PHOENIX, ARIZONA – In the first month of President Donald J. Trump’s administration, the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) has taken several steps to restore freedom, consumer choice, and our nation’s cherished values to the American transportation industry. Arizona Free Enterprise Club President Scot Mussi issued the following statement:
“We applaud President Trump for keeping his promises in issuing policies that promote freedom and choice for American transportation. Over the past four years, hardworking taxpayers have been oppressed by the previous administration’s regulatory overreach and woke agendas imposed by faceless bureaucrats. The Trump administration’s efforts on several transportation-related fronts will give significant savings to Arizonans and their children and grandchildren – not to mention eliminating destructive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives and other radical policies that plagued our nation’s workforce.”
Mussi added, “The Arizona Free Enterprise Club stands with President Trump, Secretary Sean Duffy, and the members of their team, as they restore freedom and commonsense to the American transportation industry; and we call on the U.S. Congress to codify these meaningful executive orders into law.”
Some of the actions from the Trump Administration on the transportation front include:
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- Executive Order 14148, “Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions,” to revoke orders from the previous administration “that directed or encouraged [the Department of Transportation] and other agencies of the Executive Branch to use their regulatory powers, including the power to set corporate average fuel economy (CAFÉ) standards, to achieve the previous administration’s policy goal of forcing rapid electrification of the Nation’s motor vehicle fleets.”
- Executive Order 14154, “Unleashing American Energy,” to “announce that it is the policy of the current Administration to promote the production, distribution, and use of reliable domestic energy supplies, including oil, natural gas, and biofuels; to ensure that all regulatory requirements related to energy are ‘grounded in clearly applicable law’; and ‘to elimination the electric vehicle (EV) mandate and promote true consumer choice’” with multiple actions to remove regulations and empower consumer choice across the country.
- Memorandum of Implementation of Executive Orders Addressing Energy, Climate Change, Diversity, and Gender to enact executive orders that “direct Federal agencies, where and as consistent with law, to identify and eliminate all orders, directives, rules, regulations, notices, guidance documents, funding agreements, programs, and policy statements, or portions thereof, which were authorized, adopted, or approved between noon on January 20, 2021 and noon on January 20, 2025, and which reference or relate in any way to climate change, ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions, racial equity, gender identity, ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ goals, environmental justice, or the Justice 40 Initiative.”
- Order Ensuring Reliance Upon Sound Economic Analysis in Department of Transportation Policies, Programs, and Activities, which “updates and resets the principles and standards underpinning U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) policies, programs, and activities to mandate reliance on rigorous economic analysis and positive cost-benefit calculations and ensure that all DOT grants, loans, contracts, and DOT-supported or – assisted State contracts bolster the American economy and benefit the American people.”
- Rescission of the previous administration’s rule that required “state transportation departments to measure and establish declining targets for carbon dioxide emissions on federally supported highways.”
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