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.”
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.