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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported for K Onda KQED, a monthly newsletter focused on the Bay Area’s Latinx community. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/k-onda\">\u003cem>Click here to subscribe.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a rainy morning a few weeks before Christmas, Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga arrived at California Terra Garden, a mushroom farm in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/half-moon-bay\">Half Moon Bay\u003c/a>, with about two dozen staff and volunteers from the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.alasdreams.com/\">Ayudando Latinos a Soñar\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group emerged from the Farmworker Equity Express Bus, a double-decker coach, carrying bags filled with handmade tamales, Christmas gifts and groceries to give out to farmworkers. A priest and a musician played Christmas carols in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez-Arriaga donned a green Santa hat to match her green hoodie, which read, “Our veggies are Moon Raised.” The 53-year-old, with bright pink lipstick, imparted the cheerful vibe of the event, a welcome contrast to the history of this farm as the site of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938972/7-killed-in-monday-shooting-massacre-in-half-moon-bay\">a mass shooting in January of 2023. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ALAS brought aid to workers at California Terra Garden for years before the shooting and has continued, undeterred, since. Hernandez-Arriaga founded the organization in 2011 with the mantra “cultura cura,” which means “culture cures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything ALAS does — from distributing basic necessities, putting on events and offering immigration services, music classes for kids and adults and mental health counseling — is infused with Latinx culture to empower the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018720\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018720\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-016.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-016-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-016-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-016-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-016-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-016-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayudando Latinos A Soñar (ALAS) founder Dr. Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga greets seniors of the Corazones de Oro program during a lunch at the ALAS Community Arts Center in Half Moon Bay, California, on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hernandez-Arriaga never imagined how vital the healing part of the group’s mission would be after a mass shooting, which thrust Half Moon Bay’s farmworker community into the national spotlight and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939470/deplorable-heartbreaking-officials-pledge-to-investigate-labor-conditions-at-mushroom-farms-targeted-in-half-moon-bay-shootings\">exposed the decrepit living conditions\u003c/a> hundreds of farmworkers are forced to live in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For far too long, Hernandez-Arriaga said, farmworkers in Half Moon Bay have contributed to the region’s economy with their labor but were largely left out of the broader community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Latinos] are present in the economic workforce. We’re present in the job industry,” she said. “Farmworkers here are putting food on the tables for our community. Mothers are caring for the children of the community here. We’re not present in the way of cultural citizenship. When traditions are really alive in the community and there are spaces to bring us together, that creates healing and that centers healing and pride and joy and visibility in a collective way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12014006 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Rogelio_Garcia_-_Convivir1-e1731360269373-1020x616.png']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Hernandez-Arriaga in the fall of 2023 when I reported on a program ALAS created to bring \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940252/another-opportunity-to-fight-for-change-half-moon-bay-farmworker-advocate-to-attend-state-of-the-union\">accordion classes to farmworkers as a form of music therapy\u003c/a>. The arts are often treated as just a “tradition or custom,” she said, but it really is what’s known in psychology as “cultural sensory intervention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cultura is our medicine,” she said. “This is not something that I’m developing or that we’re seeing as new.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez-Arriaga’s background is in social work and counseling. She earned her master’s in social work at Our Lady of the Lake University before moving to the Bay Area nearly 25 years ago to work as a social worker for incarcerated youth in Santa Clara County. She has since earned a doctorate in education from the University of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She moved to Half Moon Bay in 2002 with her husband and three daughters — one now 20-year-old college student and 18-year-old twins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She volunteered as a counselor for young people and began to notice a familiar condition — kids feeling embarrassed about their heritage and like outsiders in their community, similar to what she felt growing up in rural Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of her grandfathers were lifelong farmworkers. Her mother picked cotton and went to segregated schools, Hernandez-Arriaga recalled. Even though she was an award-winning high school student, she felt that she had to be ashamed of her Mexican roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018721\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-018.