Lee Zeldin
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The Obama administration decided, well, I guess we have to change the law.
They tried to get the votes in Congress.
And then when they couldn't get the votes, they said, well, I guess we're just going to have to do it anyway.
Well, fast forward to 2026, game over.
The endangerment finding is gone.
Right.
And it's also based off of what the law doesn't allow.
You know, this is, this is a best reading of the clean air act, which does not say that we should be regulating the,
in a mission to combat global climate change.
And you could ignore all of the bad guesses of Al Gore and John Kerry and others.
You can replace all of the bad, flawed assumptions on science that were made in 2009 with the most pessimistic predictions that didn't bear out as we look at facts in 2026.
Regardless of where anyone is on their opinion or the fact on the science debate, the reality is the Clean Air Act does not authorize this, that Congress would have to pass a new law
in order to have trillions of dollars of regulation.
So yeah, no, it doesn't have to be codified.
And quite frankly, because of the Supreme Court precedent, if the pendulum swung one day down the road, some far-left Democrat gets elected president and they have somebody running the
The EPA and they're trying to go back to it.
The problem is, is that the Clean Air Act is still going to give them the same problem.
And Loper Bright is on the books and it says you can't just make it up.
And now manufacturers can make vehicles that consumers actually want rather than what politicians demand.
And when you combine this decision with.