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August 13, 2020politicalUSPSmail ballotelection interferencevoting rightspolitical

Trump ties opposition to USPS funding to preventing mail-in voting in Fox Business interview

In an interview on Fox Business, President Trump explicitly states that he is blocking $25 billion in emergency USPS funding specifically because he wants to prevent universal mail-in voting. He states "if they don't get those two items, that means you can't have universal mail-in voting because they're not equipped to have it." The statement, unprecedented in its directness, confirms what Democrats and election law experts had been arguing, that the administration's financial pressure on USPS is designed to limit ballot delivery ahead of the November 3 general election.