It was back in January, long before Vice President Kamala Harris even thought of replacing Joe Biden as a Democratic presidential candidate, that she announced Oklahoma was among school districts receiving part of more than $1 billion from the EPA to buy electric school buses.
“Today, we are announcing nearly $1 billion to fund clean school buses across the nation,” said Vice President Kamala Harris in the press release at the time.
“As part of our work to tackle the climate crisis, the historic funding we are announcing today is an investment in our children, their health and their education. It also strengthens our economy by investing in American manufacturing and America’s workforce.”
Seventeen school districts in Oklahoma received more than $24 million to acquire 61 electric buses as part of the EPA’s Clean School Bus Program Grants Competition. The program, as announced months ago, was intended help 280 districts buy more than 2,700 “clean” school buses serving more than 7 million students across 37 states.
But as “Just the News” reported, some critics have suggested the program, with Harris in charge, is not only faltering and running out of power, but is similar to how she was the nation’s so-called “border czar.”
“Kamala Harris’ electric school bus program is floundering, drawing comparison to ‘border czar’ work,” declared its headline.
“Many school districts have reported multiple problems with the safety and expense of the buses they’ve received, and these involve companies that have received hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and rebates through the EPA program Harris manages. These same companies have close ties to the Biden-Harris administration,” reported the news website.
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