President Trump is going after your grocery bill from an angle most Americans never think about: the refrigerant inside the cooling systems that keep food cold from the warehouse to the store shelf.
On Wednesday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin stood alongside Trump in the Oval Office to announce the rollback of two Biden-era refrigerant regulations the White House says imposed billions of dollars in unnecessary costs on supermarkets, home air conditioning, semiconductor manufacturing, and medical supply transportation.
The combined savings: $2.4 billion, according to the administration.
That announcement landed the same day Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer hopped on social media to complain about the cost of hot dogs and watermelon heading into Memorial Day weekend.
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