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# Postal Workers Protest After Trump Says He May Take Control of the U.S. Postal Service

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## Video: Postal Workers Protest After Trump Says He May Take Control of the U.S. Postal Service

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_Published 2025-02-25. President Donald Trump on Friday said he may put the U.S. Postal Service under the control of the Commerce Department in what would be an executive branch takeover of the agency, which has operated as an independent entity since 1970. On Monday in Washington, DC, postal workers protested against Trump’s proposal, chanting “Hell no.”_


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## Transcript

Now, we've all seen reports over the last few days of the president's intention to take executive action to dismantle the Postal Service. And we are all here to send a strong message to. What is. That message? Well, no, apparently the white House. Doesn't recognize or understand what they are jeopardizing. Every day, over 200,000 members of our union and hundreds of thousands of members of the other postal unions serve the people of this country. We provide a constitutionally mandated universal service. Every day, we deliver. 376 million pieces of mail to 169 million addresses in this country.

And our work that we do every day is a massive part of the economy in this country. It is the centerpiece of a $1.9 trillion per year industry. Now, maybe we shouldn't be too surprised by this. Look at what we've seen over the last 30 days. I think it's very clear this administration has no interest in protecting public service, working people or really the public good. They want to throw us away and create an unreliable, inefficient, expensive private delivery service. And what do we say to that? Hell, no.

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