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Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Rep. Mark Pocan talks DeJoy, Immigration, and What's Coming in 2024

Published | Video Starts at 04:16

But this one, if you watched yesterday, there was a Senate hearing and Democrats and Republicans were pummeling Postmaster General because dejoy is embarrassment of multitudes. There's a national experiment on rural delivery he [Postmaster General Dejoy] tried in Wisconsin... and he tanked our delivery rate times by 20%. And when I asked him about it in a subcommittee I was on on appropriations, he said, well, you know, in the beginning when they first fired off rockets, some blew up. (04:16–04:25)

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Asserts that Postmaster General Dejoy's experiment in Wisconsin reduced delivery rates by 20%.

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