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After a 2024 flag was seen flying on a New York post office flagpole on Memorial Day, an investigation has been launched, according to a local media report. According to the newspaper in Albany, New York, the Trump flag was hung under the U.S.

flag and the POW/MIA flags at the Delmar post office "for a short time" before it was removed later on Monday morning. Albany's 6 TV station reported that local police "say they have reached out to the Office of the Postal Inspector, pending investigation." emailed the U.



S. Postal Service Office of the Inspector General and the Bethlehem Police Department on Monday night for additional details. This article will be updated with any provided statements.

The flag was reportedly spotted by attendees of the Memorial Day Parade in nearby Bethlehem, New York. Photos of the Trump flag flying at the post office were shared with the by an unnamed source. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The Hatch Act, a federal law passed in 1939, "limits certain political activities of federal employees, as well as some state, D.

C., and local government employees who work in connection with federally funded programs," according to the U.S.

Office of Special Counsel. The law's purposes are to "ensure that federal programs are administered in a nonpartisan fashion, to protect federal employees from political coercion in the workplace, and to ensure that federal employees are advanced based on merit and not based on political affiliation.​​�.

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