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Trump Drives Dagger Through Heart Of Dems’ EV Mandate

President Donald Trump signed three bills into law Thursday that will terminate Biden-era rules that effectively allowed California to impose a national electric vehicle (EV) mandate.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under former President Joe Biden approved California’s “Advanced Clean Cars II” plan shortly before the Trump administration assumed power, which would have banned the sale of new gas-powered vehicles in California and numerous other states by 2035. After GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate passed resolutions last month to repeal the authorizations that enabled California to do so, Trump is officially taking a major step toward terminating Democrats’ de facto national EV mandate.

These “three pieces of legislation … will kill the California mandates forever,” Trump said on Thursday. “They’re never coming back.”

In addition to nullifying the EV mandate for passenger vehicles, Trump signed off on the elimination of regulations that would gradually ban the sale of medium- and heavy-duty diesel vehicles and impose significant tailpipe emissions reductions for trucks.

The action is a major win for congressional Republicans as they work to dismantle the Biden administration’s climate agenda.

“Congress’s repeal of California’s Clean Air Act waiver is a long-overdue correction that restores federal authority and consumer freedom, and we applaud President Trump for signing it into law. California’s EV mandate, extended to other states via Section 177, effectively hijacked national transportation policy and undermined interstate commerce,” CEO of the American Energy Institute Jason Isaac told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “This law ensures that no single state can dictate what Americans drive. It’s a major win for affordable energy, common sense, and constitutional governance.”

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