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.
Administration officials have tried to draw the distinction that Harris’ primary border-related task, as vice president, was to learn the root causes of record migration at the U.S.-Mexico border. However, critics don’t see where such a distinction exists and continue to refer to her a “border czar.”
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.