rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/stop-trumps-postal-board-takeover?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-stop-trumps-postal-board-takeover' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Americans for Financial Reform https://actionnetwork.org/groups/afr-advocacy-fund-c4 https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/groups/default_facebook_images/000/014/858/original/AFR_Action_Network_Default_(1).png?1738796429 Trump nominated four candidates for the USPS Board of Governors in an attempted takeover of the cherished public institution that is older than the nation itself. And he knows good and well USPS is responsible for carrying millions of ballots during the midterm elections. We made enough noise that two of the nominees never made it to committee, but the other two – Jeffrey Brodsky and William Gallo – were just voted out of committee and the entire Senate could soon vote to confirm or reject them. This is our last chance to stop Trump from dominating the postal board and being able to bully a giant step forward on his election interference schemes, as well as everything from price hikes and delivery slowdowns to privatization. Brodsky has spent 30 years in the corporate restructuring world, treating distressed companies as projects to be cut apart, reorganized, and squeezed for investors — a literal privatization expert. Gallo comes from commodities trading and private business. Neither one has any postal experience or much less a record of defending universal service, postal workers, affordable rates, rural delivery, or election mail. We have no reason to believe anything other than these corporate stooges are ready and willing to do whatever Trump wants regardless of the impact on one of the most trusted, effective, and respected public services in the country. The postal board controls the policy decisions, financials, service standards, and long-term direction of USPS. It also has sole hire and fire power over the Postmaster General. A FedEx-linked Postmaster General already runs USPS. Add a board dominated by Trump’s corporate insider donor appointees poised to keep slowing the mail and raising prices, consolidating post offices, and continuing outsourcing work toward privatization, and you have a recipe for disaster. A Trump dominated board will almost certainly weaken protections for election mail, putting vote by mail at risk for the midterms and beyond. A federal judge just stopped Trump from turning USPS into his election administrator, blocking ballots from anyone not on a Homeland Security citizenship list. Trump wants a Postal Service that follows his political orders and prepares itself for a corporate sell-off. The Senate can stop him. Rural communities, Indigenous communities, seniors, veterans, small businesses, postal workers, and voters shouldn’t pay the price while private shipping corporations claim the profitable pieces. Click “START WRITING” to demand that your Senators reject Trump’s postal board takeover and vote NO on the confirmation of Jeffrey Brodsky and William Gallo. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-trumps-postal-board-takeover