A provision in the proposed Trump and GOP tax-immigration bill would have the General Services Administration seize and auction about 7,200 new USPS electric mail trucks and related charging infrastructure, undoing billions in EV investments.
USPS planned to spend $9.6 billion to buy 66,000 electric delivery vehicles—funded partly by $3 billion in taxpayer money and its own revenues—and to upgrade sorting facilities for low-emission vehicles.
Experts say auctioning the vehicles and infrastructure would bring negligible revenue due to low private-sector interest and non-resellable, buried charging equipment.
The bill aims to cut costs and refocus USPS on mail delivery by eliminating Biden-era environmental initiatives, part of GOP efforts to offset $4 trillion in tax cuts and unwind most Inflation Reduction Act clean-energy incentives.
USPS warns that revoking unspent funds and selling assets would cost the agency $1.5 billion, crippling its ability to replace an aging, fire-prone delivery fleet.
The EV replacement program has faced delays, engineering issues, and cost overruns, with the contractor Oshkosh delivering far fewer vehicles than planned and raising prices.
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