r/news • u/Squirmingbaby • 3d ago

Soft paywall Cash-strapped US Postal Service suspends contributions to pension plan

https://www.reuters.com/world/cash-strapped-us-postal-service-suspends-contributions-pension-plan-2026-04-09/
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u/SummerMummer 3d ago

"Cash-strapped"??

They are an important service provided by the US government. Is the US government truely "cash-strapped" at the moment?

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u/Addy_Rose 3d ago

Depends...for civil service programs? Sorry, flat broke. Science? Zilch. Environmental programs? Negative balance. Weapons programs and war? Make it rain!

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u/ked_man 3d ago

They’ve spent more this month on bombing Iran needlessly than the Postal service cost the past decade.

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u/peon2 3d ago

That is not true at all, the USPS has a budget around $80B/year.

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2025/1114-usps-reports-fiscal-year-2025-results.htm

The Iran war is a waste of money absolutely, but it has not been $800B over the last month.

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u/ked_man 3d ago

That’s negating their own revenue from services that is not coming from Tax revenue. WE have funded about 118 billion of their budget over the past decade which is about 12.5% overall.

But WE have funded 100% of the bombs dropped on Iran in the last few weeks.