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However, that alone is unlikely to sway university administrators, who note that aside from the operating budget, the center also needs millions of dollars in maintenance and repairs to continue functioning properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I presented a plan to the university leadership for how we would cover our costs so that there would be no cost to the general fund for the next three years,” Boyer said, a day after meeting with administrators. “They don’t pay for anything then. 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The USD 201 million building, which opened in 2013, serves as the headquarters of the media organization that creates and distributes news, information and music programming to 975 independent radio stations throughout the US, reaching 26 million listeners each week. \u003ccite>(Saul Loeb /AFP via Getty Image)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, if federal funding were to dry up for small local stations, they might be unable to keep up operations, threatening to exacerbate the growing problem of “news deserts” in rural areas across California and the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED also receives CPB funding, which made up 7.6% of the organization’s 2024 budget, but smaller stations like KAZU in Monterey County and KZYX collected 13% and 22% of their revenue in 2023 from CPB, respectively, according to financial statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The backbone of our local democracy is smaller news outlets, local news outlets, particularly in far-flung parts of California, rural parts of California, suburban parts of California, where large outlets don’t necessarily have as much reach,” said Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, the president of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Northern California chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the research points to the fact that … more bribery, more scandal emerges from local government, state government, government in general, when you don’t have a robust press playing a check on them,” he continued.[aside postID=news_12038481 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Polkinghorne said Mendocino residents rely on KZYX to get news in isolated parts of the sprawling Northern California county, where there isn’t a dedicated public television station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have people who call us, they don’t decide what to wear that day until they hear our weather report in the morning,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has repeatedly accused NPR and PBS of left-wing bias, spurring a tense \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033078/watch-live-npr-pbs-heads-answer-lawmakers-allegations-of-bias\">congressional hearing\u003c/a> in March during which Republicans criticized the organizations’ CEOs over their news coverage. NPR CEO Katherine Maher was also asked about posts she made on social media criticizing Trump during the 2020 election, before she was the head of the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s executive order not only targets direct CPB funding of NPR and PBS; it also instructs CPB to ensure local stations do not use any federal funds to pay the national networks. Under their current agreements, member stations contribute fees to NPR and PBS in exchange for access to their programming, like \u003cem>Morning Edition \u003c/em>and \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher said that programming provided by NPR, which gets about 2% of its budget from the federal government through direct and indirect means, generates about 25% of local stations’ content and 50% of their listenership. 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"content": "\u003cp>If President Trump has adopted the Silicon Valley ethos of “move fast and break things” for his second term, then “move slow and get out of the way” could be the corresponding marching orders on Capitol Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has taken about 140 executive actions in his first 100 days in office — a rapid pace that rivals the 162 actions President Biden took in his entire time in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider in the same period of time, Congress has enacted just \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/US/legislation?status=passed\">five laws\u003c/a>, a low watermark in modern congressional history for this time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To a large extent, Trump is enjoying the spoils of unilateral party control of Washington, where there has been no significant pushback as he legislates through executive actions on everything from immigration to election law, ignores statutes that require the White House to inform the Senate on certain actions before taking them, upends the economy with tariffs that Congress could technically block and, most notably, allowed billionaire Elon Musk to lead a government “department” — without confirmation hearings before the Senate — that has unilaterally slashed and cut agencies and programs funded by Congress through its constitutional authority to determine how taxpayer dollars get spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a testament to the strength of Trump’s party loyalty, GOP leaders have taken little issue with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a gross overreaction in the media to what is happening,” Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters earlier this year when asked whether Musk’s government slashing efforts were trampling on congressional turf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson has said the president has the authority to make sure dollars in the executive agencies are well spent. “It looks radical, it’s not. I call it stewardship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are signals that all is not well with some in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, made a stunning admission at an event in Anchorage during the last congressional recess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all afraid,” she told constituents. “It’s quite a statement, but we are in a time and a place where I certainly have not been before, and I’ll tell ya, I’m oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice, because retaliation is real. And that’s not right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Meet the new Congress, same as the old Congress\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump didn’t start this, said Joseph Postell, an associate professor of politics at Hillsdale College, but he is benefiting from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congress has for decades kind of ceded its authority, including authority over fiscal matters, appropriations, budgets, things like that,” he told NPR. “I think it’s a huge concern in this Congress, the extent to which Trump has been able to lead the Congress on fiscal questions, but I also don’t think that’s out of keeping with the way Congress has performed or conducted itself over the last few decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101909333 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/03/Luke-Broadwater-Annie-Karni-1020x574.png']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress is designed to be a co-equal branch of government and a check on executive power, but in practice when the same party controls the White House, lawmakers in the modern era have proven willing to go along with the usurpation of their legislative power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dynamic applies to both parties — like when Democrats cheered Biden’s executive actions to create a student loan forgiveness program, which the Supreme Court later ruled unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was this fertile ground that has allowed Musk’s team to institute cuts across departments, agencies and programs with little pushback from the GOP-led Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congressional scholars like Postell say a government that functions like this is a cause for concern. “I see the decline of a Congress that legislates as a serious constitutional crisis that anybody who believes in republican government should be concerned about. So I tend not to see this as just a neutral change. I see it as a serious constitutional concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Show them the money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers also need to decide how they are going to approve the spending bills for fiscal year 2026 — which starts Oct. 1 — after punting on this year’s bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Kosar, a congressional scholar with the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, said it was understandable for Congress to want to clear the decks at the start of this Congress, but the real test of congressional muscle under Trump will be how they handle next year’s spending bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The patient we know as Congress, I do not think is wholly dead,” Kosar said, adding that House and Senate lawmakers will want some assurances that the money is actually going to be spent, because otherwise it’s a futile process. “I would think, ultimately, the appropriators’ desire for power would kick in. 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Republicans hold a slim two-seat majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do feel like the administration and congressional Republicans, to a degree, really are operating within a two-year window, and so the amount of deference that legislators are showing is to some degree, like, ‘we just have to do this to see if we can rack up as many wins as possible, because those midterms are probably not going to go our way.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Speaker Johnson has gone so far as to use parliamentary rules to effectively block the House’s ability to vote to repeal Trump’s tariffs, as well as any effort to vote on a resolution calling for an investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal messaging app to discuss sensitive military operations. “I think it’s an overreach here,” said Rep. 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In the past, reconciliation has been guided by that person’s judgment. For instance, Democrats wanted to include a $15 federal minimum wage hike in a 2021 pandemic relief package that advanced under reconciliation rules. But the parliamentarian nixed the policy because it did not comply with the complicated rules for what is allowed in such a bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, in order for a bill to qualify for reconciliation and the lower, 50-vote threshold for passage, it generally cannot increase the federal deficit over the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Republicans, backed by Majority Leader Thune, are already looking to bypass that rule — and the parliamentarian — to use a favorable analysis for the deficit impact of the tax cuts. 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"content": "\u003cp>The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to undo three federal waivers that let\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\"> California\u003c/a> set strict vehicle \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pollution\">pollution\u003c/a> standards. On Wednesday, the House voted against two waivers involving heavy trucking, and on Thursday, it voted to reverse a state rule that would require all new vehicles in the state to be zero-emission by 2035.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two nonpartisan government entities have advised Congress that it can’t actually reverse those waivers through the mechanism it’s using. The Senate now needs to decide whether to follow that guidance — or follow the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s standards have been described by supporters as ambitious, and by critics as unrealistic. Beginning with model year 2026, the state requires 35% of new cars sold by any given automaker to be zero-emission. Currently, about 25% of new cars sold in California are electric; the national average is closer to 10%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These rules are not something automakers can brush off or overlook. California is a huge state and a major auto market. Other states can’t set their own standards, but they can opt to follow California’s, and about a dozen have adopted its zero-emission rule. The result is that more than 30% of the U.S. auto market is governed by California’s policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s waiver has a massive impact,” Stephanie Brinley, the associate director of AutoIntelligence at S&P Global Mobility, wrote in a report in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032226\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic on Interstate 550 in Oakland flowing with cars, but without large diesel trucks, which are prohibited from driving on this interstate. \u003ccite>(Joyce Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a trade group representing automakers, had pushed hard for Congress to step in and overrule California because they argue that consumer demand for EVs is not strong enough to support California’s targets. John Bozzella, the trade group’s president, has warned that meeting the requirements \u003ca href=\"https://www.autosinnovate.org/posts/papers-reports/December%202024%20Memo%20-%20California%20and%20states%20with%20EV%20sales%20requirements.