{"id":4095,"date":"2020-04-15T17:51:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2020-04-15T17:51:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:51:44","slug":"no-trump-is-not-trying-to-destroy-the-postal-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/no-trump-is-not-trying-to-destroy-the-postal-service\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Trump is not trying to destroy the Postal Service"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over the weekend, #postalservice began trending on Twitter. That\u2019s weird, seeing as the Post Office is, well, the Post Office. And I say that as someone who has spent 17 years studying postal policy. (Thank you for your sympathy.)<\/p>\n

The Twitter-steria stemmed from a\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0that the Trump administration opposed giving the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) a bailout. House of Representatives Democrats had tried to slip a more than $30 billion bailout into the\u00a0Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act<\/a>\u00a0(CARES Act). Trump and company rejected the bill and told Congress they beleaguered agency could have a $10 billion loan instead…(Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend, #postalservice began trending on Twitter. That\u2019s weird, seeing as the Post Office is, well, the Post Office. And I say that as someone who has spent 17 years studying postal policy. (Thank you for your sympathy.) The Twitter-steria stemmed from a\u00a0report\u00a0that the Trump administration opposed giving the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[161],"tags":[222],"class_list":["post-4095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postal-service","tag-american-spectator"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-143","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4096,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions\/4096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}