Head of Postal Service agrees to let DOGE work with USPS
Source: CNN Politics
Published 6:23 PM EDT, Thu March 13, 2025
US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has signed an agreement with the Department of Government Efficiency and the General Services Administration to work with the US Postal Service In a letter DeJoy sent to Congress on Thursday, he said DOGE teams will “assist us in identifying and achieving further efficiencies,” saying the Elon Musk-led agency will focus on improving the management of USPS retirement assets and the Workers’ Compensation Program, as well as addressing the agency’s legislative mandates and regulatory requirements.
“The DOGE team was gracious enough to ask for the big problems they can help us with,” DeJoy wrote in the letter. “It has long been known that the Postal Service has a broken business model that was not financially sustainable without critically necessary and fundamental core change.”
The Postal Service, an independent government agency, has already cut roughly 30,000 employees from its workforce since 2021, and plans to slash another 10,000 people in the next 30 days through a voluntary early retirement program, DeJoy said in the letter. The agency currently employs approximately 635,000 workers across the US.
DeJoy, who President Donald Trump hired in 2020 to run the Postal Service as it struggled to survive financial woes from the Covid-19 pandemic, announced last month he plans to step down from his role as Postmaster General. He was a businessman and Trump donor before taking office. DeJoy argues in the letter USPS retirement assets and the Workers’ Compensation Program have been “mismanaged,” creating a financial hole that its leaders have struggled to dig out of.
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They have no authority over the USPS.
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