California GOP Congressman: The Mess at Our Ports Is a 'Shining Example' of Democratic Policy Failures

On Thursday, as California's clogged ports continued to struggle, U.S. Congressman Mike Garcia didn't pull any punches when discussing exactly who he believes is to blame for the mess at our nation's busiest ports.

What does the congressman see as the source of the mess at our ports? Two policies championed by Democratic politicians and environmental activists: AB-5 and CARB regulations.

The California Air Resource Board, or CARB, is a leftist government entity that has as its vision unprecedented and aggressive carbon emissions regulations.

CARB's goal is so radical that it plans to eliminate all new vehicle emissions in the state of California within thirty years.

If truckers "Do stay, they have to buy trucks effectively every seven years even though their mileage may be low, so this is why we don't have [many] truckers in California anymore." Garcia knows these crippling leftist policies are examples "Of how California's policies affect the entire nation" since, as we are painfully aware, leftist policies don't often stay in California.

Fundamentally, the mess at the ports illuminates the core differences between leftists and conservatives.

In the end, Garcia told Varney, California can fix the ports mess by allowing "Truckers to operate as independent contractors, repeal[ing] AB-5, and relax[ing] the guidelines around carbon emissions." The congressman also warned not to forget that as California goes so goes the country, while noting that instead of repealing AB-5, Democrats in Congress are working hard to nationalize it in the form of the PRO Act.

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