Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) its June 2026 Porker of the Month for its abysmal financial condition that includes losses in every fiscal year since 2007 totaling $109 billion and its refusal to fix the underlying causes of those results. As Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-Ky.) noted during a June 24, 2026, hearing, “This is not a rough patch, it is a broken business model.”
CAGW President Tom Schatz said, “The 2020 Delivering for America (DFA) plan was supposed to deliver a break-even year by 2023, but so far has delivered more than $25 billion in losses. Between 2012 and 2025, mail volume dropped by 51 billion, but spending increased by $10 billion. Instead of expanding the use of private sector processing facilities, the USPS is spending billions it doesn’t have on its own duplicative and wasteful processing centers. Now, the USPS is asking for tens of billions of dollars to help pull itself out of its fiscal hole. Borrowing and spending more money will not resolve the USPS’s underlying issues.
“For the sake of households and businesses across the country, the Delivering for America plan must be halted and replaced with policies that will allow the USPS to revitalize its sagging fiscal outlook and continue to connect communities with affordable and efficient delivery of mail and packages. That would be something to celebrate along with the rest of the festivities for America’s 250th anniversary.
“For continuing to waste money and asking for tens of billions of dollars more instead of making the necessary reforms to fix its broken business model, the USPS was an easy choice for June Porker of the Month.”
Citizens Against Government Waste is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government. For more than two decades, Porker of the Month is a dubious honor given to lawmakers and government officials who have shown a blatant disregard for the taxpayers.
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