Newsom forcing Californians to buy unreliable and costly EVs

Congress killed California's EV mandate nine months ago

California kept enforcing it anyway

Now a House chairman is forcing Newsom's own emails into the open – and what those documents reveal could blow up the entire operation.

In June 2025, President Trump signed three Congressional Review Act resolutions stripping California of its authority to ban gas-powered vehicles. The vote was bipartisan. The law was clear. The case was closed.

Except California didn't close it.

Rep. Brett Guthrie – the Kentucky Republican who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee says the California Air Resources Board, the state's vehicle emissions regulator, started blocking automakers from bringing new cars to market unless they agreed to comply with the exact mandate Congress had just nullified.

Toyota. Ford. Every manufacturer that wanted to sell vehicles in the country's largest state had to play by rules that no longer legally existed. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the Biden-era EV rules caused Detroit's Big Three to eat $50 billion in losses.

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