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They’re also committed to higher wages for working people and are fiercely protective of LA residents, regardless of immigration status.[aside postID=news_12072234 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP1.jpg']That program, backed by grass-roots organizing and sophisticated political leadership, has touched voters and made the left far more viable in local elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The political muscle of Los Angeles’ rising liberal faction is demonstrated not just in the number of candidates who identify with the Democratic Socialists, but more broadly in the way it helps shape the policies and priorities of the city generally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not long ago that support for increased LAPD spending was a unifying city objective. Conservatives favored the idea of stricter enforcement of the law, while liberals saw it as a way to pay for police reform and to empower its oversight. 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Four council members – Hernandez, Soto-Martinez, Raman and Councilmember Ysabel Jurado – opposed even that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Taxing the rich\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some of those same forces are at work in the debate over a “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2026/01/measure-ula-raman-dead/\">mansion tax\u003c/a>,” a favorite idea of the LA left. The tax, which voters approved in 2022, applies to multimillion dollar real estate transactions, adding a 4% levy to sales over $5.1 million and 5% to properties over $10.3 million (the thresholds are indexed, hence the unusual threshold numbers). The tax revenue goes for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ULA-Motion.pdf\">construction of affordable housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taxing the rich is always good populist politics, but here it helped frame the city’s changing politics. 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It’s inconceivable that Mayor Riordan, for instance, would have supported the mansion tax and hard to imagine voters 20 years ago approving it. Riordan lived in Brentwood in a home that would have qualified for the surcharge, and the emphasis of much of the city’s politics in those days was on safety and job creation, rather than equity or government-backed affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many reasons for the leftward shift, and not all of them are specific to Los Angeles. The nation’s economic \u003ca href=\"https://inequality.org/facts/income-inequality/#income-inequality\">inequality continues to expand\u003c/a>, and the plight of those left out of economic growth grows increasingly dire and visible in big cities, where opulence and poverty live side by side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s inescapable in modern Los Angeles, with its grand homes, flashy boutiques and grinding homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump and the election year\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The local left also has clearly thrived in the era of President Donald Trump. The president, who is fond of denigrating Los Angeles and California, is reviled in Los Angeles. His influence has radicalized liberals, making them willing to vote for new Congressional maps — Los Angeles County \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2025/11/proposition-50-live-results-map/\">favored last year’s Prop. 50\u003c/a> by a staggering 74% to 25% — and rise to the defense of undocumented migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More purely political changes have contributed as well. Los Angeles in 2015 switched its election schedule from voting in odd-numbered years to coinciding with the gubernatorial and presidential election cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/012126_ICE-WillowBrook_TS_CM_19-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003cfigcaption>Federal immigration agents in Willowbrook on Jan. 21, 2026. Some were involved in a shooting during an early-morning operation in the Los Angeles neighborhood. ICE actions in LA have galvanized many voters on the political left. 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The location also highlighted Los Angeles’ role as host of the World Cup and, in 2028, the Summer Olympics. In a gesture toward civic unity, Bass’ presentation even featured performances by the marching bands of UCLA and USC.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The State of the City\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The audience’s response to Bass’ remarks also said something. She was politely applauded when she highlighted the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-06/la-me-homicide-stats\">city’s historic progress against crime\u003c/a>: Los Angeles had 230 homicides last year, the lowest number since the 1960s and a startling change from the 1990s, when it tallied more than 1,000 homicides several years in a row.[aside postID=news_12072492 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2260093274.jpg']The audience cheered Bass’s promises to encourage affordability and her record at \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/12/la-mayor-bass-homelessness-reelection/\">confronting street homelessness\u003c/a>, which has modestly declined for two consecutive years — small steps but at least steps in the right direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day’s biggest cheers, however, came when Bass struck her most strident tones. 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The department today employs about 8,500 officers, well below peak staffing levels and far below the long-sought goal of 10,000. Nevertheless, Mayor Karen Bass’s recent request for additional funding ran into opposition at the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council ultimately approved a cut-down version of the mayor’s request, but the compromise will barely allow the LAPD to hold its own against retirements and other attrition. Four council members – Hernandez, Soto-Martinez, Raman and Councilmember Ysabel Jurado – opposed even that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Taxing the rich\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some of those same forces are at work in the debate over a “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2026/01/measure-ula-raman-dead/\">mansion tax\u003c/a>,” a favorite idea of the LA left. 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It’s inconceivable that Mayor Riordan, for instance, would have supported the mansion tax and hard to imagine voters 20 years ago approving it. Riordan lived in Brentwood in a home that would have qualified for the surcharge, and the emphasis of much of the city’s politics in those days was on safety and job creation, rather than equity or government-backed affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many reasons for the leftward shift, and not all of them are specific to Los Angeles. The nation’s economic \u003ca href=\"https://inequality.org/facts/income-inequality/#income-inequality\">inequality continues to expand\u003c/a>, and the plight of those left out of economic growth grows increasingly dire and visible in big cities, where opulence and poverty live side by side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s inescapable in modern Los Angeles, with its grand homes, flashy boutiques and grinding homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump and the election year\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The local left also has clearly thrived in the era of President Donald Trump. The president, who is fond of denigrating Los Angeles and California, is reviled in Los Angeles. His influence has radicalized liberals, making them willing to vote for new Congressional maps — Los Angeles County \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2025/11/proposition-50-live-results-map/\">favored last year’s Prop. 50\u003c/a> by a staggering 74% to 25% — and rise to the defense of undocumented migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More purely political changes have contributed as well. Los Angeles in 2015 switched its election schedule from voting in odd-numbered years to coinciding with the gubernatorial and presidential election cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/012126_ICE-WillowBrook_TS_CM_19-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003cfigcaption>Federal immigration agents in Willowbrook on Jan. 21, 2026. Some were involved in a shooting during an early-morning operation in the Los Angeles neighborhood. ICE actions in LA have galvanized many voters on the political left. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Rep. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/david-valadao\">David Valadao\u003c/a> has some explaining to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly two-thirds of constituents in his Central Valley district — approximately 527,000 Californians — are enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state Medicaid program that provides health care coverage to low-income Americans and those with disabilities. At 64%, Valadao’s district has the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/congressional-district-interactive-map-medicaid-enrollment-by-eligibility-group/\">highest \u003c/a>Medicaid enrollment rate of any Republican seat in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet last year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033802/how-cuts-medicaid-republican-gains-california\">Republican cast what would become\u003c/a> the decisive vote to pass President Donald Trump’s domestic policy megabill, a law that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051681/local-health-providers-prepare-for-medi-cal-cuts\">slashed more than $1 trillion\u003c/a> from Medicaid and other programs that help the poorest Americans to pay for tax cuts that will mostly \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/politics/trump-gop-policy-bill-rich-poor.html\">benefit \u003c/a>the country’s richest. One of the most drastic changes is stricter eligibility requirements for Medicaid that California officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT9_aI0TD5U\">estimate \u003c/a>will kick two million Californians off their health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans across the country will face an uphill battle in the midterms as they toil to defend — and sell — the record of their party’s widely unpopular and polarizing president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Valadao in particular has the unenviable task of justifying why he consistently supported — not just on final passage, but at each procedural step along the way — a measure that bears such dire consequences for so many of the constituents whose votes he’ll need to win reelection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1255046317-scaled-e1770053296326.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1255046317-scaled-e1770053296326.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. David Valadao stands in his milo field on Oct. 21, 2022 in Hanford, King’s County. \u003ccite>(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His two Democratic opponents are already arguing that Valadao’s vote in favor of the “one big beautiful bill,” which came after he suggested he wouldn’t support cutting Medicaid, amounts to a breach of trust that should cost him his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was the deciding vote. His one vote could have stopped that,” said Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/jasmeet-bains-165424\">Jasmeet Bains\u003c/a>, a Bakersfield physician who’s challenging Valadao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Villegas, a Visalia school board trustee and college professor who is also vying for the chance to unseat Valadao, put it more bluntly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He “lied to our faces,” Villegas said, using an expletive for emphasis. “We have somebody in office who is willing to try and do or say whatever is politically convenient to save his own butt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the six-term congressman declined CalMatters’ requests for an interview, saying his schedule was full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congressman David Valadao has consistently fought for Central Valley families and real solutions to strengthen rural health care, not played politics for headlines,” wrote Christian Martinez, regional press secretary for the National Republican Congressional Committee, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after his final vote on the megabill, Valadao stressed that even though he \u003ca href=\"https://valadao.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3103\">still had concerns\u003c/a> with the bill, he ultimately voted for it to avoid tax hikes that would result from the expiration of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts. While Valadao and other Republicans have marketed those cuts as tax relief for middle- and low-income families, economists agree that they \u003ca href=\"https://economics.ucla.edu/how-a-historic-corporate-tax-cut-reshaped-the-u-s-economy/#:~:text=The%20researchers%20identify%20a%20substantial,costs%20required%20to%20produce%20them.\">disproportionately benefit wealthy Americans and corporations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Can Democrats replicate 2018?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Out of seven elections, Valadao has only lost once – in 2018, as part of the decisive “blue wave” that flipped control of the House during Trump’s first midterm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That year, Democrats leveraged the GOP’s multiple failed attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, a program that since its creation has grown broadly popular with Americans across the political spectrum. Also looming then was the White House’s controversial practice of separating immigrant children from their parents and detaining them to deter border crossings.[aside postID=news_12033802 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-14-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg']Even casual observers of politics can draw the parallels between 2018 — a Trump midterm election defined by Republican attacks on health care and aggressive immigration enforcement — and 2026. And national Democrats for months have said they plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/us/politics/trump-budget-medicaid.html\">run the same playbook\u003c/a> as they push to flip the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican strategists agree this will be the most difficult reelection that incumbent House Republicans have faced since the last time Trump was in office, even for someone like Valadao who has consistently outperformed as a Republican in a Democratic-leaning district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think this is the year that Valadao is in deep trouble,” said Mike Madrid, Republican political consultant and cofounder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project. “Nine times out of 10, I don’t say that. But this year is going to look a lot like 2018 — probably more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Valadao reclaimed his seat in 2020, he’s twice fended off challenges from former Democratic Assemblyman Rudy Salas, a moderate with strong backing from national Democrats. (Salas \u003ca href=\"https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00791756/1932283/\">filed candidate paperwork\u003c/a> but \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2026/01/27/republicans-navigate-alex-prettis-killing-00748773\">recently stated\u003c/a> he has not yet decided whether he’ll enter the race.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has also sought to further burnish his reputation as a moderate and an independent thinker rather than a Trump acolyte. Of the 10 Republican defectors who voted with Democrats in 2021 to impeach Trump for inciting an insurrection on Jan. 6, Valadao is the only one left in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Will Medicaid vote cost Valadao his job?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Trump won reelection in 2024 and congressional Republicans started crafting the president’s first big legislative package, Valadao repeatedly signaled that he wouldn’t support a bill that threatened Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one letter to House leadership, Valadao and some Hispanic lawmakers argued that such cuts “would have serious consequences, particularly in rural and predominantly Hispanic communities where hospitals and nursing homes are already struggling to keep their doors open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/092525_Redistricting-Day-2_LV_CM_12-1024x682.jpg\" alt='A red political sign is seen near a highways with cars passing through. That sign, that includes an image of a lawmaker next to an image of a child, reads \" Rep. Valadao cut our healthcare to give tax breaks to billionaires.\"'>\u003cfigcaption>A political sign against U.S. Rep. David Valadao off of Highway 198 in Lemoore on Sept. 26, 2025. Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters via CatchLight Local\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But ultimately, he voted several times to advance Trump’s domestic policy agenda, which health care advocates and constituents lambasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think there was really a sense of betrayal among at least some of his voters, who thought, ‘You know, this is not what I elected him to Congress to do — I thought he was a different kind of Republican who would represent the needs of the district,’” said Amanda McAllister-Wallner, executive director of Health Access. She helped lead the coalition known as “Fight for Our Health,” which lobbied Valadao and other California House Republicans to vote against the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao’s vote was especially significant given that the 22nd Congressional District, which he represents, is home to a higher percentage of Medicaid enrollees than any other Republican district in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao has defended his votes and said he ultimately supported the legislation because it preserved the Medicaid program “for its intended recipients — children, pregnant women, the disabled and elderly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the more stringent eligibility requirements will cause patients of all ages to lose coverage, since proving eligibility can be a confusing and laborious process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know how important the program is for my constituents,” Valadao \u003ca href=\"https://valadao.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3103\">wrote in a statement\u003c/a> after he voted to approve the bill. He added that several of the most concerning policy changes that “would have devastated healthcare in my district,” were removed as a result of his “many months of meetings” with Republican leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Valadao does damage control\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since the vote, Valadao has seemingly worked to insulate himself from potentially difficult questions, declining multiple interviews with CalMatters for several different stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a nod to the issue that lost him the 2018 race, Valadao also joined Democrats and 16 other Republicans to buck House GOP leadership in a symbolic vote to extend the already-expired Affordable Care Act tax subsidies. More than 85,000 of his constituents on ACA plans saw their health premiums skyrocket by an average of $85 per month, \u003ca href=\"https://fightforourhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/FFOH-District-22-Fact-Sheet-23636-1.pdf\">according to health advocates\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12071841 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250312-MATT-MAHAN-ON-PB-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg']When he has received questions about Medicaid funding, he has pointed repeatedly to the “Rural Health Transformation Project,” a $50 billion fund tucked into the Trump megabill designed to help some rural hospitals keep their doors open as \u003ca href=\"https://calhospital.org/federal-medicaid-cuts-will-strip-up-to-128-billion-from-ca-hospitals-cha-estimates/\">they prepare to lose billions in Medicaid revenue\u003c/a>. Critics have pointed out that California would only receive $230 million from the program in 2026, a fraction of the estimated $15 billion the state’s hospitals would have received in Medicaid dollars this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao co-hosted a roundtable last month with local health care industry leaders and advocates, Rep. Vince Fong and Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under Trump. The event was closed to the press, and one attendee said there was little time to address specific questions or concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that it felt performative,” said Virginia Hedrick, CEO of the California Rural Indian Health Board. She said she was frustrated that the conversation was largely scripted and felt more like a sales pitch for Oz and the White House’s agenda than a genuine discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a great roundtable of people who would have loved to have a more robust conversation around true impacts and what solutions exist,” Hedrick said. “And those solutions would be congressional fixes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘It felt performative.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ccite>Virginia Hedrick, CEO of the California Rural Indian Health Board.\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But as much as Valadao’s opponents hope to leverage the Medicaid cuts, political strategists warn that they should not fixate too much on health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I were running the campaign against him, I would not pin all my hopes on that,” said Madrid. He argued that Democrats should tap into Americans’ concerns about the economy and the cost of living, which consistently poll as the top issue for voters and are “politically poisonous” for Republicans given that prices have only risen since their party took control of Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Stutzman, a veteran Republican political strategist, posited that Medicaid wouldn’t be as strong a motivator as the Affordable Care Act was to get voters out. The people most affected by those cuts, low-income families and those with disabilities, are not the typical demographic of likely midterm voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s as equipped to weather a Trump midterm as a lot of Republicans in similar situations across the country,” Stutzman said of Valadao. “He’s now a long-term incumbent. He’s got a lot of muscle and strength in that district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/02/congress-valadao-medicaid-cuts/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Rep. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/david-valadao\">David Valadao\u003c/a> has some explaining to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly two-thirds of constituents in his Central Valley district — approximately 527,000 Californians — are enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state Medicaid program that provides health care coverage to low-income Americans and those with disabilities. At 64%, Valadao’s district has the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/congressional-district-interactive-map-medicaid-enrollment-by-eligibility-group/\">highest \u003c/a>Medicaid enrollment rate of any Republican seat in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet last year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033802/how-cuts-medicaid-republican-gains-california\">Republican cast what would become\u003c/a> the decisive vote to pass President Donald Trump’s domestic policy megabill, a law that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051681/local-health-providers-prepare-for-medi-cal-cuts\">slashed more than $1 trillion\u003c/a> from Medicaid and other programs that help the poorest Americans to pay for tax cuts that will mostly \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/politics/trump-gop-policy-bill-rich-poor.html\">benefit \u003c/a>the country’s richest. One of the most drastic changes is stricter eligibility requirements for Medicaid that California officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT9_aI0TD5U\">estimate \u003c/a>will kick two million Californians off their health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans across the country will face an uphill battle in the midterms as they toil to defend — and sell — the record of their party’s widely unpopular and polarizing president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Valadao in particular has the unenviable task of justifying why he consistently supported — not just on final passage, but at each procedural step along the way — a measure that bears such dire consequences for so many of the constituents whose votes he’ll need to win reelection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1255046317-scaled-e1770053296326.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1255046317-scaled-e1770053296326.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. David Valadao stands in his milo field on Oct. 21, 2022 in Hanford, King’s County. \u003ccite>(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His two Democratic opponents are already arguing that Valadao’s vote in favor of the “one big beautiful bill,” which came after he suggested he wouldn’t support cutting Medicaid, amounts to a breach of trust that should cost him his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was the deciding vote. His one vote could have stopped that,” said Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/jasmeet-bains-165424\">Jasmeet Bains\u003c/a>, a Bakersfield physician who’s challenging Valadao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Villegas, a Visalia school board trustee and college professor who is also vying for the chance to unseat Valadao, put it more bluntly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He “lied to our faces,” Villegas said, using an expletive for emphasis. “We have somebody in office who is willing to try and do or say whatever is politically convenient to save his own butt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the six-term congressman declined CalMatters’ requests for an interview, saying his schedule was full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congressman David Valadao has consistently fought for Central Valley families and real solutions to strengthen rural health care, not played politics for headlines,” wrote Christian Martinez, regional press secretary for the National Republican Congressional Committee, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after his final vote on the megabill, Valadao stressed that even though he \u003ca href=\"https://valadao.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3103\">still had concerns\u003c/a> with the bill, he ultimately voted for it to avoid tax hikes that would result from the expiration of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts. While Valadao and other Republicans have marketed those cuts as tax relief for middle- and low-income families, economists agree that they \u003ca href=\"https://economics.ucla.edu/how-a-historic-corporate-tax-cut-reshaped-the-u-s-economy/#:~:text=The%20researchers%20identify%20a%20substantial,costs%20required%20to%20produce%20them.\">disproportionately benefit wealthy Americans and corporations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Can Democrats replicate 2018?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Out of seven elections, Valadao has only lost once – in 2018, as part of the decisive “blue wave” that flipped control of the House during Trump’s first midterm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That year, Democrats leveraged the GOP’s multiple failed attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, a program that since its creation has grown broadly popular with Americans across the political spectrum. Also looming then was the White House’s controversial practice of separating immigrant children from their parents and detaining them to deter border crossings.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Even casual observers of politics can draw the parallels between 2018 — a Trump midterm election defined by Republican attacks on health care and aggressive immigration enforcement — and 2026. And national Democrats for months have said they plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/us/politics/trump-budget-medicaid.html\">run the same playbook\u003c/a> as they push to flip the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican strategists agree this will be the most difficult reelection that incumbent House Republicans have faced since the last time Trump was in office, even for someone like Valadao who has consistently outperformed as a Republican in a Democratic-leaning district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think this is the year that Valadao is in deep trouble,” said Mike Madrid, Republican political consultant and cofounder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project. “Nine times out of 10, I don’t say that. But this year is going to look a lot like 2018 — probably more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Valadao reclaimed his seat in 2020, he’s twice fended off challenges from former Democratic Assemblyman Rudy Salas, a moderate with strong backing from national Democrats. (Salas \u003ca href=\"https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00791756/1932283/\">filed candidate paperwork\u003c/a> but \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2026/01/27/republicans-navigate-alex-prettis-killing-00748773\">recently stated\u003c/a> he has not yet decided whether he’ll enter the race.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has also sought to further burnish his reputation as a moderate and an independent thinker rather than a Trump acolyte. Of the 10 Republican defectors who voted with Democrats in 2021 to impeach Trump for inciting an insurrection on Jan. 6, Valadao is the only one left in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Will Medicaid vote cost Valadao his job?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Trump won reelection in 2024 and congressional Republicans started crafting the president’s first big legislative package, Valadao repeatedly signaled that he wouldn’t support a bill that threatened Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one letter to House leadership, Valadao and some Hispanic lawmakers argued that such cuts “would have serious consequences, particularly in rural and predominantly Hispanic communities where hospitals and nursing homes are already struggling to keep their doors open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/092525_Redistricting-Day-2_LV_CM_12-1024x682.jpg\" alt='A red political sign is seen near a highways with cars passing through. That sign, that includes an image of a lawmaker next to an image of a child, reads \" Rep. Valadao cut our healthcare to give tax breaks to billionaires.\"'>\u003cfigcaption>A political sign against U.S. Rep. David Valadao off of Highway 198 in Lemoore on Sept. 26, 2025. Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters via CatchLight Local\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But ultimately, he voted several times to advance Trump’s domestic policy agenda, which health care advocates and constituents lambasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think there was really a sense of betrayal among at least some of his voters, who thought, ‘You know, this is not what I elected him to Congress to do — I thought he was a different kind of Republican who would represent the needs of the district,’” said Amanda McAllister-Wallner, executive director of Health Access. She helped lead the coalition known as “Fight for Our Health,” which lobbied Valadao and other California House Republicans to vote against the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao’s vote was especially significant given that the 22nd Congressional District, which he represents, is home to a higher percentage of Medicaid enrollees than any other Republican district in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao has defended his votes and said he ultimately supported the legislation because it preserved the Medicaid program “for its intended recipients — children, pregnant women, the disabled and elderly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the more stringent eligibility requirements will cause patients of all ages to lose coverage, since proving eligibility can be a confusing and laborious process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know how important the program is for my constituents,” Valadao \u003ca href=\"https://valadao.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3103\">wrote in a statement\u003c/a> after he voted to approve the bill. He added that several of the most concerning policy changes that “would have devastated healthcare in my district,” were removed as a result of his “many months of meetings” with Republican leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Valadao does damage control\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since the vote, Valadao has seemingly worked to insulate himself from potentially difficult questions, declining multiple interviews with CalMatters for several different stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a nod to the issue that lost him the 2018 race, Valadao also joined Democrats and 16 other Republicans to buck House GOP leadership in a symbolic vote to extend the already-expired Affordable Care Act tax subsidies. More than 85,000 of his constituents on ACA plans saw their health premiums skyrocket by an average of $85 per month, \u003ca href=\"https://fightforourhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/FFOH-District-22-Fact-Sheet-23636-1.pdf\">according to health advocates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When he has received questions about Medicaid funding, he has pointed repeatedly to the “Rural Health Transformation Project,” a $50 billion fund tucked into the Trump megabill designed to help some rural hospitals keep their doors open as \u003ca href=\"https://calhospital.org/federal-medicaid-cuts-will-strip-up-to-128-billion-from-ca-hospitals-cha-estimates/\">they prepare to lose billions in Medicaid revenue\u003c/a>. Critics have pointed out that California would only receive $230 million from the program in 2026, a fraction of the estimated $15 billion the state’s hospitals would have received in Medicaid dollars this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao co-hosted a roundtable last month with local health care industry leaders and advocates, Rep. Vince Fong and Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under Trump. The event was closed to the press, and one attendee said there was little time to address specific questions or concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that it felt performative,” said Virginia Hedrick, CEO of the California Rural Indian Health Board. She said she was frustrated that the conversation was largely scripted and felt more like a sales pitch for Oz and the White House’s agenda than a genuine discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a great roundtable of people who would have loved to have a more robust conversation around true impacts and what solutions exist,” Hedrick said. “And those solutions would be congressional fixes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘It felt performative.