One of the reasons Trump won in the November 2024 presidential election was the truly blatant way the Biden administration pushed through some of the far left's most cherished policy wish list items, including a good start on transforming America with the Green New Deal, with the passage of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. One could argue that liberals' brash overreach with this kind of extremist policy led to the Democrat Party's abandonment by longtime allies at just the wrong moment.
It's something we saw this week that might also play a part in a crucial, 2025 gubernatorial race in New Jersey.
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Let's be plain here about what Democrats (and yes, some Republicans) enacted into law. The Inflation Reduction Act was sold as an infrastructure bill and advertised as an investment in cities and states across the country, when its very name is such an oxymoron, it is hard to quantify.
We learned this week that the US Postal Service (USPS) is hanging on for dear life to that term "investment," which they employed when begging Congress not to cancel orders Biden and Co. placed for nearly 70,000 EV trucks, thanks to the spending stop-gap legislation. More on that in a minute.
The price tag for the green overhaul, as my colleague Ward Clark wrote in March: $3 billion.
And if the reconciliation (AKA the One Big, Beautiful Bill/OBBB) bill passes, that bygone boondoggle of Biden's tenure will be, well, history.
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A new Washington Post piece on Saturday fairly drips with syrupy melodrama from the first paragraph by describing the waste-cutting measure by DOGE as thwarting "the Biden administration’s climate push at the mail agency while dealing it a sharp financial setback." It continues -- and notice how the writer tries to ridicule the Republicans' clawing back Americans' tax dollars: (emphasis added)
The Postal Service in 2022 embarked on plans to purchase 66,000 electric mail delivery vehicles, many of them bespoke “Next Generation Delivery Vehicles” from the defense contractor Oshkosh. The agency has also purchased hundreds of E-Transit delivery vans from Ford and spent more than half a billion dollars remodeling its outdated mail and package sorting facilities to accommodate electric and low-emissions vehicles.
The agency expects to spend $9.6 billion on the project in total; $3 billion of that comes from taxpayer dollars to cover the cost difference between gas-powered vehicles and more expensive EVs. The remaining funding comes from the Postal Service’s independent accounts. The agency is largely self-sufficient, financed by the sale of postage products.
The Senate’s version of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill would see the General Services Administration take possession of the nearly 7,200 new postal EVs and associated infrastructure and put the assets up for auction. The proposal is unlikely to generate much revenue for the government; there is almost no private-sector interest in the mail trucks, and used EV charging equipment — built specifically for the Postal Service and already installed in postal facilities — generally cannot be resold.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee chair, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), weighed in on the move in OBBB, writing that it “aims to cut unnecessary costs and focus USPS on delivering mail and not achieving the environmental initiatives pushed by the Biden Administration.”
Here's the most pathetic part, which I must include: the begging that the Postal Service’s vice president for government relations and public policy, Peter Pastre, did in a letter to the Senate earlier in June.
“The funds realized by auctioning the vehicles and infrastructure would be negligible," he wrote. "Much of infrastructure is literally buried under parking lots, and there is no market for used charging equipment.”
The sobbing by Pastre continued:
“It will cost the Postal Service $1.5 billion of funds that we desperately need in order to serve the American people, and it will seriously cripple our ability to replace an aging and obsolete delivery fleet.
“We urge the Senate and the committee to pause and consider the substantial harm this proposal would cause to the Postal Service and our customers, your constituents.”
That said, I'm going to stop quoting right here because you can imagine the rest of the WaPo piece, a regurgitation of leftist talking points about how mean and evil the Right plans to be to people by actually doing their jobs they were hired to do. You know what isn't the job of the federal government? Letting government defense contractors overcharge the American people to build useless, overpriced green vehicles, so progressives can feel good about themselves and their environmental religion. And as for "substantial harm," you all should have thought of that before earmarking billions for the green energy junk.
As I was writing this, we saw that the negotiations over OBBB continue at this hour. President Trump writes in a new post on his Truth Social account about some potential roadblocks over green energy he'd like the Senate to scrap.
I HATE “GREEN TAX CREDITS” IN THE GREAT, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL. They are largely a giant SCAM. I would much prefer that this money be used somewhere else, including reductions. “Anywhere” would be preferable! Windmills, and the rest of this “JUNK,” are the most expensive and…
— Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) June 21, 2025
The post continues:
Windmills, and the rest of this “JUNK,” are the most expensive and inefficient energy in the world, is destroying the beauty of the environment, and is 10 times more costly than any other energy. None of it works without massive government subsidy (energy should NOT NEED SUBSIDY!). Also, it is almost exclusively made in China!!! It is time to break away, finally, from this craziness!!!
If we could use something right now, Mr. President, it's less craziness. We'll see where the bill is sometime next week, in any case.
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