Kamala Harris’ electric school bus program is floundering, drawing comparison to ‘border czar’ work
- October 12, 2024
Kevin Killough, Just the News
The EPA recently announced another $1 billion flowing into the Biden-Harris administration’s effort to replace all diesel-powered school buses across the country with electric buses. This brings the total spent so far to nearly $3 billion out of the $5 billion program.
Vice President Kamala Harris, now the Democratic presidential nominee, was tasked with overseeing the program as part of the larger Building Better School Infrastructure Program, and her experience as school bus czar appear to be no better better than her work trying to fix the country’s border crisis.
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.
Michael Chamberlain, director of the government watchdog nonprofit Protect the Public’s Trust, has a word to describe what administration critics consider wasteful climate-agenda programs, many of which have turned into green energy boondoggles. He calls them “greendoggles.”
“This sort of thing is just emblematic of the entire way this green transition has been handled by the administration,” Chamberlain recently told Just the News.
“We do know that there are numerous cases of the money going to people with ties to the administration or to the political allies of the administration. It’s to the extent that some people looking from the outside at this might even kind of suspect that that’s part of the point,” said Chamberlain, of Protect the Public’s Trust.