When David Steiner became U.S. postmaster general in July 2025, many hoped his first order of business would be abandoning his predecessor’s now largely discredited reorganization plan. Instead, he looks to be doubling down on it.
That was and is a mistake.
The U.S. Postal Service is hemorrhaging money. Congress is again trying to decide what to do about it, but is not finding it easy.
Meaningful reform means taking on the politically powerful postal unions, which grew fat and happy and larger under Louis DeJoy, who oversaw the Postal Service during President Trump’s first term and kept it in place into the second.
No elected official wants to fight the unions so close to an election, but Congress may have to anyway. The problems continue to grow.
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