Lee Zeldin

The Trump administration believes that you can protect the environment and grow the economy.

The economic cost of the climate goals that they were set, it's coming home

to to roost right now and these european countries are facing a reality where you know they'll make their decisions uh in the months and the years to come but they clearly are in a really bad place right now and they're they're rethinking certain policies now how much of that they say publicly versus privately i i don't know we'll see but when i was in that meeting and we were having these conversations clearly they are feeling the economic pressure of their environmental policies

This is about more consumer choice.

This is about having more affordable vehicles.

And by the way, when you make the trucks more affordable that deliver all of those consumer goods that you purchase in your daily lives, the cost of living across the board is able to go down $1.3 trillion.

Now too often when you start talking millions and billions and trillions, you know, a lot of people just kind of view it all as the same.

These are, these are big numbers.

$1.3 trillion is one massive number.

When you're talking about $2,400 to purchase a new vehicle, $2,400 less, it's more mobility, more economic mobility.

It's the ability to be able to get to work, to get to church.

It's the ability to have more money available for healthcare, for education, and the other costs of life.

And I was just asked about

fossil fuels.

And the question was asked in a way as if we should be getting rid of it.

And I mean, just look back at the last few weeks, the temperatures across this entire country.

Thank God President Trump has been unleashing energy dominance.

Thank God we have baseload power, reliable coal and natural gas and

and oil that's kept our country warm.

The person that you're talking about, that low-income, that middle-income family, that person who's been struggling, imagine going through the last few weeks without heat.