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>would “take a miracle”\u003c/u>\u003c/a> and said in a statement Wednesday that “thousands of American auto jobs and millions of units of U.S. auto production are at stake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups such as the Union of Concerned Scientists argue that flexibilities built into the rules make them \u003ca href=\"https://blog.ucs.org/dave-reichmuth/what-the-auto-industry-isnt-telling-you-about-californias-clean-vehicle-rules/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>more achievable than they seem\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. And they say stricter regulations are important for protecting public health and the climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This vote is an unprecedented and reckless attack on states’ legal authority to address the vehicle pollution causing asthma, lung disease and heart conditions,” Kathy Harris, Director of Clean Vehicles at the Natural Resources Defense Council, wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how we got here, and what’s next.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is a ‘California waiver’?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Picture Los Angeles in the 1940s and ’50s. Beautiful beaches, palm trees and picturesque homes — that were impossible to see behind a thick haze. That choking smog was fueled by air pollution from cars and industry, which became trapped mid-air by mountains and wind patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing this unusually severe problem, the state began regulating air pollution well before the federal government did. As a result, California has a unique privilege: It, alone among U.S. states, can impose its own emissions standards that are stricter than the nation’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each time California wants to add a new, stricter rule, it has to obtain a waiver from the EPA. It’s done that more than 75 times.[aside postID=news_12037646 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-09_qed-1020x680.jpg']Today, the House voted to rescind the waiver that let California issue its zero-emission rule for passenger cars, along with two more that allow California to set rules for heavy trucks. One rule would require more heavy trucks to be electric, while the other would require new diesel vehicles to become cleaner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those three California rules aren’t \u003cem>just \u003c/em>about reducing smog. Cars and trucks are a major source of carbon dioxide emissions that are warming the planet. Increasingly, California has become a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/11/24/456650555/california-an-environmental-leader-eyes-a-key-role-in-climate-talks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>global leader\u003c/u>\u003c/a> in reducing the carbon emissions that fuel climate change, and zero-emission vehicles are a key part of those climate policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s climate-minded vehicle regulations, far more aggressive than the federal standards and explicitly designed to fight climate change, have long \u003ca href=\"https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-speech-political-rally-green-bay-wisconsin-april-2-2024/#85\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>outraged\u003c/u>\u003c/a> President Trump and his \u003ca href=\"https://www.governing.com/resilience/a-blow-against-californias-ev-tyranny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>allies\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. Trump has dismissed climate concerns and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-5273496/trump-biden-climate-change-energy-fossil-fuels-paris-agreement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>prioritized the domestic fossil fuel industry\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5326354/trump-epa-environmental-rules-rollback-deregulation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>opposes regulations\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that he describes as limiting consumer choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is working to eliminate a number of the Biden administration’s pro-EV policies, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5289922/trump-transportation-department-ev-charging-halt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>freezing EV charger funding\u003c/u>\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5272749/donald-trump-ev-electric-vehicles-subsidies-auto-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>reconsidering federal vehicle standards\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the administration eases federal standards, California’s tougher rules still push the auto industry to move aggressively toward EVs. That’s why reversing these waivers is a key part of the Trump administration’s broader deregulation plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wait, didn’t this happen before?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes. During the first Trump presidency, the federal government revoked a waiver that allowed California to set its own vehicle standards. That had never been done before, and triggered years of litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also split the auto industry. Some companies that had already made costly investments based on existing rules, and that were looking for some consistency among flip-flopping policies, sided with California. They agreed to follow the state’s rules regardless of whether they were legally required to. Others sided with the Trump administration. The whole situation was messy, chaotic and, ultimately, temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Biden took office, the waiver was reinstated. Over the next few years, California made its rules even stricter, requiring a new waiver to be granted — the one on passenger vehicles that the House just voted to nix.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s different this time?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new Trump administration is now trying a different tactic to eliminate these waivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA grants them. In the first Trump term, it was also the EPA that revoked the passenger vehicle waiver. As soon as Biden was in office, the EPA just issued the waiver again. That flip-flopping could, hypothetically, continue with each new administration, unless something changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035189\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1044\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1536x1002.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump answers a reporter’s question in the Oval Office on Monday. \u003ccite>(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This time, Congress is attempting to use the Congressional Review Act to reverse the EPA’s decision to grant these waivers in the first place. It’s a little bit like pressing an “undo” button, wiping the waivers out of existence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s only an option within a narrow window of time — and it only works if the president’s party controls Congress. (Trump used this tool heavily in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/04/09/523064408/republicans-are-using-an-obscure-law-to-repeal-some-obama-era-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>first administration\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.) Significantly, rules that are reversed under the CRA \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R43992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>may not be reissued\u003c/u>\u003c/a> in “substantially the same form” unless Congress passes a new law authorizing that specific rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Congressional Review Act also states that actions taken under it are not subject to judicial review, meaning that courts can’t overturn Congress’ decision. But if the California waiver is in fact revoked under the CRA, expect legal challenges anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s guaranteed,” says Christopher “Smitty” Smith, an environmental lawyer in California. “And that’s something I’m willing to state: It’s \u003cem>guaranteed \u003c/em>to result in litigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Now, the Senate has a decision to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Government Accountability Office, a federal agency, believes the waiver is \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/products/b-337179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>not actually eligible\u003c/u>\u003c/a> for this kind of reversal. So does the Senate parliamentarian, a sort of referee over what Congress can and can’t do according to its own rules. \u003ca href=\"https://www.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-releases/statement-whitehouse-padilla-schiff-on-senate-parliamentarian-reaffirming-californias-clean-air-act-waivers-not-subject-to-cra/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Three Democratic senators\u003c/u>\u003c/a> say the parliamentarian “reaffirmed” in early April that the waiver is not subject to the Congressional Review Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parliamentarian is not elected, and while her rulings hold significant weight in the Senate, they are not binding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But overruling the parliamentarian violates long-held Senate norms — the same norms that keep the filibuster in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports \u003ca href=\"https://www.eenews.net/articles/senators-weigh-next-move-on-california-clean-car-rules/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>indicate\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that some Republican senators have been weighing whether eliminating the California rules justifies breaking that norm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lobbying on this issue has been intense, with traditional automakers and the oil industry pushing hard for Congress to eliminate the rules, and public health groups like the American Lung Association joining environmental and EV groups to defend California’s policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Today, the House voted to rescind the waiver that let California issue its zero-emission rule for passenger cars, along with two more that allow California to set rules for heavy trucks. One rule would require more heavy trucks to be electric, while the other would require new diesel vehicles to become cleaner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those three California rules aren’t \u003cem>just \u003c/em>about reducing smog. Cars and trucks are a major source of carbon dioxide emissions that are warming the planet. Increasingly, California has become a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/11/24/456650555/california-an-environmental-leader-eyes-a-key-role-in-climate-talks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>global leader\u003c/u>\u003c/a> in reducing the carbon emissions that fuel climate change, and zero-emission vehicles are a key part of those climate policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s climate-minded vehicle regulations, far more aggressive than the federal standards and explicitly designed to fight climate change, have long \u003ca href=\"https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-speech-political-rally-green-bay-wisconsin-april-2-2024/#85\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>outraged\u003c/u>\u003c/a> President Trump and his \u003ca href=\"https://www.governing.com/resilience/a-blow-against-californias-ev-tyranny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>allies\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. Trump has dismissed climate concerns and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-5273496/trump-biden-climate-change-energy-fossil-fuels-paris-agreement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>prioritized the domestic fossil fuel industry\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5326354/trump-epa-environmental-rules-rollback-deregulation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>opposes regulations\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that he describes as limiting consumer choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is working to eliminate a number of the Biden administration’s pro-EV policies, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5289922/trump-transportation-department-ev-charging-halt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>freezing EV charger funding\u003c/u>\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5272749/donald-trump-ev-electric-vehicles-subsidies-auto-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>reconsidering federal vehicle standards\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the administration eases federal standards, California’s tougher rules still push the auto industry to move aggressively toward EVs. That’s why reversing these waivers is a key part of the Trump administration’s broader deregulation plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wait, didn’t this happen before?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes. During the first Trump presidency, the federal government revoked a waiver that allowed California to set its own vehicle standards. That had never been done before, and triggered years of litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also split the auto industry. Some companies that had already made costly investments based on existing rules, and that were looking for some consistency among flip-flopping policies, sided with California. They agreed to follow the state’s rules regardless of whether they were legally required to. Others sided with the Trump administration. The whole situation was messy, chaotic and, ultimately, temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Biden took office, the waiver was reinstated. Over the next few years, California made its rules even stricter, requiring a new waiver to be granted — the one on passenger vehicles that the House just voted to nix.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s different this time?