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California Democrats approve $50M budget to help Newsom ‘Trump-proof’ the state
The Hill ^

Posted on 01/13/2025 10:21:11 AM PST by TigerClaws

California Democrats have authorized $50 million in state funding as part of an overall drive to protect residents from what lawmakers believe to be “inhumane” threats posed by President-elect Trump’s forthcoming administration.

State Sen. Budget Committee Chair Scott Wiener (D) announced on Monday that he would amend legislation to provide $25 million to support legal aid services for California residents at risk of deportation. The bill is the result of a special legislative session that began last month, amid Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) efforts to “Trump-proof” the Golden State from potential federal interference.

Wiener’s Monday announcement, made on behalf of the Senate Democratic Caucus, complements another $25 million authorized by Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D) in the State Assembly. Those funds will go to the California Department of Justice — a measure that Newsom began seeking last month, at the start of the special legislative session.

“California faces two massive challenges,” Wiener said in a statement, noting that the first revolves around rebuilding the lives of tens of thousands of residents in the wake of “horrific destructive wildfires in Los Angeles.”

The second challenge, he explained, is “an incoming federal administration that has vowed to make it harder for Los Angeles to recover, by withholding disaster relief and deporting immigrant Angelenos who have been impacted by the fires and who are actively helping their neighbors.”

“National MAGA Republicans wasted no time politicizing the horrific tragedy unfolding in Los Angeles,” Wiener said. “As the fires burned, the president-elect, his allies, and senior congressional Republican officials proposed withholding California’s disaster aid and imposing unprecedented conditions on this humanitarian relief. They also spread absurd conspiracy theories about the fires.”

Describing such threats as “inhumane,” Wiener stressed the importance of the special session funding agreement, as well as California’s position as “a bulwark against Trump’s extremist agenda.”


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: arrestnewsom; arrestscottwiener; budget; california; democrats; fiduciarymisconduct; lawfare; misappropriation; obstruction; rebellion; sabotage; sedition; tds; treason; trump
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Does this include protecting the looters and arsonists in Los Angeles?
1 posted on 01/13/2025 10:21:11 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

That wouldn’t surprise me one bit.


2 posted on 01/13/2025 10:21:40 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: TigerClaws

Obviously, they don’t need all these fire donations. The money is going to the democrats anyway.


3 posted on 01/13/2025 10:22:29 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Florida Felons "convicted" in New Yawk Kangaroo Courts by bozos make the best presidents!!!)
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To: TigerClaws

Trumpproofing CA will save America $200 Billion.


4 posted on 01/13/2025 10:24:07 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: TigerClaws

Firebugs all


5 posted on 01/13/2025 10:24:17 AM PST by goodnesswins (Don’t be REALITY PHOBIC!)
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To: TigerClaws

Sure glad they aren’t wasting their money on building reservoirs or clearing brush or anything stupid like that.


6 posted on 01/13/2025 10:26:07 AM PST by Orosius (“Wake America Up Again )
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To: TigerClaws

I’m sure they could cut the fire prevention budgets from other cities not yet burned in order to further Trump-proof the state.


7 posted on 01/13/2025 10:26:26 AM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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Like Little Rock back in the day, need to send troops to take over these states and root out the communists.

Do some ‘fire drops’ from helicopters.


8 posted on 01/13/2025 10:27:51 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Is California government solvent? Too lazy to look it up, but the malfeasance of trains to nowhere, coddling criminals, and inspiring business to relocate out of State seems to suggest not.


9 posted on 01/13/2025 10:27:51 AM PST by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: TigerClaws

People who sneaked into this country aren’t “California residents”.


10 posted on 01/13/2025 10:28:12 AM PST by TalBlack (Time to use the Law and the Power. Good luck Mr. President.)
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To: TigerClaws

Is a state allowed to “protect” itself from potential federal interference?


11 posted on 01/13/2025 10:29:28 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: TigerClaws

Hey, according to Demoncrats ... I mean Democrats, this is much more important than helping the thousands of citizens out there that have lost everything. Is this just another failure of the Federal/State/local Governments failng the citizens that voted them into office?


12 posted on 01/13/2025 10:31:14 AM PST by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: TigerClaws

I imagine they still expect to receive every penny of $$billions in aid from Fed.gov, correct?


13 posted on 01/13/2025 10:31:30 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Orosius

They’re really quite tone deaf.


14 posted on 01/13/2025 10:38:19 AM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: BenLurkin

Yank federal funding.

Arrest those aiding and abetting crimes.

Lock ‘em up!

That’ll solve the problem quickly.


15 posted on 01/13/2025 10:42:53 AM PST by TigerClaws
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Now if we can California-proof Texas...

I expect that about half the folks that are burned out will end up in Texas and Austin-itis will spread over the Texas Triangle(interstates 10,35 and 45).


16 posted on 01/13/2025 10:44:02 AM PST by CenTex (November 6, 2012 & August 31, 2021... Days that will live in infamy!!! )
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To: TigerClaws

EXACTLY HOW MANY LAFD FIRE TRUCKS ARE SITTING IN THE MAINTENANCE YARD?????

NO PARTS???

NO EXPERIENCED MECHANICS???

WHAT??????


17 posted on 01/13/2025 10:46:29 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Made In The USA

OVER $600 BILLION IN DEBT


18 posted on 01/13/2025 10:47:27 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: TigerClaws

LONG PAST TIME FOR A BUNCH OF THESE “PEOPLE” TO GO TO JAIL...FOR A LOOOONNNGGG TIME. Sadly, given the CORRUPTION in the “JUST US” system IN MAJORITY STATES, THE VICTIMS OF THIS DISASTER WILL NOT BE MADE WHOLE AGAIN!
What’s doubly “SAD” is that a pathetic majority of these victims are DEMOCRATS/LEFTISTS put these DEMOCRATS & THEIR “BUDS” IN POWER.
“HOIST ON THEIR OWEN PETARD” COMES TO my DEMENTED, CONSERVATIVE MIND!
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1878257984167612435


19 posted on 01/13/2025 10:52:06 AM PST by Dick Bachert (=)
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To: TigerClaws

As one who is very familiar with the construction industry, when LA is tied up in a huge mess of red-tape and inefficiency in six months, they will be begging him to help.

Meanwhile none of this silliness will stop the federal government from doing its constitutional business. If it slows it by lawfare, that will be that many more resources to make States Other Than California Great.


20 posted on 01/13/2025 10:58:31 AM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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