NEWSOM OK is $ 25 million for California to judge the Trump Administration

Governor Gavin Newsom today approves $ 25 million for the expected legal challenges against Trump administration, positioning California again to lead the resistance to Maga movement – just as the state seeks federal assistance in the restoration of the Los Angeles region from devastating fires.

When Newsom for the first Message with a high profile Just two days after the November election. But he signed the funding bill today in a certain lower way, avoiding a public ceremony and issued only a short press release late on Friday afternoon, a traditional news dumping. It did not include a statement to sign the governor.

The decision to underestimate what originally seemed to be a top priority for Newsom – Got to catapult it to The foreground of democratic ranks While the party struggles to respond to the re-election of President Donald Trump, he puts the uncomfortable position in which the governor is now finding himself.

Earlier this week, Newsom Flew to Washington, Colombia County to lobby for disaster helpwhich Trump and other Republican leaders have repeatedly threatened to refuse Unless California reworks its water and election policiesS NEWSOM told Los Angeles Times that he Discuss the legal funding With the president during a long -term meeting in the White House on Wednesday, although he refused to share how Trump answered when Newsom warned he would sign the bill.

“As you would expect,” said the governor. “I will not enter it. But it was a long period of conversation. “

NEWSOM returned from its trip by announcing a “strong way forward for disaster help”, but without firm commitments from the federal government to help Los Angeles, who experienced tens of billions of dollars. Congress Republicans seem to be still Adamant to condition any helpS

Although not unexpected, it means that Newsom will probably have to continue to play nice with Trump for at least a while, even when other democrats across the country are increasingly talking against the president.

In California, Prosecutor General Rob Bont, whose service will receive the $ 25 million court case, has recently taken the lead. He brought a case twice during the first two weeks of Trump to the position, over the executive orders for the elimination of the citizenship of firstborn rights and the freezing of all federal funding.

NEWSOM has signed a second bill today, which provides another $ 25 million for legal services for people who have been repressed by the Trump administration for immigration.

Republicans have fiercely criticized both measures that have been approved by the legislature on Monday, arguing that they are unnecessarily struck in Trump when the state needs his help.

“This Kisha Fund is not in solving any real problems – it is a political stuntman designed to be distracted by the emergency problems that our country faces and will not be good for the victims of a fire,” said the Republican leader of the Republican leader of The Senate Brian Jones of San Diego in a statement.

When Newsom called for a special legislative session in November to “protect the California values”, the money had to be appropriated before Trump took office last month. But with dozens of new members who receive their camps, hesitation among Democrats about How much to bend in the opposition of president Who has acquired some reason in California in these elections and the holidays that are outlined, the legislature has slowly taken action. By the time the members returned to Sacramento in January to start work, the fires erupted in Los Angeles and the focus of the whole government of the state shifted.

Commodity to fix his relationship with the president – whom he spoke with for the first time in years when Trump Briefly visit Los Angeles Last month, to examine the damage from fire-newsom took pain to distance himself from the Trump Trump Trump resistant.

But he and other democratic leaders in California continue to defend the funding, which they claim is a reasonable precaution given Trump’s story about the California attack and the policies she supports. The state brought a case more than 120 times During his first term, earning about two -thirds of the cases.

“Our job is first and foremost to protect our inhabitants,” said Assembly chairman Robert Rivas, Democrat from Salinas, in a speech on the floor before the vote on Monday. “And let me be stupid: Californians are currently threatened with administration outside of control in Washington, which is not interested in the constitution, which he thinks there are no restrictions on his power.”

“We have to guarantee that our residents receive the federal services, the federal benefits that they have contributed and for which they deserve,” he added. “Given the many executive orders issued in the last two weeks, I can say with clarity: we do not believe President Donald Trump.”