Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) released the following statement after voting against legislation pushing Speaker Pelosi’s Postal Service conspiracy theory.

“Speaker Pelosi is continuing to push her baseless conspiracy theory that President Trump is trying to sabotage the election and the USPS will go under if they don’t get this funding. That is simply not true,” Mullin said. “The Postal Service has had funding issues for years and the changes they made are necessary to keep them solvent for future generations. President Trump delayed the changes until after the elections, but that wasn’t good enough for Speaker Pelosi. Her universal mail-in voting scheme is just another step towards socialism that will only create more problems than it will allegedly solve. It is reckless for Pelosi Democrats to attempt to use the Postal Service as a political pawn to push their socialist agenda.”

According to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, the USPS has lost $69 billion over the past 11 fiscal years. In the CARES Act passed earlier this year, the U.S. Treasury made a $10 billion loan available to the USPS. Current projections show the Postal Service will remain solvent until August 2021.