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new Trump administration is now trying a different tactic to eliminate these waivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA grants them. In the first Trump term, it was also the EPA that revoked the passenger vehicle waiver. As soon as Biden was in office, the EPA just issued the waiver again. That flip-flopping could, hypothetically, continue with each new administration, unless something changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035189\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1044\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1536x1002.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump answers a reporter’s question in the Oval Office on Monday. \u003ccite>(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This time, Congress is attempting to use the Congressional Review Act to reverse the EPA’s decision to grant these waivers in the first place. It’s a little bit like pressing an “undo” button, wiping the waivers out of existence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s only an option within a narrow window of time — and it only works if the president’s party controls Congress. (Trump used this tool heavily in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/04/09/523064408/republicans-are-using-an-obscure-law-to-repeal-some-obama-era-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>first administration\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.) Significantly, rules that are reversed under the CRA \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R43992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>may not be reissued\u003c/u>\u003c/a> in “substantially the same form” unless Congress passes a new law authorizing that specific rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Congressional Review Act also states that actions taken under it are not subject to judicial review, meaning that courts can’t overturn Congress’ decision. But if the California waiver is in fact revoked under the CRA, expect legal challenges anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s guaranteed,” says Christopher “Smitty” Smith, an environmental lawyer in California. “And that’s something I’m willing to state: It’s \u003cem>guaranteed \u003c/em>to result in litigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Now, the Senate has a decision to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Government Accountability Office, a federal agency, believes the waiver is \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/products/b-337179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>not actually eligible\u003c/u>\u003c/a> for this kind of reversal. So does the Senate parliamentarian, a sort of referee over what Congress can and can’t do according to its own rules. \u003ca href=\"https://www.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-releases/statement-whitehouse-padilla-schiff-on-senate-parliamentarian-reaffirming-californias-clean-air-act-waivers-not-subject-to-cra/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Three Democratic senators\u003c/u>\u003c/a> say the parliamentarian “reaffirmed” in early April that the waiver is not subject to the Congressional Review Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parliamentarian is not elected, and while her rulings hold significant weight in the Senate, they are not binding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But overruling the parliamentarian violates long-held Senate norms — the same norms that keep the filibuster in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports \u003ca href=\"https://www.eenews.net/articles/senators-weigh-next-move-on-california-clean-car-rules/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>indicate\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that some Republican senators have been weighing whether eliminating the California rules justifies breaking that norm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lobbying on this issue has been intense, with traditional automakers and the oil industry pushing hard for Congress to eliminate the rules, and public health groups like the American Lung Association joining environmental and EV groups to defend California’s policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who have been vocal against Trump’s policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris did not reveal what her political future holds, but in a surprise appearance at a national conference of Black women leaders in Orange County earlier this month, she said: “I’ll see you out there. I’m not going anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sources close to Harris say she’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026900/could-kamala-harris-shake-up-californias-governor-race-democrats-weigh-in\">mulling a run for California governor\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/07/kamala-harris-california-governor-decision-deadline-00216737\">Politico reported\u003c/a> last month that she plans to make a decision by the end of summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A run for governor would preclude another race for president in 2028, since the presidential campaign will be well underway by the time Californians vote for governor in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amanda Gallo of Oakland, who attended the San Francisco event, said that she liked the speech and that the message of uniting against Trump’s agenda resonated with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She didn’t win the office, but she’s still leading — by example, leading by the values of our country,” Gallo said. “I can’t wait to see what she does next.” Gallo added that she hopes Harris runs for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrea Dew Steele, who founded Emerge America in 2005, helped Harris in her first run for office, a successful campaign for San Francisco district attorney in 2003. That same year, she co-founded Emerge California, whose graduates include former San Francisco Mayor London Breed and former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steele said she’s excited by the prospect of Harris running for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12037185 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/gettyimages-2210243092-1020x680.jpeg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need somebody who can go toe-to-toe with Donald Trump,” Steele said. “And we saw her do that during the election, during the debate. She is a prosecutor. I think she could really prosecute that case — as governor of California. I certainly would love to see her run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Harris runs, it could upend the gubernatorial campaign for one Emerge graduate: Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I adore Eleni and I’d love to see her as governor as well,” said Steele, but “it’s going to be really tough” to run against Harris’ statewide name recognition, fundraising network and history of electoral wins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kounalakis, who attended the Emerge event, called Harris a close friend, adding that “it’s absolutely appropriate that she have time to get readjusted and figure out what her leadership can mean to the country and in the state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other Democrats already in the governor’s race — former Health and Human Services Secretary \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034105/xavier-becerra-enters-california-governors-race-citing-break-glass-moment\">Xavier Becerra\u003c/a> and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa — have signaled they’ll remain in the race whether or not Harris decides to run. Another announced candidate, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030744/porter-enters-crowded-field-for-california-governor-as-kamala-harris-weighs-run\">former Rep. Katie Porter\u003c/a>, attended Wednesday night’s event. Her campaign has indicated she would not run against Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://emersoncollegepolling.com/february-2025-california-poll-kamala-harris-emerges-as-democratic-frontrunner-for-governor/\">recent poll\u003c/a> by Emerson College Polling/Inside California Politics/The Hill shows Harris would be an instant front-runner if she enters the gubernatorial race. But, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu7gRDFfuA8\">Richard Nixon\u003c/a> discovered in 1962, being vice president does not guarantee you can run for governor of California and win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ choice to deliver remarks in San Francisco, the city that launched her political career, also represented something of a homecoming. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Thursday, May 1, 2025…\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nearly 40% of Californians voted for President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. Now, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/30/nx-s1-5379594/trump-100-days\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">100 days into his second term\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, how do they feel? \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In San Francisco \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/30/nx-s1-5382563/kamala-harris-first-speech-trump\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wednesday night\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, former Vice President Kamala Harris laid into President Donald Trump at the 100 day mark of his presidency.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>As Congress reconvenes this week, Republicans are proposing $880 billion in Medicaid cuts over the next decade. A \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/california-could-lose-up-to-217000-jobs-if-congress-cuts-medicaid/\">new UC Berkeley Labor Center report\u003c/a> warns the move would not only jeopardize healthcare for 15 million Californians, but could cost the state up to 217,000 jobs.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>100 Days In, Most California Trump Voters Still Back The President\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So much has happened in the first 100 days of President Trump’s second term. On Day 1, he signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/g-s1-43698/trump-inauguration-executive-orders-2025-day-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slew of executive orders\u003c/a> aimed at, among other things, creating DOGE, his government-slashing informal Department of Government Efficiency, erasing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, getting rid of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/23/nx-s1-5270572/birthright-citizenship-trump-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">birthright citizenship\u003c/a> for people born in the U.S. to parents without permanent legal status, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/g-s1-43650/trump-inauguration-day-one-immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declaring an emergency\u003c/a> at the southern border and recognizing only \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/g-s1-43955/trumps-anti-transgender-order-defines-male-and-female\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“two sexes – male and female.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also moved aggressively to implement tariffs on imported goods, restructure the federal government and tighten his grip on power, carry out deportations, reposition the United States on the world stage, and punish perceived political enemies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, nearly 40% of voters backed President Trump in the 2024 election. And most remain fully behind him. Ben Pino was a lifelong Democrat, before voting for Trump in 2020 and again last year. “It’s kind of funny because I was like all these people that are losing their minds right now over this guy, going crazy and losing sleep,” he said. Pino said he supports most of the president’s policies, including on the economy and immigration. But he does have one criticism — President’s Trump’s rhetoric on transgender issues. His friend recently transitioned and Pino thinks Trump hurts the entire Republican Party when he disparages the transgender community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the two dozen Trump voters we interviewed for this story, only one expressed buyer’s remorse. Emerson Green from El Dorado County initially liked Trump’s pledge to shrink the federal workforce. But he didn’t think that would include an across-the-board hiring freeze. Green’s mom had just landed a job at the IRS when her offer was rescinded. “And I just think that’s a really big sort of middle finger to the American working class,” Green said. If he had to do it all over again, Green said he likely would not have voted for either candidate in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/30/nx-s1-5382563/kamala-harris-first-speech-trump\">Kamala Harris Slams Trump Tariffs In Her First Major Speech Since He Took Office\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former Vice President Kamala Harris, in her first major public remarks since leaving the White House, criticized President Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5357645/trump-tariffs-paused\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>tariff policies\u003c/u>\u003c/a> as “reckless,” saying they pose the risk of taking the country into recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people are describing what’s been happening in recent months as absolute chaos. And of course I understand why. It’s certainly true of those tariffs. Tariffs that — as I predicted — are clearly inviting a recession,” Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called it the “greatest man-made economic crisis in modern presidential history” and applauded Americans who are rallying against the tariffs, saying they will increase everyday costs and impact retirement accounts and small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former vice president who failed in her race against Trump last year was speaking in San Francisco at a gala event for the organization Emerge America, which helps women run for office. Her comments come as Trump hits the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/30/nx-s1-5379594/trump-100-days\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>100-day\u003c/u>\u003c/a> mark of his second term, and as reports show the U.S. economy is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/30/nx-s1-5380204/trump-economy-gdp-tariffs-recession-consumers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>contracting.