Donald Trump attacked President Joe Biden’s electric vehicle policies in a meeting with House Republicans this Thursday, June 13, and He said he will reverse them if he reaches the White House in November, according to legislators who attended the private meeting.
Trump told lawmakers gathered at the Capitol Hill Club that “the entire mandate toward batteries and electric is crazyRep. Russ Fulcher, R-Idaho, said in an interview, paraphrasing Trump’s comments.
“He said the policy would be completely reversed,” Fulcher said. “He made it very, very clear that opposes the policies we have”.
Trump’s comments, in his first meeting in Washington since he was convicted in New York last month, came even as one of Biden’s key electric vehicle policies was challenged in court.
Oil and ethanol industry groups sued Thursday to block new air pollution limits issued by the Environmental Protection Agency in March that they say would illegally force automakers to sell electric vehicles.
Biden has made the shift to battery-powered cars one of his key industrial and climate policies and has set a goal for 50 percent of all new vehicle sales to be electric by 2030, offering consumers up to $7,500 in tax credits to buy them. Trump, on the other hand, has made no secret of his disdain for electric vehicles, claiming that they don’t work and will benefit China and Mexico while harming American auto workers.
During the meeting, Trump complained that Biden was forcing people to buy electric vehicles, said Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va.
“He said that was crazy,” Griffith said in an interview, paraphrasing Trump’s comments. “He’s going to do something about it.”.