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-018-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-018-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-018-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-018-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-018-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayudando Latinos A Soñar (ALAS) founder Dr. Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga, right, embraces Lorena Acosta, left, of the Corazones de Oro senior program during a lunch at the ALAS Community Arts Center in Half Moon Bay, California, on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I felt the slow death of the loss of my culture, the loss of being proud of who I was,” she said. “I grew up with a lack of connection to cultura. Although I felt it burning inside of me, on the outside, I had to be very assimilated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before moving to Half Moon Bay, Hernandez-Arriaga lived in San Jose, where Latine culture permeates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized after several years that this community of Half Moon Bay was, in many ways, suffering the same experiences that I had growing up in Texas: a lot of racism, discrimination, othering, not being valued for speaking Spanish, looking down upon,” she said. “And, I thought, this cannot be happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez-Arriaga’s comments made me think about what representation really means. BIPOC communities talk about wanting to feel seen, but true representation goes further than that. We want to feel validated, celebrated and respected as integral members of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12017277 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/82914079-D49D-465A-8F32-B10D0AC67EB7-1020x680.jpeg']Her response was to start a nonprofit that would address the needs of the community from food to cultural pride. ALAS’s operating budget grew to \u003ca href=\"https://www.alasdreams.com/impact\">$5.3 million in 2024, up from $232,652 in 2018.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the shooting happened, the community came together and said, ‘We need to change living conditions,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turned out, ALAS was already working on a housing development. The group partnered with Mercy Housing, a nonprofit developer, in 2022 to build senior housing on a city-owned lot in downtown Half Moon Bay. The project, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986281/half-moon-bay-farmworker-housing-gains-approval-after-push-by-newsom\">known as 555 Kelly\u003c/a>, calls for 40 apartments in a five-story building with a community center on the ground floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez-Arriaga thought that the outpouring of outrage and concern over farmworker housing would translate into urgency for 555 Kelly, but instead, the project was delayed by community opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden, we were a year or more into the project, and it came to a really surprising halt when the planning commission and so many in our community said, ‘We do not want this here. We do not want 555 Kelly. We do not want farmworker housing — or we do want it, but not here in our downtown space where you’re proposing,’” she said. “Why are farm workers always hidden in the fields? Why can’t we have them downtown walking to their medical appointments, walking to church, walking to the mercado, walking to the parks?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criticism of the project included boilerplate opposition to development — the building is too tall and doesn’t have enough parking — but there was also significant pushback against the community center and communal kitchen on the ground floor. However, that space is crucial, Hernandez-Arriaga said, to create a sense of community for the building’s residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a stern warning from Gov. Gavin Newsom, Half Moon Bay’s planning commission and city council approved the project last June. It could break ground in 2026 and finally welcome residents in 2028, six years after planning began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not done,” Hernandez-Arriaga said. “ALAS is going to fight this through because our farmworker community deserves that and more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Hernandez-Arriaga in the fall of 2023 when I reported on a program ALAS created to bring \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940252/another-opportunity-to-fight-for-change-half-moon-bay-farmworker-advocate-to-attend-state-of-the-union\">accordion classes to farmworkers as a form of music therapy\u003c/a>. The arts are often treated as just a “tradition or custom,” she said, but it really is what’s known in psychology as “cultural sensory intervention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cultura is our medicine,” she said. “This is not something that I’m developing or that we’re seeing as new.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez-Arriaga’s background is in social work and counseling. She earned her master’s in social work at Our Lady of the Lake University before moving to the Bay Area nearly 25 years ago to work as a social worker for incarcerated youth in Santa Clara County. She has since earned a doctorate in education from the University of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She moved to Half Moon Bay in 2002 with her husband and three daughters — one now 20-year-old college student and 18-year-old twins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She volunteered as a counselor for young people and began to notice a familiar condition — kids feeling embarrassed about their heritage and like outsiders in their community, similar to what she felt growing up in rural Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of her grandfathers were lifelong farmworkers. Her mother picked cotton and went to segregated schools, Hernandez-Arriaga recalled. Even though she was an award-winning high school student, she felt that she had to be ashamed of her Mexican roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018721\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-018.