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Governor Gavin Newsom Today Approved 25 Million Dollars for the Legal Challenges Foreseen Against the Trump Administration, Positioning California to Lead The Resistance to the Maga Maga or the recovery of the region of the region of The area of the angels of devastating fires.
When Newsom first announces what is called the Trump State Protection Plan, he did it with High -profile ads Just two days after the November election. But today he signed the funding bill in a categorically discreet way, avoiding a public ceremony and issuing only a short press release late afternoon on Friday, which is a traditional place to bury news. He did not include any signature of the governor’s signature.
The decision to reduce the importance of what originally seemed to be an important priority for Newsom – a priority aimed at catapulting at The vanguard of democratic ranks As the party struggled to respond to President Donald Trump’s re -election, he emphasizes the uncomfortable position in which the governor is now.
Count this week, Newsom He flew to Washington, County Colombia to squeeze in favor of disaster aid that Trump and other Republican leaders have repeatedly threatened to preserve Unless California reviews your water and electoral policiesS Newsom said a Los Angeles Times What discusses legal funding With the president during a long meeting in the White House on Wednesday, although he refused to share how Trump answered when Newsom warned him that he would sign the bill.
“As expected,” the governor said. “I’m not going to go into detail, but that’s why it was such a long conversation.”
NEWSOM returned from its trip, promoting a “solid path to help in the event of a disaster”, but without a firm commitment to the federal government to help Los Angeles, who suffered a tens of billions of dollars. Congress Republicans seem to continue inflicted in establishing conditions for any assistanceS
Although it is not unexpected, it means that Newsom will probably have to remain nice to Trump at least one more time, even when other democrats across the country are increasingly expressed against the president.
In California, Prosecutor General Rob Bont, whose office will receive the $ 25 million fund for demands, has recently taken the initiative. In the first two weeks of Trump, he submitted two requests for enforcement orders for the elimination of citizenship in the right to birth and freezing all federal funds.
Newsom today has signed a second bill that provides another $ 25 million for legal services for people trapped in the insult of the Trump administration against immigration.
Republicans are fiercely criticized by both measures that have received the final approval of the legislature on Monday, arguing that they are an unnecessary mockery of Trump when the state needs their help.
“This secret fund is not aimed at any real problem: it is a political trick designed to distract the emergency problems that our country is facing and will not be a good omen for the victims of fires,” said the Republican leader of the Senate, Brian Jones de San Diego, in a statement.
When Newsom convenes a special legislative session for California’s Value Protection in November, the money will be assumed to have been appointed before Trump takes over the position last month. But with dozens of new members who have been oriented, hesitation among the Democrats about How much to lean to oppose president That he won some land in California in these elections and is approaching the holidays, the legislative power has taken measures. When the members returned to Sacramento in January to start working, the fires erupted in Los Angeles and the focus of the whole government of the state changed.
In an attempt to correct his relationship with the president – whom he spoke with for the first time in years when Trump Briefly visit Los Angeles Last month, to evaluate the damage caused by the fire – Newsom struggles to distance itself from the “Trump Protector” label.
But he and other democratic leaders in California continue to defend the funding, which they believe is a reasonable measure of caution, given Trump’s history to attack California and the policies he supports. The state brought a case more than 120 times During his first term, winning about two -thirds of the cases.
“Our job is first and foremost to protect our inhabitants,” said Assembly President, Robert Rivas, Salinas Democrat, in a speech before the plenary before the vote on Monday. “And let me be Franco: At that time, the Californians were threatened with out of control in Washington, which was not interested in the constitution, which believes there were no restrictions on their power.”
“We have to guarantee that our residents receive federal services, the federal benefits to which they have contributed, and that they deserve,” he added. “Given the numerous executive orders that have been issued in the last two weeks, I can say clearly: we do not believe President Donald Trump.”
This article was originally published by CalmattersS
