Revelations come following release of new Committee report

Washington D.C. — This weekend, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) joined Fox & Friends to discuss a new Committee Report on the failures of the Biden-Harris Clean School Bus Program. Highlights and excerpts from the interview below:

On Defending American Leadership: 

“This is a so-called clean school bus program, and it’s just another part of the Biden-Harris administration’s rush-to-green [agenda].

“We’ve seen them mandating electric vehicles, banning gas stoves, really shutting down American energy.  

“But unfortunately, it’s an agenda where the Chinese Communist Party is leading, and America is dependent upon China because they control 90 percent of supply chains for electric batteries.  

“This is not the agenda that America needs. We need an agenda of American innovation and free markets, not one where we are dependent upon China.” 

On the Exorbitant Price Tag of Electric Buses: 

“Whether it’s Wisconsin or North Dakota or Washington State, they are unreliable.  

“We do not have the infrastructure [to support electric school buses], and they are expensive.  

“This is a program where the Biden-Harris administration wanted to hand out free school buses across the nation, but unfortunately, they’re not free.  

“They’re very expensive, as you mentioned—$381,000.  

“These are hard-earned taxpayer dollars that are going to fund part of their so-called green energy agenda. 

“There are other clean alternatives, if it really was a clean bus program, that are about $140,000.  

“But unfortunately, the administration is mandating this agenda that is expensive, unreliable, and also makes us even more dependent upon the Chinese Communist Party because they control 90 percent of the supply chains.” 

CLICK HERE to read more about the Clean School Bus report.