That's exactly why the Republicans have been trying to dismantle it. The only solution that's not going to get you voted out of office is the one that gets your reelection funding cut off.
Think whole road tolls you can change based on a schedule, or based on current and expected traffic. All of it is meant to either disincentiveize driving to cut down total traffic, or at least shunt it to less congested times or roads.
Aside: I 1000% don't consider individual toll lanes to be a type of congestion pricing. Those are just convenience surcharges (looking at you too TSA Pre check) and are complete elitist bullshit that hurts everyone but the city that takes in the fees.
Congestion pricing is such a good idea everywhere there is rock solid public transit alternatives. Where there's not, it just becomes a tax on the poor.
The stat he's missing that answers the question is what happened to per capita GDP (14.6x)? Gains there went somewhere, and it sure as shit isn't in the median household.
That's exactly why the Republicans have been trying to dismantle it. The only solution that's not going to get you voted out of office is the one that gets your reelection funding cut off.