Speaker Nancy Pelosi is cutting the House’s vacation short with the aim of returning to Washington to address the manufactured crisis du jour: the politicization of the U.S. Postal Service.

Remember that a few months ago, rather than make tough choices and overhaul the USPS, Democrats aimed to bail out the service to the tune of $25 billion while also imposing a slew of federal mandates on how states conduct federal elections. Never ones to let a good crisis go to waste, Democratic leaders have charged the House to return to block changes the USPS had made to manage its long-standing financial woes and to approve $25 billion in funding.