US Post Office General DeJoy resigns from role amid budget cuts shakeup
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U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy resigned from his position on Monday, nearly two weeks after agreeing to allow Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to right-size the Postal Service budget.
Reuters reported that the United States Postal Service (USPS) Board confirmed that Monday would be his last day, while also tapping Deputy Postmaster General Doug Tulino to take over until a permanent replacement is selected by the board.
DeJoy, who was appointed during President Donald Trump’s first term, notified the board of governors that it was time to find a suitable successor last week, as the USPS tries to recover from hundreds of billions of dollars in predicted losses within the next decade.
USPS did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy listens to a question during an interview with Reuters at the U.S. Postal Service Headquarters in Washington, U.S., April 20, 2022. Picture taken April 20, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis (REUTERS/Leah Millis / Reuters)
The Postal Service moved in January to cut 10,000 jobs through an early retirement offer to eligible workers.
In a letter to Congress earlier this month, DeJoy lamented that the Postal Service has a “broken business model that was not financially sustainable without critically necessary and core change.”
“Fixing a broken organization that had experienced close to $100 billion in losses and was projected to lose another $200 billion, without a bankruptcy proceeding, is a daunting task,” DeJoy wrote. “Fixing a heavily legislated and overly regulated organization as massive, important, cherished, misunderstood and debated as the United States Postal Service, with such a broken business model, is even more difficult.”
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U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy listens to a question during an interview with Reuters at the U.S. Postal Service Headquarters in Washington, U.S., April 20, 2022. Picture taken April 20, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis (REUTERS/Leah Millis / Reuters)
DOGE will assist USPS with addressing “big problems” at the $78 billion-a-year agency, which has sometimes struggled in recent years to stay afloat. The agreement aims to help the Postal Service identify and achieve “further efficiencies.”
DeJoy was tapped to lead the agency in 2020, during a time of “tremendous operational and financial crisis” for the Postal Service, a news release said.
USPS currently employs about 640,000 workers tasked with making deliveries, from inner cities to rural areas and even far-flung islands.
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U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy poses for a portrait in his office at the U.S. Postal Service Headquarters in Washington, U.S., April 20, 2022. Picture taken April 20, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis (REUTERS/Leah Millis / Reuters)
The service plans to cut 10,000 employees in the next 30 days through a voluntary early-retirement program announced in January, according to the letter.
The agency previously announced plans to cut its operating costs by more than $3.5 billion annually. And this isn’t the first time thousands of employees have been cut. In 2021, the agency cut 30,000 workers.
As the service, which has operated as an independent entity since 1970, has struggled to balance the books with the decline of first-class mail, it has fought calls from Trump and others that it be privatized.
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Last month, Trump said he may put USPS under the control of the Department of Commerce in what would be an executive branch takeover.
Fox News Digital’s Bradford Betz and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