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ccite>Virginia Hedrick, CEO of the California Rural Indian Health Board.\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But as much as Valadao’s opponents hope to leverage the Medicaid cuts, political strategists warn that they should not fixate too much on health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I were running the campaign against him, I would not pin all my hopes on that,” said Madrid. He argued that Democrats should tap into Americans’ concerns about the economy and the cost of living, which consistently poll as the top issue for voters and are “politically poisonous” for Republicans given that prices have only risen since their party took control of Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Stutzman, a veteran Republican political strategist, posited that Medicaid wouldn’t be as strong a motivator as the Affordable Care Act was to get voters out. The people most affected by those cuts, low-income families and those with disabilities, are not the typical demographic of likely midterm voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s as equipped to weather a Trump midterm as a lot of Republicans in similar situations across the country,” Stutzman said of Valadao. “He’s now a long-term incumbent. He’s got a lot of muscle and strength in that district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/02/congress-valadao-medicaid-cuts/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Are you taking a domestic flight soon?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should know: As of Sunday, if you don’t have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027050/apply-for-real-id-deadline-may-7-can-i-fly-without\">a REAL ID driver’s license\u003c/a> — or another \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11643609/what-you-need-to-know-about-california-real-id-drivers-licenses\">federally approved document like a passport \u003c/a>— you’ll now need to pay a $45 fee at the airport to be able to get on your flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new fee was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027050/apply-for-real-id-deadline-may-7-can-i-fly-without\">announced by the Transportation Security Administration\u003c/a> back in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal REAL ID requirements were originally introduced for domestic air travelers in May 2025. Until now, anyone who lacked a REAL ID license or other acceptable form of identification was still allowed to go through airport security, albeit with additional screening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But starting Feb. 1, every person 18 or older attempting to board a domestic flight without a REAL ID will face the $45 fee – or won’t be allowed through TSA screening to board their flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2025/12/01/tsa-introduces-new-45-fee-option-for-travelers-without-real-id\">TSA says that “more than 94% of passengers already use their REAL ID \u003c/a>or other acceptable forms of identification,” in 2025, the California DMV reported that only about 58% of all driver’s license and ID cardholders in the state were REAL ID-compliant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you’re one of those people who \u003cem>doesn’t \u003c/em>have a REAL ID yet, here’s what to know about making sure you’re still able to travel, from how to swiftly apply for a REAL ID driver’s license to how to pay the $45 TSA fee, either the day you travel or before you arrive at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Howdoesthenew45TSAfeework\">How does the new $45 TSA fee work?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#HowcanIapplyforREALIDASAP\">How can I apply for REAL ID ASAP?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What kind of REAL ID identification do I need to avoid the new $45 TSA fee?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Remember, if you’ve applied for or renewed your driver’s license in the past few years, there’s a good chance you already \u003cem>have\u003c/em> a REAL ID. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027050/apply-for-real-id-deadline-may-7-can-i-fly-without#do-i-already-have-real-id\">Here’s more information on how to tell\u003c/a>, but in short: look for the golden bear with a white star in the top right of your license.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t have a REAL ID driver’s license yet, you might have access to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027050/apply-for-real-id-deadline-may-7-can-i-fly-without#may\">several other documents you can show TSA instead of a REAL ID\u003c/a>, like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027114\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DL-real-id-768x986-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1185\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DL-real-id-768x986-1.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DL-real-id-768x986-1-800x494.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DL-real-id-768x986-1-1020x630.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DL-real-id-768x986-1-160x99.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DL-real-id-768x986-1-1536x948.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A side-by-side comparison of a REAL ID driver’s license (left) with a non-REAL ID driver’s license. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California DMV)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A U.S. or foreign passport\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A green card (permanent resident card)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) trusted traveler card, like Global Entry\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A military ID\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A Tribal Nation ID\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>See \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification\">other federally recognized documents\u003c/a> that TSA says are an “acceptable alternative” to a REAL ID.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I don’t have a REAL ID, a passport or other compliant documents. Why will I now be charged a $45 TSA fee?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since REAL ID requirements were introduced across U.S. airports for domestic flights in May 2025, passengers who don’t have REAL ID-compliant identification have still been able to fly — but they’ve been asked to undergo extra checks to verify their identity before entering the TSA security line, through a process called TSA ConfirmID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to TSA, this \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification\">entails completing “an identity verification process\u003c/a> which includes collecting information such as your name and current address to confirm your identity.”[aside postID=news_12065737 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty.jpg']And while TSA says using TSA ConfirmID is “optional,” they warn that if you choose not to use it “and don’t have an acceptable ID, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id\">you may not be allowed through security and may miss your flight.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What changed on Feb. 1: TSA is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification\">passing on the costs of those extra checks directly \u003cem>to \u003c/em>the passenger\u003c/a>, by charging them this $45 fee to receive the TSA ConfirmID identity verification and make their flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be warned, though: TSA says even if you pay the new $45 TSA fee, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id/confirmid-faqs\">“there is no guarantee” they’ll be able to successfully verify your identity \u003c/a>through TSA ConfirmID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for TSA confirmed to KQED by email that the $45 fee is non-refundable in this instance. But because payments are “valid for a 10-day period after their original first flight date,” travelers who miss their flight because their identity couldn’t be verified can “use the receipt once they are able to rebook their flight within that 10-day period,” the spokesperson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Howdoesthenew45TSAfeework\">\u003c/a>Where do I pay the $45 TSA fee?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You can pay at the airport itself, or beforehand, but either way, TSA says you have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id\">pay online at \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://pay.gov\">pay.gov\u003c/a>, the same federal website that processes payments like Department of Veterans Affairs medical bills and Social Security remittances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can’t pay TSA staff directly at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067060\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-80-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-80-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-80-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-80-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers walk through Terminal 2 at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You can create a \u003ca href=\"http://pay.gov\">pay.gov\u003c/a> account to make the $45 payment or check out as a guest. TSA says it will accept credit cards, debit cards, bank account details, PayPal and Venmo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make sure you enter an email address you have instant access to, as you’ll need to open the \u003ca href=\"http://pay.gov\">pay.gov\u003c/a> receipt that will be sent to that inbox and show it to TSA staff at the airport to prove you’ve paid the $45 fee for TSA ConfirmID identity verification.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will TSA automatically know I’ve paid my $45 fee?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No, TSA says \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id/confirmid-faqs\">you’ll need to manually show staff in the security line\u003c/a> proof of payment by producing the email receipt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency says that \u003ca href=\"https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/1820857221\">your receipt should arrive via email “immediately”\u003c/a> after payment. Consider screenshotting the email receipt as soon as you receive it to be sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a traveler is unable to produce a confirmation email at the checkpoint, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id/confirmid-faqs\">you may need to pay again,” TSA says.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If I’m having trouble paying online, can someone else do it for me?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, as long as the name and travel dates match the traveler who needs TSA ConfirmID identity verification, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id/confirmid-faqs\">someone else can pay online for you, TSA says. \u003c/a>The payment card does not have to match the traveler’s name.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will I have to pay another $45 TSA fee when I fly home?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>TSA says\u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id\"> the ConfirmID service is valid for 10 days\u003c/a>, so if your trip is 10 days or less, you won’t have to pay again — but \u003ca href=\"https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/1820857221\">“any travel beyond the expiration date will require a new payment.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, you’ll need to show your original receipt of payment to \u003ca href=\"http://pay.gov\">pay.gov\u003c/a> that arrived in your email when you first paid online, so make sure you don’t delete it on your trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How long will all this take?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In general, TSA warns you to expect \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2025/12/01/tsa-introduces-new-45-fee-option-for-travelers-without-real-id\">“increased wait times for passengers who do not provide an acceptable ID.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, expect the actual process of verifying your identity through TSA ConfirmID to take a while. Even if you pay the $45 in advance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id/confirmid-faqs\">the actual identity verification will take place at the airport itself\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067051\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067051\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-49-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-49-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-49-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-49-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person walks to their destination at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You should also factor in the time required beforehand for paying your $45 online, either before you leave or at the airport itself. And if you don’t have a REAL ID-compliant ID and you haven’t already paid the $45 fee when you arrive for your flight, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id/confirmid-faqs\">TSA says that “you must leave the [security] line to pay” \u003c/a>and return to the end of the line once you’ve done it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in short, if you don’t have a REAL ID driver’s license or other compatible ID, you should arrive at the airport with a lot of time to spare.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do the REAL ID requirements and TSA fee apply to children?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification\">TSA says it “does not require children under 18 to provide identification\u003c/a> when traveling within the United States” — so the REAL ID requirements, and the TSA fee for those who don’t have them, don’t apply to kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “unaccompanied minors who are eligible for TSA PreCheck must show an acceptable ID to receive expedited screening,” and the agency suggests you contact the airline you’re flying with about any specific ID requirements they may have for passengers under 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowcanIapplyforREALIDASAP\">\u003c/a>OK, how do I get a REAL ID ASAP to avoid this new TSA fee?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Firstly, remember that even if you don’t have a REAL ID driver’s licence yet, you might have access to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027050/apply-for-real-id-deadline-may-7-can-i-fly-without#may\">several other documents you can show TSA instead of a REAL ID\u003c/a> — like a U.S. or foreign passport, a green card (permanent resident card) or a Tribal Nation ID — that mean you won’t have to pay the $45 TSA fee as of Feb. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027050/apply-for-real-id-deadline-may-7-can-i-fly-without#where\">apply for a REAL ID driver’s license\u003c/a> or identification card in California, you’ll need \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification-cards/real-id/real-id-checklist/\">several documents, including one that proves your identity \u003c/a>and contains your full name, like a U.S. passport or a permanent resident card (green card).[aside postID=news_12067167 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-62-BL-KQED.jpg']You’ll need to visit a California DMV office to obtain your REAL ID card, with or without an appointment, but you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification-cards/real-id/\">upload your documents online in advance to save time\u003c/a> in the field office. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Are you taking a domestic flight soon?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should know: As of Sunday, if you don’t have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027050/apply-for-real-id-deadline-may-7-can-i-fly-without\">a REAL ID driver’s license\u003c/a> — or another \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11643609/what-you-need-to-know-about-california-real-id-drivers-licenses\">federally approved document like a passport \u003c/a>— you’ll now need to pay a $45 fee at the airport to be able to get on your flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new fee was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027050/apply-for-real-id-deadline-may-7-can-i-fly-without\">announced by the Transportation Security Administration\u003c/a> back in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal REAL ID requirements were originally introduced for domestic air travelers in May 2025. Until now, anyone who lacked a REAL ID license or other acceptable form of identification was still allowed to go through airport security, albeit with additional screening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But starting Feb. 1, every person 18 or older attempting to board a domestic flight without a REAL ID will face the $45 fee – or won’t be allowed through TSA screening to board their flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2025/12/01/tsa-introduces-new-45-fee-option-for-travelers-without-real-id\">TSA says that “more than 94% of passengers already use their REAL ID \u003c/a>or other acceptable forms of identification,” in 2025, the California DMV reported that only about 58% of all driver’s license and ID cardholders in the state were REAL ID-compliant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you’re one of those people who \u003cem>doesn’t \u003c/em>have a REAL ID yet, here’s what to know about making sure you’re still able to travel, from how to swiftly apply for a REAL ID driver’s license to how to pay the $45 TSA fee, either the day you travel or before you arrive at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Howdoesthenew45TSAfeework\">How does the new $45 TSA fee work?