Trump Considers USPS Takeover

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WATCH: Trump discusses USPS plans after Howard Lutnick sworn in as commerce secretary

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President Donald Trump says he may put the U.S. Postal Service under the control of the Commerce Department .

The move would be an executive branch takeover of the agency, which has operated as an independent entity since 1970 .

The USPS employs about 640,000 workers delivering mail, medicine, election ballots and packages across the country.

More recently, Trump mused in December about privatizing the service given the competition it faced from Amazon , UPS , FedEx and others. “It’s an idea a lot of people have had for a long time. We’re looking at it,” the president said. Support Provided By: Learn more Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else..

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