MISSING THE BUS: Inside Biden’s $5 billion electric school bus debacle

Imagine getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for a school bus you haven’t even built.

That’s how the Environmental Protection Agency’s $5 billion Clean School Bus Program worked. Federal money went out before buses were delivered. Five years after Washington promised cleaner school transportation, hundreds of electric buses remain undelivered, and one manufacturer has gone bankrupt after receiving millions in federal funding.

Why was so much public money exposed to a manufacturer that ultimately could not fulfill all its obligations?

The money went out. The buses didn’t always show up.

According to EPA figures reported by the New York Post in September, approximately 1,100 electric school buses had been delivered from the program’s initial round of roughly 2,600 funded buses. Another 854 were reportedly delayed, and 140 were