ABC
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws Friday setting aside $50 million to help the state protect its policies from challenges by the Trump administration and defend immigrants amid the president’s mass-deportation plans.
One of the laws allocates $25 million for the state Department of Justice to fight legal battles against the federal government, and another sets aside $25 million in part for legal groups to defend immigrants facing possible deportation. During his first presidency, Trump sparred with California over climate laws, water policy, immigrant rights and more, and the state filed or joined more than 100 legal actions against the administration. The same fights are reemerging in the early days of Trump’s second term.
[..]The move comes a day after the Democratic governor returned from Washington, where he met with Trump and members of Congress to try to secure federal disaster aid for the devastating Los Angeles-area wildfires that ripped through neighborhoods in January, killing more than two dozen people.
[…] “This slush fund isn’t about solving any real problems — it’s a political stunt designed to distract from the urgent issues our state faces and it won’t bode well for fire victims,” Republican Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones said in a statement earlier this week.
Critics have also said the legislation doesn’t ensure that funding wouldn’t be used to defend immigrants without legal status who have been convicted of serious felonies. more
Newsom wants to preside over a third-world shit hole, no matter the cost.
Dippity Do needs to have the pressure exerted to cancel this law and have the 50 Million directed to help fire victims. A Special Master needs to be appointed to make sure the people actually get this money and actually spend it, and not funnel it back, to help with cleanup and rebuilding efforts before Californicate gets one dollar of Federal Aid. The Special Master also needs to control the Fed Money as well to keep the Leftists from stealing most of it and immediately start begging for more.
What a short-sighted idjit. Trump may have turned your water on, but now you risk him turning the money OFF!
He met with Trump to beg for money – a common action for governors, particularly when they are dealing with emergencies in their state – and then he signed a bill to fight against Trump. Hmmm… if Trump has a say in allocation of funds – which of course he does – this seems like a really bad move. Of course nobody ever accused this diabolical narcissist of being intelligent.
Oh, and meanwhile…
https://notthebee.com/article/california-is-reportedly-going-to-ignore-trumps-executive-order-and-allow-men-into-womens-sports
You reeeeeaaaalllly don’t want that federal money, do you Gavin?
Cut off any and all federal funding immediately. My mother used to say that if you have money for nonsense, you have money for your legitimate needs. Come to me after you have used your own resources wisely and are still coming up short. Don’t come to me to enable you to be negligent and irresponsible with your money.
The local news here used to talk about obama/biden policies. Now they talk about Trumps AGENDA. The press loves this clown.
Noisome —
Yet another one with handful of Gimme and a mouthful of Fuck You.
If they have that much money to waste they don’t need any federal funds.
Brian Jones has it right — this is a political stunt to maintain Newsom’s lunatic Left bona fides for the next GE cycle. By then no one will either remember or want the details and the lying media will proclaim that Newsom valiantly “fought” POTUS Trump’s “agenda” back in ’25. And by then there will no doubt be several more crises in CA that will distract anyone going through the ones today, CA voters will simply fall — once again — for the Left’s vaunted “we’re the good guys” schtick.