Congressman Marc Veasey (TX-33) Votes to Save the U.S. Postal Service and the Right to Vote From the Trump Administration’s Assaults

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, with the U.S. Postal Service under assault from the Trump Administration, Congressman Marc Veasey (TX-33) voted to pass H.R. 8015, the Delivering for America Act. The Delivering for America Act requires the Postal Service to return to the Postal Service operations and levels of service that were in place on January 1, 2020 throughout the duration of the coronavirus public health emergency and requires all election mail to be treated as First-Class mail. It also provides $25 billion in critical funding for the Postal Service – the same level of funding recommended by the USPS Board of Governors, which is composed of 100 percent President Trump appointees.

"I stand with my fellow Democrats and millions of Americans in Texas and across the country to oppose the Administration's dangerous attacks on the Postal Service, which threaten the lives and livelihoods of Texas families and the life of our American Democracy," Congressman Veasey said. "I will continue fighting to address the damage done to the Postal Service and ensure that every American can freely exercise their sacred right to vote in a safe and healthy way."

The Delivering for America Act would prohibit:


-Any change that would generally affect service on a nationwide or substantially nationwide basis;
-Any revision of existing service standards;
-Closing, consolidating or reducing the hours of any post office or postal facility;
-Any prohibition on paying overtime to Postal Service officers or employees;
-Any change that would prevent the Postal Service from meeting its service standards or cause a decline in measurements of performance relative to those standards; and
-Any change that would have the effect of delaying mail or increasing the volume of undelivered mail.

This legislation will also:

-Include $25 billion requested by the Postal Service and supported unanimously and on a bipartisan basis by the Trump-appointed Postal Board of Governors;
-Require the Postal Service to treat all official election mail as First-Class mail;
-Prohibit the removal, decommissioning or other stoppage of mail sorting machines, other than for routine maintenance;
-Prohibit the removal of mailboxes; and
Explicitly reverse any changes already implemented to the operations or policies of the Postal Service that delay mail delivery.

Today's vote rounds out Congressman Veasey's week of action to protect the vital postal service. Yesterday, Congressman Veasey visited U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) Fort Worth Processing and Distribution Center to see the first hand impact of the Administration's changes on postal workers and the delivery of mail in North Texas. Earlier this week, Congressman Veasey led his colleagues on a letter urging Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to open an investigation into the Trump Administration's illegal attempts at voter suppression using the Postal Service. Additionally, Veasey hosted a virtual listening session with United States Postal Service workers