Heeeeeey.
If your Senator is Republican, call their line and tell them to pass this.
Because it’s going to get blocked or shot down otherwise.
I live in a very small blue state, and my reps have already made their positions on the USPS clear (they support funding). For this reason, there’s very little I can do as a state resident. I (and every American) are counting on people in red/purple states to make their opinion of the American people known to the senators who need to hear it.
If you are in a red state or a purple state with republican senators, call them and tell them to pass this bill. PLEASE. I know talking on the phone is horrifically anxiety-inducing, but this is our right to vote safely that we’re talking about. This is about ensuring that every vote is counted, especially for veterans, people with disabilities, people in rural communities, people who are sick or affected by the pandemic. This is about life-saving prescriptions arriving on time. This is about paychecks and the ability to pay rent. During a global pandemic wherein the United States accounts for ~25% of all infections and ~22% of all deaths.
The U.S. Post Office is provisioned as a Federal responsibility in our Constitution. Treating it like a private business is an insult to the values and ideals of our founders, and endangers very basic personal liberties guaranteed by that same Constitution. The U.S. Department of Defense was allotted $721,531,000,000 for the 2020 fiscal year—and that is for a normal fiscal year. That is nearly 29 times as much as this bill requests for *emergency* funding for the USPS.
The United States Postal Service is not a business. It is a public institution overseen by Congress (and Congress alone) that safeguards the rights and liberties of all American citizens, particularly those who are most vulnerable. If you are represented by a Republican congressperson, call them and remind them that it is their job and their job alone to ensure that the mail arrives on time.
I never foresaw the Post Office standing as one of the last bastions of our electoral process and democratic integrity as a nation, but here we are.
Oh, and for goodness sake,
