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Return to sender.
That's the message two Republican lawmakers have regarding the Biden's administration's $3 billon contract for 55,000 electric postal trucks.
'I am defunding this billion-dollar boondoggle to stamp out waste in Washington. Tax dollars should always be treated with first-class priority.'
That's enough to replace a quarter of the USPS fleet. So far, the Wisconsin-based defense contractor Oshkosh has delivered a whopping 93 vehicles.
At at that rate, they should be done by the time we open the first post office on Mars.
Par for the course for any government EV initiative. As are the reported cost overruns. Fortunately, we've entered the DOGE age. And two members of the caucus — Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Representative Michael Cloud (R-Texas) — are demanding your money back with the "Return to Sender Act."
The act seeks to rescind the entirety of the $3 billion, allocated under the Biden administration’s 2022 “Inflation Reduction Act.”
ATTN: Kamala
That's the same IRA Kamala Harris loved to brag about on the 2024 campaign trail. After all, she cast the tiebreaking Senate vote to pass it. And now she doesn't mind admitting that the whole thing is really just a backdoor enactment of the Green New Deal, which pushes for a massive shift to zero-emission transport.
The agreement with Oshkosh called for an initial order of 50,000 electric delivery trucks over a three-year period that started in 2022, meaning they’re way behind schedule, with less than 0.2% delivered by late 2024.
And here we thought EVs were more efficient.
“Biden’s EV postal fleet is lost in the mail," said Ernst, who is also DOGE Caucus chair. "The order needs to be canceled with the unspent money returned to sender, the taxpayers. I am defunding this billion-dollar boondoggle to stamp out waste in Washington. Tax dollars should always be treated with first-class priority.”
Cloud echoed these sentiments, highlighting reports suggesting that the price per truck has jumped from $55,000 to over $70,000.
'We don't know how'
Oshkosh is believed to be struggling with the production of the electric Postal Service vehicles, with insiders claiming the contractor is uncertain it can build the trucks effectively under the terms of the former Biden government’s contract. Furthermore, rising costs have compounded the project’s delays.
The Washington Post reported that Oshkosh’s CEO expressed satisfaction with the project’s status, stating the company is “really happy where we are.” However, internal sources revealed challenges, with one individual commenting, “We don’t know how to build a damn truck.”
Mail bomb
A USPS spokesperson defended the initiative, stating that fleet modernization is central to the Postal Service's “Delivering for America” plan — a 2021 strategy to revamp the struggling USPS with new tech and a greener fleet to meet federal emission cuts by 2030.
The USPS reiterated the commitment to environmentally sustainable vehicles, aligning with financial and operational considerations, and affirmed that deliveries of new vehicles remain on schedule.
As the “Return to Sender Act” progresses, it will serve as a focal point for discussions on fiscal responsibility and the role of oversight in government-funded initiatives. This fight isn’t just about mail trucks — it’s a test case for whether Biden-era green spending can survive a new wave of Republican oversight, especially with the 2026 midterms looming.
'Bigger than Watergate': How Stacey Abrams was gifted $7 billion of YOUR money
Last spring when America was sadly still under the former regime, Biden and Harris via the EPA funneled $7 billion into a ghost fund called “the United Climate Fund.”
“This was all part of a $20 billion jackpot from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund that was tacked in and tucked in so you could really find it in the so-called 'Inflation Reduction Act’ that had nothing to do with reducing inflation — nothing; it was a scam,” says Glenn Beck.
“They sold us climate salvation, but what it really was was robbery.”
Where did the money go?
A “black hole” of legal fees, vague solar promises, and political insiders, says Glenn.
For example, “we find out that they were funneling cash to Power Forward Communities,”’ which was tied to former Georgia state Rep. Stacey Abrams (D).
Before receiving a $2 billion grant, “she had only raised $100!” says Glenn in shock. “That’s all she could raise for her own organization.”
According to an EPA whistleblower, the money was “an insurance policy against Trump winning.”
“All it was was a desperate cash-dump before the clock ran out. They were giving it to their friends. … DOGE blew the lid off this thing,” Glenn explains, calling it “calculated theft.”
What’s been the cost to American taxpayers?
When Glenn crunched the numbers, the $20 billion fund amounts to $240 per household.
And actually, “take $240 per family and then just add the interest rate that we're going to be paying China for that borrowed cash,” says Glenn. When it’s all said and done, “it's going to be a lot more than [$240].”
“That's groceries, gas, your kids' school supplies — gone! Where did it go? Stacey Abrams’ big pockets,” he continues, calling the scandal bigger than some of the United States’ most historic fiascoes.
He reminds us that the Teapot Dome scandal of 1920 is still taught in schools today. The debacle cost the U.S. “in today's adjusted dollars $400 million.”
“$400 million — and we're still teaching about that scandal. This is $20 billion,” he says.
In 2025, “you will be working … from January 1 to April 19 just to pay your taxes,” Glenn laments, “and what happened to those dollars? … I don't know, Stacey Abrams stuffed it in her big butt someplace, and money is shooting out. To whom, I don't know.”
Besides Biden and Harris, who else is behind this scandal? To hear Glenn’s thoughts, watch the clip above.
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