VP out of town pool note - 5

FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy each spoke briefly. Some notes and otter links below. Please check all quotes against recording and transcript.

Ferguson

• Ferguson discussing crack down on “fraudulent” commercial driver’s licenses, and accused immigrants without a firm grasp of English of being a danger on roads in commercial trucking.
• Led audience in a call and response about a variety of issues and encouraged audience to “vote Republican!”
• Otter link: https://otter.ai/u/leNnXYzXST2gKZoCDnp0TOaPS4g

Duffy

• Set to announce a “common sense fuel economy standards because we want Trump to make cars Americans want to buy.”
• Thanked Zeldin for eliminating stop/start buttons on U.S.-made cars
• “Chinese cars, Chinese technology will not be made in America, will not be sold in America.”
• Encouraged Democratic voters to cross party lines because of democratic socialist candidates: “The socialist wing of the Democrat Party is not the heart of the Democrat Party. Our door is open.”
• Said goal is to “preserve trucking for English-speaking, well-trained American drivers.”
• Otter link: https://otter.ai/u/Aae2n7KoXgFCTRUJVyoTmyB2TC8

Jacob Bogage

Reuters

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