{"id":34810,"date":"2025-03-02T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T14:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/us-postal-service-faces-murky-future-as-trump-mulls-dismantling-institution\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T14:25:09","slug":"us-postal-service-faces-murky-future-as-trump-mulls-dismantling-institution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/us-postal-service-faces-murky-future-as-trump-mulls-dismantling-institution\/","title":{"rendered":"US Postal Service faces murky future as Trump mulls dismantling institution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resistance to any proposals remains speculative until administration lays out its plan for the federal agency<\/p>\n<p>After the postmaster general, Louis Dejoy, a former Trump fundraiser and logistics executive appointed during the president\u2019s first term, announced last month that he was stepping down, defenders of the US Postal Service (USPS) concerned that the 249-year-old institution could soon experience the slice and slash of Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d scimitar have expressed alarm.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to dissolve USPS\u2019s bipartisan board of governors and place the agency under the control of the commerce department secretary, Howard Lutnick, the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/1y2WY#selection-545.0-548.0\">Washington Post<\/a> recently reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/mar\/02\/usps-trump-postal-service-cuts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resistance to any proposals remains speculative until administration lays out its plan for the federal agency After the postmaster general, Louis Dejoy, a former Trump fundraiser and logistics executive appointed during the president\u2019s first term, announced last month that he was stepping down, defenders of the US Postal Service (USPS) concerned that the 249-year-old institution &#8230; <a title=\"US Postal Service faces murky future as Trump mulls dismantling institution\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/us-postal-service-faces-murky-future-as-trump-mulls-dismantling-institution\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US Postal Service faces murky future as Trump mulls dismantling institution\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}