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-018-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-018-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-018-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-018-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-018-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayudando Latinos A Soñar (ALAS) founder Dr. Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga, right, embraces Lorena Acosta, left, of the Corazones de Oro senior program during a lunch at the ALAS Community Arts Center in Half Moon Bay, California, on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I felt the slow death of the loss of my culture, the loss of being proud of who I was,” she said. “I grew up with a lack of connection to cultura. Although I felt it burning inside of me, on the outside, I had to be very assimilated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before moving to Half Moon Bay, Hernandez-Arriaga lived in San Jose, where Latine culture permeates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized after several years that this community of Half Moon Bay was, in many ways, suffering the same experiences that I had growing up in Texas: a lot of racism, discrimination, othering, not being valued for speaking Spanish, looking down upon,” she said. “And, I thought, this cannot be happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez-Arriaga’s comments made me think about what representation really means. BIPOC communities talk about wanting to feel seen, but true representation goes further than that. We want to feel validated, celebrated and respected as integral members of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Her response was to start a nonprofit that would address the needs of the community from food to cultural pride. ALAS’s operating budget grew to \u003ca href=\"https://www.alasdreams.com/impact\">$5.3 million in 2024, up from $232,652 in 2018.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the shooting happened, the community came together and said, ‘We need to change living conditions,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turned out, ALAS was already working on a housing development. The group partnered with Mercy Housing, a nonprofit developer, in 2022 to build senior housing on a city-owned lot in downtown Half Moon Bay. The project, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986281/half-moon-bay-farmworker-housing-gains-approval-after-push-by-newsom\">known as 555 Kelly\u003c/a>, calls for 40 apartments in a five-story building with a community center on the ground floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez-Arriaga thought that the outpouring of outrage and concern over farmworker housing would translate into urgency for 555 Kelly, but instead, the project was delayed by community opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden, we were a year or more into the project, and it came to a really surprising halt when the planning commission and so many in our community said, ‘We do not want this here. We do not want 555 Kelly. We do not want farmworker housing — or we do want it, but not here in our downtown space where you’re proposing,’” she said. “Why are farm workers always hidden in the fields? Why can’t we have them downtown walking to their medical appointments, walking to church, walking to the mercado, walking to the parks?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criticism of the project included boilerplate opposition to development — the building is too tall and doesn’t have enough parking — but there was also significant pushback against the community center and communal kitchen on the ground floor. However, that space is crucial, Hernandez-Arriaga said, to create a sense of community for the building’s residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a stern warning from Gov. Gavin Newsom, Half Moon Bay’s planning commission and city council approved the project last June. It could break ground in 2026 and finally welcome residents in 2028, six years after planning began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not done,” Hernandez-Arriaga said. “ALAS is going to fight this through because our farmworker community deserves that and more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>While firefighters battle \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/wildfire\">unprecedented blazes in Southern California\u003c/a>, Democratic state leaders are bracing for a different fight ahead: a potential clash with the administration of President-elect Donald Trump over disaster aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days after the deadly fires broke out amid bone-dry conditions and hurricane-force winds, Trump posted more than half a dozen social media statements \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1877223963706749279\">blaming\u003c/a> Gov. Gavin Newsom and local leaders for the fires. Trump \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1877036452883714341\">falsely tied the urban fires to state water policies\u003c/a> and environmental protections for the Delta smelt, a tiny, endangered fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservative politicians and commentators, including billionaire Elon Musk, piled on, blaming forest management and even \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/10/nx-s1-5252757/california-wildfires-dei-diversity-influencers-firefighters\">DEI initiatives.