{"id":73914,"date":"2025-12-03T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/12\/03\/va-kills-boondoggle-biden-plan-to-put-ev-chargers-at-medical-centers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:46:56","slug":"va-kills-boondoggle-biden-plan-to-put-ev-chargers-at-medical-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/veterans\/2025\/12\/03\/va-kills-boondoggle-biden-plan-to-put-ev-chargers-at-medical-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"VA kills \u2018Boondoggle\u2019 Biden plan to put EV chargers at medical centers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2025\/12\/02\/va-told-companies-they-may-be-breaking-law-most-are-still-in-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2025\/12\/02\/va-told-companies-they-may-be-breaking-law-most-are-still-in-business\/\">Veterans Affairs<\/a> last month scrapped a $77 million leftover green energy program from the Biden administration that would have put solar-powered charging stations for electric vehicles at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/06\/25\/house-passes-435-billion-spending-plan-for-va-in-fiscal-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/06\/25\/house-passes-435-billion-spending-plan-for-va-in-fiscal-2026\/\">VA medical centers<\/a> and other facilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a Nov. 19 release, the VA made clear its opposition to federal funding for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2025\/03\/19\/why-the-us-military-has-cared-about-climate-change-since-the-cold-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2025\/03\/19\/why-the-us-military-has-cared-about-climate-change-since-the-cold-war\/\">green energy<\/a> programs in general and charging stations in particular, although the Trump administration in August was forced under court order to release up to $5 billion approved by Congress for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, or NEVI, program to build a nationwide network of charging stations along major highways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn Joe Biden\u2019s VA, the department was distracted by woke social-justice programs and green-energy boondoggles, but those days are long gone,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2025\/10\/24\/judges-reject-va-secretarys-request-to-pause-veterans-claims-appeals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2025\/10\/24\/judges-reject-va-secretarys-request-to-pause-veterans-claims-appeals\/\">VA Secretary Doug Collins<\/a> said in a VA release. \u201cVA exists to serve veterans, and we\u2019re making sure all of our resources go toward that noble purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The VA has yet to decide how all of the $77 million will be redirected, but Collins said that three projects have already been targeted, beginning with $10 million for upgrading VA\u2019s Friendship House residence in Oklahoma City; $21.3 million for the MRI ward at the Providence, Rhode Island VA Medical Center; and $13.8 million to upgrade the radiation oncology unit at the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VAMC in Jackson, Mississippi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move to scrap the charging stations brought the VA more in line with President Donald Trump\u2019s long-held claims that green energy programs are a wasteful concessions to climate change alarmists. He has consistently maintained that clean energy sources, such as solar and wind, cost more and don\u2019t work as well as fossil fuel options. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after taking office last January, Trump issued an executive order \u2014 \u201cUnleashing American Energy\u201d \u2014 rejecting what he called former President Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cpreposterous\u201d emphasis on electric vehicles and calling for the elimination of regulations favoring electric vehicles over gas-powered trucks and cars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite Trump\u2019s stance, all branches of the military maintain long-standing clean energy programs, including the Army\u2019s plan to field a fleet of non-tactical, all-electric vehicles by 2035 and efforts to put solar-powered charging stations on bases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a February 2023 release by the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, Kristina Manning, then-Real Property Planning Division chief at the Fort Hood Directorate of Public Works, noted, \u201cLike many things, Fort Hood is on the cutting edge for the Army on the fielding of EV and charging stations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cProviding charging stations for personal use supports our People First stance and contributes to the quality of life for our soldiers and families by having charging options available for EV owners,\u201d Manning said. \u201cThese charging stations are free because they are solar and do not use any electricity from the grid.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the ongoing battle over climate change initiatives, Trump used the world stage in September to double down on his views that environmentalists have it all wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis climate change. It\u2019s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion,\u201d Trump said in an address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. \u201cAll of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their countries fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success. If you don\u2019t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But at a White House Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Trump insisted that he was not opposed to electric vehicles, but rather \u201cinsane\u201d mandates for the public to buy them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI like electric cars, I like all cars,\u201d Trump said, adding that the public should have the option to buy gas-powered vehicles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in August begrudgingly said that federal funding would resume for the NEVI program initiated by the Biden administration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf Congress is requiring the federal government to support charging stations, let\u2019s cut the waste and do it right,\u201d Duffy said in a release. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Duffy claimed that the Biden administration failed to deliver EV chargers as promised, but \u201cOur revised NEVI guidance slashes red tape and makes it easier for states to efficiently build out this infrastructure.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile I don\u2019t agree with subsidizing green energy, we will respect Congress\u2019 will and make sure this program uses federal resources efficiently,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VA scrapped a $77 million leftover green energy program that would have put solar-powered charging stations for electric vehicle at various locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":110168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":19,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[101,12,25,19,69],"tags":[],"coauthors":[7162],"class_list":["post-73914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-news","category-newsletters","category-veterans","category-your-marine-corps"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"4GDLHNBATNGSDBSBFGPPQ4YEAM","arc_canonical_url":"\/veterans\/2025\/12\/03\/va-kills-boondoggle-biden-plan-to-put-ev-chargers-at-medical-centers\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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