In an interview with Fox's Maria Bartiromo, Emperor Trump startled the world by explaining pretty clearly how he wanted to strangle the US Postal Service for funds to prevent it from transmitting all those universal mail-in ballots proposed by the House of Representatives in the HEROES Act passed in May, except, and I don't think this has gotten enough attention, Trump made that up, or got it from a possibly Russian-inspired Facebook post, because the HEROES Act does not in fact propose universal mail-in balloting, and indeed Congress is not even allowed to propose such a thing, which would intrude on the constitutionally enumerated powers of the states.
Though it does include up to $3.6 billion to assist state governments in whatever they choose to do in the "planning, preparation, and resilience" of US elections, which will include extending absentee ballots in a number of states, not to mention the six states (Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Hawaii, Utah, and Nevada). And $25 billion to rescue the Postal Service from its current financial crisis (what USPS had asked for was $75 million), unrelated to the election.
Trillion, Billion, Do You Know How Much Money That Is?
By Donald J. Trump
Well they’re right, and it’s their fault.
They want $3.5 billion
for something that will turn out to be
fraudulent, that’s election money basically.
They want 3.5 trillion -- billion dollars
for the mail-in votes, OK,
universal mail-in ballots, 3.5 trillion.
They want $25 billion, billion,
for the Post Office.
Now they need that money in order
to have the post office work
so it can take all of these millions
and millions of ballots.
Now, in the meantime, they aren’t
getting there. By the way,
those are just two items.
But if they don’t get those two items,
that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting
because they’re not equipped to have it.