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#HowcanIapplyforREALIDASAP\">How can I apply for REAL ID ASAP?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What kind of REAL ID identification do I need to avoid the new $45 TSA fee?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Remember, if you’ve applied for or renewed your driver’s license in the past few years, there’s a good chance you already \u003cem>have\u003c/em> a REAL ID. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027050/apply-for-real-id-deadline-may-7-can-i-fly-without#do-i-already-have-real-id\">Here’s more information on how to tell\u003c/a>, but in short: look for the golden bear with a white star in the top right of your license.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t have a REAL ID driver’s license yet, you might have access to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027050/apply-for-real-id-deadline-may-7-can-i-fly-without#may\">several other documents you can show TSA instead of a REAL ID\u003c/a>, like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027114\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DL-real-id-768x986-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1185\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DL-real-id-768x986-1.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DL-real-id-768x986-1-800x494.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DL-real-id-768x986-1-1020x630.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DL-real-id-768x986-1-160x99.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DL-real-id-768x986-1-1536x948.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A side-by-side comparison of a REAL ID driver’s license (left) with a non-REAL ID driver’s license. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California DMV)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A U.S. or foreign passport\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A green card (permanent resident card)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) trusted traveler card, like Global Entry\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A military ID\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A Tribal Nation ID\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>See \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification\">other federally recognized documents\u003c/a> that TSA says are an “acceptable alternative” to a REAL ID.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I don’t have a REAL ID, a passport or other compliant documents. Why will I now be charged a $45 TSA fee?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since REAL ID requirements were introduced across U.S. airports for domestic flights in May 2025, passengers who don’t have REAL ID-compliant identification have still been able to fly — but they’ve been asked to undergo extra checks to verify their identity before entering the TSA security line, through a process called TSA ConfirmID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to TSA, this \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification\">entails completing “an identity verification process\u003c/a> which includes collecting information such as your name and current address to confirm your identity.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And while TSA says using TSA ConfirmID is “optional,” they warn that if you choose not to use it “and don’t have an acceptable ID, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id\">you may not be allowed through security and may miss your flight.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What changed on Feb. 1: TSA is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification\">passing on the costs of those extra checks directly \u003cem>to \u003c/em>the passenger\u003c/a>, by charging them this $45 fee to receive the TSA ConfirmID identity verification and make their flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be warned, though: TSA says even if you pay the new $45 TSA fee, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id/confirmid-faqs\">“there is no guarantee” they’ll be able to successfully verify your identity \u003c/a>through TSA ConfirmID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for TSA confirmed to KQED by email that the $45 fee is non-refundable in this instance. But because payments are “valid for a 10-day period after their original first flight date,” travelers who miss their flight because their identity couldn’t be verified can “use the receipt once they are able to rebook their flight within that 10-day period,” the spokesperson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Howdoesthenew45TSAfeework\">\u003c/a>Where do I pay the $45 TSA fee?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You can pay at the airport itself, or beforehand, but either way, TSA says you have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id\">pay online at \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://pay.gov\">pay.gov\u003c/a>, the same federal website that processes payments like Department of Veterans Affairs medical bills and Social Security remittances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can’t pay TSA staff directly at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067060\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-80-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-80-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-80-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-80-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers walk through Terminal 2 at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You can create a \u003ca href=\"http://pay.gov\">pay.gov\u003c/a> account to make the $45 payment or check out as a guest. TSA says it will accept credit cards, debit cards, bank account details, PayPal and Venmo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make sure you enter an email address you have instant access to, as you’ll need to open the \u003ca href=\"http://pay.gov\">pay.gov\u003c/a> receipt that will be sent to that inbox and show it to TSA staff at the airport to prove you’ve paid the $45 fee for TSA ConfirmID identity verification.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will TSA automatically know I’ve paid my $45 fee?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No, TSA says \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id/confirmid-faqs\">you’ll need to manually show staff in the security line\u003c/a> proof of payment by producing the email receipt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency says that \u003ca href=\"https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/1820857221\">your receipt should arrive via email “immediately”\u003c/a> after payment. Consider screenshotting the email receipt as soon as you receive it to be sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a traveler is unable to produce a confirmation email at the checkpoint, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id/confirmid-faqs\">you may need to pay again,” TSA says.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If I’m having trouble paying online, can someone else do it for me?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, as long as the name and travel dates match the traveler who needs TSA ConfirmID identity verification, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id/confirmid-faqs\">someone else can pay online for you, TSA says. \u003c/a>The payment card does not have to match the traveler’s name.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will I have to pay another $45 TSA fee when I fly home?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>TSA says\u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id\"> the ConfirmID service is valid for 10 days\u003c/a>, so if your trip is 10 days or less, you won’t have to pay again — but \u003ca href=\"https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/1820857221\">“any travel beyond the expiration date will require a new payment.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, you’ll need to show your original receipt of payment to \u003ca href=\"http://pay.gov\">pay.gov\u003c/a> that arrived in your email when you first paid online, so make sure you don’t delete it on your trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How long will all this take?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In general, TSA warns you to expect \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2025/12/01/tsa-introduces-new-45-fee-option-for-travelers-without-real-id\">“increased wait times for passengers who do not provide an acceptable ID.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, expect the actual process of verifying your identity through TSA ConfirmID to take a while. Even if you pay the $45 in advance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id/confirmid-faqs\">the actual identity verification will take place at the airport itself\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067051\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067051\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-49-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-49-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-49-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-49-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person walks to their destination at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You should also factor in the time required beforehand for paying your $45 online, either before you leave or at the airport itself. 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"content": "\u003cp>Diego Jiménez said he listens to Bad Bunny’s music almost every day. So when he heard that the Puerto Rican star would be performing at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/super-bowl\">this year’s Super Bowl\u003c/a> halftime show at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, he was hyped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jiménez lives in San José, only a short drive from the stadium, and started to make plans with friends to hear the performance from outside. The 29-year-old, among many young Latinos in the Bay Area, looked forward to celebrating reggaeton taking center stage during the most-watched event on American television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Jiménez and others in his community, this excitement has been overshadowed by the threat of federal immigration enforcement, similar to the violent operations carried out in Minneapolis by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with Customs and Border Protection, in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of how things are now, I feel like I run the risk of being interrogated or detained, regardless of my status,” Jiménez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 40% of San José’s population \u003ca href=\"https://data.census.gov/profile/San_Jose_CCD,_Santa_Clara_County,_California?g=060XX00US0608592830\">is foreign-born\u003c/a>, a percentage higher than both San Francisco and New York City, and the city is home to thousands of Asian and Latino families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Trump administration launched a nationwide mass deportation campaign last year, social media has filled up with videos of ICE agents using force to pull parents away from their children, and most recently, the footage capturing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/26/nx-s1-5686473/senate-democrats-to-vote-against-dhs-funding-setting-up-potential-partial-shutdown\">the deadly shootings\u003c/a> of Renée Macklin Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071468\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071468\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260128-BAD-BUNNY-FANS-MD-04-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260128-BAD-BUNNY-FANS-MD-04-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260128-BAD-BUNNY-FANS-MD-04-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260128-BAD-BUNNY-FANS-MD-04-KQED-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley student Vanessa Arriaga-Rodríguez on campus in Berkeley on Jan. 28, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think what ICE has come to is insane,” said Vanessa Arriaga-Rodríguez, a student at UC Berkeley, who grew up in Half Moon Bay and has helped lead \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DFvxMi2z2P9/\">anti-deportation protests\u003c/a> in San Mateo County. “You have all of these tax dollars that are funding all of this hatred and violence, and it’s really scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a September interview \u003ca href=\"https://i-d.co/article/bad-bunny-puerto-rico-residency-issue-375-cover/\">with \u003cem>i-D Magazine\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Bad Bunny shared that he’s performing less in the U.S. because of his team’s concerns about potential ICE activity outside his concerts. A few weeks later, the NFL announced that he would headline the Super Bowl halftime show — a decision that President Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/07/donald-trump-bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-crazy-00595886\">blasted as “ridiculous.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration has not been clear on what role ICE will have in Super Bowl security. In October, when conservative podcaster Benny Johnson \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1974212740807078303\">interviewed\u003c/a> Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, she said, “There will be, because the Department of Homeland Security is responsible for keeping it safe,” before adding: “People should not be coming to the Super Bowl unless they’re law-abiding Americans who love this country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But earlier this week, DHS said in a statement to KQED that it “will not disclose future operations or discuss personnel,” and that “Super Bowl security will entail a whole of government response conducted in line with the U.S. Constitution. Those who are here legally and are not breaking other laws have nothing to fear.”[aside postID=\"news_12050993\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250718-RIDEALONGRAPIDRESPONSE-10-BL-KQED.jpg\"]Democrats have strongly criticized the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. Gov. Gavin Newsom has called\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071074/heres-what-california-leaders-said-about-latest-minneapolis-killing\"> for Noem’s resignation\u003c/a>, and San José Mayor Matt Mahan on Sunday \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MattMahanSJ/status/2015642306540609688\">acknowledged\u003c/a> the possibility of ICE operating during the Super Bowl. On social media, he affirmed that his city’s police officers “cannot and will not interrupt or assist with legal immigration enforcement — but they will protect you, your freedoms and our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local officials, however, have also acknowledged that for the Bay Area to host major sporting events, such as the Super Bowl and the FIFA World Cup later this year, they must cooperate at some level with the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But let me be clear — no one is above the law,” Santa Clara County Supervisor Otto Lee said Tuesday. “If anyone comes into our County masked, spreading terror, breaking laws, and threatening our residents, they will be arrested by our Sheriff’s deputies and police officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to this uncertainty, the region’s immigrant defense groups have been ramping up their efforts. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/scc_rapidresponsenetwork/\">Rapid Response Network \u003c/a>in Santa Clara County — a coalition of hundreds of volunteers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050993/a-day-in-the-life-of-san-joses-rapid-response-network-built-to-resist-ice-fear\">working around the clock\u003c/a> to verify possible ICE sightings — confirmed Thursday that it will have legal observers near the stadium to quickly spot any deportation efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know or have any confirmation that ICE will be present,” said Mariam Arif, an organizer with Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network, a group that’s part of the county’s Rapid Response Network. “But there’s no harm in contingency planning because what we saw in Los Angeles and what we’re seeing in Minneapolis give us all a reason to prepare for the worst-case scenario.