Exclusive: Two Doge lawmakers are introducing a bill that supports $3 billion under former President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, designated to create the US Postal Service (USPS) electric vehicle (EV) fleet.
The South Carolina defense contractor, who is responsible for ordering 60,000 vehicles, was already “a lot behind on schedule” as of November. The Washington Post Expose has revealed that by then, less than 100 of these vehicles have been delivered to the USPS.
Citing that, Sen. Joni Ernst of R-Iowa, chairman of Doge Coucus and Michael Cloud of R-Texas will try to forward the “senders' law” and retrieve about 30% of the overall appropriation of the Biden Act aimed at reducing inflation.
The postal service was to receive initial orders for 50,000 eV delivery trucks from defense contractor Oshkosh within the next three years, but by November, only 93 were produced.
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One person involved in the production told the outlet “The final line.” [is] I don't know how to make a damn truck. ”
It seemed Ernst and Cloud would be releasing the bill with the aftermath of revelation that government deliverymen agreed to pay more for the trucks after contractors raised prices.
The contract built between postal services and the manufacturer ultimately completed a cost of $77,692 per EV truck for around 28,000 vehicles. The company declined to comment when it was released, but its CEO told investors in October that Oshkosh was “really happy where we are” for the project.
“Biden's EV mail fleet is lost in the mail,” said Ernst, the law's top sponsor.
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“Orders must be cancelled with untouched money returned to the sender, taxpayer. I'm reimbursing this billion-dollar boodoggle to push out waste in Washington. Taxes should always be treated as a top priority.”
Cloud told Fox News Digital that the inflation reduction law continues to prove to be a misnomer, in this regard, “put billions of dollars into USPS EV projects that don't bring about delays, flawed trucks and surge in costs.”
“Three years later, taxpayers are still waiting, but the post office refuses to provide basic transparency about where the money went.
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In February, Ernst cited the USPS EV project in her $1 billion Boondoggle Act, which targets budgets of 10 or more digits and/or delayed schedules and disclosures of government projects in five years.
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