dejoy enacted a number of new policies, including eliminating overtime for postal workers, limiting number of mail trucks, removing sorting machines from postal facilities including in battleground states like pennsylvania, michigan, florida. then, in september 2020, "the washington post" reported at his previous company, dejoy had urged his employees to write checks to republican candidates and attend expensive fundraisers. only to inflate their bonuses to make up for the donations. quote, he asked employees for money. we gave him the money, and then he reciprocated by giving us big bonuses, said david young, dejoy's longtime director of human resources who had access to payroll records. it was something dejoy was asked about in a congressional hearing last august, before that post story broke. >> did you pay back several of your top executives for contributing to trump's campaign by bonusing or rewarding them? >> that's an outrageous claim, sir, and i resent it.