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rapid Response Network members are training immigrant families on their constitutional rights, protected under the Fourth Amendment, which limits when government officials can detain someone or enter their home. Legal scholars have expressed concern that ICE leadership has previously \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/legal-scholars-concerns-ice-policy-homes-warrants/\">directed\u003c/a> officers to enter a home without a warrant signed by a judge — which could be a violation of the Fourth Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12049160 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250718-RIDEALONGRAPIDRESPONSE-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250718-RIDEALONGRAPIDRESPONSE-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250718-RIDEALONGRAPIDRESPONSE-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250718-RIDEALONGRAPIDRESPONSE-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lead dispatcher for the Rapid Response Network speaks with a business owner about how to report ICE activity and the network’s efforts to verify sightings in San José on July 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Anywhere that you are approached, it’s important to ask for that warrant,” Arif said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If ICE \u003cem>does\u003c/em> mobilize during the Super Bowl, Arif said residents can alert the region’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/carrn\">many \u003c/a>rapid response networks, so trained volunteers can verify if federal agents are actually present, and that way, also prevent the spread of misinformation on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want ICE in our community during the Super Bowl or at any time for that matter,” Arif said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, almost 50 miles north of Levi’s Stadium, organizers of Super Bowl-related events say they’re taking extra steps to protect guests, which include offering cards that list people’s rights during encounters with federal immigration agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that a lot of places offer these cards, but it’s better to have more than less,” said Óscar Delgado, who’s helping organize a Bad Bunny-themed dance party in the city’s Mission District. “Let’s make sure they’re everywhere, and if you haven’t read them, take time to know your rights, especially now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jiménez, the Bad Bunny fan in San José, said he now plans to stay home to watch the big game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m creating a plan with family members in case the worst happens,” he said. “Before, we didn’t have to do that. 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The player had not spoken publicly about her gender identity. Other plaintiffs included players from conference rivals such as the University of Wyoming and Boise State University, which forfeited games against San José State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Education Department also accused San José State of retaliating against players who spoke out and “subjecting one female SJSU athlete to a Title IX complaint for allegedly ‘misgendering’” a teammate, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not relent until SJSU is held to account for these abuses and commits to upholding Title IX to protect future athletes from the same indignities,” Richey said.[aside postID=news_12026277 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1020x680.jpg']Title IX is a landmark 1979 law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance. 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Khanna said the behavior of immigration agents in Minneapolis and inside ICE detention centers — where a record 70,000 people are now detained — is two facets of the same problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s lawlessness,” he said. “They’re mistreating immigrants on our streets, and they’re mistreating immigrants in detention. It’s violating the Constitution of the United States, and it’s violating our values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six people have died in custody this month alone, according to ICE. That comes on top of 32 deaths in 2025, the highest number in two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Ro Khanna holds a town hall meeting at the MLK Community Center in Bakersfield on March 23, 2025, the first of three town hall events Khanna was set to hold in Republican-held congressional districts across the state. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://khanna.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/khanna.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/ice-detention-letter-jan-22-2026-8.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> to Noem and Lyons, sent Jan. 22, Khanna demanded a list of records from DHS about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054544/californias-newest-immigration-facility-is-also-its-biggest-is-it-operating-legally\">operations of the California City facility\u003c/a>, which is owned and run by the private prison company CoreCivic and began housing ICE detainees in late August. He gave them a deadline of Feb. 12 and specifically requested:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Contracts between ICE and CoreCivic and with medical providers;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Logs documenting how long it took to deliver medical care;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Logs documenting use of force and solitary confinement;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Logs documenting grievances filed by detainees;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Food safety and health inspection records;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Records of out-of-cell and recreation time.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As a member of the House Oversight Committee, Khanna said he has a “responsibility to tell the country about what’s going on” in detention facilities, which are generally hidden from public view. KQED’s request to visit the California City facility earlier this month was denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think people understand the inhumanity,” said Khanna, who visited the facility after constituents in his Santa Clara County district raised concerns about family members who were held there. “I didn’t understand it myself until I went and saw it myself.”[aside postID=news_12070519 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AlexPadillaAdamSchiffAP.jpg']In his letter to Noem and Lyons, Khanna said he was disturbed to see people held in civil detention treated as if they were “high-security prisoners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the fact that all visitors are subjected to invasive patdowns and escorts, detainees reported that everyone, even those classified as low-security, are required to meet lawyers and loved ones behind glass and treated as convicted prisoners,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most alarming,” he told the officials, “were the failures in medical care and grievance processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both a senior ICE official and facility staff admitted that urgent medical requests and grievances may sit unattended for weeks and are not reviewed on weekends or holidays,” he wrote. “Detainees described even longer delays and reported being placed in solitary confinement when they complained of medical needs — an extraordinarily troubling and punitive practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not respond to KQED’s request for comment. The agency has consistently said it is detaining and deporting the “worst of the worst” violent criminals, highlighting specific people arrested in daily press releases. However, ICE’s own data show that, as of late December, just 26% of those in detention were convicted of any crime. Another 26% faced some sort of pending criminal charge, while 48% were accused of only a civil immigration violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna’s oversight demands come as Democrats wage an all-out push to rein in DHS after the weekend killing of Pretti, who was filming immigration agents on a Minneapolis street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-California, right, speak with Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds its first public hearing to reveal the findings of a yearlong investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Senate Democrats are vowing to vote against an appropriations bill that includes DHS funding, raising the prospect of a partial government shutdown by week’s end. Last week, all but seven House Democrats voted against the funding bill, but they lacked the votes to stop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Bay Area Democrats, including Reps. Zoe Lofgren, Eric Swalwell and Mike Thompson, have signed on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/996/text\">articles of impeachment\u003c/a> against Noem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Raul Ruiz, a Coachella Valley Democrat, tried to make an oversight visit to the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County on Wednesday but was turned away. Ruiz said he requested the visit more than seven days in advance, following a recent ICE policy with which he disagrees. He said ICE also refused him entry to the Adelanto facility in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Alex Padilla, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070519/california-senators-visit-immigration-jail-ahead-of-looming-ice-funding-bill-deadline\">made an oversight visit\u003c/a> with Sen. Adam Schiff to the California City detention facility last week, has introduced a bill to overhaul ICE detention and increase accountability. The bill, co-authored with Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., would:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>End ICE family detention, where children are held;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Only allow DHS to detain people it can show are a threat to public safety or national security;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Require ICE facilities to meet the \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/commission_on_immigration/abaimmdetstds.pdf\">American Bar Association’s Civil Immigration Detention Standards\u003c/a>;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mandate unannounced inspections by the DHS inspector general, along with meaningful penalties if standards are not met;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Phase out private detention facilities, run by for-profit companies;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>End the use of solitary confinement in immigration detention.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12070624 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Adam Schiff, right, walks with Sen. Alex Padilla during a visit to an immigration detention center on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE does set \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management\">standards\u003c/a> for detention facilities, whether operated by the agency itself, a private-prison company or a county jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is responsible for monitoring compliance with standards, and the DHS inspector general can also inspect. But compliance has long been inconsistent, and ICE has \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/oversight-immigration-detention-overview/\">a history of issuing waivers\u003c/a> to facilities that fail inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna told KQED he’s considering introducing a bill to repeal $75 billion in ICE funding that was part of a July reconciliation package known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. And he said he would like to “tear down” ICE as an agency and replace it with something that’s more accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s lawlessness,” he said. “They’re mistreating immigrants on our streets, and they’re mistreating immigrants in detention. It’s violating the Constitution of the United States, and it’s violating our values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six people have died in custody this month alone, according to ICE. That comes on top of 32 deaths in 2025, the highest number in two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Ro Khanna holds a town hall meeting at the MLK Community Center in Bakersfield on March 23, 2025, the first of three town hall events Khanna was set to hold in Republican-held congressional districts across the state. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://khanna.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/khanna.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/ice-detention-letter-jan-22-2026-8.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> to Noem and Lyons, sent Jan. 22, Khanna demanded a list of records from DHS about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054544/californias-newest-immigration-facility-is-also-its-biggest-is-it-operating-legally\">operations of the California City facility\u003c/a>, which is owned and run by the private prison company CoreCivic and began housing ICE detainees in late August. He gave them a deadline of Feb. 12 and specifically requested:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Contracts between ICE and CoreCivic and with medical providers;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Logs documenting how long it took to deliver medical care;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Logs documenting use of force and solitary confinement;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Logs documenting grievances filed by detainees;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Food safety and health inspection records;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Records of out-of-cell and recreation time.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As a member of the House Oversight Committee, Khanna said he has a “responsibility to tell the country about what’s going on” in detention facilities, which are generally hidden from public view. KQED’s request to visit the California City facility earlier this month was denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think people understand the inhumanity,” said Khanna, who visited the facility after constituents in his Santa Clara County district raised concerns about family members who were held there. “I didn’t understand it myself until I went and saw it myself.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In his letter to Noem and Lyons, Khanna said he was disturbed to see people held in civil detention treated as if they were “high-security prisoners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the fact that all visitors are subjected to invasive patdowns and escorts, detainees reported that everyone, even those classified as low-security, are required to meet lawyers and loved ones behind glass and treated as convicted prisoners,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most alarming,” he told the officials, “were the failures in medical care and grievance processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both a senior ICE official and facility staff admitted that urgent medical requests and grievances may sit unattended for weeks and are not reviewed on weekends or holidays,” he wrote. “Detainees described even longer delays and reported being placed in solitary confinement when they complained of medical needs — an extraordinarily troubling and punitive practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not respond to KQED’s request for comment. The agency has consistently said it is detaining and deporting the “worst of the worst” violent criminals, highlighting specific people arrested in daily press releases. However, ICE’s own data show that, as of late December, just 26% of those in detention were convicted of any crime. Another 26% faced some sort of pending criminal charge, while 48% were accused of only a civil immigration violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna’s oversight demands come as Democrats wage an all-out push to rein in DHS after the weekend killing of Pretti, who was filming immigration agents on a Minneapolis street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-California, right, speak with Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds its first public hearing to reveal the findings of a yearlong investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Senate Democrats are vowing to vote against an appropriations bill that includes DHS funding, raising the prospect of a partial government shutdown by week’s end. Last week, all but seven House Democrats voted against the funding bill, but they lacked the votes to stop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Bay Area Democrats, including Reps. Zoe Lofgren, Eric Swalwell and Mike Thompson, have signed on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/996/text\">articles of impeachment\u003c/a> against Noem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Raul Ruiz, a Coachella Valley Democrat, tried to make an oversight visit to the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County on Wednesday but was turned away. Ruiz said he requested the visit more than seven days in advance, following a recent ICE policy with which he disagrees. He said ICE also refused him entry to the Adelanto facility in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Alex Padilla, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070519/california-senators-visit-immigration-jail-ahead-of-looming-ice-funding-bill-deadline\">made an oversight visit\u003c/a> with Sen. Adam Schiff to the California City detention facility last week, has introduced a bill to overhaul ICE detention and increase accountability. The bill, co-authored with Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., would:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>End ICE family detention, where children are held;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Only allow DHS to detain people it can show are a threat to public safety or national security;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Require ICE facilities to meet the \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/commission_on_immigration/abaimmdetstds.pdf\">American Bar Association’s Civil Immigration Detention Standards\u003c/a>;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mandate unannounced inspections by the DHS inspector general, along with meaningful penalties if standards are not met;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Phase out private detention facilities, run by for-profit companies;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>End the use of solitary confinement in immigration detention.