Arctic blast fuels scrutiny of Biden’s $8B electric bus push as watchdogs cite oversight failures
EXCLUSIVE: The Arctic blast that snowed in much of the East exposed not only the need for road salt but also the possibility that untold taxpayer dollars were wasted on...
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EXCLUSIVE : The Arctic blast that snowed in much of the East exposed not only the need for road salt but also the possibility that untold taxpayer dollars were wasted on risky electric bus subsidy programs under the Biden administration, according to critics of those initiatives. That’s the claim from Power the Future, a top energy advocacy and watchdog group that also compared the disbursement of more than $8 billion over at least two related federal subsidy programs to oversight failures by the Minnesota government involving its Medicaid and childcare entitlement crises recently exposed. E-buses have been purchased by transit agencies in part through a "Low-No" emissions grant program mainly through the Federal Transit Administration that received a $1.6 billion infusion during the Biden years . DEM-APPOINTED EDUCATION OFFICIALS FACE NEW SCRUTINY AS FEEDING OUR FUTURE SCANDAL WIDENS, TRUMP TARGETS FRAUD "Given the scale of this investment, there must be an examination into whether taxpayers are receiving the reliable, deployable transit assets capable of serving the communities for which they were funded," Turner said. Similarly, PTF highlighted a 2024 EPA Inspector General audit that found the agency failed to meaningfully track the deployment of electric school buses under a 2022 rebate program through which $836 million was handed out by federal officials. Only about 7% of participating school districts had completed the processes needed to put the buses into service, such as installing charging infrastructure . "When hundreds of millions of dollars are awarded without confirmation that buses are delivered, operable, or in service, the absence of oversight echoes the failures that are being highlighted in Minnesota," PTF wrote. PTF said the Biden administration’s "broader record" on "green infrastructure" spending is further exposed by these and other disbursements and requires Zeldin’s immediate attention. They cited an additional $7.5 billion spent on the Na…