Posted on 05/19/2017 8:22:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
While the California attorney general pleads for more state funding to battle the Trump administration in court and the legislature extends a $25,000 monthly contract to bring the top legal minds of Eric Holder’s law firm to bear against the White House; Gov. Jerry Brown (D) is asking President Trump for help with California’s high-speed train project.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) told a Senate Budget Subcommittee on May 4 his office needs more money to continue fighting Trump’s executive orders.
Becerra, who took office in January, has already filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over an Interior Department order to restart coal leasing on federal land.
He also filed an amicus brief in a case that resulted in a preliminary nationwide injunction against the Trump administration order to withhold federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities and states that refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Becerra told the Senate Budget Subcommittee his work had just begun. The next fight could be, he said, to prevent the repeal and replacement of Obamacare.
“As California’s attorney general, I will use every legal tool at my disposal to safeguard the healthcare the people of our state depend on,” Becerra said.
And those legal instruments don’t grow on trees.
“I am not going to sugarcoat this. I am operating with a budget that was assembled without addressing the needs of current mandates and before our new reality of dealing with federal executive orders,” Becerra said. “To put it simply, we can’t execute if we don’t have the resources to do it.”
While lawmakers in Sacramento mull that request, the legislature extended by one month a $25,000-a-month contract with the former U.S. attorney general’s law firm.
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Let California pay for its own public transportation.
Federal help??? What Federal help? We just voted to tax ourselves out the wazoo for Brown’s high speed train to Communism.
I’d like to see ALL federal money to CA stopped until they decide they want to be part of the US.
As it is they are more interested in being Mexifornia.
The voters in CA voted “DOWN” Moonbeam’s train to nowhere boondoggle for his crony friends.
Hey, all these things are related, I mean, who else is going to use a bullet train from Bakersfield to Modesto other than illegals?
Hey, Jerry: go piss up a rope.
“...Hey, Jerry: go piss up a rope...”
Yep! However, the proper term I heard up in Maine is: “Go Piss Up a Stump!”
I believe go piss up a rope is an old Navy expression.
I AM A NATIVE CALIFORNIAN, born , raised, and lived here for most of my entire life.
To all the illegal alien (wetback) lovers and to Moonbeam in Sacramento; F#CK OFF AND DIE.
NO money for your WETS, no money for your train, no money for your dams, no money for your highways.
NO TAXPAYER MONEY FOR CALIFORNIA AT ALL.
Didn’t Gov. Moonbeam just call taxpayers who were against the gas and auto tax freeloaders. But the gangbangers and illegal aliens who are on welfare aren’t? He just once again proved if you have your head stuck up your anus too long your brain will die.
FU California. And I say that as a former-Californian.
They’re going broke and I cant tell you how much I love it.
Donald Trump should call Jerry Brown a freeloader and not give him a dime!
All the more reason to not build it.
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