Here are two examples of how Democrats stole tens of billions of dollars from taxpayers. This is why they hate DOGE so much.

Here are two examples of how Democrats stole tens of billions of dollars from taxpayers.

Biden’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations in two years

President Biden has long vowed to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations in the United States by 2030. Those stations, the White House said, would help Americans feel confident purchasing and driving electric cars, and help the country cut carbon pollution.

But now, more than two years after Congress allocated $7.5 billion to help build out those stations, only 7 EV charging stations are operational across four states.

Few amenities of modern life feel as essential as fast internet. So it’s a little puzzling that a $42.5 billion Biden administration program intended to widen broadband access hasn’t managed to connect many new users. In fact, it hasn’t connected anyone at all.

yahoonews.com

Senate GOP dings Harris’ role as ‘broadband czar’
by John Hendel, Wed, September 18, 2024

Nine Senate Republicans on Wednesday blasted Vice President Kamala Harris for what they say was a “failed” execution of her role leading the Biden administration’s efforts to expand broadband access to underserved areas.

“It appears that your performance as ‘broadband czar’ has mirrored your performance as ‘border czar,’ marked by poor management and a lack of effectiveness despite significant federal broadband investments and your promises to deliver broadband to rural areas,” Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.), Senate Commerce ranking member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and seven others wrote Harris.

The attack comes as Harris touts her work on expanding connectivity in her campaign against former President Donald Trump. The GOP complaints center on the administration’s $42.45 billion internet expansion effort known as the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Program, or the BEAD Program, which was created by the 2021 infrastructure law. The senators invoke recent POLITICO reporting, which points to partisan bickering over the program’s requirements on affordability that has slowed its launch. No actual construction projects are expected to begin until at least 2025.

The Republicans — some of whom voted for the infrastructure law and some didn’t — argue that the administration layered on “partisan, extralegal requirements that were never envisioned by Congress and have obstructed broadband deployment.” They cited grant requirements around climate change, broadband affordability and union labor.

Harris touts her role in expanding connectivity on her campaign website. Her campaign writes that she worked to pass landmark legislation including the infrastructure law and American Rescue Plan, adding, “This has included investing billions to help connect all Americans to accessible, affordable internet.”

Biden spoke to Harris’ role leading the administration’s broadband expansion efforts in his first State of the Union address.

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Come on man, everyone knows these type of Federal projects finish strong! Look at the California Super Train, not much to see after the 2008 authorization and the 2015 startup construction, we all know this will finish like a, dare I say, a super train! So the EV charges started out slow but one day they will be electrifying! We don’t know which date, we don’t know which year, and we don’t really know which century but it’ll be great!

Remember, keep voting for Democrats because we make the impossible look well impossible…..

If we just gave that $50 billion to Elon Musk run companies we’d have highspeed broadband in the woods and highspeed charging stations along every highway and byway by now. Better still, if we gave him no money and just gave him the land under eminent domain and allowed him to charge customers for using it, both would be done by now too.

He already did both for himself. A Tesla can basically drive from anywhere to anywhere using his charging stations. It only needs a human to plug it in every 250 miles or so. And in a couple of years you won’t need a human, a robot will do it. The cars communicate using SpaceX satellites. It’s already been done. We didn’t need to do it again.

The greater and more outlandish the projected cost of a government “program,” the more difficult it is to audit or trace the funds. All pols know this.

Perfect example: Congresswoman Barbara Lee is running for mayor of Oakland, CA. Her campaign propaganda says she has brought billions of dollars to the district. Oakland is still mired in poverty, is now the rat capital of California, with an ex-mayor recalled for corruption, main street (Broadway) awash in shuttered former businesses, and not a republican in sight. After decades of democrat rule. Billions.

Same story about most every program run by the gov’t.
In California we had $24 billion stolen to help the homeless and the homeless population nearly double instead. Gov Newsom says he does not know where the money has gone. Then there is the train to nowhere that since 2008 has produce nothing but a few bridges and no rails laid and no end in site for completion. At least a $130 billion estimated cost. The original was suppose to be $33 billion and completed by now.

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