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• DeJoy Faces Outrage Over New Postal Service Price Hikes: “We can’t let the Postal Service sabotage itself by driving industries out of business and driving consumers away from using the mail,” said one critic. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is facing backlash over his newly announced plan to hike postcard and stamp prices as part of his proposed 10-year overhaul of mail operations, a strategy that critics warn will further damage the Postal Service. Late last week, the USPS notified the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) of its planned price increases, which are set to take effect in January. Under the new pricing proposal, which must be approved by the PRC, the cost of a stamp would rise 4.2% to 63 cents while the cost of a postcard would jump 9% to 48 cents.
• House Dems Slam ‘Economically Catastrophic’ GOP Ploy to Gut Social Security and Medicare: “Republicans are once again getting in line to raise costs for low- and middle-income workers and families while offering giveaways to the wealthiest and corporate interests,” said Rep. Don Beyer. The Democratic chair of the congressional Joint Economic Committee warned Wednesday that the GOP’s plan to use a looming debt ceiling fight as leverage to secure cuts to Social Security and Medicare would be “economically catastrophic for seniors, families, and our entire economy.” “Past debt-limit brinksmanship resulted in the first-ever downgrade of the U.S. credit rating and cost the country billions of dollars in lost economic activity, even though a default was ultimately avoided,” Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) said in a statement after several House Republicans outlined their intentions in interviews with Bloomberg Government on Tuesday.
• Upset About High Gas Prices? Ro Khanna Says ‘Blame Big Oil’: In a pair of videos, the progressive congressman from California says U.S. leaders must “end fossil fuel subsidies and put an excess profits tax on the wealthiest oil and gas corporations.” That’s the message that progressive U.S. Rep Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) has for voters in a pair of videos published Tuesday as part of a campaign to push members of Congress to enact windfall profits tax legislation. “Big Oil has mastered the art of profiteering,” Khanna says while standing outside a filling station in one of the videos, which was produced by the Stop the Oil Profiteering (STOP) campaign. “It’s less than half a mile from this ExxonMobil station to the U.S. Capitol, but the path from your wallet to the pockets of Big Oil is even more direct.”

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