President Donald Trump signed three resolutions revoking waivers that allowed California and 11 other states to set emissions standards and restrict sales of gas-powered vehicles at a ceremony in the White House’s East Room today.

The resolutions were sent to Trump following a 51-44 vote in the U.S. Senate last month. Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan joined every Republican senator present by voting in favor of a bill advancing the resolutions. Trump’s signature ends a policy California had utilized in some form since 1970, most recently with the approval of the Biden administration.

“Under the previous administration, the federal government gave left-wing radicals in California dictatorial powers to control the future of the entire car industry, all over the country, all over the world,” said Trump, who signed the resolutions in front of a crowd of supporters, including Mike Johnson, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.

The Washington Examiner’s Maydeen Merino notes California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, have already filed suit to unwind the move. The state’s attorneys will argue the waivers were revoked via the Congressional Review Act counter to Government Accountability Office guidance.

“Trump’s all-out assault on California continues — and this time he’s destroying our clean air and America’s global competitiveness in the process,” writes Newsom in a statement. “We are suing to stop this latest illegal action by a president who is a wholly owned subsidiary of big polluters.”

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