This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Wednesday, May 13th. I'm Virginia Allen.

And I'm Rachel Del Judas. Like many other entities, the U.S. Postal Service is feeling the economic strain of the coronavirus pandemic.

It recently asked for $75 billion in taxpayer funding,

and President Trump recently said that any bailout must be

conditioned on reform.

Ramia Bacha, the leading fiscal and economic expert at the Heritage Foundation, who focuses

on government spending and the national debt

joins me on the Daily Signal Podcast to discuss why a bailout of the USPS isn't the way to go.

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Now on to our top news. House Democrats have put out details for their 3 trillion coronavirus relief package, the fourth major spending proposal amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A group of heritage researchers write in the daily signal that the bill includes over

one trillion in aid to state and local governments

with a vast majority being unrestricted aid that does not directly respond to

costs incurred in the fight against COVID-19. It would also lead to a long-term increase of the federal unemployment bonus,

the Heritage Researchers right.

The bill would extend the misguided and harmful $600 unemployment bonus through January 2021,

with an additional extension possible through March of next year.

It is one thing to provide short-term and targeted unemployment benefits during four

shutdowns, but providing a year's worth of unprecedented additional

unemployment benefits up to an extra 30,000 or more per worker would be devastating to our economy, potentially even

threatening our ability to combat COVID-19 and America's supply of essential goods and services. It also includes a provision for voting by proxy,

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