California Governor Gavin Newsom is having a hissy fit over the fact that his attempt to spread California's Green New Scam nationally has been neutered by Congress. On Thursday, the Senate voted 51-44 on a resolution to rescind California's ban on the sale and use of gas-powered cars. Not only did the resolution pass with bipartisan support in the House, but two California Democrats voted for its passage. Now it is on President Donald Trump's desk for signature.
The vote to repeal California's ban on gas-powered cars, however, was supported by 35 Democrats in the House (including 2 Democratic representatives from California), and 1 Democrat in the Senate. https://t.co/wcr4Cl3lrY pic.twitter.com/9cweqJk6fM
— Rob Pyers (@rpyers) May 23, 2025
But, instead of accepting reality and how a constitutional republic actually works, what does Newsom choose to do?
Sue, of course. His lapdog Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the lawsuit on Thursday, saying the rescission is "politically motivated."
Attorney General Rob Bonta said on Thursday that California will sue the Trump administration to protect its ability to set its own vehicle emissions rules.
Bonta said he would file the lawsuit whenever President Donald Trump signs off on Congress’ vote on Thursday to overturn California’s phase-out of gasoline-fueled cars and trucks. It would mark his 23rd lawsuit against the Trump administration this year.
“The federal government’s overreach is illogical,” Bonta said in a press conference in Sacramento. “It’s politically motivated, and it comes at the expense of Californians’ lives and livelihoods.”
"Overreach" would be someone assuming powers that they were not elected to take, which is exactly what Gov. Hair Gel did. Newsom decided in 2020 that it was gas-powered cars, not his robbing the coffers for wildfire mismanagement, that was causing poor air quality in the state. So, he declared by executive fiat that the sale of gas-powered cars would be banned in California by 2035. As long as California's emissions rules are in compliance with the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), they are granted waivers to create their own emission rules. Newsom has a hand-picked California Air Resources Board (CARB) for that very purpose, and they create rules out of whole cloth, which do little for air quality but do much to drive up the cost for consumers and commercial truckers. Under the Biden-Harris administration, this progressive utopian vision of climate harmony was being pushed nationally, and in the latter days of 2024, was even given a waiver by Biden's EPA to move it forward nationally. That is, until we got a new president, who helped to stop this costly boondoggle in its tracks.
Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA), who introduced the resolution in the House using the Congressional Review Act (CRA), explained it best in his House floor speech. This is why local governance matters: What starts in California rarely ever stays there.
WATCH:
Sanity has prevailed. The Senate just joined the House in passing my Resolution to reverse California's gas car ban. It now heads to the President's desk. pic.twitter.com/t1ouJnSbtF
— Rep. Kevin Kiley (@RepKiley) May 22, 2025
Of course, Newsom continues to gaslight, claiming Trump and Republicans are trying to stop clean air and innovation... or something. Sacramento Capitol Correspondent Ashley Zavala does yeoman's work in trying to expose him to reality. To no avail, of course.
Gov. Newsom said CA’s 2035 ban on new gas powered cars is about clean air and innovation, pointing to the horse & buggy and the iPhone. When I replied I didn’t recall the government mandating the iPhone, Newsom said the 2035 ban isn’t a mandate. “We’re saying stop polluting..”
WATCH:
California voters did not vote on CA’s 2035 ban on gas powered cars, neither did state lawmakers.
— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) May 23, 2025
Gov. Newsom signed an executive order in 2020, then had his @AirResources set the rule.
When I asked about it, he said the rule had buy in from people all across the U.S. pic.twitter.com/X20EJFNlgB
I believe Newsom is even more pissed at Rep. Kiley, who challenged him at every turn when he was a member of the California Assembly. Now a United States Congressman, he continues to be a thorn in Newsom's side, and an effective one.
It is the height of insanity that the very place that defined car culture wants to now dictate what kind of car a person drives. It is wrong on so many levels, but Kiley and the Congress, working constitutionally, pumped the brakes.
The Senate just staged an intervention. Let’s be honest, California needed it. Newsom’s gas car ban was never about the planet. It was about control. You like your car? Too bad. Can’t afford a new one? Sucks for you. Grid overloaded? Not his problem. This wasn’t climate policy.… https://t.co/LElgWbgBue
— James Gallagher (@J_GallagherAD3) May 22, 2025
The Senate just staged an intervention. Let’s be honest, California needed it. Newsom’s gas car ban was never about the planet. It was about control. You like your car? Too bad. Can’t afford a new one? Sucks for you. Grid overloaded? Not his problem. This wasn’t climate policy. It was punishment for not living like an activist. The rest of the country finally said no thanks. California doesn’t get to hijack the car market with one guy’s ego trip. Assembly Republicans will keep dragging this lunacy into the sunlight. The freedom to choose what you drive shouldn’t depend on Gavin’s ambitions.
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