Lee Zeldin

The resetting of the CAFE standards with Secretary Duffy and DOT and the president.

When you combine it with getting rid of the electric vehicle mandate with the three Congressional Review Act bills that Congress passed and President Trump signed.

You add the new investments that have been announced.

Billions of these different manufacturers and the jobs that come with it.

It all adds up for a very positive one year for the U.S.

auto industry.

Well, I'm confident that there's going to be more F-150s that are going to get built and less electric vehicles that sit on dealership lots and remaining unsold.

Now, a couple of months ago, I was at the G7 Energy and Environment Ministers meeting that was in Toronto, Canada.

And I could tell that these European countries are really feeling the strain of how they have chosen to protect the environment over growing the economy.

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, a lot of people just kind of view it all as the same.

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.