Republican lawmakers seek to roll back Postal Service EV program with ‘Return to Sender Act.’

• US Senate DOGE Caucus members have introduced a bill that seeks to cancel $3 billion in Inflation Reduction Act funding for EV contract for the USPS.
• The Postal Service had adopted an incremental approach to phasing in electric models into its next-gen fleet, which will eventually replace the decades-old Grumman mail delivery vans.
• The effort to electrify the USPS fleet has faced criticism even from EV supporters, who point out its slow and piecemeal pace as well as high costs.

US Senate DOGE Caucus Chair Joni Ernst (R-IA) and DOGE Subcommittee Congressman Michael Cloud (R-TX) have introduced a bill, dubbed the Return to Sender Act, that proposes to terminate the $3 billion that had been allotted under the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act to electrify a part of the USPS fleet, citing delays and other issues in the program.