\u003c/u>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>UC Berkeley Report Paints Bleak Picture If Medicaid Cuts Are Approved \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Republicans in Congress are weighing steep cuts to Medicaid as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/28/g-s1-62678/trump-needs-unity-among-republicans-to-pass-his-budget-bill-can-he-get-it\">a wide-ranging budget package\u003c/a>. Medicaid is \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the federal-state \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/14/g-s1-59261/medicaid-cuts-long-term-care-caregivers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">health insurance program for people with disabilities and low-income adults\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The House instructed the Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over the program, to find $880 billion in savings over the next 10 years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is some GOP opposition. A dozen House Republicans recently wrote a letter to the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee along with House leadership, warning they won’t support a bill that includes “any reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, any cuts to Medicaid would have huge impacts. \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/california-could-lose-up-to-217000-jobs-if-congress-cuts-medicaid/\">New analysis\u003c/a> from the UC Berkeley Labor Center found that California could expect to see between $10 billion and $20 billion fewer federal dollars per year coming to Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program. And that in turn would lead to major job losses — in the range of 100,000-200,000 jobs. About two-thirds of the job losses would be in the health care sector.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It would have eliminated new gas-fueled truck sales by 2036 and mandated that large trucking fleets go electric or hydrogen-powered by 2042.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the trade group’s lawsuit, the California Air Resources Board plans to propose repealing parts of the rule that applies to trucks serving ports, rail yards and large companies this year. California’s requirements that state and local governments increasingly move towards all-electric vehicles — and that all new truck sales be electric by 2036 — will remain, so long as the federal government approves that policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state adopted the clean truck regulation during the Biden administration, but did not get the necessary green light from the EPA before the Trump Administration took office this year. State officials withdrew their request for federal approval in January, meaning the state was largely unable to enforce the truck rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARB confirmed the legal updates to KQED and a spokeswoman wrote that the agency “remains committed to protecting public health using new and alternative approaches,” in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re pleased to have reached agreement with the Air Resources Board on this stipulation,” Eric Sauer, head of the California Trucking Association, wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11930567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11930567\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1396887368-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1396887368-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1396887368-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1396887368-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1396887368-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1396887368-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1396887368-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1396887368-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Close-up of a hydrogen fuel cell truck driving on a road. According to the California Air Resources Board, heavy-duty fossil-fuel trucks spew 70% of the state’s smog-forming gases and 80% of carcinogenic diesel pollutants. \u003ccite>(Aranga87/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sam Wilson, who works on clean transportation at the Union of Concerned Scientists, called the move “disappointing,” but “more of an administrative action than anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The repeal of Advanced Clean Fleets has nothing to do with the rule’s real-world viability, but rather the political climate we find ourselves in today,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the rule would have accelerated the state’s transition to clean vehicles, Wilson is “confident that commercial vehicle electrification will continue, although at a slower pace.” The state can use other incentives to spur electric truck adoption, like requiring warehouses to track pollution and reduce it through electric heavy-duty vehicles, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court order between CARB and the California Trucking Association noted that the state will not require that new truck sales must be electric by 2036 without the approval of the federal government.[aside postID=news_12036063 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GavinNewsom1AP-1020x680.jpg']Wilson viewed the mention of the 2036 goal positively — a sign CARB officials were not abandoning the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should the state officially remove the entire rule from California’s regulatory code, it would need to entirely rewrite a new version and relaunch a lengthy regulatory process to pursue similar actions in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARB is also resolving litigation from trade groups representing railroads, which would have limited idling times and retired older locomotives, among other things. The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/reducing-rail-emissions-california/locomotive-fact-sheets\">rule\u003c/a> was aimed at reducing pollution from diesel-powered trains, but it also failed to receive EPA approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of planet-warming emissions produced by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions\">U.S.\u003c/a> come from transportation, and the same is true for \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/ghg-inventory-graphs\">California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California was the first state to regulate tailpipe emissions in the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/about/history#:~:text=In%201966%20California%20established%20the,Air%20Resources%20Board%20was%20established.\">1960s\u003c/a>, as it struggled to bring harmful air pollution under control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act into law in 1970, giving the EPA the authority to regulate air pollution from cars. 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"content": "\u003cp>After abruptly declining to renew a contract with a nonprofit to provide \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026959/families-separated-at-the-border-are-protected-by-a-2023-settlement-will-trump-honor-it\">court-ordered legal assistance\u003c/a> to families separated at the border under the first Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Justice has proposed providing that service itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts worry that’s a conflict of interest that could put those families at risk of deportation and being separated again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Families are] being asked to trust the government that harmed them to tell them how to move forward in the best way for them,” said Sara Van Hofwegen, managing director of legal access programs at Acacia Center for Justice, which has provided the services for the past year. “The government hasn’t shown them that they have their interests in mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Wednesday hearing in federal court, the American Civil Liberties Union contended that the government is not prepared to provide legal advice to what could be as many as 8,000 individuals with complex cases and looming immigration deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU in 2018 filed a class-action lawsuit, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/cases/ms-l-v-ice\">Ms. L v. ICE\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, against the federal government for illegally separating migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border, and reached a settlement agreement with the Biden administration in 2023. The agreement provides a pathway to a temporary immigration status called parole and asylum for families who were separated, along with certain other relatives, as well as legal assistance in navigating the byzantine immigration system.[aside postID=news_12037508 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, that assistance, which includes legal advice and help with immigration applications, as well as referrals to pro bono attorneys, has been provided through Acacia, a nonprofit immigrant legal defense organization, which distributed federal funding to nine subcontractor organizations around the country, including two based in California. Earlier this month, the Department of Justice abruptly informed Acacia it would not renew that contract. The contract ended yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037508/aclu-fights-trump-court-preserve-legal-aid-border-separated-families\">the ACLU asked U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw\u003c/a> of the Southern District of California, who approved the settlement agreement, to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the DOJ specified in court filings that its Executive Office for Immigration Review, which is part of the DOJ, plans to provide legal services to formerly separated families directly “to maximize efficiency in the delivery of the program services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11764527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11764527\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1159806928-e1564588162357.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After abruptly declining to renew a contract with a nonprofit to provide court-ordered legal assistance to families separated at the border under the first Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Justice has proposed providing that service itself. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>David Super, a professor of constitutional and administrative law at Georgetown University Law Center, said that EOIR’s plan is likely illegal, violating families’ constitutional right to due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is about as extreme a conflict of interest as you can imagine for the party that is adjudicating matters to provide legal advice,” he said, adding that he knows of no precedent for EOIR’s proposal. “The government ordinarily is quite careful to not put itself in the position of providing this sort of advice in legal matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only analogy that I can think of is when police officers play good cop, bad cop in the interrogation room. But that’s not legal representation and they certainly are not allowed to present themselves as the attorney for the suspects they’re questioning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court filings, EOIR has provided little detail about how it will deliver legal services to class members, noting that by May 15, it “will begin providing regularly scheduled group sessions and self-help workshops” to “equip them with the knowledge and information to successfully navigate their immigration proceedings.”[aside postID=news_12037889 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews, legal service providers worried that group sessions would not provide the “ in-depth individualized consultations” required under the settlement agreement and could make it difficult to serve families who speak different languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EOIR said in a court document filed yesterday that it will refer Ms. L class members to private pro bono attorneys who can provide individualized advice. Lee Gelernt, lead counsel for the ACLU in the case, contended during the hearing that this is unrealistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about thousands of cases,” Gelernt told the judge. “It takes a lot of work to get a firm to take one [pro bono] case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement agreement required that the government “ensure that the Program is adequately resourced and funded to provide services for all unrepresented Ms. L. Settlement Class members, with the ability to increase funding to meet projected needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acacia has pointed out that, even under its existing contract, the government only supplied enough funding to provide legal services for about 12% of those who qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization maintains a waitlist with the names and contact information of class members who are eligible for legal services under the settlement agreement, but have not yet received it. 