The subcommittee, which consists of two Democrat appointees to the board and one Republican, is expected to issue a public report within two weeks outlining how the USPS will ensure the timeliness of election mail and other critical services, Schumer said.
“Frankly, no one really believes him,” Schumer said Sunday.
Schumer said Sunday that the USPS Board of Governors has the power to overrule DeJoy, and that the two-week window for the report was to “give us enough time to put the correct actions in place so that the elections will be held fairly.”
“We cannot have the specter of a disrupted election — an election that doesn’t count all votes — hovering over the election season,” Schumer said. “The whole targeting of the post office right before the election had a real odor of political involvement and trying to jeopardize and jaundice our elections. And the fact that so many swing states were involved in the targeting is all the more reason to believe that and worry about it.”
Schumer added that, in addition to the report, the Board of Governors subcommittee is expected to brief lawmakers weekly.
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