“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the completion of their appointed rounds” goes the U.S. Postal Service creed — but not with electric vehicles, if some Republican lawmakers have their way.

A year after climate change advocates praised a plan to replace thousands of gas-powered mail vehicles with a mostly electric fleet, an effort is underway in Congress to strip billions in federal EV funding, according to a report by the Associated Press.

The AP pointed to a major tax-and-spending bill in June where the Senate parliamentarian blocked a Republican move to sell off the agency’s new electric vehicles and pull back the remaining federal money.

But that didn’t mean an end to the effort.

The AP reported:

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said “it didn’t

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