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"content": "\u003cp>The 100-day marker for presidential administrations is really nothing more than that: A marker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The benchmark was established during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term because \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/04/23/525310208/the-first-100-days-presidential-benchmark-goes-back-to-fdr-and-napoleon\">he got a lot done\u003c/a> in those first few months as president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His moves in a relatively short amount of time — helped by a Congress controlled by Democrats — has since defined a period where presidents are expected to show what they are initially accomplishing in the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s Trump’s turn, again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time around, we’ve witnessed a reshaping of how the United States \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5357511/state-department-human-rights-report-cuts\">deals with the world\u003c/a>, a dismantling of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5332274/judge-ruling-usaid-shutdown\">multiple federal agencies\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5328721/reduction-in-force-rif-federal-workers-job-cuts-musk-doge-layoffs\">mass\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5364544/fda-inspections-layoffs-food-and-drug-supply-less-safe\">layoffs\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5349435/us-census-bureau-data-decennial\">government workers\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/14/nx-s1-5361461/fentanyl-medicaid-addiction\">deep cuts\u003c/a> to administrative functions and funds that support a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/24/nx-s1-5337999/elon-musk-doge-social-security-cuts\">variety of programs\u003c/a> that serve millions of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/TrumpOilGasRegulationsAP.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/TrumpOilGasRegulationsAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/TrumpOilGasRegulationsAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/TrumpOilGasRegulationsAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/TrumpOilGasRegulationsAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/TrumpOilGasRegulationsAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/TrumpOilGasRegulationsAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/TrumpOilGasRegulationsAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks about American energy production during a visit to the Double Eagle Energy Oil Rig on July 29, 2020, in Midland, Texas. \u003ccite>(Evan Vucci/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In these first 100 days, we’ve heard a lot from D.C. pundits. Today, we’re looking at how those decisions are hitting home. We’re focusing on two of America’s biggest and most complex states: Texas and California. Two states with enormous economic power, deep diversity and very different politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Texas, the Republican leadership controls \u003ca href=\"https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/donald-trump-texas-republicans-future-policy/\">both houses in the Legislature and the governor’s office\u003c/a>, and they’ve largely aligned themselves with President Trump’s second-term agenda. In California, where Democrats hold a supermajority, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036199/trumps-tariffs-could-wreck-californias-economy-the-state-is-suing\">state’s pushing back\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cities across both Texas and California, you’ll find plenty of people who share a skepticism — if not scorn — for the second Trump administration. However, in more rural areas of both states, support for Trump’s direction is strong, especially when it comes to issues like immigration or cutting what some see as government waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, this change is happening so quickly that it can be hard to keep up. The ripple effects of mass layoffs, deportations and trade threats are making many people anxious, and that fear seems to be crossing clear party lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Journalists at public radio stations and nonprofit newsrooms in California and Texas spoke with dozens of residents, reporters and political observers to dig into that uncertainty. Not just the economics, but across the board — where it’s coming from and what it means.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California, Texas respond to second Trump administration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California and Texas are similar by size and population metrics, but politically, the two states are opposites. In the 2024 presidential election, for example, roughly 58.5% of Californians voted for Kamala Harris, while 56.14% of Texans voted for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Pineda is an associate professor of communications with a focus on politics at the University of Texas at El Paso. He said Texas leaders at all levels seem to be in “lockstep” with President Trump. But that’s not the case across the state, he added, especially in areas that tend to vote blue — like El Paso and Travis counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there is a tremendous amount of concern about some of these changes, especially when you see shifts that are happening politically rolling into things like the University of Texas system,” Pineda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12037889 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty-1020x602.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some traditionally blue counties are starting to see increases in Republican voters, he added. That can be seen in \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/06/donald-trump-near-sweep-texas-border-counties/\">Starr, Hidalgo, Willacy and Cameron counties\u003c/a> — all of which are border counties that have historically voted blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not to a point that the county will change anytime soon, but even short shifts means that the state is becoming even redder than before,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Mitchell is the vice president of \u003ca href=\"https://politicaldata.com/\">Political Data, Inc.\u003c/a>, a voter data firm in California. He said the state, which was seen as the resistance state during Trump’s first term — filing \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/california-lawsuits-against-donald-trump/\">over 120 lawsuits against his administration\u003c/a> — hasn’t had the same “clear point of focus” this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what Trump tried to do early on (in his first term) that really galvanized support from Democrats in California was he was trying to undo Obamacare,” Mitchell said. “In this first 100 days, you’ve seen him \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/03/newsom-transgender-athletes/\">go after transgender issues\u003c/a>, and a lot of Democrats don’t know necessarily what to do with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the Californians polled by journalists working on this project expressed deep concern over the president’s actions, while others said they were “cautiously optimistic.” Some in the latter category suggested that their backing of President Trump had to do with frustration over state and local governments, more than the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said the 2024 election came at the “perfect time” for those frustrated by these issues in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of voters saw what he was proposing as real action, where they look at California policy makers — whether they’re looking at the lack of action on high-speed rail or these other promises that lawmakers have made — and they say, ‘Well, they’re not delivering here in California, this guy is offering to make big real change,’” Mitchell said. “And I think that that was important to his victory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas is booming right now: There’s a huge \u003ca href=\"https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2023-01-09/texas-has-an-unprecedented-budget-surplus-what-can-be-done-with-the-billions-of-dollars\">budget surplus\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.keranews.org/news/2024-12-02/texas-leads-nation-net-migration-census\">population is growing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/technology/2025/04/14/518779/nvidia-houston-ai-supercomputer-manufacturing-plant-amid-tariff-concerns/\">business is moving there\u003c/a>. In fact, Elon Musk has picked up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kut.org/business/2024-07-16/elon-musk-twitter-spacex-california-relocate-austin-texas\">most of his operations\u003c/a> and moved them out of California to Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/AP20089833722736-scaled-e1745962998545.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038133\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/AP20089833722736-scaled-e1745962998545.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1180\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vehicles merge onto I-10 on Sunday, March 29, 2020, in Orange, Texas, near the Louisiana border. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pineda said Texas business leaders have been encouraged by state leadership’s support of the Trump administration’s move to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor and the lieutenant governor taking an active stance to try to undercut those [DEI practices] has allowed some businesses to move without having to worry about having those policies or maintaining those policies,” he said. “That then comes on top of the president pushing against these things, and that’s a good climate for these particular businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, overall, he said, growth hasn’t remained consistent for all regions of Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you’re seeing is developments in these sort of core communities, some of the bigger cities,” he said. “There’s still a lot of rural development that has not happened. We’ve looked to try to expand a \u003ca href=\"https://www.texasrailadvocates.org/post/txdots-2024-texas-rail-plan-to-be-released-by-years-end\">rail infrastructure\u003c/a> that seems to come up every couple of years and die down. I do think that the move to bring some of these companies in dovetails with limitations on previously held restrictions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trade and tariffs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>President Trump is no stranger to tariffs — and the battles that come with changing them. During his first term, Trump imposed a number of tariffs on goods imported from China, \u003ca href=\"https://www.piie.com/blogs/trade-and-investment-policy-watch/2018/trumps-trade-war-timeline-date-guide\">sparking a trade war in 2018\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And starting on his first day back in the White House, Trump promised immediate action on the price of imported goods. Since then, news about tariffs has moved quickly. Over the last three months, Trump has imposed, rescinded and reinstated tariffs worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12037649 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-02_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether tariffs are active or on hold, California and Texas will feel it. Of all the U.S. states, these two do the most trade with other countries — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/04/09/map-us-exports-to-china-states-agriculture\">China\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.worldatlas.com/economics/which-us-states-trade-the-most-with-mexico.html\">Mexico\u003c/a> and Canada are at the top of the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas and Mexico’s economies are greatly intertwined — in 2023, trade between Texas and Mexico topped $272 billion, ranking \u003ca href=\"https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/business/Mexico-Profile.pdf\">Mexico as Texas’ no. 1 trading partner\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://nmbia.org/about-us/board-of-directors/\">Jerry Pacheco\u003c/a>, president of the Border Industrial Association, said the first 100 days of the second Trump administration has felt like “chaos” for both himself and the members of his organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, my world has just been… I get up every day and wonder what’s going to happen,” Pacheco said. “Are we going to lose a prospect that we had close to signing the dotted line? Are we going to see businesses in our industrial base, related particularly to the automotive industry, shuttered?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has a similar trade relationship with Mexico, with a highly integrated supply chain that sees individual pieces of larger products often travel back and forth across the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tijuana, for example, hosts a number of car manufacturing plants, \u003ca href=\"https://www.toyota.com/usa/operations/map/tmmbc\">including one owned by Toyota\u003c/a>. But not all pieces of these vehicles are made in Mexico: Individual parts of each vehicle can cross the border multiple times — and there’s a tariff each time it crosses back and forth. Seat leather, for example, could be produced in one country, processed in another, then finished in another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego business professionals echoed the sentiment of their counterparts in Texas, many of whom said they feel uncertain about the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a relationship with Mexico where we’re not just trading together, we’re producing together,” said Jessica Anderson, the interim CEO and president of the \u003ca href=\"https://sdchamber.org/about/team/jessica-anderson/\">San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a>. “This is not a tax on just Mexican companies. This is a tax on U.S. businesses and on U.S. companies directly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://data.imf.org/en/Data-Explorer?datasetUrn=IMF.RES:WEO(6.0.0)\">International Monetary Fund\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gdp-state\">U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis\u003c/a> announced recently that California had surpassed Japan to become the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/04/23/california-is-now-the-4th-largest-economy-in-the-world/\">fourth-largest economy\u003c/a> in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislative leaders say California’s booming economy is the driving force behind their \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/23/g-s1-62417/trump-tariff-lawsuits-states\">tariff-related lawsuit\u003c/a> against the Trump administration. They’ve also said the fluctuating stock market is a risk to California’s budget, which is highly dependent on income tax revenue from capital gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Within hours after his second inauguration in January, President Trump signed dozens of executive orders, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/07/donald-trump-immigration-executive-orders/\">10 aimed at the immigration system\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/AP25115031458660-scaled-e1745963102151.