Visitors look over a 2024 Cybertruck in the Tesla display at the Electrify Expo, last July. David Zalubowski/AP
David Zalubowski/AP
Two top congressional Democrats on foreign policy matters pressed Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday about a now-cancelled effort to purchase $400 million worth of armored electric vehicles made by Tesla.
In a letter citing NPR’s recent reporting on the Trump administration’s move to acquire $400 million of Teslas, U.S. Reps. Gregory Meeks of New York, the ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Relations, and Jared Moskowitz of