President Trumps top transportation and environmental officials traveled to the industrial heartland this week to make the case that his administrations policies are reviving American auto manufacturing and restoring common sense to federal regulation.
According to Gateway Pundit, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin, and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer highlighted the administrations approach during a visit to Ford Motor Co.s Ohio Assembly Plant near Cleveland, with a follow-up stop scheduled at Stellantis NVs Toledo Assembly Complex and an appearance at the Detroit Auto Show.
As reported by Detroit News, Three key cabinet officials are using visits to Michigan and Ohio to tout Trump administration policies they say are boosting the auto industry and U.S. manufacturing, noting that their agencies have tremendous influence over the main federal policy areas environmental, safety and trade that impact Michigans signature sector.
The visit underscored a sharp break from the regulatory zeal of the previous administration, which aggressively pushed electric vehicles at the expense of consumer choice and affordability. Duffy has been blunt about that legacy, saying in December that the prior team illegally twisted mileage standards to create an electric vehicle mandate jacking up car prices for American families and forcing manufacturers to produce vehicles no one wanted.
In contrast, the Trump administration is emphasizing policies that lower costs and encourage Americans to buy new, safer vehicles without federal coercion. The Department of Transportation has estimated that the proposed rules would save families more than $900 off the average cost of a new vehicle and reduce roadway fatalities by helping Americans buy new, safer cars.
During the Ohio plant event, Zeldin was pressed by a reporter who appeared unable to grasp the basic economic logic behind lower car prices. Zeldin patiently walked through the fundamentals, explaining that when vehicles become more affordable, more people purchase them, which in turn increases demand for production, meaning theres more for the auto workers to do and more money is made.
That straightforward supply and demand reality, familiar to anyone outside the progressive bubble, seemed to baffle at least one member of the press corps. Observers noted that This is basic economics, but that is somehow lost on this member of the press, and praised how Zeldin handled the question with a ton of patience, given the circumstances.
The exchange quickly drew reactions online, including from Donald Trump Jr., who pointed to the episode as emblematic of a broader problem in media coverage of economic policy. If members of the media are this clueless on economic issues, it kind of explains why they see Zohran Mamdanis policies as a positive thing, he remarked, underscoring how ideological blinders in the press can distort public understanding of policies that affect working families, auto jobs, and the broader manufacturing base.
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