Trump Nominates Three Little-Known Picks to USPS Board as Postal Service Faces Cash Crisis by Fall 2026

Three New Names, Five Vacancies, Zero Familiar Faces

The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors has five vacancies. President Trump has now nominated four people to fill them, including three announced recently: Robert Steffens of Texas, Jeffrey Brodsky of Florida, and William Gallo of Florida. A fourth nominee, Anthony Lomangino, was re-nominated in January after the Senate failed to act on his original 2025 nomination.

The unions were blunt. "[The National Association of Letter Carriers] is closely monitoring these unknown nominees and will actively work to ensure they have the best interests of the employees and the network before they are confirmed," NALC said in a press release, according to Government Executive. The union's guarded language signals concern about the lack of traditional postal industry experience among the picks.

Who Are These People?

Steffens spent years as an executive at Marvel Entertainment. In 2025, he sued Marvel's parent company Disney, alleging he was told secondhand that he'd been passed over for a promotion because he is "another old white guy." His LinkedIn profile listed him most recently as CFO of a sports streaming company from October 2024 to January 2025, a three-month tenure.

Brodsky co-founded Quest Turnaround Advisors, a firm that, per its own description, "specializes in situations demanding significant and rapid change in a company's capital structure, operations or strategy." That background signals expertise in restructuring operations.

Gallo, described by NALC as a "retired commodities broker and entrepreneur," currently holds leadership positions in a medical supply company, an entertainment business, and a real estate investment firm, according to his LinkedIn profile.

The Statutory Problem

Federal law doesn't leave qualifications up to presidential discretion. USPS Board of Governors nominees are statutorily required to be chosen based on the public interest, with expertise in public service, law, or accounting. And at least four of the governors must be selected based on their experience managing public or private organizations that employ at least 50,000 workers.

Based on publicly available information, none of the three new nominees appears to have managed an organization anywhere close to that scale. Steffens' most recent role was a three-month CFO stint at a streaming startup. Gallo is a retired commodities broker. Nothing in the publicly reported backgrounds indicates management of a 50,000-person operation.

The Senate confirmation process is where these questions get answered. Kathleen Siviter, executive director at the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, put it plainly: "It will be interesting to see if the Senate determines that these recent nominations meet the requirements contained in the law outlining qualifications for USPS governors." The burden is on the nominees to demonstrate they meet the statutory bar, and the unions are right to press for that accounting before any vote.

The Lomangino Complication

The fourth nominee, Anthony Lomangino, carries his own complications. He's a Trump donor and waste management executive. The American Postal Workers Union raised concerns because two of his companies were acquired by Waste Management — the same company whose former CEO, David Steiner, is now Postmaster General of the USPS.

That overlap doesn't prove wrongdoing. Both Lomangino and Steiner are private-sector executives with relevant operational backgrounds, which is exactly what the statute calls for. The case for Lomangino is straightforward: turnaround experience in large logistics operations is arguably more relevant to USPS's actual problems than anything in the other nominees' backgrounds.

But the Steiner-Lomangino connection is a legitimate question for the Senate to probe. Governors are supposed to provide independent oversight. A governor with financial ties to the Postmaster General's former employer is not an obvious definition of independent.

The Cash Clock Is Running

None of this is happening in a vacuum. The USPS could run out of money as soon as fall 2026, according to Government Executive.

The Board of Governors is the body that sets USPS strategy, approves rate changes, and ultimately has oversight authority over the Postmaster General. With five vacancies, the board is operating well below full capacity at the worst possible time. As Siviter noted, when the USPS Board of Governors previously went down to only one governor, the experience demonstrated how imperative it is to have a full board to effectively manage the Postal Service.

Filling those seats with qualified people who can actually provide independent oversight is operationally urgent.

What the Senate Has to Decide

The strongest argument in favor of Trump's picks is a practical one: any confirmed governor is better than an empty seat when the agency is facing a potential financial crisis. Critics who slow-walk confirmation while the Postal Service burns through cash own part of the outcome.

But "better than nothing" is a low bar for an agency with a statutory mandate to deliver mail to every address in America. The Senate's confirmation hearings will need to establish, with specifics, whether Steffens, Brodsky, and Gallo can meet the 50,000-employee management threshold the law requires, and whether the Lomangino-Steiner overlap poses a real independence problem or a superficial one.

Until those hearings happen, the board remains five seats short of full capacity, the agency is still burning through cash, and the USPS is still waiting for someone with actual authority to make the hard decisions.