LORDSTOWN — A trio of Democratic lawmakers is urging President Joe Biden to halt a U.S. Postal Service truck contract to review whether inappropriate political influence was involved with its award.
The lawmakers also want to determine whether the contract is consistent with Biden’s call to electrify the federal government’s fleet of vehicles, made in an executive order soon into his presidency.
It was last week Postmaster Louis DeJoy announced Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Defense won the contract worth up to $6 billion, besting two other finalists in doing so, including Cincinnati-based Workhorse Group, a stakeholder in Lordstown Motors Corp.
U.S. Reps. Tim Ryan of Howland and Marcy Kaptur of Toledo, and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, wrote Biden asking him to review the award that, according to a news release, “stands in stark contrast” with his executive order.