Lee Zeldin: “He wanted consumer freedom to increase.”

“When President Trump first called me in November of 2024, asked me to do this position, one of the key goals that he had for EPA is that he wanted us to do our part to protect and bring back the American auto industry. He wanted consumer freedom to increase. He want the cost to go down. And the goals actually were quite achievable, not over the course of four years, but as you just heard highlighted with Secretary Duffy …” (06:17–06:22)

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