📋 Tender Overview
Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons both D-Del. joined Senators Dianne Feinstein D-Calif. Susan Collins R-Maine and a bipartisan group of senators to send a letter to Senate leadership urging that they include emergency funding for the U.S. Postal Service in any future coronavirus legislation.The USPS has seen significant mail volume declines due to the coronavirus pandemic and the agency projects it could soon run out of resources to pay employees and suppliers as early as September of this year. Emergency funding additional borrowing authority and debt forgiveness are necessary to help shore up the agencys finances and help it survive the current national crisis wrote the senators.Postal employees continue to go to work each day facing increased risk as they continue to serve. It is critical that the next relief package also include adequate funding to ensure supplies of personal protective equipment reimbursement for sick and family medical leave related to the coronavirus and hazard pay for workers who face exposure to the virus on a daily basis.In addition to Senators Feinstein Collins Carper and Coons the letter was also signed by Senators Lisa Murkowski R-Alaska Jon Tester D-Mont. Steve Daines R-Mont. Doug Jones D-Ala. Dan Sullivan R-Alaska and Pat Roberts R-Kan..
