After the Biden administration implemented several 11th-hour regulations before President-elect Donald Trump takes office Monday, Senate Republicans are ready to undo them.

The Congressional Review Act will give the Republican-led Congress until mid-May to reverse such "midnight rules" enacted by the Biden administration, Axios reported Wednesday. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is expected to kick things off next week by introducing three resolutions to erase Biden administration moves on cryptocurrency, energy, and internet access.

"We are scrubbing right now to determine what is eligible," Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said at an American Petroleum Institute event Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

Cruz, who chairs the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, told Axios he is confident his three resolutions will pass. Resolutions under the CRA need majorities in both Houses of Congress to pass.

Cruz said he expects the process to move "expeditiously" after he files next week.

One resolution would rescind a December regulation by the Energy Department regarding gas water heaters, according to Axios.

Another would undo an IRS rule — completed last month — that requires more reporting on income earned in cryptocurrencies. Co-sponsors of that resolution include Sens. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., chair of a new Senate Banking subcommittee focusing on digital assets; Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn.; and Tim Sheehy, R-Mont.

The last resolution relates to a Federal Communications Commission regulation that allows schools and libraries to lend Wi-Fi hotspots to students through the E-Rate program. Cruz said it violates the Communications Act, increases taxes, and "opens up children to real risks of abuse" with no limits on their broadband usage.

The CRA doesn't give a new Congress blanket authority to undo all of the previous administration's final rules and regulations, according to Axios. But Thune's team is trying to convince the Senate parliamentarian how they can use it to undo California's tailpipe standard, which would require 100% of new cars sold by 2035 to be zero-emission.

Even though states and municipalities are generally preempted from enacting their own limits, the Democrat-controlled Congress in 2022 allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to waive the preemption rule to let California set certain regulations that are stricter than federal standards."We are looking for lots of opportunities in that space and trying to argue with the parliamentarian," Thune said at the API event. "The whole California waiver issue ... was such a radical regulatory overreach."

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