The Daily Rundown – March 17, 2026
💌 If it continues business as usual, the U.S. Postal Service is on track to run out of cash for paying its workers and vendors in about a year and may have to stop deliveries, Postmaster General David Steiner told lawmakers this week.
The warning is the latest development in longstanding money troubles at USPS — a unique federal government agency that relies on stamps and service fees, not tax dollars, to deliver mail and packages six days a week to every address in the country.
“I am not sure that the American public is aware that the Postal Service is at a critical juncture. I know that I wasn’t aware of the extent of it before I took on this role, but at our current run rate and if we continue to pay our required obligations in the same manner as we have in recent years, then we will be out of cash in less than 12 months,” Steiner, who joined USPS last July, said in a written statement released ahead of a House Oversight Committee hearing Tuesday. Read the full story by NPR’s Hansi Lo Wang here.
💊 The City of Henderson is expected to approve Tuesday at 4 p.m. the use of opioid settlement funds for a fentanyl awareness campaign. According to staff reports, the city will use about $60,000 to educate middle and high school students about the dangers of the drug. The campaign will partner with schools, the Southern Nevada Boys & Girls Clubs, youth groups, sports clubs and others.
🌡️ The Las Vegas Valley could see record high temperatures this week, with readings in the upper 90s. The first record could fall Wednesday, for which the National Weather Service forecasts a high of 96. That would be the warmest March day ever, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports, but possibly not for long…