by Thomas Catenacci at The Washington Free Beacon
Vice President Kamala Harris’s billion-dollar Clean School Bus program provided funding to Chinese EV manufacturer BYD Company’s subsidiary in the United States, according to federal filings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Months later, the subsidiary’s top executive, a Chinese national, wired $50,000 in support of what is now Harris’s presidential campaign.
BYD Americas was selected in late 2022 to receive $395,000 under the administration’s Clean School Bus program, which was spearheaded by Harris and EPA administrator Michael Regan, EPA documents show. That funding was disbursed in May 2023, six months before Li’s donations to the Biden-Harris campaign, according to the EPA.
The company applied for federal funding to supply an electric bus to Princeton Joint Unified School District located in northern California.
It remains unclear whether the company is directly providing its buses to school districts that applied for program funding from the EPA. “We are currently not aware of other school districts that may be purchasing buses from this company under the Clean School Bus program,” EPA spokesman Remmington Belford said in a statement to the Free Beacon.
BYD Americas’s president,…
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