Last October, Brennan announced her plans to retire. She was replaced in June by Louis DeJoy, a businessman and Trump loyalist recruited by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

DeJoy had donated more than $2 million to GOP causes since Trump took office and cultivated a close relationship with Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.

He became become a lightning rod this past week amid reports of mail-sorting machines being removed from postal facilities and blue collection boxes uprooted from neighbourhoods across the country.

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