Give me a break. If the admin wants the postal service to go EV, pay for it. The very fact that the USPS remains solvent under the conditions they are forced to operate is a damn miracle. Put up or shut up.
WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill on Tuesday to provide the Postal Service (USPS) with about $50 billion in financial relief over a decade and requiring future retirees to enroll in a government health insurance plan.
With the current state of things with news agencies, we need to assume these are carefully handpicked facts that give a false impression. Those 50 billions likely come with lots of strings attached and USPS can't just use 5 billions per year; the bill was riddled with irrelevant provisions that have nothing to do with mail, and that senator's vote didnt really decide anything. Need to verify all this to make any conclusions.
we need to assume these are carefully handpicked facts that give a false impression
Reuters and AP are some of the most unbiased and professional news sources that cover US politics. If you are going to spread uncertainty and doubt about what I consider to be comprehensive reporting on this bill, I expect you to back it up with actual evidence.
This administration has a majority in both houses and rather than doing anything with it, is tying their hands behind their back in defense of some absurd concept of "norms" which the other side has made abundantly clear they stopped believing in ages ago. Believe what you want but "the big meanie republicans are screwing everything up" stopped carrying any water for a lot of us some time ago.
> Give me a break. If the admin wants the postal service to go EV, pay for it. The very fact that the USPS remains solvent under the conditions they are forced to operate is a damn miracle. Put up or shut up.
From the article:
> President Biden's social spending package proposal unveiled last year included $6 billion for the USPS to purchase new vehicles, but that proposal is still being debated in Congress.
So it looks like the administration has, in fact, tried to "put up".
> Shouldn't they secure that funding before they require this?
Are you under the impression that the Biden administration has required that the USPS go with EVs? Because that doesn't seem to have happened. If you are referring to some other requirement, maybe you should clarify what you're talking about.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-approves-50-billio...
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., blocked an initial vote Monday [Feb 14] on the Postal Service bill, saying it needed to be reworked.
https://apnews.com/article/business-postal-service-marsha-bl...
Go ahead and keep blaming this administration for problems created by Bush that Republicans in the Senate refuse to remedy.