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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 Senate Budget Committee Chair Scott Wiener (D) announced Monday 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 state
Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D). Those funds will go to the California
Department of Justice — a measure Newsom began seeking last month, at
the start of the special legislative session.
“California faces two massive challenges,” Wiener said in a statement,
noting 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.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5082625-california-democrats-funding-protection-trump-administration/