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038131\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/AP25115031458660-scaled-e1745963102151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A U.S. Border Patrol agent walks past four men being detained after crossing the border through a gap in the walls separating Mexico and the United States, Jan. 23, 2025, in San Diego. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among other actions, these orders pledge to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/us-immigration-tracker-follow-arrests-detentions-border-crossings-rcna189148\">detain and deport undocumented immigrants\u003c/a> accused of crimes and stop the resettlement of refugees from countries like Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of it has – or at least promises to have – a deep impact on Texas and California, hugely diverse states with some of the largest undocumented and refugee populations in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Response to these orders has been mixed, largely across party lines:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I live here on the border and I’ve seen firsthand what happened the last several years with immigration, and now it’s the numbers have plummeted,” said Tim Wilkins of McAllen, Texas. “I mean, it’s almost zero activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way that the Trump administration is handling this is frightening — deporting people to El Salvador and some of those people are not the gang members that they say they are and there’s no due process,” said Jane Demian, who lives in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, ICE raids and enforcement actions by federal agents in cities like San Diego, Pomona and Los Angeles have heightened fears in immigrant communities. In Texas, agents from multiple federal agencies \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/26/texas-immigration-deportation-ice-austin-san-antonio/\">began carrying out immigration enforcement operations\u003c/a> in late January in a number of cities, including Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reactions to these operations have mixed — Texans in conservative areas are largely supportive, while Texas immigration advocates and professionals are concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people in the immigrant community, many clients, fear for their future in this country, even lawful permanent residents and naturalized citizens,” said Irving-based immigration attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.haimvasquezlegal.com/\">Haim Vasquez\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Inauguration Day, a number of university students have \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/09/texas-universities-international-students-legal-status/\">had their visas canceled\u003c/a>. Some international students around the country have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/international-students-revoked-visas-reasons-why-rcna200313\">even been detained\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of these California students are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034742/california-students-visa-cancellations-sue-trump-administration\">suing the Trump administration\u003c/a>. In recent days, a handful \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037662/ice-is-reversing-termination-of-legal-status-for-international-students-around-us-lawyer-says\">have won temporary restraining orders\u003c/a> with federal judges saying they must not be detained or deported while their cases are heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12037900 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/3527_transform-1440x960.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say everybody is scared right now,” Zahra Biloo, director for the \u003ca href=\"https://ca.cair.com/staff/zahra-billoo/\">Bay Area chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations,\u003c/a> said. “The most challenging types of calls we are receiving are from U.S. citizens, and so I think to myself, if U.S. citizens with as much privilege and safety as they carry are scared, so, too, then are student visa-holders as well as undocumented students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California leaders are no strangers to taking action against the Trump administration. This time around, California Attorney General staff \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2024/11/07/prepared-for-trumps-comeback-californias-attorney-general-is-ready-to-fight/\">began writing briefs before Inauguration Day\u003c/a>, and in early February, Gov. Gavin Newsom approved \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/02/newsom-lawsuit-fund-california-trump/\">$25 million to sue the Trump administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The response from Texas leaders has looked a bit different: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced recently that he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.keranews.org/government/2025-03-13/dallas-sanctuary-city-ken-paxton-investigation\">opening an investigation into the city of Dallas\u003c/a>, accusing it of having “sanctuary city” policies, or policies that would not allow city staff to cooperate with federal law enforcement in arresting or detaining undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Agriculture and business\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>All eyes are on the economy. The Trump administration’s approach to tariffs and other economic policies has a lot of people wondering where things are headed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, that uncertainty brings on a whole lot of anxiety: “Because he enacted a policy that made me lose my job, yeah, I’m anxious, I’m worried, my budget’s completely changed, and, you know, [I’m] living off beans and rice,” said Benjamin Dechard of Austin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are bullish about the president’s actions: “People are willing to start investing again in their businesses, not holding cash back as a reserve, but now using this as an opportunity to make those investments,” said David Stein from Tyler, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agriculture is one business sector that’s got some questions. It’s a huge economic driver in both states: Texas sold about \u003ca href=\"https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-farm-ranch-working-dogs/#:~:text=Texas%20livestock%20farms%3F-,Some%20ranchers%20are%20turning%20to%20dogs%20for%20help,work%20with%20sheep%20or%20cattle.\">$32 billion in agricultural products\u003c/a> in 2022, and California, the nation’s largest supplier, sold a little more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus/\">$59 billion worth of goods\u003c/a> in the same year. A big chunk of that money comes from exports to countries like Mexico, Canada, and China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest exports coming out of Texas are \u003ca href=\"https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2021/03/18/texas-tops-all-u-s-states-in-exports-for-19th-consecutive-year/\">beef and cotton\u003c/a>, amounting to roughly $2.6 billion every year. However, the state also imports and takes in a lot of goods, and farmers are concerned about tariffs affecting the cost to raise their crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/AP25117835043903-scaled-e1745963195295.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038132\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/AP25117835043903-scaled-e1745963195295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers harvest cabbage on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, on a field less than ten miles from the border with Mexico, in Holtville, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Materials like \u003ca href=\"https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/crops/article/2025/04/09/uan32-continues-lead-higher-prices-8\">fertilizer\u003c/a>, insecticides, seeds and parts for farm equipment are imported and have begun to rise in price, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I apologize, I don’t mean to sound ignorant, but there’s probably more unknowns than known,” said Dale Murden, a citrus farmer in the Rio Grande Valley. “I’m like… ‘Uh, wait a minute, my fertilizer cost just tripled. Where’d that come from?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been a lot of back and forth over tariffs. But the ongoing battle is with China, whose leaders responded with their own levies on U.S. goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas sends a \u003ca href=\"https://stories.tamu.edu/news/2018/04/12/economist-china-commodities-tariffs-would-hit-texas-cotton-sorghum-hardest/\">large share of its cotton\u003c/a>, beef and rice to China. Market leaders are concerned that these U.S.-made goods may become prohibitively expensive for Chinese consumers, and push other exporting countries to swoop in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last time there was a Trump tariff issue, cotton did get caught up in that, and it just caused this great reshuffle,” said \u003ca href=\"https://agecon.tamu.edu/people/robinson-john-r-c/\">John Robinson\u003c/a>, a cotton market specialist with Texas A&M University. “We actually sent more of our cotton to Vietnam, and Brazil took our market share formerly with China. Great big reshuffle. It’s inefficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s largest exports are nuts and dairy — the state produces 80% of the world’s almonds — and a lot of that goes to China. Some California farmers share concerns about the state of the industry as tariffs are set to go into effect, though not all of them are sure of what to expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenny Holtermann, a fourth-generation farmer in Kern County, said she’s “worried and sort of not worried,” though she ultimately supports Trump’s tariffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that even if her almond farm takes a hit, she’s hoping tariffs will bring business back to the U.S. However, she mentioned she is facing higher costs and she’s already made adjustments in her farm operations because of them. The last time Trump was president and imposed tariffs, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/04/tariffs-california-agriculture-wine/\">exports of California almonds and pistachios fell 20%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Holtermann said she’s in a better place than others because she has another job and doesn’t rely on the farm as her family’s sole income. Almonds are also not as perishable as other crops, so she has a little bit more flexibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eighty percent of the world’s supply of almonds come from California,” Holtermann said. “At some point, well, if they want almonds, they have to get them from California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Talley, who owns a \u003ca href=\"https://talleyfarms.com/\">medium-sized farm\u003c/a> that his grandfather started in the 1940s in Arroyo Grande, said he hasn’t seen a big direct impact yet because he sells most of his crops inside the U.S. However, he does sell spinach to Canada — and he’s planning on selling bell peppers in that market, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because the Trump administration is constantly changing its mind about the tariffs, he’s worried because, unlike almond-growers, his crops have a shorter shelf life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re highly perishable,” Talley said of his produce. “We don’t have the ability to hold our products for a month or two to wait for the tariffs to go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the flip side, some folks in the agriculture business are seeing positive impacts as a result of tariffs. In Texas, people who harvest shrimp and oysters see the tariffs as a bulwark against overseas competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Education\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In March, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced plans to cut a federal program that provides around \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/usda-cancels-local-food-purchasing-food-banks-school-meals/\">$660 million for schools\u003c/a> to buy fresh food directly from farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the Local Food for Schools program served up about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/nu/localfoodforschools.asp\">$23 million\u003c/a> of meals around the state. It was about the same amount of money for Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12038026 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240815-CITYATTORNEYDEEPFAKES-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both were part of a broader set of pandemic-era initiatives designed to address food insecurity and support local agriculture during COVID-19 disruptions. The USDA now said these programs no longer line up with priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These cuts have already begun affecting residents of both states. In California’s San Bernardino and Riverside counties, the program will expire at the end of this school year. More than $600,000 was awarded for the region to provide organic strawberries, citrus fruits, apples, and lettuce that ends up in school salads, along with produce like dragon fruit and bok choy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has attempted to recreate the program on its own, but schools have to apply to receive grant funding, while the federal program was opt-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Texas, these federal grants amounted to less than a tenth of what state schools were previously spending for local food. However, if states don’t step in to subsidize these programs, some students could lose an important lifeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many farmers are in a tough situation because they’ve planted their crops with this program in mind. In one case, a California farmer plowed under fields of kale and collard greens because they were no longer contracted and replanted an easier crop to offload. In another case, a local poultry farm that had a contract to provide about 160 cases of chicken wings each month to a school stands to lose $13,000 a month in revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Overall impact on California and Texas? You tell us.