Postal service IG reviewing Postmaster General’s policy changes and potential ethics conflicts

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🗓️ 15 August 2020

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The Postal Service Inspector General is reviewing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s controversial policy changes and his compliance with federal ethics rules. DeJoy made some disruptive changes like eliminating overtime and slowing some mail delivery. Democrats are accusing DeJoy of trying to disrupt mail-in-voting in the November election, which he has denied. President Trump has also said he’s holding up funding for the USPS because he doesn’t want to see it used for mail-in-voting. Jena Griswold is the Secretary State of Colorado and is in charge of overseeing the state’s elections. She joins AC360 to react to the Postal Service IG review and says Trump is “trying to undermine the safest way to vote during a pandemic and enforce Americans to choose between risking their lives and casting a ballot.” Plus, President Trump was asked if he had an issue with a strong woman of color being in the presidential race. His answer: “No. None whatsoever, as you now.” Despite his answer, the President has given the opposite impression when he’s interacted with strong women of color. Democratic Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta is a Biden supporter and she tells Anderson Cooper this President is a “disgrace to our country and it’s only getting worse.” Airdate: August 14, 2020 Guests: Jena Griswold Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, breaking news this hour on a new review by the Inspector General for the
0:04.8	U.S. Postal Service of Controversial Changes ordered by the Postmaster General that have
0:09.3	effectively slowed down male service by eliminating worker hours as well as hundreds of sorting
0:14.0	machines.
0:15.0	According to a spokeswoman for the Inspector General and an aide to the Center for
0:18.4	the Civil War and one of the Senators who requested a review, the Inspector General is also
0:22.8	reviewing potential ethics complaints against Louis de Joy, an ally and donor of President
0:27.5	Trump.
0:28.5	This news comes in a day after President Trump appeared to come out and confirm his
0:31.1	critics' suspicions that he was holding up a coronavirus stimulus deal over money
0:34.6	to help the Postal Service.
0:36.0	Now, they need that money in order to have the Post Office work so it can take all of
0:41.4	these millions and millions of ballots.
0:43.9	Now in the meantime, they are in getting there.
0:47.7	By the way, those are just two items.
0:49.6	But if they don't get those two items, that means you can't have universal male invoting
0:54.1	because they're not equipped to have it.
0:56.4	Well, later on in a news conference of the White House, the President chose slightly
0:59.2	different words, basically implying that it was the Democrats who were holding up the
1:02.3	deal, but the point was the same.
1:06.4	If the Post Office, if they're not going to approve a bill, and the Post Office, therefore,
1:10.8	won't have the money, and if they're not going to approve a big bill, a bigger bill,
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