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it’s not just the rhetoric that concerns state leaders: In Trump’s first term, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/03/helene-trump-politics-natural-disaster-00182419\">refused to send\u003c/a> disaster relief funds to California until an aide showed him how many people voted for him in one of the impacted areas. Last fall, Trump made a direct threat, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/13/trump-threat-california-water-rules-00179151\">saying\u003c/a> if Newsom wouldn’t send more water to Central Valley farmers, “we won’t give him money to put out all his fires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While President Joe Biden pledged federal support over the past week, discussions are underway between Trump and congressional Republicans about \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/13/house-republicans-trump-wildfire-aid-00197766\">tying future fire aid to debt ceiling\u003c/a> negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021741\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A middle aged man in a hat and casual clothes walks next to a fire chief with smoke billowing behind them on a city street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom, right, tours the downtown business district of Pacific Palisades as the Palisades Fire continues to burn in Los Angeles on Jan. 8, 2025. Newsom is appealing to President-elect Donald Trump to visit the LA fires. \u003ccite>(Eric Thayer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speaking Friday on the \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-gavin-newsom-on-the-la-fires/id1192761536?i=1000683563807\">\u003cem>Pod Save America\u003c/em>\u003c/a> podcast, Newsom noted that Trump has politicized other disasters. During his presidential campaign last fall, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/06/politics/fact-check-trump-helene-response-north-carolina/index.html\">spread misinformation\u003c/a> about the FEMA response to Hurricane Helene, which led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fema-adjusts-hurricane-recovery-efforts-in-north-carolina-after-workers-threatened\">threats against federal workers\u003c/a>. Newsom said Trump has also threatened to withhold aid from other states and territories over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not just done it here in California. He’s done it in states all across the country. I mean, he did it in Puerto Rico. He did it even in Utah. He did it, I think, in Connecticut. In other states, Georgia,” Newsom said on the podcast. “And so the rhetoric is very, very familiar, and it’s increasingly acute. And obviously, we all have reason to be concerned about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Newsom and other state leaders are trying to walk a fine line, hoping that Trump’s bluster is just that. In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1877845635359191191\">letter\u003c/a> to Trump on Friday, Newsom invited Trump to come to California, recalling how he and Trump toured the devastating Camp Fire in Paradise in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread misinformation from the sidelines,” Newsom wrote. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans — displaced from their homes and fearful for the future — deserve to see all of us working in their best interests to ensure a fast recovery and rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021322\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of a house in Altadena, California, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even as Newsom tries to maintain a measured response, California Democrats are preparing for the worst. Democrats in the legislature appeared to reach an agreement to earmark $50 million in state funds for legal responses, including $25 million for the state attorney general’s office to fight the incoming administration in court if it tries to do things like withhold disaster aid. The other $25 million would be for legal aid for undocumented immigrants and legal advocacy centers that support them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Newsom announced he would expand the special session he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016262/california-legislature-special-session-build-firewall-against-trump\">convened for “Trump-proofing” California\u003c/a> to include $1 billion for wildfire response and recovery in Los Angeles and another $1.5 billion to prepare for future firestorms and other natural disasters, a move \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/billessayli/status/1877140844718817591\">some Republican lawmakers\u003c/a> have been calling for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta criticized Trump’s response to the Los Angeles fires as “disappointing and unfortunate,” noting that there’s a long American tradition of presidents and government rallying around communities suffering from natural disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Biden delivered huge amounts of aid to Texas when it suffered from its hurricane to Florida when it suffered from Hurricane Milton. And that’s the appropriate thing to do. He didn’t stop and say, ‘Wait a second, is this a red state?’” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1734px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1734\" height=\"1156\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004.jpg 1734w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1734px) 100vw, 1734px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foreman Mihlhauser (left) works with Acton Conservation Camp Crew 11-1, an incarcerated fire team, to fell burned trees in Altadena, California, on Jan. 10, 2025, after the Eaton Fire destroyed much of the area. The Los Angeles County Fire Department and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation operate the camp to train incarcerated hand crews to fight fires around Los Angeles and California. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bonta supports another \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/22/trump-california-emergency-aid-newsom-00184799\">proposal\u003c/a> floated by Newsom to create the state’s own FEMA-like fund to help support emergency response and recovery efforts in case Trump refuses to provide aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we won’t ever need it,” Bonta said. “But because doubt has been cast as to whether federal disaster relief funding will be forthcoming, we can’t be caught flat-footed. We should be prepared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the governor’s budget released last week, Newsom proposed putting $4.5 billion in state funds aside for “economic uncertainties” related to the Trump administration, though that amount pales in comparison to what recovery for these fires could cost. Newsom said the number is likely to grow in his May revision of the budget, depending on what happens in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans in California argue that Democrats are overreacting. Assemblymember Bill Essayli (R–Corona) said Trump won’t “punish the people of California for the inactions or incompetence of the leaders of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021950\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1415\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-1536x1087.