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Upon assuming office on June 16, 2020, he began taking measures such as banning overtime and extra trips to deliver mail, to reduce costs. He did not communicate the reasons for such changes within the organization, [21] and such measures also resulted in slowing of the mail service. [47] [48] [49] Congressional Democrats called for the measures to be rolled back. [50] More than 600 high-speed mail sorting machines were scheduled to be dismantled and removed from postal facilities, [51] raising concerns that mailed ballots for the November 3 election might not reach election offices on time. [52] In the summer of 2020, removal of mail collection boxes became a controversial issue, as photos of their removal spread on social media. The USPS stated that repositioning mailboxes from low- to high-traffic areas was a longstanding practice dating back decades, and the practice of removing some boxes was influenced by an overall decrease in first-class mail volume, as was the decommissioning of mail-sorting machines. [53] In August 2020, DeJoy announced that the Postal Service would halt the removal of mailboxes and decommissioning of mail-sorting equipment until after the November election. [54] [34] [55]

On August 7, 2020, DeJoy announced he had reassigned or displaced 23 senior USPS officials, including the two top executives overseeing day-to-day operations. [56] [50] He said he was trying to breathe new life into a "broken business model". [57] Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, who chairs the House committee that oversees the USPS, said the reorganization was "deliberate sabotage". [50] In a letter to postal workers on August 13, 2020, DeJoy confirmed reports of delays in mail delivery, calling them "unintended consequences" of changes that eventually would improve service. [58] At the same time that he was taking measures that postal workers and union officials said were slowing down mail delivery, President Trump told a TV interviewer that he himself was blocking funds for the postal service in order to hinder mail-in voting. [59]

After congressional protests, the USPS inspector general began a review of DeJoy's policy changes. [43] On August 18, 2020, DeJoy announced that the Postal Service would suspend cost-cutting and other operational changes until after the 2020 election. [60] He said that equipment that had already been removed would not be restored. [61] [62] Documents obtained by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington indicated that DeJoy lied under oath when he testified to Congress on August 24 that he did not order the restrictions on overtime. [63] At this congressional testimony DeJoy admitted that he was unaware of the cost of mailing a postcard or a smaller greeting card, the starting rate for US Priority Mail, or how many Americans voted by mail in the 2016 elections. [64]

In September 2020, a court blocked the USPS from sending Colorado households a mailer with false and misleading information about vote-by-mail for Colorado. Secretaries of state had requested that DeJoy show them previews of the mailers that the USPS intended to send out, but DeJoy refused, according to Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold. [65] The suit was settled that month, with the USPS agreeing to show previews of any future election mailers or materials to Colorado's secretary of state and attorney general for their review and potential veto. [66] The next month, USPS agreed to reverse all changes implemented in June that affected mail services to Montana, settling a lawsuit brought by the state's governor against the institution and DeJoy a day before a hearing was to take place in U.S. District Court in Great Falls. The government institution agreed to reverse removal of collection boxes and mail sorting machines, closure or consolidation of mail processing facilities, reduced retail hours, banning or restricting overtime, and restriction of late or extra trips for timely mail delivery, affecting all 50 states. [67] USPS was sued in federal court in September 2020 by American Oversight to "compel the release of directives, guidance, analyses, and key emails from Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and his chief of staff related to voting by mail" after USPS failed to respond to FOIA requests for such information within the legally designated time period. [68] [69] When USPS released DeJoy's calendar in response to the lawsuit, it was almost entirely redacted. [69]

A March 2021 report from the Postal Service's inspector general found that the vast majority of mail-in ballots and registration materials in the 2020 election were delivered to the relevant authorities on time. [70] [71]

Relationship with Biden administration

In February 2021, amid criticism and concern by Democratic lawmakers about the USPS under DeJoy, Biden nominated three people to fill the four vacancies on the USPS board of governors; the president of the United States does not have the authority to remove the postmaster general. [72] That same month, DeJoy stated that despite there being a change in president, he did not intend to leave the position, and said that he planned to be in the role "a long time, get used to me". [72]

DeJoy angered some congressional Democrats, who repeatedly called for his firing, by not waiting to consult with the new board members on his 10-year turnaround plan, though the plan did promise to consult the board before implementing various changes. [73]

After the Biden administration contacted the Postal Service about the possibility of mailing free COVID-19 test kits to Americans in December 2021, DeJoy used his previous private-sector logistics expertise to help the USPS deliver approximately 380 million home test kits from January 2022 through May 2022. [34] [74] [75]

