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VA pulls the plug on Biden’s $77M EV-charger earmark
VA News ^ | November 19, 2025 11:45 am | VA

Posted on 12/03/2025 5:06:11 PM PST by jdege

VA pulls the plug on Biden’s $77M EV-charger earmark
VA will instead ensure money is used to improve care and services for Veterans

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs today announced it has terminated a Biden-Administration mandate to spend $77 million on electric vehicle charging stations at VA facilities.

The money will instead be redirected to critical health care construction projects.

In fiscal year 2023, the Biden White House forced VA to divert $77 million from its construction and technology budget to build solar powered electric vehicle charging stations at VA facilities. The Democrat-controlled Congress approved this funding diversion, but the Biden Administration never spent any of the money, and not a single charging station was built.

The Democrats’ government shutdown this year gave VA the authority to return the $77 million to its construction and technology budget. VA Secretary Doug Collins exercised that authority Nov. 6, after deciding the money would be better spent on critical health care construction projects.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.va.gov ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ev; trump; va

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So, the shutdown has had its positive side..
1 posted on 12/03/2025 5:06:11 PM PST by jdege
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To: jdege

Seems every day brings another story of Biden’s douchebaggery and general worthlessness. One would think it would slow down after a year.


2 posted on 12/03/2025 5:10:44 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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IT IS A DEEP WELL——


3 posted on 12/03/2025 5:20:45 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: T-Bird45

Well said.


4 posted on 12/03/2025 5:21:22 PM PST by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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To: jdege

Good for DVA.


5 posted on 12/03/2025 5:21:46 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: jdege

The amazing thing about this is
77 million dollars sat around
for 2 years and no one spent it.


6 posted on 12/03/2025 5:25:20 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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“build solar powered electric vehicle charging stations”

Joe BiteMe was always known to double down on stupid.


7 posted on 12/03/2025 5:33:30 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: jdege
Department of Veterans Affairs today announced it has terminated a Biden-Administration mandate to spend $77 million on electric vehicle charging stations at VA facilities

Just wait

The Homeless Industrial Complex will petition "Judge" Boasberg to reinstate the $$$$. The rational will be all of the copper the homeless could have "acquired" from all of the charging stations.

8 posted on 12/03/2025 5:37:10 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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Energy star
AIDS / HIV research
Small minority owned business
Quotas for hiring
Covid garbage
Sexual trauma garbage
EVs
Sex changes
Woman owned business
I’m sure they allow federal money to flow into LGBTQIA celebrations and events.

The VA doesn’t have enough money to pay for premium medications, uses a lot of questionable foreign trained doctors, and tries to shun costs even if legit... But they have millions and millions to spend on whatever the favor of the day is.


9 posted on 12/03/2025 5:44:27 PM PST by Red6
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I’ve been going to a VA hospital in southern Ohio for ten years. They don’t even have a contrast dye warmer there!!!
How many other vets besides myself have had MRIs and Catscans and discovered we were damaged in some way by this stupidity.


10 posted on 12/03/2025 5:54:50 PM PST by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could fight - Romeo company)
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