Dozens of Senators From Both Parties Push Measure to Block Trump's USPS Privatization Plan

Government Executive: A bipartisan group of senators representing more than one-quarter of the upper chamber this week put forward a measure to block the Trump administration from moving forward with its plans to privatize the U.S. Postal Service.

The resolution (S.Res. 633) follows a companion in the House introduced this summer with 190 signatures from members of both parties, including more than three dozen Republicans. The measures are in response to a proposal in President Trump’s plan to reorganize government to privatize USPS, which the White House said should occur after the agency gets back on firmer financial footing. The plan has been met with widespread, and bipartisan, rebuke.

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