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-1920x1358.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass joins Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, and State Sen. Alex Padilla while surveying damage during the Palisades Fire on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Pacific Palisades, California. \u003ccite>(Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“President Trump and Congress are going to do everything in their power to get the help that’s needed to Californians as quickly and as expeditiously as possible,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essayli said Trump will, however, use his leverage to pressure California to change policies he disagrees with. He brushed off concerns that Trump was spreading misinformation by conflating issues in his social media posts last week, like when he blamed conservation efforts to protect the Delta smelt for problems getting water to the Los Angeles fires despite the water supply being completely independent from the Delta system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essayli said Democrats refused to build more water storage facilities and haven’t invested enough in wildfire prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office counters these criticisms, noting that under his tenure, the state has invested in tackling the wildfire crisis like never before, including nearly doubling the number of firefighters and other staff at CalFIRE; committing billions of dollars to wildfire and forest resilience initiatives; expanding the state’s aerial firefighting fleet; investing in technology, including drones and artificial intelligence to help spot and fight fires; and more than doubling prescribed burns between 2021 and 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021326\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-062-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke fills the sky over Pasadena due to several wildfires burning in the Los Angeles, California, area on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Essayli said the state hasn’t done nearly enough to clear dead trees and remove fire fuel through actions like prescribed burns — and he blames state environmental laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Wara, an energy and climate expert at Stanford University who has often been critical of the state’s preparation and response to wildfires, said Newsom has made unprecedented investments in fire prevention and response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Have we done as much as I would like? No. But we have done more under the Newsom administration than anyone in the United States has ever done anywhere to try to reduce wildfire risk after the (2017 and 2018) wildfires,” he said. “The firefighting force in Southern California is the best wildland-urban interface firefighting force in the world, bar none. No one else even compares. The aviation resources they have are the best in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021954 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192438759-scaled.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, none of that matters when fighting blazes like the ones that decimated communities last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because when the winds are blowing as fast as they’re blowing — you cannot fight that fire. You have to wait until the conditions change or the fire runs out of fuel,” Wara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wara said there’s blame to go around, though much of it is not at the feet of current elected officials. He cited land use decisions made decades ago about building in places like the Pacific Palisades, an incredibly dry year in Southern California and an unusually strong offshore wind event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wara expressed anger at the misinformation spread by Trump and his allies about the cause of the fires, particularly as the fires continue to rage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s really important that we push back against politicization of disaster aid no matter where the disaster is,” he said. “The reality is that the odds of these catastrophic events are going up because of climate change, and Trump will have to confront them in his administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if this is the way he chooses to, it’s going to be worse for the country. But more than that, it’s going to be worse for the vulnerable people that are left after the disaster. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it’s not just the rhetoric that concerns state leaders: In Trump’s first term, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/03/helene-trump-politics-natural-disaster-00182419\">refused to send\u003c/a> disaster relief funds to California until an aide showed him how many people voted for him in one of the impacted areas. Last fall, Trump made a direct threat, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/13/trump-threat-california-water-rules-00179151\">saying\u003c/a> if Newsom wouldn’t send more water to Central Valley farmers, “we won’t give him money to put out all his fires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While President Joe Biden pledged federal support over the past week, discussions are underway between Trump and congressional Republicans about \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/13/house-republicans-trump-wildfire-aid-00197766\">tying future fire aid to debt ceiling\u003c/a> negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021741\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A middle aged man in a hat and casual clothes walks next to a fire chief with smoke billowing behind them on a city street.