AOC Demands Postmaster DeJoy Testify Before Congress and Says They Must ‘Undo the Damage That He Has Already Done’

After being given one minute to speak at the Democrat National Convention, US House Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had more to say today and she went after Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.

She demanded in remarks to reporters that “We need to get him under oath on a committee letting us know what is happening and we have to undo the damage that he has already done.”

AOC goes off on Postmaster DeJoy: "We need to get him under oath on a committee letting us know what is happening and we have to undo the damage that he has already done." pic.twitter.com/VyJK96cNGX

— The Recount (@therecount) August 18, 2020

Dejoy released a statement today saying that “The Postal Service is ready today to handle whatever volume of election mail it receives this fall.”

He also announced “the expansion of our current leadership taskforce on election mail to enhance our ongoing work and partnership with state and local election officials in jurisdictions throughout the country.”

“Leaders of our postal unions and management associations have committed to joining this taskforce to ensure strong coordination throughout our organization,” he continued.

“Because of the unprecedented demands of the 2020 election, this taskforce will help ensure that election officials and voters are well informed and fully supported by the Postal Service,” he concluded.

He said that he “came to the Postal Service to make changes to secure the success of this organization and its long-term sustainability” and that he believes “significant reforms are essential to that objective” but that he will suspend those “initiatives until after the election is concluded.”

AOC proposed an effort of her own recently to help boost sales at the USPS, encouraging people to purchase more stamps through a letter-writing campaign for progressives — not to public officials, however, but to each other.