The White House has come out in opposition to a bill introduced by House Democrats that seeks to reverse certain changes to U.S. Postal Service (USPS) operations and prohibit new ones while providing $25 billion to the financially distressed agency, with the Office of Management and Budget saying if the legislation reaches the desk of President Donald Trump, it would recommend a veto.
The office said in a statement Friday (pdf) that it “strongly opposes” the bill, called H.R. 1805 (pdf), arguing that it would add to USPS woes by making it more vulnerable to lawsuits, while freezing reforms undertaken to set the financially beleaguered agency on a course of market viability, and showering it “arbitrarily” with billions in taxpayer dollars.
