Trump Announces He’s Cancelling Biden’s Fuel Efficiency Standards For Cars

Sean James Dec 3rd, 2025, 4:59 pm

President Donald Trump on Wednesday slashed car fuel efficiency standards put in place by ex-President Joe Biden, saying the “burdensome” regulations were “anti-economy” and would have hurt both American auto companies and consumers.

“They were horrible,” Trump said at the White House. “What [the standards] were doing to the cost and actually making the car much worse. But these policies forced automakers to build cars using expensive technologies that drove up costs and prices and made the car much worse.”

The Biden-issued standards, ABC News reported , mandated an increase in fuel efficiency each year between 2027 and 2031, which would have brought the average vehicl

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