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Mike Rogers: “They spent $8 billion, set it aside, said, we're going to…”

Featuring: Mike Rogers, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Michigan

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Published | Video Starts at 05:52

And they told our domestic companies you're going to have to build an electric vehicle. And when the government gets involved in something, it doesn't always work out that well. So They spent $8 billion, set it aside, said, we're going to build chargers, 500,000 of them. Four years later. How many? Eight. They told these car companies, change the way you're building things because you're going to build a car that we're going to tell Americans they have to buy. (05:52–06:01)

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Asserts that only eight electric vehicle chargers have been built out of the 500,000 planned, despite an $8 billion budget.

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