The Senate failed to override President Joe Biden’s veto of a resolution that tried to upend the administration’s ambitious electric vehicle charging plans.
The 50-47 vote was far short of the two-thirds necessary. Still, the Congressional Review Act resolution — which passed Congress in recent weeks — amounted to something of a bipartisan rebuke of the president’s EV transition plans.
Democratic Sens. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana and Arizona independent Kyrsten Sinema voted to override.
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who sponsored the measure, argued that chargers backed by billions of dollars from the infrastructure law “should be made by Americans, in America, using American products.”
