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Donald Trump vows to block funding for US postal voting

President renews his attack on mail-in ballots with stimulus talks at a stalemate

Donald Trump has threatened to deprive the US post office of money needed for postal voting in November’s presidential race, in a move set to undermine a system that will play a larger than usual role in the election.

With Republicans and Democrats still at loggerheads over a Covid-19 stimulus package, Mr Trump warned that he would not agree to any legislation that provided money to facilitate postal voting.

The US Postal Service needs the funding to tackle the big increase in postal voting expected due to the pandemic. “They need that money in order to make the post office work, so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots,” Mr Trump told the Fox Business channel on Thursday.

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