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 caucus, said in July this year that with $2.6 billion paid to Oshkosh and just 250 trucks produced so far, she was “working to cancel the order and return the money to the sender, the American people,” as part of a rescissions package passed by Congress.
