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Protesters gather outside USPS postmaster general’s apartment in DC

By Spencer Neale
Published August 15, 2020 6:25pm ET
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Protesters gather outside USPS postmaster general’s apartment in DC
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, left, is escorted to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. Some clarity is beginning to emerge from the bipartisan Washington talks on a huge COVID-19 response bill. An exchange of offers and meeting devoted to the Postal Service on Wednesday indicates the White House is moving slightly in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s direction on issues like aid to states and local governments and unemployment insurance benefits. But the negotiations have a long ways to go.

Hundreds of protesters led by activist group Shut Down DC demonstrated outside the residence of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Saturday morning.

The protesters stuffed fake absentee ballots in DeJoy’s apartment door and carried signs that read “Depose DeJoy” as they rallied outside his northwest D.C. condo.

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