republican party in the conservative movement since at least the days of reagan has been privatized part of the government sector, public workforce, and to make money on things that people depend on their day-to-day lives. in the 2006 midterms, democrats could control the congress, they wanted both the house and the senate. but the republican majority passed one more bill called the postal accountability enhancement act, which provided neither accountability, nor enhancement to postal service. the bill passed without a recorded vote in either house, signed by george w. bush, required the usps to prepay the next 50 years worth of health and retirement benefits for all of its employees, a rule that no other federal agency must follow. the provision acted like a kind of poison pill for the usps, and by 2020, the postal service had racked up 100 and 60.9 billion dollars in debt from wet is owed pre-paying retirement benefits.