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The Biden Administration is set to finalize its "Independent Contractor" rule. The rule is modeled on Newsom and Julie Su's infamous AB 5 law. This is the most troubling example yet of California's disastrous policies going national. The livelihoods of millions of Americans are now at risk. With a single stroke of Newsom’s pen in 2019, AB 5 rendered countless independent professionals unable to earn a living in our state. Writers, interpreters, court reporters, musicians, language pathologists, photographers, forensic nurses, and people in literally hundreds of other industries were told they were no longer allowed to practice their profession and serve their clients as they’d been doing their whole careers. Turning AB 5 into national policy, as Biden is set to do, will multiply these losses. An economic analysis by the Chamber of Progress shows the full-time or part-time jobs of between 3.2 and 3.8 million independent contractors could be lost – equivalent to roughly half the jobs lost in the Great Recession. Even where it is possible to convert independent contractors into employees by legal command, it’s not what they want. Seventy-nine percent of independent contractors prefer their current worker status. It lets them set their own schedules and be their own boss. Only 10 percent say they’d prefer a traditional job. AB 5 has not only been rejected by the very people it is supposedly meant to help, but also by California voters and by the courts. In 2020, voters overwhelmingly passed a proposition overturning the law for app-based drivers. As soon as it is finalized, I will be introducing legislation to repeal the Biden Administration's rule under the Congressional Review Act.