What’s up with the Postal Service?

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🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On Today’s Post Reports, Jacob Bogage explains how delays and a partisan battle over funding the U.S. Postal Service may affect the election. Jose A. Del Real reports on Latino voters in Arizona, who may hold the key for a Democratic win there. And, Sarah Kaplan with a climate solution for America’s hottest cities.

Trump says the Postal Service needs money for mail-in voting but he’ll keep blocking funding.

Latinos transformed Arizona. Do campaigns see them?

How America’s hottest city will survive climate change.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:04.8	Hi, this is Vanessa Williams from the Washington Post.
0:08.6	Hey, it's Philip Rutger at the Washington Post.
0:10.9	Do you have a minute?
0:11.9	Hi, this is Dan Zagfel.
0:13.6	This is Post Reports.
0:14.6	I'm Nicole Ellis.
0:19.4	It's Thursday, August 13.
0:23.4	Today, how changes that the U.S. Postal Service could impact the election?
0:27.5	And Democrats turn Arizona blue and what the hottest city in America is doing to cool off.
0:36.1	The Democrats, they want $3.5 billion, think of it.
0:41.1	But now that they're unwilling to approve a bill that gives all of that money, of course,
0:50.0	we would never approve an amount like that.
0:54.9	They also want $25 billion additional for the Post Office, Dave.
0:59.0	$25 billion.
1:00.5	So on Wednesday, President Trump said the U.S. Postal Service needed more money if it was going
1:07.6	to conduct or help conduct the November election through vote by mail.
1:12.7	So therefore, they don't have the money to do the universal mail invading.
1:18.1	But the president himself is the one blocking that funding from reaching the Postal Service.
1:23.9	So therefore, they can't do it.
1:25.3	I guess, right?
1:26.3	Are they going to do it?
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