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.”
That wouldn’t surprise me one bit.
Obviously, they don’t need all these fire donations. The money is going to the democrats anyway.
Trumpproofing CA will save America $200 Billion.
Firebugs all
Sure glad they aren’t wasting their money on building reservoirs or clearing brush or anything stupid like that.
I’m sure they could cut the fire prevention budgets from other cities not yet burned in order to further Trump-proof the state.
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.
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.
People who sneaked into this country aren’t “California residents”.
Is a state allowed to “protect” itself from potential federal interference?
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?
I imagine they still expect to receive every penny of $$billions in aid from Fed.gov, correct?
They’re really quite tone deaf.
Yank federal funding.
Arrest those aiding and abetting crimes.
Lock ‘em up!
That’ll solve the problem quickly.
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).
EXACTLY HOW MANY LAFD FIRE TRUCKS ARE SITTING IN THE MAINTENANCE YARD?????
NO PARTS???
NO EXPERIENCED MECHANICS???
WHAT??????
OVER $600 BILLION IN DEBT
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
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.
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