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OH MY GOD, we won the Pulitzer Prize!!!!
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(((Jacob Bogage)))
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(((Jacob Bogage)))
@jacobbogage
White House correspondent, @reuters. Ex-Washington Post. Bad golfer. Follow me on Bluesky: @jacobbogage.bsky.social
- BREAKING: The House passes a major financial overhaul of the USPS, relieving it of $57 billion in liabilities, plus another $50 billion cost savings over the next decade.
- 👀New USPS data filed in federal court this morning. Incoming ballot delivery scores 11/3: - Atlanta, 82.2% - Central PA, 61.3% - Philadelphia, 66.3% - Detroit, 78.9% - Greensboro (NC), 72.9% - Lakeland (Wisc.), 76.8% ** These are completed ballots sent to election offices. **
- NEWS: The White House nixed a plan to send face masks to every household in America because of Trump’s personal feud with USPS and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Essential reporting from @AshleyRParker, @jdawsey1, @yabutaleb7 & @PhilipRucker
- 🚨 SCOOP: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy will unveil the largest rollback of consumer mail services in a generation as part of his 10-year plan for USPS including: - longer first-class mail delivery times - reduced post office hours - higher prices.
- The Trump admin & big meatpackers fabricated claims of pork & beef shortages to force workers into dangerous plants at the pandemic's height. **269 workers died** after getting covid-19 in meat packing plants. You must must must read @taylormtelford:
- NEWS: The IRS is answering nearly **90%** of taxpayers' phone calls, up from **13%** a year ago. It's hired 5,000 employees to staff the phones, funded by the Inflation Reduction Act. Part of today's Post Politics Now:
- Judge Emmet G. Sullivan comes out swinging at USPS to open his hearing, and USPS's failure to comply with his order. "Someone might have a price to pay for that," he said.
- Replying to @jacobbogageRemember I said I had another USPS story dropping today? Here it is. USPS will pay DeJoy's former company, XPO Logistics, $120 million to take over two key sorting facilities. Meanwhile, DeJoy maintains significant financial ties to XPO.
- Replying to @jacobbogageSharing this again for everyone asking why Biden can't fire DeJoy...Replying to @jacobbogageA great look at Biden’s route to installing new USPS governors, the folks who oversee the postmaster general.
- Replying to @jacobbogageSullivan to the Dept. of Justice lawyer representing USPS: "It’s your clients that I have some concern about, each and every one of them, starting at the top of the food chain."
- NEWS: In court-ordered sweeps of USPS processing plants in Texas, postal workers found 815 ballots that have now been delivered to election officials, according to a federal court filing.
- Replying to @jacobbogageUSPS hearing post 3: USPS is getting new trucks. They're badly needed. The current trucks are 30 years old. They don't have heat, A/C or radios. And they catch fire. **USPS to buy up to 165,000 electric delivery trucks** Read here on the new trucks: [washingtonpost.com/business/2021/…]
- 🚨 Big News 🚨 Trump plans to fire the USPS governing board, merge the Postal Service into the Commerce Dept. It would disrupt 55 years of non-political mail service, and threatens to upend trillions of dollars of ecommerce and the 250 year-old US mail system. Link below ⤵️:
