![]() “Furthermore, this contract is not only an investment in America workers and our domestic manufacturing sector, but it is an opportunity for our nation to regain its role as a leader in clean technology manufacturing. Brown, Ryan and Kaptur are asking Biden to review the contract award. This contract award stands in stark contrast to Biden’s Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad and his public calls to transform the federal vehicular fleet to electric vehicles. Ohio-based Workhorse Group, an electric vehicle manufacturer, was passed over for the contract. ![]() Postal Service (USPS) would be awarding a contract worth up to $6 billion to Wisconsin company OshKosh Corp., while also telling a House Committee that the new postal truck fleet would only be 10% electric under the proposed contract. Late last week, Postmaster Louis DeJoy announced the U.S. Representatives Tim Ryan (D-OH-13) and Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-9) wrote to President Biden urging him to halt a federal postal truck contract until a review can be conducted on whether inappropriate political influence was involved in the decision and whether the contract award is consistent with Biden’s calls for an electrification of federal vehicles.
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