Pelosi to recall House to 'save' the post office
Speaker Nancy Pelosi will ask the home of Representatives to come back to session in the coming days to vote on a bill to safeguard the US Postal Service.
In a letter released on Sunday, Ms Pelosi accused President Trump of a "campaign to sabotage the election".
It employs the USPS warned that an incredible number of mail ballots might not exactly get to time to be counted in the election.
Critics blamed the brand new USPS head - a loyal supporter of the president - for a slowdown in deliveries.
A record number of individuals are anticipated to vote by mail prior to the 3 November presidential election because of the pandemic.
The president has repeatedly said mail-in ballots will lead to voting fraud and present a boost to his rival Democrat Joe Biden. However, authorities say the mail-in voting system, which Mr Trump himself uses, is safe from tampering.
In a letter released on Sunday, Ms Pelosi criticized plans by the USPS's new head, Louis DeJoy, which she said would "degrade postal service, delay the mail, and - in line with the Postal Service itself - threaten to deny the power of eligible Americans to cast their votes through the mail in the upcoming elections in due time".
"Lives, livelihoods and the life span of our American Democracy are under threat from the president," she added.
Ms Pelosi said she'd ask House representatives to vote on a new bill to prohibit the USPS from introducing any changes to the service or businesses it provided at the beginning of this year in the coming week. A date for the vote hasn't yet been announced.
She also joined a number of Democrats in contacting Mr DeJoy and another senior USPS figure to testify at an "urgent" hearing of the home Committee on Oversight and Reform on 24 August.
Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, have accused Mr Trump of attacking postal voting and the USPS in a bid to "undermine the election".
President Trump has previously told Fox News he was blocking additional funding for the financially troubled agency, because he opposes mail-in voting.
"Now they want that profit order to help make the post office work so that it can take most of these untold thousands of ballots," he said. "Now, if we don't make a deal, which means they don't get the money. That means they can not have universal mail-in voting, they cannot have it."
