FIRST ON FOX: Sen.Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is proposing legislation that would withhold bonuses for U.S.
Postal Service executives, citing years of staggering financial losses for the agency and its overall on-time delivery record.In a letter obtained by Fox News Digital, Hawley, who has launched an investigation into the Postal Service over its service record, announced the "No Bonuses for Bad Service Act."The bill would prohibit the USPS Board of Governors from approving any additional compensation for the Postmaster General and Deputy Postmaster General for a fiscal year in which the agency doesn't meet or exceed an on-time delivery rate of 95% for all mail products."While Missourians don’t receive their mail on time, the Postmaster General receives a hefty bonus each year," Hawley wrote in a statement to Fox News Digital."I am introducing the No Bonuses for Bad Service Act to ensure postal service leadership isn’t receiving bonuses while Americans’ mail goes undelivered.
It’s time for the Postmaster General to do his job and put Americans first."SENATOR JOSH HAWLEY DEMANDS ANSWERS FROM MLB ON 'PATTERN OF DISCRIMINATION' OVER WARNINGS TO GIANTS PLAYERSSen.Josh Hawley, R-Mo., appears during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on July 16, 2026, in Washington, D.C.
Hawley wants to shutter bonuses for U.S.Postal Service executives, citing years of financial losses for the agency and its on-time delivery track record.
(Eric Lee/Getty Images)Over the past ten years, Postmasters General have received more than $2 million in additional compensation, even as delivery performance declined and the budget numbers got worse, according to Hawley's office.Among the reasons cited by Hawley for the proposed bill are the agency's $25 billion in financial losses over the past three fiscal years, which have coincided with an increase in postage rates and a dip in on-time delivery.During the last three years of Louis DeJoy's tenure ...