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House Democrats add $25 billion in support for post office to their stand-alone bill
Democrats essentially daring Republicans to oppose measure
House Democrats on Monday added $25 billion in emergency funding for the U.S. Postal Service to the stand-alone measure they are expected to consider at the end of the week.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called the House back into session over the post-office issue. Democrats and much of the public are concerned that President Donald Trump and his new, handpicked postmaster general are attempting to hollow out the service and make it unable to process mail-in ballots this November.
At first, House Democrats said they would only vote to block recent policy changes at the Postal Service favored by the White House. But the final plans announced Monday added the $25 billion in funding.
The $25 billion price tag matches the level of funding that was included in the House’s $3.5 trillion coronavirus relief plan that has stalled since May in the Senate due to Republican opposition.
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