No, really. It's not "running out of money" in the sense of poor planning. It's not "ending early" in the sense that it had a specific amount of time it was supposed to last.
The reason the US House just voted $2 billion more for the program is because it's easily the most popular and effective program the US government has created in years. Consumers get to buy new cars that get better gas mileage and have lower repair costs than what they've owned, saving money in the long run. Dealers get to move inventory and pay employees, automakers earn more, and we all benefit from reduced gasoline consumption and pollution.
The Republicans are trying to spin all this as a failure and make it about hwo the government will mess up health care:
Yup, the fact that everyone involved in the program loves it - and even those dealers complaining about the backlog of reimbursement requests will come around once everything works through the system; typical that businesses which make you wait 2 days for a widget to get shipped across town to fix your car need their business taken care of right the hell now - and that it's succeeded so well that even GOP lawmakers support putting more money into it means that the government-run health plan which will never exist is going to be a failure.
I swear, these guys have so many different layers of deception going on it's hard to know just what it is they're lying about at any given time.
No, if this program tells us anything, it's that we finally have some people in Congress and the White House who have the slightest clue about what matters to American citizens.
