Trump has now signed the nearly $500 billion dollar bill to help small businesses that would have been half that if it weren’t for Pelosi holding small businesses hostage and the media giving her cover:
DAILY MAIL – President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law a $484 billion economic measure designed to give additional relief to small businesses feeling the squeeze from the coronavirus.
Surrounded by Republican lawmakers and members of his administration – who were visibly closer than social distancing guidelines recommended – Trump used the occasion to take shots at the U.S. Postal Service.
But Trump vows no money for the Post Office:
The president has refused to allow government funding for the post office to be included in any of the relief packages passed by Congress, threatening to veto any that contained it.
‘The Post Office is a joke,’ Trump said Friday in the Oval Office during the bill signing ceremony.
‘They are handing out packages for Amazon and other internet companies, and every time they bring a package, they lose money on it,’ he said. ‘The post office should raise the price of a package by approximately four times.’
He charged the post office won’t do so because of its ‘cozy’ relationship with e-commerce companies.
‘For some reason they are very cozy with some of these companies. They don’t raise the price of a package. If they raised the price of a package, like they should, four or five times, that’s what it should be. Or let Amazon build their own post office, which would be an impossible thing to do,’ he said.
‘If they raised the price of a package by approximately four times, it would be a whole new ball game. But they don’t want to raise it because they don’t want to insult Amazon and they don’t want to insult other companies,’ he added.
The president said he wouldn’t sign an additional funding for the post office until it raises its rate.
‘If they don’t raise the price, I’m not signing anything. They’ll raise the price, so they become maybe even profitable, but so they lose much less money. If they don’t do it, I’m not signing anything,’ he said.
Trump has long been upset at how he feels Amazon takes advantage of the post office. But now it seems he’s putting the onus of his anger on the post office itself instead of Jeff Bezos.
I do agree with him though, that the Post Office needs to fix its problems that leads it to lose so much money every year before giving them another dime.