Thousands of U.S. Postal Service union members and their supporters launched a national ''day of action" June 23 to pressure the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate to approve $25 billion in emergency funding for its continued operation.
Without it, the agency, which employs 600,000 people, is projected to run out of money by September. The USPS relies entirely on the revenue it generates to fund operations but has been particularly hard-hit by the economic and public-health fallout from the coronavirus.
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