Donald Trump Jr. gets a fact check dressing down from Pete Buttigieg – and Musk appears to approve
Variety of voices have questioned slow rollout of Biden administration priority of electric vehicle charging stations

Josh Marcus
San Francisco
Tuesday 26 November 2024 22:04 GMT

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg took to X on Monday to fact-check misleading claims about the state of a Biden administration initiative to build more electric vehicle charges.

Earlier that day, Michael Rulli claimed that the federal government had spent $7.5bn to build eight electric vehicle charging stations, in what he called “evidence of squandering billions on something nobody wants, while millions struggle to afford the things they need.” The president-elect’s son, Donald Trump Jr., retweeted Rulli’s message, claiming the program “does not seem like a great return on investment...but hey he checked a woke box so it’s totally worth it.”

In response to the posts, Buttigieg said their information was “false.”

“To start with, $7.5B has not been spent, nor anything like that. That’s the entire program budget for the NEVI [National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure] program, which is to help build out a national charging network by 2030,” the official Link to tweet
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