Marjorie Taylor Greene: “Examples of the electric vehicle funding in this bill text are: Joint Base Andrews, microgrid with electric vehicle…”

“Examples of the electric vehicle funding in this bill text are: Joint Base Andrews, microgrid with electric vehicle charging infrastructure for $17.92 million. Joint Base Andrews is only 10 miles outside of Washington, D.C., in Maryland. This is the very base that, if there was an attack on our Nation's Capital, Joint Base Andrews would be responding. Are we going to have to sit around and wait for our military members at Joint Base Andrews to charge their electric vehicles to come into the Nation's Capital to defend us in case of an attack? I don't think the American people want to spend almost $18 million for that. Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey is another example of funding. Microgrid with electric vehicle charging infrastructure of $17.73 million, another enormous waste of money. At a time, Madam Chair, where military recruitment numbers are at an all-time embarrassing low, Americans do not want to spend money to play climate politics. If we are going to spend more money on our Department of Defense, on our NDAA, why don't we pay military recruits more money instead of paying for electric vehicles and electric vehicle charging stations? That is an embarrassment, and I think it is an insult to the American people, who work very hard to pay their taxes. Another little fact that everyone needs to know is there is a problem with electric vehicle charging stations. They don't always work.…”