{"id":96283,"date":"2026-06-27T18:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/sen-elissa-slotkin-blasts-postmaster-general-please-push-back-on-being-a-pawn-in-this-authoritarian-playbook\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T18:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:42:11","slug":"sen-elissa-slotkin-blasts-postmaster-general-please-push-back-on-being-a-pawn-in-this-authoritarian-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/sen-elissa-slotkin-blasts-postmaster-general-please-push-back-on-being-a-pawn-in-this-authoritarian-playbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Elissa Slotkin Blasts Postmaster General: &#8220;Please Push Back On Being A Pawn In This Authoritarian Playbook&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) begs the Postal Service not to follow guidance from the Trump administration to restrict a proposed regulation designed to let agency officials screen mail-in ballots:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SEN. ELISSA SLOTKIN: And now we have this new rule that you&#8217;ve put out saying that states have to turn over their voting rolls, and you, the U.S. Postal Service, will decide, okay, who&#8217;s approved to send their ballot through the mail.  It&#8217;s just another backdoor way of trying to influence this election. And I just ask you as a professional, as someone who&#8217;s done serious things in your life, please push back on being a pawn in this authoritarian playbook. The Postal Service is one of the most important institutions in our country. Don&#8217;t taint it with the obsession of this one man. Please push back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/06\/26\/sen_elissa_slotkin_blasts_postmaster_general_please_push_back_on_being_a_pawn_in_this_authoritarian_playbook.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) begs the Postal Service not to follow guidance from the Trump administration to restrict a proposed regulation designed to let agency officials screen mail-in ballots: SEN. ELISSA SLOTKIN: And now we have this new rule that you&#8217;ve put out saying that states have to turn over their voting rolls, and you, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12832,541,254,2673,25274,3386,14288,11445,12172,20433,3096,12844,22969],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}