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1 verified report published on December 3, 2025.
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If the story of Trump’s second term is regulatory vandalism wrapped in populist branding, December 3 offered a neat little exhibit A: fewer rules, bigger emissions, and a lot of smiling officials pretending those are the same thing as savings. The politics may work in a White House event. The arithmetic is less cooperative.
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On Dec. 3, 2025, the White House used an Oval Office event to roll out a proposed rewrite of fuel-economy standards, with automaker executives in the room. The administration described it as a reset, but the change was still just a proposal, not a final rule.