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/010825_Newsom-Palisades-Fire_GETTY_CM_01-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom, right, tours the downtown business district of Pacific Palisades as the Palisades Fire continues to burn in Los Angeles on Jan. 8, 2025. Newsom is appealing to President-elect Donald Trump to visit the LA fires. \u003ccite>(Eric Thayer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speaking Friday on the \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-gavin-newsom-on-the-la-fires/id1192761536?i=1000683563807\">\u003cem>Pod Save America\u003c/em>\u003c/a> podcast, Newsom noted that Trump has politicized other disasters. During his presidential campaign last fall, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/06/politics/fact-check-trump-helene-response-north-carolina/index.html\">spread misinformation\u003c/a> about the FEMA response to Hurricane Helene, which led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fema-adjusts-hurricane-recovery-efforts-in-north-carolina-after-workers-threatened\">threats against federal workers\u003c/a>. Newsom said Trump has also threatened to withhold aid from other states and territories over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not just done it here in California. He’s done it in states all across the country. I mean, he did it in Puerto Rico. He did it even in Utah. He did it, I think, in Connecticut. In other states, Georgia,” Newsom said on the podcast. “And so the rhetoric is very, very familiar, and it’s increasingly acute. And obviously, we all have reason to be concerned about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Newsom and other state leaders are trying to walk a fine line, hoping that Trump’s bluster is just that. In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1877845635359191191\">letter\u003c/a> to Trump on Friday, Newsom invited Trump to come to California, recalling how he and Trump toured the devastating Camp Fire in Paradise in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread misinformation from the sidelines,” Newsom wrote. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans — displaced from their homes and fearful for the future — deserve to see all of us working in their best interests to ensure a fast recovery and rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021322\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of a house in Altadena, California, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even as Newsom tries to maintain a measured response, California Democrats are preparing for the worst. Democrats in the legislature appeared to reach an agreement to earmark $50 million in state funds for legal responses, including $25 million for the state attorney general’s office to fight the incoming administration in court if it tries to do things like withhold disaster aid. The other $25 million would be for legal aid for undocumented immigrants and legal advocacy centers that support them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Newsom announced he would expand the special session he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016262/california-legislature-special-session-build-firewall-against-trump\">convened for “Trump-proofing” California\u003c/a> to include $1 billion for wildfire response and recovery in Los Angeles and another $1.5 billion to prepare for future firestorms and other natural disasters, a move \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/billessayli/status/1877140844718817591\">some Republican lawmakers\u003c/a> have been calling for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta criticized Trump’s response to the Los Angeles fires as “disappointing and unfortunate,” noting that there’s a long American tradition of presidents and government rallying around communities suffering from natural disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Biden delivered huge amounts of aid to Texas when it suffered from its hurricane to Florida when it suffered from Hurricane Milton. And that’s the appropriate thing to do. He didn’t stop and say, ‘Wait a second, is this a red state?’” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1734px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1734\" height=\"1156\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004.jpg 1734w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1734px) 100vw, 1734px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foreman Mihlhauser (left) works with Acton Conservation Camp Crew 11-1, an incarcerated fire team, to fell burned trees in Altadena, California, on Jan. 10, 2025, after the Eaton Fire destroyed much of the area. The Los Angeles County Fire Department and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation operate the camp to train incarcerated hand crews to fight fires around Los Angeles and California. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bonta supports another \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/22/trump-california-emergency-aid-newsom-00184799\">proposal\u003c/a> floated by Newsom to create the state’s own FEMA-like fund to help support emergency response and recovery efforts in case Trump refuses to provide aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we won’t ever need it,” Bonta said. “But because doubt has been cast as to whether federal disaster relief funding will be forthcoming, we can’t be caught flat-footed. 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Assemblymember Bill Essayli (R–Corona) said Trump won’t “punish the people of California for the inactions or incompetence of the leaders of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021950\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1415\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-1536x1087.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-1920x1358.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass joins Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, and State Sen. Alex Padilla while surveying damage during the Palisades Fire on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Pacific Palisades, California. \u003ccite>(Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“President Trump and Congress are going to do everything in their power to get the help that’s needed to Californians as quickly and as expeditiously as possible,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essayli said Trump will, however, use his leverage to pressure California to change policies he disagrees with. 