President Trump is making new moves this week to address key affordability issues for all Americans.
Earlier Thursday, he issued an executive order to lift tariffs on imports of beef as prices edge near $7 a pound. The move is a 90-day pause to get beef prices back down and give American farmers more time to grow their herds after they were decimated by Bidenflation for nearly four years. Now, Trump’s working on getting gasoline prices back down.
The EPA announced Thursday that beginning September 1, it will allow E10 gasoline to be sold at a higher Reid Vapor Pressure — effectively ending the costly summer-blend fuel requirement two weeks early. The temporary waiver will free up hundreds of thousands of additional barrels of gasoline per day for American drivers. It will also override stricter state-level summer-blend rules in California, Texas, and Arizona for up to 20 additional days.
Translation: more gas in the supply chain, coming faster than the regulatory calendar would normally allow. Supply goes up. Prices go down. It’s not complicated — but it requires a president and an EPA administrator willing to cut through the red tape that inflates energy costs for no good reason.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said it plainly: “President Trump has prioritized ensuring American families have affordable gasoline and energy. Throughout this administration, EPA has taken decisive action like issuing RVP waivers to provide relief at the pump and fortify our gasoline supply chain. Today, we continue this work with our federal partners to increase supply and lower gas prices for all Americans.”
DOE Secretary Chris Wright added: “Increasing the supply of gasoline means lower prices for American families. Today’s action is another example of this Administration using every available tool to cut red tape, increase the supply of gasoline, and lower prices at the pump.”
Here’s what’s worth understanding about the summer-blend requirement and why ending it early matters. Federal regulations require refineries to produce a more expensive, lower-volatility blend of gasoline from June through mid-September — designed to reduce summertime smog. The intent has merit. The cost is real: summer-blend gasoline is more expensive to produce, reduces overall supply, and raises pump prices every summer. When the EPA lifts the RVP restriction early, refineries can immediately transition to the cheaper winter blend, supply expands, and the price at the pump reflects it.
California has the most restrictive summer-blend requirements in the country — no surprise, given that Gavin Newsom’s regulatory apparatus seems designed to make energy as expensive as possible for the residents he claims to represent. The EPA waiver overrides California’s extended summer restrictions, which is precisely the kind of federal preemption that makes Sacramento Democrats furious but Californians’ wallets slightly less empty.
This is the third major consumer price action in a single week: ground beef down 25% via a 90-day tariff waiver, drug prices at a 60-year record low, and now gasoline supply expanded by executive action. Add it to the 2026 economic record alongside record-low unemployment claims, 83,000 construction workers building factories, and the largest tax cut in American history.
Democrats called all of this impossible and voted against the legislative framework that enabled it. More supply. Lower prices. Fewer regulations. America First in action.
