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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy reacted childishly when a Republican lawmaker grilled him about problems with the USPS, covering his ears rather than listening to criticism.

DeJoy was on Capitol Hill on Tuesday for a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing and during an exchange with Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) about the decline in the use of the Postal Service and his mismanagement, the nation’s top mailman raised both hands, and put them over his ears.

Rep. McCormick was telling DeJoy that he was undeserving of an “A grade” for his job performance as he had just given himself before the viral moment that could soon become a meme for government officials refusing to be held accountable.

“You were graded by the United States people, and they don’t use your service anymore,” McCormick told the bureaucrat.

“That is not true,” DeJoy said, defending himself and the USPS. “Our office is growing.”

“You are responsible for the fall of the Postal Service and the lack of accountability,” McCormick continued.

“This Congress is responsible for it falling apart. I am trying to fix the Postal Service,” DeJoy responded as the two went back and forth before he added “You’re talking to yourself” and covered up his ears.

“I hope you got that on camera,” McCormick said, turning to his side before he mimicked the disrespectful gesture.

“Georgians are sick and tired of delayed packages and lost mail from the Postal Service. We are last in services rendered and when the Postmaster came to Congress to testify about these failures, he rated his office an A and covered his ears to criticism. Disgusting,” the congressman later wrote on X, sharing a video of DeJoy’s antics.

The postmaster’s reaction to being subjected to oversight blew up on social media with X users weighing in.

“Your reputation is done. Whether you admit it or not, in the military, if I have a skipper who things are going bad for, they’re a good military officer. But you know what we do when things go wrong repeatedly? We relieve them,” McCormick told DeJoy before his performative gesture.

“You know what you do when a CEO repeatedly fails in that business model falls apart? Nobody wants to use that business anymore, and it becomes non-profitable. You fire them. You know what we do in government when organizations fail over and over and over again and become unaccountable and are not going in the right direction,” the congressman added.

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