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Republicans' "big, beautiful bill" would force Postal Service to sell its new EV mail trucks

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A provision in a Senate bill would force the Postal Service to sell off its electric vehicles.

The USPS has been looking to update and modernize its fleet of more than 200,000 vehicles since 2015 .

The Senate parliamentarian has ruled that disposing of the USPS EVs is one of several of the bill's provisions violating the Byrd Rule.