Fight to Protect Postal Workers,
Communities, and the Planet by
Defending the USPS Green Fleet!
Annie Norman / Americans for Financial Reform

(July 1, 2025) — Just a few years ago, after relentless public pressure, the U.S. Postal Service made a major commitment that it would replace its aging, gas-guzzling mail trucks with modern electric vehicles. Over 66,000 EVs were ordered, with 14,000 charging stations already underway.

This was a multi-billion dollar public promise to deliver for the climate, for postal workers on the front line, and for the communities the USPS serves.

Now that Trump is in the White House and Republicans have control of the House and Senate, they want to dismantle it all. Trump campaigned on the promise of dismantling the Biden Administration’s historic climate and infrastructure bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, which included $3 Billion to electrifying USPS.

Weeks ago, in a stunning act of sabotage, Senator Rand Paul schemed to use the budget process to insert a plan to force the USPS to sell off every last electric truck and charging station, and prohibit future EV orders.

This isn’t about saving money, it’s about destroying climate progress and punishing the Postal Service for daring to modernize. Luckily, it was thrown out by the parliamentarian.

Paul’s provision would’ve forced the USPS to cancel active contracts, fire-sale 7,200 electric trucks already on the road, and tear up $540 million worth of charging infrastructure, most of it embedded in USPS buildings and parking lots. His plan would’ve wasted over $1.5 billion in taxpayer investments and crippling the ability of the USPS to replace its obsolete, unsafe Grumman vehicles that get barely 9 mpg and literally catch fire in the summer heat.

Let’s be clear: this full-frontal assault on clean public infrastructure and sound fiscal policy is reckless, wasteful, and ideological extremism masquerading as budget policy.

Tell your member of Congress you reject these obsessive Republican attacks on USPS’s green fleet now.

The far-right has been targeting the USPS’s clean energy investments from day one.They tried to block EV funding in the Inflation Reduction Act. They tried to force USPS to stick with gas-guzzlers with the fuel efficiency of a Hummer.

They failed. But Rand Paul’s recent backdoor tactic of a budget rider to try to undo the entire program by force is proof that they won’t stop trying to claw back climate investments any way they can.

Here’s what they didn’t count on – grassroots activists like you. The same coalition that won USPS’s EV commitments is mobilizing again, and we won’t let their schemes slip through the cracks. We need a wall of public opposition, fast.

The USPS’s electrification plan was a breakthrough for postal workers, the climate, and communities. It’s already supporting American manufacturing jobs at Ford and Stellantis, cutting air pollution in frontline Black and Brown communities, and finally bringing air-conditioned trucks to postal workers risking their lives in unsafe heat. We must defend it.

Tell your members of Congress to stop these obsessive Republican attacks like Rand Paul’s on USPS’s EV future. Protect our public investment in a cleaner, safer mail delivery.

We beat Trump’s sabotage. We defended the USPS’s green future. And now we’ll continue to fight back against any other extremist anti-EV schemes with everything we’ve got.

Annie Norman is Campaign Manager for Save the Post Office Coalition at Americans for Financial Reform