Trump's postmaster general is playing with political fire [View all]
Albert Hunt, opinion contributor
Louis DeJoy came to Washington to deliver for his ally, Donald Trump. He's stepping into a political minefield.
DeJoy was tapped this spring to be postmaster general by the Postal Board of Governors, headed by a former chairman of the Republican Party.
He is a big donor to Trump and the Republican Party; his qualifications to run the Postal Service were tangential.
For Trump, however, the Postal Service is a big deal, particularly to check a pandemic-related surge in voting by mail which he thinks hurts him.
In earlier fiscal relief negotiations, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told congressional leaders the president would veto any bill that had money for the Postal Service. Unemployment is at the highest level since the Depression, a million small businesses are closing, kids can't go school and Trump's litmus test is the Postal Service.
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