Chip Roy Found the One Bill That Forces a Vote to Kill the Government Car Kill Switch Mandate
Fifty-seven RINOs voted with Democrats to let the government shut off your car.
Now those same turncoats will have nowhere to hide.
Chip Roy found the one bill they cannot skip.
Biden Hid the Car Kill Switch Mandate Inside a 1,100-Page Bill
The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is 1,100 pages long.
Most people read about the bridges and broadband.
Nobody was supposed to find Section 24220.
That provision quietly ordered the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to mandate "advanced impaired driving prevention technology" in every new passenger vehicle sold in America after 2026.
In plain English: cameras watching your eyes, sensors reading your steering, or breath detectors measuring your blood alcohol – and a computer that can refuse to let you drive.
No police officer involved.
No warrant.
No appeal process.
If the algorithm decides you're impaired, your car stays parked.
And here's the detail that should make your blood run cold: no procedure exists for a driver to challenge the lockout or get back on the road.
The law is completely silent on that question.
57 Republicans Voted for Government Overreach and Got Away With It
In January, Thomas Massie brought the fight directly to the House floor.
He offered an amendment to defund Section 24220's implementation – stop the money, stop the mandate.
164 members voted yes.
268 voted no – including 57 Republicans who crossed the aisle to kill it.
Rep. Keith Self of Texas didn't hold back: "Unbelievably disturbing. 57 House Republicans just joined almost all the Democrats to ensure the government can shut off your car whenever it wants."
https://twitter.com/RepKeithSelf/status/2048840085253022056
Ron DeSantis called it what it is: "The idea that the federal government would require auto manufacturers to equip cars with a kill switch that can be controlled by the government is something you'd expect in Orwell's 1984."
Massie's own words from the House floor still hang in the air: "When your car shuts down because it doesn't approve of your driving, how will you appeal your roadside conviction?"
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/2048109568966746539
There is no answer to that question.
Roy Is Forcing a Second Vote on the Car Kill Switch Using FISA
Yesterday, Chip Roy moved the fight somewhere Republicans can't dodge it.
Roy is pushing to attach a car kill switch repeal amendment directly to the FISA renewal bill currently being marked up in the House Rules Committee.
FISA is must-pass legislation.
Every Republican who voted to preserve the kill switch mandate in January will have to go on record again – and this time, the country is watching.
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/2048725502328799550
Roy's amendment targets NHTSA funding tied to Section 24220's implementation, the same line Massie tried to cut three months ago.
The No Kill Switches in Cars Act – introduced by Scott Perry in February 2025 and co-sponsored by Roy – is still sitting in the House Energy and Commerce Committee without a floor vote.
This is Roy's way of forcing the issue.
NHTSA Told Congress Its Own Car Kill Switch Mandate Is Impossible
Here's what makes the January vote even more damaging: NHTSA's own February 2026 report to Congress admitted the technology is nowhere near ready.
The agency's words: "even a 99.9 percent detection accuracy level could result in millions to tens of millions of instances each year where the technology would incorrectly prevent or limit drivers from operating their vehicles."
NHTSA also admitted it is "not aware of any technology that claims to achieve anywhere close to" the needed accuracy level.
Read that again.
Congress voted to preserve funding for a mandate that the implementing agency itself says cannot be executed reliably – using technology that does not exist.
Early testing shows these systems cannot reliably distinguish between a drunk driver and a tired one.
Your car could refuse to start because you worked a 12-hour shift.
You could be stranded at 2 AM in a dark parking lot because an algorithm misread a yawn.
Speed enforcement by algorithm?
Environmental restrictions on where you can drive?
The hardware will already be installed.
Those 57 Republicans – men like Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, who voted to keep Biden's surveillance mandate alive – own every false positive that strands a sober American on the side of the road.
Roy is giving them one more chance to get it right.
They already showed you who they are.
Sources:
- Ashley Brasfield, "EXCLUSIVE: 'Kill Switch' Amendment Could Shake Up the Capitol Hill FISA Fight," Daily Caller, April 27, 2026.
- Leo Briceno, "House Republicans slammed by conservatives for siding with Dems on 'kill switch' amendment," Fox News, January 23, 2026.
- "Vehicle Kill Switch Divides Republicans: What To Know," Newsweek, January 23, 2026.
- R. Cort Kirkwood, "House Kills Massie's Anti-'Kill Switch' Amendment, Imperiling Drivers' Safety and Freedom," The New American, January 26, 2026.
- NHTSA, Report to Congress on Advanced Impaired Driving Prevention Technology, February 2026.
