Thune: Senate to End Biden’s California EV Mandate

“The Senate has used the Congressional Review Act 14 times so far to repeal burdensome rules from the Biden administration, and we will be using it to undo the electric vehicle rule and two other California rules as well.”

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke at a press conference with Senate Republican leadership:

Thune’s remarks below (as delivered):

“Most of the action this week is in the House of Representatives, but the Senate will be doing some important things this week.

“We are going to vote this week to do away with the Biden California mandate, which was an attempt by the Biden administration to impose [an] electric vehicle mandate across this country through the California Clean Air Act waiver, and so we’re going to be having that vote later this week.

“The impact of that particular rule would be devastating across our economy.

“And now California, by taking that action, another 17 or 18 states have been implicated, and essentially what you’ve got is an electrical vehicle mandate ... that will be in place almost across the entire country.

“And so we will take action to undo that.

“And obviously the Democrats are going to make a lot of noise about that, but the truth of the matter is this has nothing to do with the legislative filibuster.

“This is the Congress and the United States Senate submitting to the body the question of whether or not the Government Accountability Office – the GAO – ought to be able to determine for us what it is and isn’t a rule.

“The administration says it’s a rule, the GAO has said it’s not, and the United States Senate is going to be heard from on this issue tomorrow – and do something that will avoid, again, what I think and what a lot of people across this country think would be a catastrophic outcome, and that is an EV mandate that would be imposed across the United States.

“We have already repealed this year, through the Congressional Review Act, 14 burdensome Biden regulations, and that is what we will do with that issue, with the Biden California mandate, sometime later this week, probably tomorrow.”