USPS electric vehicle fleet behind schedule

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00:00The U.S. Postal Service took $3 billion of your tax money and is a little late on delivering what

00:06they'd promised to do with it. USPS had promised 35,000 battery-powered delivery trucks way back

00:11in 2022. Former President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act had set aside that aforementioned

00:18$3 billion in tax dollars to do it. The problem, three years later, only 612 vehicles had been

00:25delivered. That's less than 2% of 35,000. Also, and this is just one woman's opinion, they're really

00:32ugly. Wisconsin-based defense contractor Oshkosh was paid $2.6 billion to get the job done. And while

00:39they increased the pace after being called out this summer, they are still woefully behind schedule.

00:45Despite Senator Joni Ernst's attempts to cancel the order, a USPS spokesperson says that the number of

00:51vehicles delivered to the Postal Service, quote, grows weekly. And as for the rest of the $300

00:56billion, the other $400 million, some of it is going to build more than 6,600 charging ports

01:02across 75 sites. You know, to charge up all those vehicles that don't yet exist. Bureaucracy at its

01:11best people.