Keyword: plantmoremoneytrees https://freerepublic.com/tag/plantmoremoneytrees/ en-us Tue, 2 Dec 2025 21:55:00 GMT Focus Forum 15 USPS electric vehicle fleet behind schedule with $3B in taxpayer funds spent — and only 612 trucks built https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4355676/posts WASHINGTON — The US Postal Service’s promised all-electric fleet is still woefully behind schedule, with more than $3 billion in taxpayer funding out the door and just 612 of the expected 35,000 battery-powered delivery trucks built, according to a letter sent to Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and obtained by The Post. Former President Joe Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) set aside $3 billion for what Ernst has since ripped as a green “boondoggle” that saw almost all of that amount paid to Wisconsin-based defense contractor Oshkosh to build the environmentally friendly mail trucks. Ernst, who chairs the Senate’s DOGE... NY Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4355676/posts#comment Tue, 2 Dec 2025 21:55:00 GMT