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Ted Cruz: “They're the rules the Biden administration put in place to…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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A Historic Year of Victories

Published | Video Starts at 31:00

Let's talk about that victory as well. Another provision I wrote in the bill, we zeroed out CAFE standards. Now, what are CAFE standards? They're the rules the Biden administration put in place to drive up the cost of your car and drive up the cost of your truck. And what they did is they jacked up the mileage. It had to get to what were unsustainable levels. And they were doing that because they wanted to ban the internal combustion engine. (31:00–31:08)

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