WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) – U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress he signed an agreement with Elon Musk’s DOGE government reform team to provide assistance to the money-losing agency as it works to address “big problems.”
USPS, an independent government agency with 635,000 employees that lost $9.5 billion last year, has been exempt from DOGE-directed federal employee reductions. DeJoy told Congress in a letter seen by Reuters that USPS plans to reduce its workforce by 10,000 workers in the next month through a voluntary early retirement program.
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USPS will let DOGE team tackle its ‘big problems,’ DeJoy tells lawmakers
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told lawmakers the DOGE team will look at a handful of topics, including the role of the Postal Regulatory Commission.