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12070624 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Adam Schiff, right, walks with Sen. Alex Padilla during a visit to an immigration detention center on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE does set \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management\">standards\u003c/a> for detention facilities, whether operated by the agency itself, a private-prison company or a county jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is responsible for monitoring compliance with standards, and the DHS inspector general can also inspect. 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They also approved a bill, written by Wiener, to prohibit local and federal law enforcement officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058936/masking-bill-fuels-california-legal-battle-over-federal-immigration-agents\">from wearing masks\u003c/a> on duty — which is currently facing a legal challenge from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 747’s supporters said it would give Californians a chance to hold federal officials accountable in a way that can be difficult under current law.[aside postID=news_12070480 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-4-KQED-1020x574.jpg']“Today we are deliberating an issue to try to solve and also remedy the fear that folks are living with,” Senate President pro Tem Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara, said. “In combination with the fact that we have not seen due process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener argued that existing law makes it difficult for victims to receive damages in federal court. 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Those concerns also dominated follow-up conversations KQED had with voters first interviewed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039390/do-california-trump-supporters-have-buyers-remorse-not-so-far\">100 days\u003c/a> into Trump’s second administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Southern California and the Central Valley to the North Coast, seven voters offer a mixed review of Trump’s performance. They weigh in on a range of issues, including sweeping tariffs, immigration raids, National Guard deployments and a redistricting battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is general support for his “America First” platform, they are divided on whether the president’s actions fulfill that mandate. Several also criticized Trump’s rhetoric and tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Emerson Green, 26, El Dorado County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of all of his expectations for Trump’s second term, Emerson Green had been most optimistic that the president would improve the economy. Instead, he said he’s deeply disappointed and believes Trump let him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish I never voted for him,” Green said. “It’s not that he lied or he didn’t hold up his promise. It is that he did the exact opposite, with intent, of what he promised he was going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Trump returned to the White House, Green got engaged and is expecting a baby in May. The 26-year-old now works at O’Reilly Auto Parts after changing jobs twice last year. He said he’s noticed the cost of some car parts rising because of tariffs, though not as dramatically as he expected when Trump announced his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033974/trumps-april-2nd-liberation-day\">“Liberation Day” tariffs\u003c/a> last April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1489px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039098\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1489\" height=\"993\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg 1489w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1489px) 100vw, 1489px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerson Green sits during a hike in Adams Canyon, Utah, on May 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Emerson Green)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He’s also noticed everyday expenses like groceries and medication becoming more expensive and has begun to see home ownership as nearly unattainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of owning a house at this point in my life seems like something that is, if I even do it, it might be 30 years out at this point,” Green said. “It’s probably as bleak as it gets for young people these days … and [Trump] has done nothing to improve that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Green’s mom received an offer letter for a job with the Internal Revenue Service, but when Trump issued a government hiring freeze, her offer was rescinded. It took her a couple of months to find another job, and she now works in funeral insurance sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is really struggling to make ends meet,” Green said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond his dissatisfaction with the economy, Green is most critical of Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069211/after-maduros-capture-venezuela-faces-old-u-s-shadows-and-uncertain-future\">military intervention in Venezuela\u003c/a>, which he sees as veering away from the president’s pledge to prioritize America first. On Jan. 3, Trump ordered U.S. forces to seize President Nicolás Maduro in a stunning extraction that resulted in Venezuela’s leader facing federal charges in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t see a strategic benefit to it at all,” Green said. “I do think he did it as, like, a stunt to boost his approval ratings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green also faults Trump for repeatedly delaying the release of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910661/president-trump-tries-fails-to-stem-epstein-files-controversy\">Epstein files\u003c/a>, then issuing heavily redacted documents despite vows on the campaign trail to declassify them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You may as well have red hands,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Ben Pino, 56, Los Angeles County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis over the weekend, Ben Pino still stands behind the administration’s immigration tactics. The shooting marks the second killing this month of a Minneapolis resident during an operation after 37-year-old Renee Good was fatally shot in her car by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer earlier in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino believes Pretti and Good were “antagonizing the feds,” echoing \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2015188497003319557\">statements\u003c/a> made by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who said Pretti approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and claimed, without evidence, that he attacked officers with the intent to harm them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Pino in his neighborhood in Los Angeles County on May 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo for LAist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Video footage shows Pretti holding a phone, with his concealed gun removed from his waistband by an agent, before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the loss of life is tragic. I think that those young people used poor judgment and got themselves killed,” Pino said. “I don’t understand the outrage, to be quite honest with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino lives in the Diamond District in Los Angeles and works in Carson. He supported Trump’s decision to deploy thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043314/california-to-sue-trump-for-sending-national-guard-troops-into-la-after-ice-protests\">California National Guard\u003c/a> troops to Southern California, without the governor’s approval, to quell anti-ICE protests last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask me, ICE needed some kind of protection because people were going nuts,” he said.[aside postID=news_12039390 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_1018-1020x765.jpg']In December, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068845/trump-returns-control-of-california-national-guard-after-rare-supreme-court-loss\">a lower-court ruling\u003c/a> barring Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago without Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a little bit surprised that they can take that kind of power away from the president of the United States. He is the ultimate leader of our country,” Pino said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he bristled at limits on the president’s authority at home, Pino praised Trump for exercising that power abroad by ordering a military incursion into Venezuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen a president take an action like going into a foreign country, grabbing its Communist criminal leader and bringing them back to face trial,” Pino said. “It’s one of the most spectacular foreign policy events that I’ve seen any American president make in my lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba, hopes Trump will intervene there, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a Cuban American, I feel that direct U.S. intervention should happen if you want to protect something that’s that close to your shores,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year in, Pino remains fully on board with the administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I approve of everything he’s done so far,” he said. “I’m a bigger fan now than you found me last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Kim Durham, 68, Sacramento County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kim Durham is thankful to have Trump in office, but wants to see him temper his rhetoric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he shoots himself in the foot by saying things he doesn’t need to say,” she said. “Decorum could be utilized a little bit in public speaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration ranks among Durham’s top policy concerns, and she supports Trump’s rapid push to secure the southern border as well as his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060821/bay-area-advocates-head-to-court-to-halt-trump-administrations-immigration-policies\">aggressive approach to deportations\u003c/a>. Her daughter is a police officer, and Durham believes national media coverage has fueled hostility toward ICE that has spilled over to local law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039089\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Durham sits outside of an apartment she rents outside of Sacramento on May 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just infuriating to watch just regular people in uniforms … have to fight through angry mobs of cars,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the killing of Pretti, Durham repeated Noem’s rhetoric, blaming Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for not coordinating with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’ve let ICE do the job that they’ve been called to do, this wouldn’t be happening,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durham would not condemn the individual officers involved, saying that a final judgment should come from the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no guarantee that individually every ICE agent is gonna act perfect,” she said. “So, I don’t believe as a whole ICE is wrong. Or even necessarily overreaching.”[aside postID=news_12070426 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-robbontapb-05-bl-KQED.jpg']Durham also backs Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard in Los Angeles, and said she wishes state leaders would cooperate with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some that say he’s a dictator. Well, no, he’s not a dictator — we voted him in,” she said. “I think it would all be a lot better if we didn’t resist the federal government and instead just got together and said, ‘Hey, I’m with you … Let’s sit down, work together and clean it up instead of fight it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On health care, Durham said she’s glad to see the administration target Medicaid fraud. In July, Trump signed into law his sweeping policy bill, including an estimated $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts. Much of that reduction would come from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047647/trumps-health-law-spurs-big-medi-cal-changes-what-californians-need-to-know\">new work requirements\u003c/a> and additional paperwork demands that would shrink enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I honestly believe if all the fraud could be cut out of Medicaid and Medicare, we would be in a surplus of money,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durham also praised Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/other-health/tracking-key-hhs-public-health-policy-actions-under-the-trump-administration/\">initiatives\u003c/a>, especially efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037182/rfk-jr-announced-phase-out-poisonous-food-dyes-critics-say-plan-lacks-teeth\">remove synthetic dyes\u003c/a> from the food supply and curb ultra-processed foods, raising concerns about what her grandchild eats. She’s also in favor of his updated childhood vaccine schedule, calling the previous standard “ridiculous” and saying families need choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Cindy Cremona, 66, formerly San Diego County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Cindy Cremona heard about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/proposition-50\">Proposition 50\u003c/a>, the November 2025 ballot measure approved by voters that redraws California’s congressional maps, she felt Republicans would never have a voice in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for many, people just felt that it was going to lock in California as a blue state forever and ever,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Cremona moved from Encinitas, a coastal city in northern San Diego County, to Wellington, Florida. She had been considering the move since Gov. Gavin Newsom took office in 2019 and was even more compelled to leave during the pandemic, when she felt the state went too far with vaccine and mask mandates and lockdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039413\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Cremona and her 12-year-old Andalusian horse, Durango, in San Marcos, California, on May 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Carolyne Corelis/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, she reached her breaking point and decided to move, citing “the politics, the taxes, the over-regulation, the traffic, the overdevelopment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cremona finds Florida’s housing costs and policies preferable to California’s. For instance, she took issue with last year’s passing of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059533/newsom-signs-ambitious-bill-to-boost-housing-density-near-public-transit\">SB 79\u003c/a>, which makes it easier to build apartment buildings near major public transit stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s optimistic about Trump’s housing proposals, including a recent pledge to target institutional investors who buy up single-family homes. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069094/in-final-state-of-state-speech-gov-newsom-says-california-offers-model-for-the-nation\">echoed a similar stance\u003c/a> toward corporate landlords in his State of the State address, a rare instance of political overlap between the Democratic governor and the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking ahead, Cremona expressed confidence in the president’s ability to deliver on other economic promises, like lower food and energy costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think 2026 is the year where we’ll see some of those policies borne out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Debbie Pope, 60, Long Beach\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Debbie Pope is deeply disillusioned with Trump’s first year back in office. At the beginning of 2025, she welcomed what she described as Trump’s “guns-a-blazing” return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071090\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12071090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Pope in her Long Beach home on May 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Debbie Pope)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But her view shifted in the second half of the year, following the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055470/conservative-activist-charlie-kirk-in-critical-condition-after-being-shot-during-utah-college-event\">assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk\u003c/a> and repeated delays in releasing the Epstein files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw a whole different view of Trump after that for some reason,” she said. “The biggest disappointment is the Epstein files. It’s just like, Trump, you’re in them. You’re in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pope voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024, but before that, she was a Democrat and voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. Her party switch was driven by a distaste for Hillary Clinton and Trump’s hardline stance on immigration, one of her top policy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The daughter of a Nicaraguan immigrant, Pope supports stricter border enforcement — and thinks Trump has failed to deliver on promises of mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants to see the president focus on domestic issues, like ramping up deportations even more, rather than foreign military interventions in Venezuela and Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s veered off the America First train, I think,” she said. “So yeah, I’m a little disappointed in him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Pope sees Trump as prioritizing the interests of billionaires over those of his constituents. She also points to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101912301/whats-behind-president-trumps-aesthetic\">massive ballroom renovations\u003c/a> and putting his name on the Kennedy Center as diversions from America First.