The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is scrapping a previous administration’s $77 million mandate to install electric-vehicle charging stations at VA facilities and is redirecting those funds toward critical health-care infrastructure for veterans instead.

Under the policy revision, the VA said that while “the Biden White House forced VA to divert $77 million from its construction and technology budget to build solar powered electric vehicle charging stations” — not a single charger was built .

The VA’s current leadership, under Doug Collins, restored the funds to the agency’s construction budget as of Nov. 6.

“After deciding the money would be better spent on critical health care construction projects,” the agency began reallocating the funds to facility upgrades and medical-car

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