This is the whole ballgame, folks
Jul 20, 2020
Episode 238

This is the whole ballgame, folks

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We're talking about the country, not baseball. (Although we're talking a little bit about baseball too.)

The vast majority of Americans support the United States Postal Service, but the president is not a fan, and apparently neither is the Trump-donor-turned-postmaster-general-appointee Louis DeJoy. Today, we’ll look at what a new postmaster general could mean for the institution, and the stakes as millions of people vote by mail this fall. Plus: The federal agents we talked about last week are planning to expand to Chicago. Happy Monday.

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