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea for this joint statewide special developed during a transformative time for our country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collectively, it’s difficult — and perhaps even unfair — to find the right words that capture what is unfolding. It’s still too early to tell what the true impact will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know reactions in California and Texas are different — they’re bound to be — different states with different budget demands, different priorities, different cultures and different political views among the majority of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, granular polling so far in both states is rather lean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what’s the impact of the first 100 days on California and Texas? You tell us. It’ll help us in our coverage going forward, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can reach the Texas Standard by emailing \u003ca href=\"mailto:texasstandard@kut.org\">texasstandard@kut.org\u003c/a> and the California Newsroom by emailing \u003ca href=\"mailto:CaliforniaNewsroom@kqed.org\">CaliforniaNewsroom@kqed.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from Angela Korcherga of KTEP in El Paso, Michael Marks of the Texas Standard, Levi Sumagaysay and Carolyn Jones of CalMatters in Sacramento, Stella Chávez of the Texas Newsroom, Gustavo Solis of KPBS in San Diego, Tyche Hendricks of KQED in San Francisco, and Jessica Greenwell of KVCR in Riverside, California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Today, we’re looking at how those decisions are hitting home. We’re focusing on two of America’s biggest and most complex states: Texas and California. Two states with enormous economic power, deep diversity and very different politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Texas, the Republican leadership controls \u003ca href=\"https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/donald-trump-texas-republicans-future-policy/\">both houses in the Legislature and the governor’s office\u003c/a>, and they’ve largely aligned themselves with President Trump’s second-term agenda. In California, where Democrats hold a supermajority, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036199/trumps-tariffs-could-wreck-californias-economy-the-state-is-suing\">state’s pushing back\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cities across both Texas and California, you’ll find plenty of people who share a skepticism — if not scorn — for the second Trump administration. However, in more rural areas of both states, support for Trump’s direction is strong, especially when it comes to issues like immigration or cutting what some see as government waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, this change is happening so quickly that it can be hard to keep up. The ripple effects of mass layoffs, deportations and trade threats are making many people anxious, and that fear seems to be crossing clear party lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Journalists at public radio stations and nonprofit newsrooms in California and Texas spoke with dozens of residents, reporters and political observers to dig into that uncertainty. Not just the economics, but across the board — where it’s coming from and what it means.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California, Texas respond to second Trump administration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California and Texas are similar by size and population metrics, but politically, the two states are opposites. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some traditionally blue counties are starting to see increases in Republican voters, he added. That can be seen in \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/06/donald-trump-near-sweep-texas-border-counties/\">Starr, Hidalgo, Willacy and Cameron counties\u003c/a> — all of which are border counties that have historically voted blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not to a point that the county will change anytime soon, but even short shifts means that the state is becoming even redder than before,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Mitchell is the vice president of \u003ca href=\"https://politicaldata.com/\">Political Data, Inc.\u003c/a>, a voter data firm in California. He said the state, which was seen as the resistance state during Trump’s first term — filing \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/california-lawsuits-against-donald-trump/\">over 120 lawsuits against his administration\u003c/a> — hasn’t had the same “clear point of focus” this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what Trump tried to do early on (in his first term) that really galvanized support from Democrats in California was he was trying to undo Obamacare,” Mitchell said. “In this first 100 days, you’ve seen him \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/03/newsom-transgender-athletes/\">go after transgender issues\u003c/a>, and a lot of Democrats don’t know necessarily what to do with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the Californians polled by journalists working on this project expressed deep concern over the president’s actions, while others said they were “cautiously optimistic.” Some in the latter category suggested that their backing of President Trump had to do with frustration over state and local governments, more than the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said the 2024 election came at the “perfect time” for those frustrated by these issues in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of voters saw what he was proposing as real action, where they look at California policy makers — whether they’re looking at the lack of action on high-speed rail or these other promises that lawmakers have made — and they say, ‘Well, they’re not delivering here in California, this guy is offering to make big real change,’” Mitchell said. “And I think that that was important to his victory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas is booming right now: There’s a huge \u003ca href=\"https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2023-01-09/texas-has-an-unprecedented-budget-surplus-what-can-be-done-with-the-billions-of-dollars\">budget surplus\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.keranews.org/news/2024-12-02/texas-leads-nation-net-migration-census\">population is growing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/technology/2025/04/14/518779/nvidia-houston-ai-supercomputer-manufacturing-plant-amid-tariff-concerns/\">business is moving there\u003c/a>. 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Phillip)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pineda said Texas business leaders have been encouraged by state leadership’s support of the Trump administration’s move to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor and the lieutenant governor taking an active stance to try to undercut those [DEI practices] has allowed some businesses to move without having to worry about having those policies or maintaining those policies,” he said. “That then comes on top of the president pushing against these things, and that’s a good climate for these particular businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, overall, he said, growth hasn’t remained consistent for all regions of Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you’re seeing is developments in these sort of core communities, some of the bigger cities,” he said. “There’s still a lot of rural development that has not happened. 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Of all the U.S. states, these two do the most trade with other countries — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/04/09/map-us-exports-to-china-states-agriculture\">China\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.worldatlas.com/economics/which-us-states-trade-the-most-with-mexico.html\">Mexico\u003c/a> and Canada are at the top of the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas and Mexico’s economies are greatly intertwined — in 2023, trade between Texas and Mexico topped $272 billion, ranking \u003ca href=\"https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/business/Mexico-Profile.pdf\">Mexico as Texas’ no. 1 trading partner\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://nmbia.org/about-us/board-of-directors/\">Jerry Pacheco\u003c/a>, president of the Border Industrial Association, said the first 100 days of the second Trump administration has felt like “chaos” for both himself and the members of his organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, my world has just been… I get up every day and wonder what’s going to happen,” Pacheco said. “Are we going to lose a prospect that we had close to signing the dotted line? Are we going to see businesses in our industrial base, related particularly to the automotive industry, shuttered?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has a similar trade relationship with Mexico, with a highly integrated supply chain that sees individual pieces of larger products often travel back and forth across the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tijuana, for example, hosts a number of car manufacturing plants, \u003ca href=\"https://www.toyota.com/usa/operations/map/tmmbc\">including one owned by Toyota\u003c/a>. But not all pieces of these vehicles are made in Mexico: Individual parts of each vehicle can cross the border multiple times — and there’s a tariff each time it crosses back and forth. Seat leather, for example, could be produced in one country, processed in another, then finished in another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego business professionals echoed the sentiment of their counterparts in Texas, many of whom said they feel uncertain about the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a relationship with Mexico where we’re not just trading together, we’re producing together,” said Jessica Anderson, the interim CEO and president of the \u003ca href=\"https://sdchamber.org/about/team/jessica-anderson/\">San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a>. “This is not a tax on just Mexican companies. This is a tax on U.S. businesses and on U.S. companies directly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://data.imf.org/en/Data-Explorer?datasetUrn=IMF.RES:WEO(6.0.0)\">International Monetary Fund\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gdp-state\">U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis\u003c/a> announced recently that California had surpassed Japan to become the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/04/23/california-is-now-the-4th-largest-economy-in-the-world/\">fourth-largest economy\u003c/a> in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislative leaders say California’s booming economy is the driving force behind their \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/23/g-s1-62417/trump-tariff-lawsuits-states\">tariff-related lawsuit\u003c/a> against the Trump administration. 