It's Wednesday, August 19th. I'm Achila Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Resenek and this is what a day where we are saluting our friends in the Calamari

comeback state, Rhode Island. That's right. It's kind of like backstreet boys. Like when they were back,

I hadn't known that they had left, but it's good to know they're back. It's true. Either way,

I want it that way.

On today's show, a conversation with friend of the Wajon Favreau about speech rating for the

convention, then some headlines. But first, the latest, starting with the Postal Service. Yesterday,

Postmaster General Lewis DeJoy said that he would suspend cost-cutting changes at the USPS

to quote, avoid even the appearance of any impact on election mail. That means, according to

statement, that no mail processing facilities will be closed. Over time, will be allowed and mailboxes

will remain where they are. It is unclear, though, if the Postal Service will reverse the changes

that have already been made this year, which are leading to delays currently. Gideon, he was clearly

feeling some intense pressure, right? Oh, yeah. I mean, in part because even before you get into this

discussion on possible ramifications for vote by mail, there are issues like prescriptions and other

essentials anecdotally that come through the mail and have been delayed. So this is definitely

the beginning, but we're likely to find out more in the coming days and weeks about this whole

process. And in the past week, specifically, there's been a lot of scrutiny on DeJoy. I mean,

he's now being called before the Senate on Friday to testify in addition to that hearing scheduled

for Monday in the House. Plus, you have impending lawsuits from at least 20 state attorneys general

that seek to stop service changes at USPS. And then House Democrats are still planning to go ahead

with a vote on Saturday on legislation that would outlaw operational changes until at least

to start of next year. And that bill is reportedly going to include 25 billion for USPS as well.

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