President Joe Biden will nominate three individuals to join the Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Reportedly, they are Ron Stroman, the former deputy postmaster general; Amber McReynolds, the chief executive of National Vote at Home Institute; and Anton Hajjar, a former general counsel of the American Postal Workers Union.
If the Senate approves these nominations, the Board will have its full cohort of 9 governors, which it has not had in many years. The postmaster general and his or her deputy also serve on the board, although as non-voting members.
Democrats have urged for Biden to make enough nominations to tip the board’s partisan balance to the left, in hopes the board would subsequently fire Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. Their ire for DeJoy a logistics industry veteran, began the moment he was selected by the Board of Governors last June.
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