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dude, we know you’re a narcissist, but really, you’re getting carried away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Ron Dawson, 68, Eureka\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ron Dawson said he would give Trump’s performance in 2025 a B+. He feels his cost of living has improved since Trump took office, noting lower grocery and fuel prices. He still wants to see the president lower the federal deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dawson voted for Trump in 2024, but his preferred presidential candidate was Nikki Haley. He still favors the president over Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068699\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717.jpeg\" alt=\"President Trump, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks to the press at his Mar-a-Lago residence.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks to the press at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday following U.S. military actions in Venezuela. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson | AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once a Democrat like his parents, Dawson said the last time he voted blue was for Bill Clinton in 1996. Since then, he’s felt like the Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910306/can-the-left-win-back-working-class-voters\">Party has become elitist\u003c/a>, prioritizing identity politics and social justice issues, which he said have “nothing to do with running a country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before settling in Eureka six years ago, Dawson spent almost five decades in Southern California. He recalls working as a machinist in 1980 and losing the job to an immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could work cheaper than I would accept,” he said. “I have a problem with the system. The system I recognized way back then is really broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Dawson approves of Trump’s secure border platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now living in far Northern California, Dawson is critical of Proposition 50 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061715/california-divided-heres-whats-at-stake-for-californians-whose-districts-could-get-rewritten-by-prop-50\">newly redrawn\u003c/a> 2nd Congressional District. Previously stretching from Marin County to the Oregon border, the new boundaries push further inland to the Nevada border, pulling in Siskiyou, Modoc and Shasta counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our congressional representative, Jared Huffman — he already has a very, very large district and a lot of people say, like, you never see him, never hear from him,” Dawson said. “They didn’t stop and think, how does this one guy represent such a large area?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those concerns deepened following the recent death of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068742/northern-california-republican-congressman-doug-lamalfa-dies-at-65\">Rep. Doug LaMalfa\u003c/a>, a Republican who represented rural Northern California for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Mari Barke, Orange County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mari Barke, president of the Orange County Board of Education, has mostly positive things to say about the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He puts our country first, which to me is critically important of somebody who is president,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071083\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 864px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12071083 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED.jpg 864w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED-160x152.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mari Barke, photographed at the California Policy Center in Irvine in 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mari Barke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Above all, she aligns with Trump’s education agenda, like his \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/\">executive order\u003c/a> banning transgender athletes\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069570/california-advocates-fearful-as-supreme-court-weighs-bans-of-trans-student-athletes\"> from participating in girls’\u003c/a> and women’s sports and his push to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-schooling/\">eliminate \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065920/trump-orders-dei-out-of-national-park-bookstores\">diversity, equity and inclusion programs\u003c/a>. The administration has threatened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030028/trump-cut-education-grants-over-dei-it-will-worsen-teacher-shortages-lawsuit-says\">withhold federal funding\u003c/a> from schools with DEI initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important to get rid of all the biases and just let people enter higher education based on merit,” Barke said, arguing that merit incentivizes students to work hard and reduces the likelihood of academic failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barke is a staunch advocate for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019618/california-bans-schools-from-forcing-teachers-to-out-lgbtq-students\">parental notification policies\u003c/a>, which require school teachers and staff to notify parents if their child identifies as a gender other than what they were assigned at birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never think it’s a good idea to teach children to lie to their parents,” she said. “I think if a child is going through something like that, nothing is more important than having your parents’ love. I have a gay son who has a husband, and I love him to death, no matter who he is or what he decides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her alignment with the administration, Barke occasionally finds fault with Trump’s delivery, suggesting he could behave “more presidential” so as not to offend people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Southern California and the Central Valley to the North Coast, seven voters offer a mixed review of Trump’s performance. They weigh in on a range of issues, including sweeping tariffs, immigration raids, National Guard deployments and a redistricting battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is general support for his “America First” platform, they are divided on whether the president’s actions fulfill that mandate. Several also criticized Trump’s rhetoric and tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Emerson Green, 26, El Dorado County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of all of his expectations for Trump’s second term, Emerson Green had been most optimistic that the president would improve the economy. Instead, he said he’s deeply disappointed and believes Trump let him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish I never voted for him,” Green said. “It’s not that he lied or he didn’t hold up his promise. It is that he did the exact opposite, with intent, of what he promised he was going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Trump returned to the White House, Green got engaged and is expecting a baby in May. The 26-year-old now works at O’Reilly Auto Parts after changing jobs twice last year. He said he’s noticed the cost of some car parts rising because of tariffs, though not as dramatically as he expected when Trump announced his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033974/trumps-april-2nd-liberation-day\">“Liberation Day” tariffs\u003c/a> last April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1489px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039098\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1489\" height=\"993\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg 1489w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1489px) 100vw, 1489px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerson Green sits during a hike in Adams Canyon, Utah, on May 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Emerson Green)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He’s also noticed everyday expenses like groceries and medication becoming more expensive and has begun to see home ownership as nearly unattainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of owning a house at this point in my life seems like something that is, if I even do it, it might be 30 years out at this point,” Green said. “It’s probably as bleak as it gets for young people these days … and [Trump] has done nothing to improve that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Green’s mom received an offer letter for a job with the Internal Revenue Service, but when Trump issued a government hiring freeze, her offer was rescinded. It took her a couple of months to find another job, and she now works in funeral insurance sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is really struggling to make ends meet,” Green said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond his dissatisfaction with the economy, Green is most critical of Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069211/after-maduros-capture-venezuela-faces-old-u-s-shadows-and-uncertain-future\">military intervention in Venezuela\u003c/a>, which he sees as veering away from the president’s pledge to prioritize America first. On Jan. 3, Trump ordered U.S. forces to seize President Nicolás Maduro in a stunning extraction that resulted in Venezuela’s leader facing federal charges in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t see a strategic benefit to it at all,” Green said. “I do think he did it as, like, a stunt to boost his approval ratings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green also faults Trump for repeatedly delaying the release of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910661/president-trump-tries-fails-to-stem-epstein-files-controversy\">Epstein files\u003c/a>, then issuing heavily redacted documents despite vows on the campaign trail to declassify them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You may as well have red hands,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Ben Pino, 56, Los Angeles County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis over the weekend, Ben Pino still stands behind the administration’s immigration tactics. The shooting marks the second killing this month of a Minneapolis resident during an operation after 37-year-old Renee Good was fatally shot in her car by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer earlier in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino believes Pretti and Good were “antagonizing the feds,” echoing \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2015188497003319557\">statements\u003c/a> made by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who said Pretti approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and claimed, without evidence, that he attacked officers with the intent to harm them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Pino in his neighborhood in Los Angeles County on May 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo for LAist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Video footage shows Pretti holding a phone, with his concealed gun removed from his waistband by an agent, before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the loss of life is tragic. I think that those young people used poor judgment and got themselves killed,” Pino said. “I don’t understand the outrage, to be quite honest with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino lives in the Diamond District in Los Angeles and works in Carson. He supported Trump’s decision to deploy thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043314/california-to-sue-trump-for-sending-national-guard-troops-into-la-after-ice-protests\">California National Guard\u003c/a> troops to Southern California, without the governor’s approval, to quell anti-ICE protests last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask me, ICE needed some kind of protection because people were going nuts,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In December, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068845/trump-returns-control-of-california-national-guard-after-rare-supreme-court-loss\">a lower-court ruling\u003c/a> barring Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago without Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a little bit surprised that they can take that kind of power away from the president of the United States. He is the ultimate leader of our country,” Pino said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he bristled at limits on the president’s authority at home, Pino praised Trump for exercising that power abroad by ordering a military incursion into Venezuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen a president take an action like going into a foreign country, grabbing its Communist criminal leader and bringing them back to face trial,” Pino said. “It’s one of the most spectacular foreign policy events that I’ve seen any American president make in my lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba, hopes Trump will intervene there, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a Cuban American, I feel that direct U.S. intervention should happen if you want to protect something that’s that close to your shores,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year in, Pino remains fully on board with the administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I approve of everything he’s done so far,” he said. “I’m a bigger fan now than you found me last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Kim Durham, 68, Sacramento County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kim Durham is thankful to have Trump in office, but wants to see him temper his rhetoric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he shoots himself in the foot by saying things he doesn’t need to say,” she said. “Decorum could be utilized a little bit in public speaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration ranks among Durham’s top policy concerns, and she supports Trump’s rapid push to secure the southern border as well as his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060821/bay-area-advocates-head-to-court-to-halt-trump-administrations-immigration-policies\">aggressive approach to deportations\u003c/a>. Her daughter is a police officer, and Durham believes national media coverage has fueled hostility toward ICE that has spilled over to local law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039089\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Durham sits outside of an apartment she rents outside of Sacramento on May 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just infuriating to watch just regular people in uniforms … have to fight through angry mobs of cars,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the killing of Pretti, Durham repeated Noem’s rhetoric, blaming Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for not coordinating with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’ve let ICE do the job that they’ve been called to do, this wouldn’t be happening,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durham would not condemn the individual officers involved, saying that a final judgment should come from the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no guarantee that individually every ICE agent is gonna act perfect,” she said. “So, I don’t believe as a whole ICE is wrong. Or even necessarily overreaching.