Dozens of Democrats have sided with Republicans in a vote to block a waiver pushed through by former President Joe Biden during his final days in office.
Biden’s 11th-hour rule cleared a path for California to enact a Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s full ban on gas cars by 2035.
Thirty-five House Democrats have now joined with Republicans in rebuking Biden’s waiver.
A Republican resolution aimed at repealing the Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) move passed by a 246 to 164 vote on Thursday morning.
Notably, two California House Democrats were among the 35 who voted to rescind their own state’s clean energy waiver.
Reps. Lou Correa (D-CA) and George Whitesides (D-CA) both voted against the waiver.
They were joined by other Democrats, including Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Pat Ryan (D-NY), Tom Suozzi (D-NY), Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), Hillary Scholten (D-MI), and Frank Mrvan (D-IN).
It was a stunning repudiation of their own former party leader’s policies targeting one of the Democrats’ largest strongholds.
Republican leaders, meanwhile, cheered the resolution’s passage.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) said of the California waiver:
“This radical measure bans the sale of gas-powered vehicles, forcing electric vehicles on the American people and taking away