Senate Republicans cannot force the U.S. Postal Service to scrap thousands of electric vehicles and charging equipment in a massive tax and budget bill, the Senate parliamentarian said late on Sunday.
The U.S. Postal Service currently has 7,200 electric vehicles, made up of Ford e-Transit vehicles and specially built Next Generation Delivery Vehicles built by Oshkosh Defense.
USPS warned on June 13 that scrapping the electric vehicles would cost it $1.5 billion, including $1 billion to replace its current fleet of EVs and $500 million in EV infrastructure rendered useless and “seriously cripple our ability to replace an aging and obsolete delivery fleet.”
Parliamentarian has been blocking a lot of the Republican agenda, I think we are about to find out if the parliamentarian is real.
That’s absolutely correct, the Senate cannot do that.
The Postmaster General can though… and the Postmaster General is appointed by the Postal Service Governance Board, which is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
They won’t need new appointments. Postmaster General is still Louis DeJoy, appointed during Trump 1, who has been systematically dismantling the postal service in favor of private industry this entire time. (Thanks Biden for doing nothing about that, despite credible accusations of the changes hampering mail-in voting).
Fucking Biden couldn’t even bother to fire that guy.
They are so fucking dumb. USPS vehicles are maybe the most perfect usecase for EV implementation. They’re typically shorter range, constantly stop-and-go, smaller and lighter than most modern cars, and a shitload of the existing fleet is like 50 years old and badly needs a refresh anyway. And now that the money has been spent on developing and introducing this great idea, they just want to trash it?
How the fuck does anybody get away with calling Republicans fiscally responsible without getting their ass kicked? In my lifetime, every Republican president has fucked the economy and every Democrat president has unfucked it. The spiteful ratfuckery can’t be accepted anymore.
Republicans are an existential threat. No republican should be allowed to hold office. They should be ashamed to show their faces in public. Someone revealing they’re a republican should get the same reception as someone saying “I kick puppies”. (Though, given some high ranking republican is out and proud about shooting a puppy, maybe I should find a new metaphor)
This is on purpose. Republicans want all of government to fail so that they and their rich friends can buy everything up and privatize it.
See, this is why I can’t be president.
The idea of someone destroying something useful that i built…put my blood and sweat into…without so much of a second thought and out of spite and/or malice…while I’m around to see it? Ugh. Such a gut-punch.
I have a close family member in local government and he says it’s the same thing there. Great ideas fail, shitty ideas pass, and you feel bad voting for them but it’s honestly the best we can do.
They are not operating based on what’s intelligent, they’re operating based on a weak ideology. That ideology (neoliberalism) is full of contradictions because it exists exclusively to maintain the status quo and grow the wrath of the elite. Therefore, their actions are and will become more contradictory. It’s not a bug it’s THE feature. Their actions will never match their words because their words are a means to an end and not an end themselves.
They are “fiscally responsible” because they are maintaining the status quo of the economy.
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And so instead, they scrapped the parliamentarian. And then they did what they wanted, because rules are only for Democrats.
