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Here's your TNV Tech Minute for Friday, February 7th. I'm Pierre Bienname for the Wall Street Journal.

The Trump administration has halted federal funding for new electric vehicle charging stations.

The White House said in a letter to transportation officials that it was suspending approval of state plans for spending about $5 billion in grants to add EV fast chargers along highway exits.

The highway charging money was supposed to help U.S. drivers overcome what is known as range anxiety, the fear of running out

of battery power while traveling long distances. And President Trump today backed his vice president

J.D. Vance in calling to rehire a Department of Government Efficiency Staffer who resigned yesterday

over racist posts on the social media site X. While he didn't know the former staffer, the president

said he supported the vice president. Marco Alas, who is 25, had been a special employee at the

Treasury Department affiliated with Elon Musk's Doge team. He resigned

after the Wall Street Journal asked the White House about his links to a deleted X account.

Alas didn't respond to several requests for comment. An email sent today to his Treasury Department

address bounced back. Amazon plans to allocate more than $100 billion in capital expenditure this year as part of a push

to build generative artificial intelligence services.

That's up 35% from last year's total.

In a research note, UBS analysts estimate that about 70% of that will be allocated to Amazon

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