Nancy Mace privately asks Trump aides to unfreeze Mercedes EV funds

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

June 28, 2025 at 6:00 a.m. EDT


Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) privately asked the Trump administration on Tuesday to release funding for a Mercedes-Benz plant to convert to the production of electric vehicles, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Post.

In a two-page letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Mace asked the administration to disburse roughly $285 million for the Mercedes-Benz Vans plant northwest of Charleston, South Carolina, through a grant program approved as part of the Biden administration’s 2022 climate legislation. The grant money is part of a $1.8 billion program for shuttered or at-risk auto plants to manufacture electric vehicles and convert their supply chains.

The Trump administration has moved to withhold funding for former president Joe Biden’s climate programs and is also seeking to repeal hundreds of billions of dollars in federal clean energy incentives as part of the tax bill being debated by the Senate.

But Mace’s letter illustrates the tension some GOP lawmakers face as they seek to support Trump’s agenda while shielding the jobs that some of Biden’s programs brought to their own constituents.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/28/nancy-mace-trump-mercedes/

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[Harker]

1. Every instance of seeking an exception, "privately" or otherwise is a rift.

Republicans in disarray!

[tanyev]

2. How soon until Rep. Mace also sends a letter to the Nobel Prize Committee

gushing over Donny’s countless (that’s true, at least) efforts to bring about world peace and asking that he be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize?

Completely unrelated to the funding her state needs, of course. 🤞

[Escurumbele]

3. Instead of Electric vehicles, why not change to hydrogen? The rest of the world is doing it, the USA

is behind on a technology that is supposed to help the environment. China is years ahead on that technology.

[BidenRocks]

4. I heard Mercedes has

Gay and Trans employees, Nancy!
Go nuts!

[mdbl]

5. Nancy is on the red-state-stupidity bandwagon of FAFO

At least we know Dump is an equal-opportunity dicktator who insists people kiss his royal ass before he'll listen. Start kissin Nancy.

[hatrack]

6. Fuck you, Nancy - EVs don't roll coal, so what do you care?

Oh, yeah, money. I forgot.

The only thing that matters.

[sakabatou]

7. Who wants to bet she has stock in that company?

[Wonder Why]

8. Nancy, borrow it from those that offer you money to shill for government money for the rich. Then choke on the money.

[wolfie001]

9. How fitting for this pig 🐷 woman to bring back some pork back to her district

Can she get any more disgusting? Went to that military school because her daddy was the superintendent, then the pig woman pulled up the fucking ladder after they let her slide by. High school dropout by the way She's so disgusting and vile.

[Quanto Magnus]

10. So she is registering as a foreign agent

if she's shilling for MBenz....