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Top agency staffer trying to block crucial Trump directive once managed DEI team

by March 26, 2025
March 26, 2025

Republicans on Capitol Hill are fuming that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) general counsel who shut down President Donald Trump’s request to supersede California’s aggressive gas emissions laws once managed diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives for the agency. 

Republicans have dismissed the decision penned by GAO General Counsel Edda Emmanuelli Perez, because she once served as the agency’s ‘Managing Director of Opportunity and Inclusiveness (O&I).’ According to the GAO’s official website, the O&I office includes advising senior staff on equal employment opportunities and promoting a ‘work environment that is fair, unbiased and inclusive.’

‘A far-left radical whose main job is pushing DEI nonsense is trying to undermine American prosperity. What a surprise. These bad actors should be removed from government swiftly,’ Sen. Jim Banks, R-Indiana., told Fox News Digital in a statement. 

While some Republicans discredit Emmanuelli Perez’s decision as ‘DEI nonsense,’ other Republicans denied the ‘democratic legitimacy’ of banning California’s gas vehicles without a vote. Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., told Fox News Digital the House will move forward with a Congressional Review Act resolution regardless of the GAO decision. 

‘The GAO’s conclusion that California can ban 95 percent of the state’s cars, without a vote of the Legislature and with no recourse from Congress, defies basic notions of democratic legitimacy and common sense. We will be moving forward with our Congressional Review Act resolution to reverse this insane ban and restore choice for California consumers,’ Kiley said in a statement. 

Emmanuelli Perez shut down any insinuation from Republicans that she ruled independently on the case, telling Fox News Digital in a statement that the GAO’s decisions are ‘institutional, not individually authored, products.’

‘In response to a Congressional request, we summarized relevant, established case law related to the Congressional Review Act and waivers under the Clean Air Act. We stand behind our work, as all GAO products go through our extensive quality assurance process,’ Emmanuelli Perez said.

The GAO released its decision earlier this month in response to a request from Congress on whether EPA waivers that grant California permission to enforce its 2035 gas car ban are subject to the Congressional Review Act (CRA). 

The GAO determined that California’s EPA waiver is not subject to the CRA, so Congress cannot use the CRA to overturn California’s aggressive zero-emission goals. Kiley, however, has committed to moving forward with the CRA despite the GAO’s ruling. 

Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced last month the creation of a National Energy Dominance Council, in which the EPA will send President Joe Biden-era EPA rules to Congress for review. Those Biden-era EPA waivers included ‘allowing California to preempt federal car and truck standards promulgated by EPA and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.’

The Trump administration announced the EPA waiver transmitted to Congress included ‘California’s Advanced Clean Cars II, Advanced Clean Trucks, and Omnibus NOx rules,’ arguing the waivers on trucks increased the cost of vehicles, goods, and therefore, the cost of living for Americans.  

‘The Biden Administration failed to send rules on California’s waivers to Congress, preventing Members of Congress from deciding on extremely consequential actions that have massive impacts and costs across the entire United States. The Trump EPA is transparently correcting this wrong and rightly following the rule of law,’ Zeldin said alongside the president in the Oval Office. 

Following Zeldin and Trump’s announcement, Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif., requested a legal decision from the GAO on whether the EPA’s decision to grant California waivers under the Clean Air Act could be overturned using the CRA. 

The Democratic senators championed the GAO’s ruling and slammed the Trump administration for trying to eliminate the ‘California emission standards [that] have protected generations of Americans against fossil fuel emissions.’

‘By ignoring decades of precedent and the plain text of the Congressional Review Act, the Trump EPA is attempting to sell out our nation’s public health and environmental protections to the same polluting industries that bankrolled much of Trump’s campaign,’ the senators said following the GAO’s decision. 

However, Trump campaigned on eliminating such regulations, and on his first day back in the White House, the president signed an executive order ‘unleashing American energy.’ The executive order eliminated the ‘electric vehicle (EV) mandate’ to promote consumer choice. While the litigation is tied up in the congressional branch, with the stroke of a pen on day one, Trump moved to terminate ‘state emissions waivers that function to limit sales of gasoline-powered automobiles.’        

Trump also campaigned on a day-one commitment to eliminating DEI in the federal government. On his Inauguration Day, Trump signed an executive order ‘ending radical and wasteful government DEI programs and referencing,’ which rolled back Biden-era DEI policies and initiatives in the federal government. 

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