it was louis dejoy who basically broke the mail last year immediately after trump put him in the job ing the trump years, dejoy instituted draconian new policies that created unprecedented devastating backlogs in the mail across the whole country. somewhat unfathomably even after that disastrous start to his tenure as postmaster general, dejoy is still in charge over there, still in charge of the usps. as long as he's still there, he's still coming up with new ways to monkey wrench the way the mail gets delivered. earlier this year, he proposed a new ten-year plan promising he had found a way to permanently make the mail slower and more expensive and less convenient. well done! "the washington post" called it the largest rollback of consumer mail services in a generation. postal workers immediately point you had out that part of the plan would entail offloading more mail carrying operations to private companies in a way that is specifically designed to slow mail down even further. so that's what that postal worker, mike bates, was saying, that his boss had no idea about. have no idea

president biden can't directly fire louis dejoy.at hires and fires people for that postmaster job. well, now in a surprise move late last month, president biden made changes to the postal board of governors that may finally clear the way for louis dejoy to finally get ousted. the move costs doubt on dejoy's future at the agency. joining us now is illinois's representative rajjia krishnamoorthi. he's been calling for the replacement of mr. dejoy and "delivering unless judiciously act, which spells out dejoy. your direct pleas, you've been really, really focused on this, perhaps more than anybody else in government. did you know that president biden was going to do what he did today? >> i didn't. but, you know, my pleas really came from my constituents, rachel. we've received more complaints, thousands of complaints about slower mail delivery and raised prices than perhaps any other issue that we talk about in government. and now we're on the verge of the holidays and unfortunately the postmaster general is taking dejoy out of the hol

bloom, a trump nominee was responsible for the selection of louis dejoy as postmaster general. were designed to slow mail delivery during the 2020 election when a record number of voters chose to vote by mail due to the coronavirus pandemic. the term of john barger who also sits on the u.s. postal service board of governors ended yesterday as well. barger is also a trump appointee and will continue to serve until his successor is confirmed. last month president biden nominated two new members of the u.s. postal service board of governors, and joining us now is democratic congressman of illinois a member of the house oversight committee and the house intelligence committee. thank you very much for joining us tonight, congressman, i know you have been on this issue for a while. so what happens next at the postal service? >> well, i think next we go to fix the mail, lawrence. i'm very hopeful that the nominees will be confirmed quickly in the senate as the prior nominees of the president were confirmed to the board of governors. and then they'll basically address some really horri

the naacp have been working against louis dejoy and the post office. it a big deal. they seem to be using the post office to interfere with the election in another way slowing down ballots. is this going to be what -- are we going to do civil cases because of the doj? >> unless they step up, pick up the pace and indict people we've seen commit crimes in the harsh light of day as a former career d.o.j. employee, i'm still scratching my head because we've seen no prosecutions of consequence so you know what? we have to fill the void with righteous lawsuits because trump and company used the court's system for their own purposes. delay, delay, delay, run out the clock. righteous lawsuits should be brought and hopefully they will have some hope of dislodging the dejoys of the world. >> absolutely. you've also got the rnc paying for donald trump's legal bills for tax crimes in new york, alleged tax crimes in new york. congressman, this is a bizarre story. "the daily beast" said you've been threatened with kidnapping by a russian politician because you said this is how we