirus outbreak. The Democratic-led House has set a Saturday vote on a bill prohibiting the USPS from implementing changes to the operations and service it provided at the beginning of this year, after Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the chamber back into session.