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Republicans largely criticized those investments as they called on Newsom to put wildfire-related spending through the same fast-tracked process allowed in a special session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process allows bills passed by the Senate and Assembly to take effect more quickly than under the Legislature’s normal rules, which require a supermajority vote to speed up the enactment of a law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is organizing a Marshall Plan to help Los Angeles rebuild faster and stronger — including billions in new and accelerated state funding so we can move faster to deliver for the thousands who’ve lost their homes and livelihoods in these firestorms,” Newsom said in a statement. “To the people of Los Angeles: We have your back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s proposal includes $1 billion for emergency response and cleanup, for which the administration anticipates reimbursement from the federal government. 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And we’ll do all of this while investing in legal protections for some of our most vulnerable Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016294/california-democrats-prepare-for-trump-vow-renewed-focus-affordability\">Newsom initially called the special session\u003c/a> in the wake of Trump’s November election victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under an agreement on legal funding announced by Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>After days of sniping back and forth with President-elect Donald Trump over California’s handling of the fires ravaging Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom today invited the incoming Republican president to visit the state and survey the damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic governor signed his public overture “with respect and an open hand.” But he also included praise for outgoing President Joe Biden and implicit criticism of Trump’s early handling of the tragedy — reflecting the tricky balance between cooperation and controlling the narrative that Newsom is trying to maintain as he seeks help from his biggest political nemesis to address one of the worst disasters in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread disinformation from the sidelines,” Newsom wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1877845635359191191/photo/1\">letter also shared on social media\u003c/a>. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans — displaced from their homes and fearful for the future — deserve to see all of us working in their best interests to ensure a fast recovery and rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Tuesday, when a series of fires driven by hurricane-force winds began breaking out across the Los Angeles region, Trump has repeatedly blasted Newsom and other California leaders online for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/la-fires-donald-trump-fact-check/\">mismanaging the state’s water\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113796555731896970\">called on “Newscum” to resign\u003c/a>. Frustrations that \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-08/lack-of-water-from-hydrants-in-palisades-fire-is-hampering-firefighters-caruso-says\">some fire hydrants ran dry\u003c/a> as crews battled a massive blaze in the Pacific Palisades — a failure that Newsom on Friday ordered the state to investigate — has underpinned much of the criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hostile rhetoric has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/california-fires-donald-trump-money/\">raised fears that Trump may follow through\u003c/a> on earlier threats to withhold disaster aid from California unless the state overhauls its water policy by allowing more supply to flow south to Central Valley farmers and Southern California. That would make it substantially more costly for the state to recover from the Los Angeles fires, which are already estimated to have caused economic losses of more than $50 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Trump administration officials told Politico last fall that the president-elect was \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/03/helene-trump-politics-natural-disaster-00182419\">flagrantly political with disaster funding\u003c/a> during his first term. Trump reportedly withheld approval for aid related to California’s 2018 wildfires because of the state’s Democratic leanings, until aides showed him that many of the residents of the affected areas had voted for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/us/politics/trump-california-wildfire-aid-newsom.html\">campaign trail last year\u003c/a>, he vowed that if the governor didn’t agree to divert more money to farmers, “we won’t give him money to put out all his fires.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12021693,news_12016262,news_12013395\"]The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to an inquiry about Newsom’s invitation to visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Biden has already issued a major disaster declaration for the Los Angeles fires, unlocking critical aid for the response and recovery, Trump could try to punish California by reversing the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would be an unprecedented move that would almost certainly be challenged in court, said Daniel Farber, a law professor at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law gives sitting presidents the power to issue a disaster declaration but does not spell out if they can retract one, Farber said. “I don’t think that ever occurred to Congress that that would be an issue.” He noted that the statute’s purpose was to dispense disaster aid “orderly and efficiently” — so a president reversing a previous administration’s declaration “would really undermine the whole premise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are no backseats,” Farber said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump could still slow-walk how the Federal Emergency Management Agency distributed funds. That’s something he did in his first term, after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017. A 2021 federal report \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudoig.gov/sites/default/files/2021-04/HUD%20OIG%20Final%20Report_2019SU008945I.pdf\">found that the Trump administration delayed $20 billion\u003c/a> in disaster aid to the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could definitely let FEMA know to drag their feet,” Farber said. “You say they are dragging their feet deliberately for political reasons, and they just say, ‘No, we are doing the best we can. There’s a lot of paperwork.