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Jon Tester: “We've got a postmaster general who wants to basically ruin…”

Featuring: Jon Tester, Democratic | Former U.S. Senate, Montana

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Senator Tester talks Montana roots, agriculture, and the Postal Service on The Last Word

Published | Video Starts at 04:00

Well, look, the postal service is very, very important, I think, to the whole country, but it's particularly important to rural America. It's particularly important to Montana. We've got a postmaster general who wants to basically ruin our postal service, in my opinion, and make it so you can't depend on the postal service to get important things like prescription drugs and farm parts. and everything else. Lease. This is the works. And I really object to what postmaster dejoy has done to the postal service. It needs to be. (04:00–04:11)

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Asserts that the postmaster general is undermining the reliability of the postal service.

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