President Trump said Friday he was considering merging the U.S. Postal Service into his administration, calling the agency a “tremendous loser” of money.
“We want to have a post office that works well and doesn’t lose massive amounts of money, and we’re thinking about doing that,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “And it will be a form of a merger, but it’ll remain the Postal Service, and I think it’ll operate a lot better than it has been over the years.
“It’s been just a tremendous loser for this country, tremendous amounts of money they’ve lost,” he added. “And we think we can do something that will be very good and keep it a very similar way, but whether it’s a merger or just using some of the very talented people that we have elsewhere so it doesn’t lose so much.”
Trump’s comments came after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was formally sworn in.
The Washington Post reported late Thursday that Trump was preparing to absorb the Postal Service into the Commerce Department and dissolve the agency’s board, upending the agency that handles millions of pieces of mail and packages.
The Post reported that the Postal Service’s leadership is expected to bring a legal challenge if Trump seeks to dissolve the entity’s board.
Trump has previously mused about privatizing the Postal Service, and in 2020 the agency drew his ire amid his tirades against mail-in voting. Trump in 2020 opposed funding for the Postal Service as part of a stimulus package, suggesting the money was so the organization could take in mail ballots.
