{"id":39672,"date":"2025-04-24T12:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T12:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/usps-workers-sound-alarm-over-trump-efforts-to-dismantle-service-the-hounds-are-at-the-door\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T12:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T12:11:49","slug":"usps-workers-sound-alarm-over-trump-efforts-to-dismantle-service-the-hounds-are-at-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/usps-workers-sound-alarm-over-trump-efforts-to-dismantle-service-the-hounds-are-at-the-door\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS workers sound alarm over Trump efforts to dismantle service: \u2018The hounds are at the door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Postal Service is now facing off with Trump and Elon Musk\u2019s Doge over privatization<\/p>\n<p>US postal workers \u2013 and many who depend on them \u2013 may have sighed in relief when the Trump-appointed postmaster general, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/24\/postmaster-general-louis-dejoy-resigns\">Louis DeJoy, resigned<\/a> last month. Now, postal workers and others fear the worst is to come.<\/p>\n<p>Many feared DeJoy, a prolific <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Trump<\/a> donor and trucking logistics executive who <a href=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/letters\/stop-dejoys-10-year-plan-to-privatize-the-usps-2\/\">pushed<\/a> a 10-year consolidation plan at the agency, would be the man who would finally dismantle the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/us-postal-service\">United States Postal Service<\/a> (USPS). Now the service is facing off with an empowered Trump and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>, his billionaire backer and chainsaw-wielding leader of his government job-cutting \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/apr\/24\/usps-workers-sound-alarm-over-trump-efforts-to-dismantle-service-the-hounds-are-at-the-door\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Postal Service is now facing off with Trump and Elon Musk\u2019s Doge over privatization US postal workers \u2013 and many who depend on them \u2013 may have sighed in relief when the Trump-appointed postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, resigned last month. Now, postal workers and others fear the worst is to come. Many &#8230; <a title=\"USPS workers sound alarm over Trump efforts to dismantle service: \u2018The hounds are at the door\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/usps-workers-sound-alarm-over-trump-efforts-to-dismantle-service-the-hounds-are-at-the-door\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USPS workers sound alarm over Trump efforts to dismantle service: \u2018The hounds are at the door\">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-39672","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\/39672","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=39672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}