President-elect Trump’s transition team is proposing that federal funds support President Biden green energy push will be redirected to national defense purposes, according to a Reuters report.

The Republican’s transition team is reportedly recommending that the incoming president cut support electric vehicles (EVs) and charging stations when he takes office, this would have a direct impact on Biden’s years-long effort to move Americans toward electric vehicle use.

Trump is also considering imposing a global tariff on all battery materials, with negotiated exceptions for allies, and will work specifically to move the United States away from using Chinese-made components, Reuters reported, according to a transition team plans document.

The funds would reportedly be reallocated to support Biden’s green energy agenda to help finance national defense.

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Tesla charging in the Silicon Valley city of Mountain View, California. (/Getty Images)

The document suggests that minerals and other vital components for electric vehicles are “critical for defense production”, but that electric vehicles “and charging stations are not”.

The Biden administration has poured federal funds into its climate agenda regarding electric vehicle production, including announcing $1.7 billion for electric vehicle manufacturing in July alone.

Biden is also offering a credit of up to $7,500 for electric vehicle purchases, which Trump reportedly intends to nix when he assumes the presidency.

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The new president is expected to make reversing Biden’s green energy policies a focus of his first months in office, and plans to target electric vehicles on his first day in the White House.

President-elect Trump speaks during a meeting with the House GOP conference, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (Allison Robbert/AP Newsroom)

Incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt previously said that if elected, Trump would roll back both federal electric vehicle requirements and any exemptions issued. for California by the Biden administration on “day one.”

Trump’s campaign also criticized Biden’s actions to help California’s proposed electric vehicle mandate regulations.

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“Having just imposed his crazy, job-killing electric vehicle mandate at the federal level, Crooked Joe Biden is preparing to slaughter the remains of the American auto industry by approving California’s waiver request that bans the sale of all gasoline-powered automobiles,” Leavitt. , then Trump’s national campaign press secretary, told Fox News Digital in a statement.