Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, is calling the U.S. House of Representatives back into session to consider massive legislation dealing with the U.S. Postal Service. Congressman Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, announced his opposition to the postal system bailout.
โWith lies and propaganda, the Socialist Democrats are attempting to convince the American people that President Trump is rigging the November election by opposing their Postal Service bailout,โ Brooks said on social media. โAll voters have the right to go to the polls on election day and vote. Thatโs the way weโve operated for more than two centuries in America and it has worked just fine. That process worked during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1920.โ
Some Democrats have claimed that mail-in voting is necessary due to COVID-19 fears.
โMail in voting opens the door for massive voter fraud,โ Brooks said. โI agree with President Trumpโs position. The U.S. Postal Service is not equipped to facilitate mail in voting. Bless their hearts, every now and then letter carriers lose or misplace mail. Mailing ballots to people wonโt work. People move around. No database of mailing addresses is 100% accurate. I donโt want Americans to lose their voting rights because either they never received their ballot or their ballot was lost on the way back to the election official for counting. Mail in voting is very different from Alabamaโs absentee voting process that has safeguards built in to protect the integrity of elections. I joined WVNN yesterday to discuss my position and respond to fake news mischaracterization of President Trumpโs statement on mail in voting.โ
Democratic demands that support for the Postal Service be part of the coronavirus relief package is one reason why Congress could not reach an agreement on a bipartisan coronavirus relief plan. Nearly 180 million Americans are eligible to vote by mail.
โIf we donโt make a deal, that means they donโt get the money,โ Trump told Fox News. โThat means they canโt have universal mail-in voting. They just canโt have it.โ
Later Thursday, Trump told reporters at the White House that he would not veto legislation that has funding for the Postal Service but added that โthe reason the post office needs that much money is they have all of these millions of ballots coming in from nowhere and nobody knows from where and where theyโre going.โ
There is no evidence of widespread fraud in absentee or mail-in voting.
โThe money they need for the mail-in ballots would be taken care of,โ Trump said. โIf we agree to it. That doesnโt mean weโre going to agree to it.โ
Pelosi called the House back into session on Sunday to take up legislation that would reverse operational change, but not provide additional USPS funding made by new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy earlier this year that he said had โunintended consequencesโ and led to delays.
Brooks represents Alabamaโs 5th Congressional District. Brooks is serving in his fifth term and appears to be cruising to his sixth term.