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Durham also backs Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard in Los Angeles, and said she wishes state leaders would cooperate with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some that say he’s a dictator. Well, no, he’s not a dictator — we voted him in,” she said. “I think it would all be a lot better if we didn’t resist the federal government and instead just got together and said, ‘Hey, I’m with you … Let’s sit down, work together and clean it up instead of fight it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On health care, Durham said she’s glad to see the administration target Medicaid fraud. In July, Trump signed into law his sweeping policy bill, including an estimated $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts. Much of that reduction would come from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047647/trumps-health-law-spurs-big-medi-cal-changes-what-californians-need-to-know\">new work requirements\u003c/a> and additional paperwork demands that would shrink enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I honestly believe if all the fraud could be cut out of Medicaid and Medicare, we would be in a surplus of money,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durham also praised Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/other-health/tracking-key-hhs-public-health-policy-actions-under-the-trump-administration/\">initiatives\u003c/a>, especially efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037182/rfk-jr-announced-phase-out-poisonous-food-dyes-critics-say-plan-lacks-teeth\">remove synthetic dyes\u003c/a> from the food supply and curb ultra-processed foods, raising concerns about what her grandchild eats. She’s also in favor of his updated childhood vaccine schedule, calling the previous standard “ridiculous” and saying families need choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Cindy Cremona, 66, formerly San Diego County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Cindy Cremona heard about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/proposition-50\">Proposition 50\u003c/a>, the November 2025 ballot measure approved by voters that redraws California’s congressional maps, she felt Republicans would never have a voice in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for many, people just felt that it was going to lock in California as a blue state forever and ever,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Cremona moved from Encinitas, a coastal city in northern San Diego County, to Wellington, Florida. She had been considering the move since Gov. Gavin Newsom took office in 2019 and was even more compelled to leave during the pandemic, when she felt the state went too far with vaccine and mask mandates and lockdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039413\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Cremona and her 12-year-old Andalusian horse, Durango, in San Marcos, California, on May 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Carolyne Corelis/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, she reached her breaking point and decided to move, citing “the politics, the taxes, the over-regulation, the traffic, the overdevelopment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cremona finds Florida’s housing costs and policies preferable to California’s. For instance, she took issue with last year’s passing of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059533/newsom-signs-ambitious-bill-to-boost-housing-density-near-public-transit\">SB 79\u003c/a>, which makes it easier to build apartment buildings near major public transit stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s optimistic about Trump’s housing proposals, including a recent pledge to target institutional investors who buy up single-family homes. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069094/in-final-state-of-state-speech-gov-newsom-says-california-offers-model-for-the-nation\">echoed a similar stance\u003c/a> toward corporate landlords in his State of the State address, a rare instance of political overlap between the Democratic governor and the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking ahead, Cremona expressed confidence in the president’s ability to deliver on other economic promises, like lower food and energy costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think 2026 is the year where we’ll see some of those policies borne out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Debbie Pope, 60, Long Beach\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Debbie Pope is deeply disillusioned with Trump’s first year back in office. At the beginning of 2025, she welcomed what she described as Trump’s “guns-a-blazing” return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071090\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12071090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Pope in her Long Beach home on May 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Debbie Pope)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But her view shifted in the second half of the year, following the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055470/conservative-activist-charlie-kirk-in-critical-condition-after-being-shot-during-utah-college-event\">assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk\u003c/a> and repeated delays in releasing the Epstein files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw a whole different view of Trump after that for some reason,” she said. “The biggest disappointment is the Epstein files. It’s just like, Trump, you’re in them. You’re in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pope voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024, but before that, she was a Democrat and voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. Her party switch was driven by a distaste for Hillary Clinton and Trump’s hardline stance on immigration, one of her top policy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The daughter of a Nicaraguan immigrant, Pope supports stricter border enforcement — and thinks Trump has failed to deliver on promises of mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants to see the president focus on domestic issues, like ramping up deportations even more, rather than foreign military interventions in Venezuela and Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s veered off the America First train, I think,” she said. “So yeah, I’m a little disappointed in him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Pope sees Trump as prioritizing the interests of billionaires over those of his constituents. She also points to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101912301/whats-behind-president-trumps-aesthetic\">massive ballroom renovations\u003c/a> and putting his name on the Kennedy Center as diversions from America First.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dude, we know you’re a narcissist, but really, you’re getting carried away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Ron Dawson, 68, Eureka\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ron Dawson said he would give Trump’s performance in 2025 a B+. He feels his cost of living has improved since Trump took office, noting lower grocery and fuel prices. He still wants to see the president lower the federal deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dawson voted for Trump in 2024, but his preferred presidential candidate was Nikki Haley. He still favors the president over Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068699\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717.jpeg\" alt=\"President Trump, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks to the press at his Mar-a-Lago residence.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks to the press at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday following U.S. military actions in Venezuela. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson | AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once a Democrat like his parents, Dawson said the last time he voted blue was for Bill Clinton in 1996. Since then, he’s felt like the Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910306/can-the-left-win-back-working-class-voters\">Party has become elitist\u003c/a>, prioritizing identity politics and social justice issues, which he said have “nothing to do with running a country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before settling in Eureka six years ago, Dawson spent almost five decades in Southern California. He recalls working as a machinist in 1980 and losing the job to an immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could work cheaper than I would accept,” he said. “I have a problem with the system. The system I recognized way back then is really broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Dawson approves of Trump’s secure border platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now living in far Northern California, Dawson is critical of Proposition 50 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061715/california-divided-heres-whats-at-stake-for-californians-whose-districts-could-get-rewritten-by-prop-50\">newly redrawn\u003c/a> 2nd Congressional District. Previously stretching from Marin County to the Oregon border, the new boundaries push further inland to the Nevada border, pulling in Siskiyou, Modoc and Shasta counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our congressional representative, Jared Huffman — he already has a very, very large district and a lot of people say, like, you never see him, never hear from him,” Dawson said. “They didn’t stop and think, how does this one guy represent such a large area?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those concerns deepened following the recent death of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068742/northern-california-republican-congressman-doug-lamalfa-dies-at-65\">Rep. 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The administration has threatened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030028/trump-cut-education-grants-over-dei-it-will-worsen-teacher-shortages-lawsuit-says\">withhold federal funding\u003c/a> from schools with DEI initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important to get rid of all the biases and just let people enter higher education based on merit,” Barke said, arguing that merit incentivizes students to work hard and reduces the likelihood of academic failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barke is a staunch advocate for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019618/california-bans-schools-from-forcing-teachers-to-out-lgbtq-students\">parental notification policies\u003c/a>, which require school teachers and staff to notify parents if their child identifies as a gender other than what they were assigned at birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never think it’s a good idea to teach children to lie to their parents,” she said. “I think if a child is going through something like that, nothing is more important than having your parents’ love. 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Californians that voted for him in the 2024 US presidential election weigh in on how he’s doing this time around.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nurses working at Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Northern California and parts of Hawaii began their strike today, asking for better wages and more manageable workloads.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The US Department of Justice has just ended its efforts to obtain the medical records for more than 3,000 people who had been provided gender-affirming care at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trump’s Second Term Evokes Mixed Reactions from Supporters in the Golden State\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump’s second term in office has been one marked with a string of unprecedented occurrences. The Trump Administration’s actions over the course of the first year into his second term have made seismic shifts to\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/24/nx-s1-5687236/canada-china-tariffs-trump\"> trade\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/24/nx-s1-5687168/trump-administration-defense-strategy\">foreign relations\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/15/nx-s1-5677230/state-department-memo-pauses-immigrant-visas-for-75-countries\">immigration policies\u003c/a> in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html\">New York Times/Sienna University poll\u003c/a> shows that, nationally, about 40 percent of registered American voters approve of how the president and his administration is handling the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Republican voters are still standing strong in the president’s corner–even in California. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-december-2025/\">poll conducted last month by the Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a> shows that Trump has a 79-percent approval rating among Republicans in the Golden State, even when his statewide approval rating sits at 25 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reporter Izzy Bloom circled back with Trump voters she spoke with last year, on how they think his first year back in the White House went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://unacuhcp.org/news/15501/\">\u003cstrong>Kaiser Permanente Nurses Begin “Unfair Labor Practice” Strike\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 31,000 nurses and healthcare workers walked out of Kaiser Permanente hospitals and facilities in California and Hawaii this morning, kicking off an indefinite strike over better staffing numbers and the healthcare giant’s alleged unfair labor practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, the organization representing the striking workers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070263/union-of-31000-kaiser-workers-to-go-on-indefinite-strike\">voted on January 16th\u003c/a> to walk off the job. The absence of staff is expected to be felt \u003ca href=\"https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/southern-california/alerts/p2/labor-strike-from-the-united-nurses-associations-of-california-u\">at around 20 Kaiser hospitals and 200 clinics across both states.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UNAC/UHCP says that Kaiser attempted to sidestep good-faith negotiation practices when it suspended national bargaining last month. The move spurred \u003ca href=\"https://unacuhcp.org/news/unac-uhcp-files-unfair-labor-practice-charge-against-kaiser-permanente-for-bypassing-bargaining-and-undermining-good-faith-negotiations/\">the Alliance of Health Care Unions to file a case against the healthcare provide with the National Labor Relations Board.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charmaine Morales, who’s President of UNAC/UHCP, said in a statement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070263/union-of-31000-kaiser-workers-to-go-on-indefinite-strike\">when the strike was first announced\u003c/a> that the union is striking to “win staffing that protects patients, win workload standards that stop moral injury, and win the respect and dignity Kaiser has denied for far too long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The healthcare provider said in \u003ca href=\"https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/who-we-are/labor-relations/alliance-national-bargaining/media-statements/kaiser-permanente-statement-on-best-way-forward-alliance-bargaining\">a statement last week\u003c/a> that its offer to workers includes a 21-percent pay increase, and that company leadership is willing to meet union leaders for local bargaining negotiations, even as strikes continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser alleges that \u003ca href=\"https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/who-we-are/labor-relations/alliance-national-bargaining/videos/why-we-paused-bargaining\">it halted national bargaining after a union official threatened to release evidence that the company has engaged in unethical practices. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2026/01/childrens-hospital-transgender-patients-california/\">\u003cstrong>DOJ Drops Pursuit of Trans Patients Medical Records from California Hospital\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transgender patients of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles secured a win this week after the U.S. Department of Justice agreed to end its efforts to obtain personal and medical information of more than 3,000 young patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, the federal Justice Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-subpoenas-doctors-and-clinics-involved-performing-transgender-medical\">announced that it sent subpoenas\u003c/a> to more than 20 medical providers that offered gender-affirming care for minors. At the time, the department said it was doing so to investigate “healthcare fraud” and “false statements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven families whose children have received gender-affirming services at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles sued in November to quash the subpoena to protect their information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department never provided evidence of fraud, said Khadijah Silver, director of Gender Justice & Health Equity at Lawyers for Good Government, one of the firms representing families in the class action lawsuit. The hospital did not not turn over the requested documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was basically a fishing expedition,” Silver said. “Without any probable cause, they did not have the authority to be seeking medical information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles did not immediately return requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department subpoena demanded the hospital provide a large range of documents, including patient intake forms, insurance claims and “documents sufficient to identify each patient (by name, date of birth, social security number, address, and parent/guardian information) who was prescribed puberty blockers or hormone therapy,” court documents show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the agreement, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Notice-of-Dismissal.pdf\">filed in federal court this past Thursday\u003c/a>, the Justice Department will withdraw requests for documents that identified patients or their families through 2029.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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