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Newsom: ‘Sickens me to my core’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom and his administration have pushed back with increasing vehemence against accusations from Trump and other prominent Republicans that a lack of available water, poor vegetation management and bureaucratic incompetence are to blame for Los Angeles fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a video call with Biden on Friday morning, Newsom lamented the “hurricane-force winds of mis- and disinformation, lies, that people want to divide this country,” which he said were damaging California’s response efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to deal with this misinformation,” he said. “It infects real people that are out there, people I meet every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few hours later, in an email to political supporters, Newsom explicitly called out Trump and his allies for their “politically motivated lies” about the fires, which “sickens me to my core,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His letter to Trump, released not long after, was far softer. Newsom invoked their joint visits to Paradise and Malibu in 2018 to tour the devastation from the deadly Camp and Woolsey fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021743\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand and talk in a brunt out part of a forested area.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US President Donald Trump visits the charred wreckage of Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park with then Governor-elect Gavin Newsom, FEMA Administrator Brock Long, Paradise Mayor Jody Jones and then-Gov. 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His response will speak volumes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Roger Niello, a Roseville Republican, suggested that the California GOP could help Newsom navigate the complicated dynamics with the Trump administration — although he said the governor has yet to ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Though we’re in the minority, we do have a number of Republican legislators who have relationships with Republicans in Washington, D.C.,” Niello said. “To the extent that there are any challenges there, to the extent that we have a common approach toward things, we could assist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Mikhail Zinshteyn contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to an inquiry about Newsom’s invitation to visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Biden has already issued a major disaster declaration for the Los Angeles fires, unlocking critical aid for the response and recovery, Trump could try to punish California by reversing the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would be an unprecedented move that would almost certainly be challenged in court, said Daniel Farber, a law professor at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law gives sitting presidents the power to issue a disaster declaration but does not spell out if they can retract one, Farber said. “I don’t think that ever occurred to Congress that that would be an issue.” He noted that the statute’s purpose was to dispense disaster aid “orderly and efficiently” — so a president reversing a previous administration’s declaration “would really undermine the whole premise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are no backseats,” Farber said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump could still slow-walk how the Federal Emergency Management Agency distributed funds. That’s something he did in his first term, after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017. A 2021 federal report \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudoig.gov/sites/default/files/2021-04/HUD%20OIG%20Final%20Report_2019SU008945I.pdf\">found that the Trump administration delayed $20 billion\u003c/a> in disaster aid to the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could definitely let FEMA know to drag their feet,” Farber said. “You say they are dragging their feet deliberately for political reasons, and they just say, ‘No, we are doing the best we can. There’s a lot of paperwork.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Newsom: ‘Sickens me to my core’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom and his administration have pushed back with increasing vehemence against accusations from Trump and other prominent Republicans that a lack of available water, poor vegetation management and bureaucratic incompetence are to blame for Los Angeles fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a video call with Biden on Friday morning, Newsom lamented the “hurricane-force winds of mis- and disinformation, lies, that people want to divide this country,” which he said were damaging California’s response efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to deal with this misinformation,” he said. “It infects real people that are out there, people I meet every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few hours later, in an email to political supporters, Newsom explicitly called out Trump and his allies for their “politically motivated lies” about the fires, which “sickens me to my core,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His letter to Trump, released not long after, was far softer. 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