Trump walks back his previous suggestions that he would block a stimulus bill that included emergency funding to the US Postal Service

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• President Donald Trump walked back an apparent threat he levied on Thursday morning to reject a hypothetical COVID-19 relief package that included $25 billion in emergency grants for the US Postal Service.
• At a briefing, CNN asked Trump whether comments he made to Fox Business, saying that withholding funding from the USPS would prevent "universal mail-in voting," meant he would reject future USPS funding.
• "No, not at all," Trump said, then falsely claiming, "But one of the reasons the post office needs that much money is they have all these millions of ballots coming in from nowhere." They would be coming from registered voters in the US.
• Trump described the fight over USPS funding as "a small part of a big negotiation" around the next stimulus bill, saying, "if the bill isn't going to get done, it means the post office isn't going to get funded."
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President Donald Trump walked back an apparent threat he levied on Thursday morning — to reject a hypothetical COVID-19 relief package that included $25 billion in emergency grants for the US Postal Service — in an evening press briefing at the White House. 

Throughout the pandemic, Trump has rejected giving emergency funds or grants to the cash-strapped USPS, which does not take taxpayer money and has seen a major revenue shortfall from the decline in mail volume caused by the pandemic. 

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