In February and March 2022, DeJoy worked with Rep. Carolyn Maloney and Rep. James Comer to build bipartisan support for the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, which lifted financial burdens placed on the Postal Service by the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act and required the agency to continue delivering mail six days per week. [34] [76] The bill was signed into law by President Joe Biden on April 6, 2022. [76] DeJoy's efforts to lobby Republican lawmakers on the bill, including specific 10-year financial plans, were seen as influential in getting Republican support for a Democratic policy priority. [77]

Fleet procurement controversies

DeJoy received criticism for his decision on February 24, 2021, to award a $6.5 billion contract to modernize the USPS fleet exclusively to Oshkosh, which had previously admitted a lack of expertise in producing electric vehicles and would therefore be unable to make good on President Biden's pledge to make the USPS 100% electric. [78] [79] In addition, Congressman Tim Ryan referred to the SEC a $54 million purchase of Oshkosh stock made hours before the contract was announced. [79]

Democrats criticized DeJoy's February 2022 order for $11.3 billion of mostly gasoline-powered replacement vehicles, with Virginia Representative Gerry Connolly saying DeJoy had "flouted" President Biden's executive order on clean procurement. [80] [81] The EPA also criticized the USPS for the order, pointing to the environmental costs of the fleet ($900 million of damage over 20 years), the low fuel efficiency, and the short-sightedness of making a long-term investment in gasoline-powered vehicles. [81] [82] DeJoy cited an ongoing Postal Service environmental review as well as the agency's grave financial condition as reasons for not including more electric vehicles in the initial order. [83]

In March, Congress passed the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, improving the financial situation of the USPS. In April 2022, 16 states, the District of Columbia, and 4 environmental groups sued the agency over the environmental impact of its slow vehicle electrification plan and demanded a 75% electric order. [84] In June 2022, DeJoy said his plan to centralize mail processing would reduce the cost of electric vehicle infrastructure; the Postal Service Office of Inspector General had said that 95% of delivery routes were suitable for electrification. [84] In July, with the existing fleet at about 217,000, DeJoy announced a change in plans, going from 10% electric vehicles out of up to 160,000 (a custom design from Oshkosh only) to 40% electric out of 84,500 (only 25,000 gas and 25,000 electric from Oshkosh). [84]

In August, the Inflation Reduction Act included $3 billion for electric USPS vehicles. In December 2022, DeJoy announced yet another change in plans for purchases through 2028: an order of 60,000 custom-made vehicles from Oshkosh (75% electric) plus 21,000 EVs from other manufacturers. After 2026, the agency expects 100% of its purchases to be electric. [85] [86] The first order in this plan, a contract to purchase 9,450 EVs manufactured by Ford and 14,000 electric vehicle charging stations, was announced in February 2023. [87] [88] [89]

10-year reform plan

In March 2021, DeJoy issued a 10-year plan called "Delivering for America" [90] to stabilize the finances of the Postal Service. The plan aims to bridge a $160 billion budget gap for the decade, and takes into account the long-term trend of declining first class mail volume due to Internet communication, and increasing package volume due to e-commerce (more than doubling since 2008). Provisions of the plan include: [73]

Other donations and board work

DeJoy donated $747,000 to Duke University in 2014, funding Blue Devil Tower and the DeJoy Family Club at the football stadium. That year, his son was accepted to the school and joined the school's tennis team as a walk-on. [94]

In 2005, [95] DeJoy and his wife founded the Louis DeJoy and Aldona Wos Family Foundation, through which they have provided donations to academic scholarships, [96] [97] including establishing the DeJoy-Wos Odyssey Scholars Endowment at Elon University. [98] DeJoy is on the board of the Fund for American Studies. [99]

DeJoy serves on the Elon University board of trustees. [100] [101]

Personal life

DeJoy is married to Aldona Wos, a Polish-American former physician and former Ambassador to Estonia during the George W. Bush administration. [102] From 2017 to 2021 she served as the vice chair of the 45th President's Commission on White House Fellowships. President Trump announced his intent to nominate her as Ambassador to Canada on February 11, 2020. [103] Her nomination stalled before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, [19] expired when the new Congress was sworn in on January 3, 2021, and returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the U.S. Senate. [104]

The couple have twin children [105] and maintain at least two homes: one in the Kalorama neighborhood in Washington, D.C., [19] [106] [107] and the other, from prior to DeJoy's government appointment and bought with Wos in 2005, [108] a 10,900-square-foot (1,010 m2) mansion [108] in the Irving Park Historic District next to the Greensboro Country Club Golf Course [109] [110] in Greensboro, North Carolina. [111] [112] [113] The latter has been the location of several political fundraising events. [2] [114] [115] [116] [117]

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