## DOGE lawmakers look to defund Biden's anemic-paced $3B EV postal truck 'boondoggle'

Rep Michael Cloud lamented the project as another failure of former President Joe Biden's 'so-called' inflation fix

**By  | Fox News**

Published March 10, 2025 9:29am EDT

**EXCLUSIVE:** Two top DOGE lawmakers are introducing a bill to claw back $3 billion authorized under former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which was designated to create an electric vehicle (EV) fleet for the .

A South Carolina defense contractor responsible for the 60,000-vehicle order was already "far behind schedule" as of November. A Washington Post exposé revealed that by then, fewer than 100 of these vehicles had been delivered to USPS.

Citing that, Sen.  DOGE Caucus chair, and Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, will be forwarding the "Return to Sender Act," seeking to recoup what is about 30% of the overall appropriation in Biden’s law that was intended to be geared toward reducing inflation.

 was to receive an initial order of 50,000 EV delivery trucks from defense contractor Oshkosh within the next three years, but only 93 had been produced by November, according to the Post.



One person involved in the production told the outlet that the "bottom line  we don’t know how to build a damn truck."

That, along with a Post revelation that the government’s deliveryman agreed to pay more for the trucks after the contractor increased its prices, appeared to lead Ernst and Cloud to announce their bill.

The agreement forged between the  and the manufacturer ultimately finalized a $77,692 cost per EV truck for about 28,000 vehicles. While the company did not comment at the time of the exposé, its CEO told investors in October that Oshkosh "is really happy where we are" on the project.

"Biden’s EV postal fleet is lost in the mail," said Ernst, chief sponsor of the legislation.



In February, Ernst also cited the USPS EV project in her Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act that targets disclosures of government projects costing 10 figures or more over-budget, and/or five years behind schedule.

The text of the bill, which is less than one-page long, specifically directs "unobligated balances of amounts appropriated or otherwise made available by sections 70002 and 70003 of Public Law 117–169 (commonly referred to as the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’), as of the date of enactment of this Act are rescinded and those sections are hereby repealed."

In a statement to Fox News Digital, a USPS spokesperson said the carrier's "fleet modernization is a core component of our Delivering for America plan."

"From the start, USPS committed to purchase the most environmentally sustainable vehicles across the organization’s entire fleet, consistent with financial and operational considerations, with the understanding that both the electrification and delivery schedule for the fleet could change with additional vehicle acquisitions, our improving financial condition, and our evolving operational strategy," said public relations representative Kim Frum.

"Deliveries of new NGDVs to the Postal Service remain on track to the contracted schedule."



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