{"id":5899,"date":"2020-08-15T13:46:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T13:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senatedems.com\/bayer\/?p=5899"},"modified":"2020-08-15T13:46:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T13:46:29","slug":"senator-bayer-calls-on-congress-to-fully-fund-us-postal-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/bayer\/2020\/08\/15\/senator-bayer-calls-on-congress-to-fully-fund-us-postal-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Bayer Calls on Congress to Fully Fund US Postal Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LANSING, Mich. \u2014 Today, Sen.\u00a0<strong>Rosemary Bayer<\/strong>\u00a0(D-Beverly Hills) is introducing a resolution asking Congress to fully fund the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) considering record mail voting during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur seniors, small businesses, veterans and rural areas already rely heavily on mail as part of their daily lives, but this year we have even more people relying on the mail system to ensure their vote is counted as they cast their ballots from the safety of their homes,\u201d Sen. Bayer said. \u201cThe Postal Service is an essential hub of government that has already been struggling to meet increased demands under the tightened constraints of a deadly pandemic, and now is certainly not the time for $25 billion in sorely needed funding to be withheld from them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republicans have been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/aug\/13\/donald-trump-usps-post-office-election-funding\">trying to hamstring the USPS in an effort to suppress votes and bolster President Donald Trump\u2019s re-election<\/a>. The attack on the postal service\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/08\/13\/trumps-attack-postal-service-is-now-national-emergency\/\">is a national emergency, according to The Washington Post<\/a>, and Michigan has already been affected \u2014 the Detroit Free Press recently reported that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/macomb\/2020\/08\/13\/sterling-heights-absentee-ballots-election\/3346928001\/\">165 absentee ballots<\/a>\u00a0showed up nearly a week late in Sterling Heights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis attempt to sabotage mail delivery is a clear threat to all of us, every single vote being counted, and our democracy,\u201d Sen. Bayer said. \u201cSnow, rain, heat, and gloom of night has never stopped mail delivery before, and political games should certainly not stop it now.\u201d<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANSING, Mich. \u2014 Today, Sen.\u00a0Rosemary Bayer\u00a0(D-Beverly Hills) is introducing a resolution asking Congress to fully fund the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) considering record mail voting during the COVID-19 pandemic. \u201cOur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Senator Bayer Calls on Congress to Fully Fund US Postal Service - 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