According to Fox News, Sen. Joni Ernst (D-IA) and Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) have a bill to defund former President Joe Biden’s $3 billion project to convert all mail trucks to electric vehicles.
From the report:
Two top DOGE lawmakers are introducing a bill to claw back $3 billion authorized under former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which was designated to create an electric vehicle (EV) fleet for the United States Postal Service (USPS).A South Carolina defense contractor responsible for the 60,000-vehicle order was already “far behind schedule” as of November. A Washington Post exposé revealed that by then, fewer than 100 of these vehicles had been delivered to USPS.Citing that, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, DOGE Caucus chair, and Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, will be forwarding the “Return to Sender Act,” seeking to recoup what is about 30% of the overall appropriation in Biden’s law that was intended to be geared toward reducing inflation.
The report about the Postal Service spending almost $10 billion on electric mail trucks came out in December 2022.
In August 2022, Congress gave USPS $3 billion in that stupid bill for electric vehicles.
The final deal came to $77,692 per vehicle.
The contractor should have delivered all the trucks within three years of that date.
Fox News reported that the Postal Service has received fewer than 100 trucks.
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