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President Trump Declares National Emergency at Border; Gov. Newsom Calls it ‘National Disgrace’

February 15, 2019 10:48 amFebruary 19, 2019 6:17 am

UPDATED below Feb. 15, 2019, 2:00 pm: President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on the southern border Friday, in order to divert nearly $6.5 billion in unspent federal funds to build the border wall, which members of Congress have refused...

President Trump Demands CA Gov. Newsom Return $3.5 billion for State’s ‘Green Disaster’ Bullet Train Project

February 14, 2019 12:25 pmFebruary 15, 2019 2:12 pm

In Tuesday’s State of the State address, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the high speed rail project, as planned to go from Sacramento to San Diego, “would cost too much and take too long. There’s been too little oversight...

Gov. Gavin Newsom: “Theater of the Absurd” at Mexico Border

February 11, 2019 7:08 pmFebruary 12, 2019 6:14 pm

Gov. Gavin Newsom held a press conference Monday at the State Capitol to discuss and clarify his order removing the California National Guard from the California/Mexico border. Prevalent and frequently mentioned in his remarks was obvious disdain for what he...

McCarthy Signals That He’d Support Border Barrier Other than Wall

February 6, 2019 10:30 amFebruary 6, 2019 9:58 am

Border wall, border fence, or border barrier? Border security is certainly the most prominent issue currently facing the Republican Party but how to define it may be an even larger problem. While the government shutdown plagued Congress for over a...

Democrats Tap Xavier Becerra for Spanish-language SOTU Response

January 29, 2019 5:44 pmJanuary 29, 2019 5:56 pm

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who has sued the Trump administration a record 45 times, will give the Spanish-language response to President Trump’s February 5 State of the Union speech. “I’m looking forward to addressing my fellow Americans on a...

GOP Assemblyman Brian Maienschein Defects to Democrats, Blames Trump

January 24, 2019 1:11 pmJanuary 26, 2019 8:41 am

Blaming President Donald Trump, Assemblyman Brian Maienschein (R-San Diego), a well-known moderate, announced Thursday morning that he just left the California Republican Party and is registering as a Democrat, saying Trump has led the party “to the extreme.” “Donald Trump...

Trump Threatens to Pull FEMA Funds from California

January 9, 2019 2:17 pmJanuary 11, 2019 8:21 am

President Donald J. Trump threatened to withhold emergency FEMA funding for wildfire relief if California can’t get its act together and start doing proper forest management. “Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that,...