The Chinese Communist Party will likely become the beneficiary of President Joe Biden’s push to fill U.S. streets with electric vehicles, according to 16 Republicans on the House Oversight Committee.
The lawmakers, led by the committee’s ranking member Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), sounded the warning in a letter (pdf) to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Aug. 24. They wrote that Oversight Republicans are examining “the false claims” made by the Biden administration about the impact of electric vehicles on U.S. jobs.
To rebuke the administration’s claims, the lawmakers pointed out how Ford will cut about 8,000 jobs this summer to “boost profits to fund its push into the electric-vehicle market,” citing a July article from Bloomberg….