Washington, D.C.— Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) released the following statement celebrating President Trump’s signing of legislation she sponsored ending the Biden-era California Electrical Vehicle (EV) mandates.
“President Trump is delivering for Wyoming residents today by ending the Biden administration’s unrealistic and flawed California electrical vehicle mandate,” said Lummis. “It is not the government’s job to tell Americans what vehicle you have to buy. Furthermore, failed California politicians like Gavin Newsom should not be the ones dictating emissions policy for the entire country. This disastrous policy belongs in the garbage where it started.”
Background:
- Senator Lummis cosponsored all three CRA’s to repeal California’s EV mandates that President Trump signed today.
Sen. Lummis has been a leader in fighting the Biden administration’s EV agenda:
- In October 2023, Lummis cosponsored the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act to counter the Biden administration’s radical environmental agenda and executive overreach by preventing the implementation of a proposed rule and other regulations that seek to limit consumer vehicle choice.
- In November 2023, she sent a letter to Senate and House leadership urging them to defund the Biden administration’s EV mandate.
- In January 2024, she sent a letter with 121 members of Congress to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration calling for them to withdrawal the Biden Administration’s proposed Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for passenger cars and light-duty trucks.
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