Posted on 02/07/2025 8:02:24 PM PST by MagillaX
alifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed two bills Friday providing $50 million to fight President Donald Trump’s policies — after returning from a trip to Washington, DC, where he sought federal aid money for recent wildfires in his state.
Both bills were passed after a special legislative session called by Newsom after the election to prepare California to lead the opposition to the second Trump administration. Newsom and the Democrat-controlled legislature reached a deal to fund the anti-Trump effort even as the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire were still smoldering in Los Angeles.
One bill, SBX1-1, provides for “additional funding to be made available to the Department of Justice for litigation challenges of federal policy. The other, SBX1-2, provides funding for “legal services to vulnerable persons at risk of detention, deportation, [or] eviction” — in other words, to illegal aliens. Both were introduced by State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco).
The bills were passed earlier this week. Newsom waited until his visit in Washington was over, and until a Friday afternoon — when many people have left work and are less likely to notice the news — to sign the spending into law.
In a signing statement attached to SBX1-2, Newsom says that none of the funding is to be used for illegal immigrants “convicted of serious of violent felonies.” However, nothing in the text of the bill says that.
Newsom is seeking billions of dollars in federal aid to clean up and rebuild devastated communities. Breitbart News made the point during President Trump’s visit to Pacific Palisades that the administration should appoint a “Special Master,” along the lines of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, to ensure that California spends any aid properly, given that the state believed it had money available to spend on fighting Trump.
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Going to be difficult to keep disaster relief out of those greasy political hands in California. Maybe direct funds to counties and conditional pay out terms.
Declare marshal law in California and give the running of it directly over to Trump.
I wonder if trump will drop a hammer on continued federal funding of California greasy grifter’s expensive pet project, the HSR to nowhere…
Trump should make a public statement to the people of Calif. that he is reducing Federal Aid to Calif. by $50 million.
We need to invade Ca.
“..Declare marshal law in California and give the running of it directly over to Trump...”
Yep. It would be light years better than what they have going on there now with Gruesome NewScum.....
Guess Newsom didn’t like the Special Master part of the deal to look after Trump’s federal money.
He totally can’t read the room. 😵💫
This idiot is only trying to somehow makes himself look good despite all the evidence that he’s incompetent and a thief.
Problem is the brain dead in CA will likely fall for it.
Is this an appropriate place to ask what happened to the huge budget surplus that Newsom was bragging about recently?
Spend it all on Bullet trains to nowhere? Spend it all on sanctuary city/state illegal alien invasion protection policies? Spend it on socialist policies?
Didn’t save a dollar for emergency reserve?
but not enough money to fix all those broken fire trucks in LA
Yeah, I think I see a conflict here.
I think you mean “martial law”-does not involve a “marshal”...
California’s going to end up being the state that starts the next civil war at the rate they’re going.
Surely someone will sue the State for using tax dollars, including state of California Republicans, for purely political purposes?
Spend it on giving ALL illegal aliens full free health care at taxpayer’s expense? He checked that box.
“..Declare marshal law...”
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Martial Law
(not to be confused with marital law)
Will somebody please free us Californians from these commie, baby killing, perverted, trans radical soy people, illegal alien protecting, children stealing, godless, immoral, freak show, cop killing, wealth stealing, water robbing, fire starting, bathroom conflicted, gun confiscating, treasonous, tyrannous, devil worshiping, democrat infested hell hole, leaders on a highway to hell, governed by a slimy greaseball commie satanic lying freak sleazeball pile of money shit.
So that means California has lots of extra millions in budget surplus to pay for fighting Trump.
BUT....
“U.S. state and local government debt in California FY 2000-2024. In the fiscal year of 2024, California’s state debt stood at about 158.05 billion U.S. dollars. Comparatively, the state’s debt was 57.17 billion U.S. dollars in 2000.
Source: Statista, January 7, 2025.
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