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In Texas, agents from multiple federal agencies \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/26/texas-immigration-deportation-ice-austin-san-antonio/\">began carrying out immigration enforcement operations\u003c/a> in late January in a number of cities, including Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reactions to these operations have mixed — Texans in conservative areas are largely supportive, while Texas immigration advocates and professionals are concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people in the immigrant community, many clients, fear for their future in this country, even lawful permanent residents and naturalized citizens,” said Irving-based immigration attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.haimvasquezlegal.com/\">Haim Vasquez\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Inauguration Day, a number of university students have \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/09/texas-universities-international-students-legal-status/\">had their visas canceled\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say everybody is scared right now,” Zahra Biloo, director for the \u003ca href=\"https://ca.cair.com/staff/zahra-billoo/\">Bay Area chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations,\u003c/a> said. “The most challenging types of calls we are receiving are from U.S. citizens, and so I think to myself, if U.S. citizens with as much privilege and safety as they carry are scared, so, too, then are student visa-holders as well as undocumented students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California leaders are no strangers to taking action against the Trump administration. This time around, California Attorney General staff \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2024/11/07/prepared-for-trumps-comeback-californias-attorney-general-is-ready-to-fight/\">began writing briefs before Inauguration Day\u003c/a>, and in early February, Gov. Gavin Newsom approved \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/02/newsom-lawsuit-fund-california-trump/\">$25 million to sue the Trump administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The response from Texas leaders has looked a bit different: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced recently that he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.keranews.org/government/2025-03-13/dallas-sanctuary-city-ken-paxton-investigation\">opening an investigation into the city of Dallas\u003c/a>, accusing it of having “sanctuary city” policies, or policies that would not allow city staff to cooperate with federal law enforcement in arresting or detaining undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Agriculture and business\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>All eyes are on the economy. The Trump administration’s approach to tariffs and other economic policies has a lot of people wondering where things are headed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, that uncertainty brings on a whole lot of anxiety: “Because he enacted a policy that made me lose my job, yeah, I’m anxious, I’m worried, my budget’s completely changed, and, you know, [I’m] living off beans and rice,” said Benjamin Dechard of Austin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are bullish about the president’s actions: “People are willing to start investing again in their businesses, not holding cash back as a reserve, but now using this as an opportunity to make those investments,” said David Stein from Tyler, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agriculture is one business sector that’s got some questions. It’s a huge economic driver in both states: Texas sold about \u003ca href=\"https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-farm-ranch-working-dogs/#:~:text=Texas%20livestock%20farms%3F-,Some%20ranchers%20are%20turning%20to%20dogs%20for%20help,work%20with%20sheep%20or%20cattle.\">$32 billion in agricultural products\u003c/a> in 2022, and California, the nation’s largest supplier, sold a little more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus/\">$59 billion worth of goods\u003c/a> in the same year. A big chunk of that money comes from exports to countries like Mexico, Canada, and China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest exports coming out of Texas are \u003ca href=\"https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2021/03/18/texas-tops-all-u-s-states-in-exports-for-19th-consecutive-year/\">beef and cotton\u003c/a>, amounting to roughly $2.6 billion every year. However, the state also imports and takes in a lot of goods, and farmers are concerned about tariffs affecting the cost to raise their crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/AP25117835043903-scaled-e1745963195295.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038132\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/AP25117835043903-scaled-e1745963195295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers harvest cabbage on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, on a field less than ten miles from the border with Mexico, in Holtville, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Materials like \u003ca href=\"https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/crops/article/2025/04/09/uan32-continues-lead-higher-prices-8\">fertilizer\u003c/a>, insecticides, seeds and parts for farm equipment are imported and have begun to rise in price, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I apologize, I don’t mean to sound ignorant, but there’s probably more unknowns than known,” said Dale Murden, a citrus farmer in the Rio Grande Valley. “I’m like… ‘Uh, wait a minute, my fertilizer cost just tripled. Where’d that come from?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been a lot of back and forth over tariffs. But the ongoing battle is with China, whose leaders responded with their own levies on U.S. goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas sends a \u003ca href=\"https://stories.tamu.edu/news/2018/04/12/economist-china-commodities-tariffs-would-hit-texas-cotton-sorghum-hardest/\">large share of its cotton\u003c/a>, beef and rice to China. Market leaders are concerned that these U.S.-made goods may become prohibitively expensive for Chinese consumers, and push other exporting countries to swoop in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last time there was a Trump tariff issue, cotton did get caught up in that, and it just caused this great reshuffle,” said \u003ca href=\"https://agecon.tamu.edu/people/robinson-john-r-c/\">John Robinson\u003c/a>, a cotton market specialist with Texas A&M University. “We actually sent more of our cotton to Vietnam, and Brazil took our market share formerly with China. Great big reshuffle. It’s inefficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s largest exports are nuts and dairy — the state produces 80% of the world’s almonds — and a lot of that goes to China. Some California farmers share concerns about the state of the industry as tariffs are set to go into effect, though not all of them are sure of what to expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenny Holtermann, a fourth-generation farmer in Kern County, said she’s “worried and sort of not worried,” though she ultimately supports Trump’s tariffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that even if her almond farm takes a hit, she’s hoping tariffs will bring business back to the U.S. However, she mentioned she is facing higher costs and she’s already made adjustments in her farm operations because of them. The last time Trump was president and imposed tariffs, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/04/tariffs-california-agriculture-wine/\">exports of California almonds and pistachios fell 20%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Holtermann said she’s in a better place than others because she has another job and doesn’t rely on the farm as her family’s sole income. Almonds are also not as perishable as other crops, so she has a little bit more flexibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eighty percent of the world’s supply of almonds come from California,” Holtermann said. “At some point, well, if they want almonds, they have to get them from California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Talley, who owns a \u003ca href=\"https://talleyfarms.com/\">medium-sized farm\u003c/a> that his grandfather started in the 1940s in Arroyo Grande, said he hasn’t seen a big direct impact yet because he sells most of his crops inside the U.S. However, he does sell spinach to Canada — and he’s planning on selling bell peppers in that market, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because the Trump administration is constantly changing its mind about the tariffs, he’s worried because, unlike almond-growers, his crops have a shorter shelf life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re highly perishable,” Talley said of his produce. “We don’t have the ability to hold our products for a month or two to wait for the tariffs to go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the flip side, some folks in the agriculture business are seeing positive impacts as a result of tariffs. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Trump administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036939/san-francisco-chinatown-businesses-survival-mode-trade-war\">trade war\u003c/a> with China could prove to be even more devastating to businesses in San Francisco’s Chinatown than the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s according to Donald Luu, president of the San Francisco Chinese Chamber of Commerce, who told KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">the administration’s\u003c/a> steep tariffs on Chinese goods — of up to 145% — are creating a nearly impossible situation for the more than 1,000 mostly small businesses in this historic immigrant community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a Tuesday press event on Clay Street, in the heart of Chinatown, Luu said about 90% of goods sold there are from China, and the tariffs have already forced many merchants to raise their prices by at least 30%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this economic trade war, we feel that the effect’s going to be long-lasting and it’s going to threaten the very fabric of Chinatown,” said Luu, flanked by local business leaders and state Assemblymember Matt Haney, who represents the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magan Li, the owner of Lion Trading, which sells religious and spiritual items, said nearly all the products lining her shelves come from China. As costs skyrocket, she said she can only increase prices so much before customers refuse to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-CHINATOWNTARIFFS-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-CHINATOWNTARIFFS-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-CHINATOWNTARIFFS-22-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-CHINATOWNTARIFFS-22-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-CHINATOWNTARIFFS-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-CHINATOWNTARIFFS-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-CHINATOWNTARIFFS-22-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grant Avenue in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a very, very big blow to our small business,” said Li in Cantonese. “We’re at risk of losing the traditions that the community has spent so much time protecting. And so I hope that the government will work something out and help small businesses like us to continue to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinese exports to the U.S. have plummeted amid the administration’s outsized tariffs (and China’s reciprocal 125% import duties on U.S. products), prompting major U.S. retailers and small businesses alike to sound the alarm about imminent \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-exports-to-us-drop-sharply/\">supply shortages\u003c/a>. The Port of Los Angeles, a major entry point for Chinese goods, has seen that drop firsthand, leading its director to recently predict that cargo shipments to the port will drop by 35% within a few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of that bodes well for businesses in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the oldest and largest of its kind in the country, which has been reluctantly thrust onto the frontlines of Trump’s escalating trade war.[aside postID=news_12036939 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-CHINATOWNTARIFFS-32-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“I think Chinatown is at the center of why these tariffs are so harmful and how devastating they’re going to be — not to another country’s government, but to us here, in our country,” Haney said on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many products sold here can’t be found anywhere else in the city, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a direct attack on these businesses, and it’s a direct attack on our residents who rely on this community,” Haney said. “This is where they get their medicine. This is where they get their clothing. This is where they get their goods to cook.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney said that if the administration refuses to relent on the tariffs, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> has indicated he would begin negotiating directly with China on a California trade agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unfortunate that California is increasingly having to act like our own country, negotiating trade agreements with countries and trying to find ways to reduce the cost of these imports,” said Haney, who noted California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036199/trumps-tariffs-could-wreck-californias-economy-the-state-is-suing\">recent lawsuit\u003c/a> against the administration over the tariffs. “Because our businesses, our economy, cannot survive without these imports, especially coming from Asia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trade war has pushed Chinatown merchants into an existential crisis, Malcolm Yeung, executive director of the Chinatown Community Development Center, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036939/san-francisco-chinatown-businesses-survival-mode-trade-war\">told KQED\u003c/a> for a recent story profiling several local business owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ This has always been a community that has been built around trade,” he said, noting the resiliency of the district throughout its long history. “Trade created an opportunity for upward economic mobility for people through owning stores, or by leveraging relationships that they have back in China.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/camiiddominguez\">\u003cem>Cami Dominguez\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/adahlstromeckman\">\u003cem>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Plus, we learn more about how roughly 900 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035866/berkeley-considers-controversial-plan-require-vegetation-removal-near-homes-fire-zones\">Berkeley homeowners will need to clear vegetation in order to protect their houses against wildfire damage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6806377143&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:06] I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara, and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. And welcome to our April news roundup, where we talk about some of the other stories that we, the Bay team, have been following this month. I’m joined by our senior editor, Alan Montecillo. and producer, Jessica Kariisa. I was just saying earlier in the office, I can’t believe we’re already approaching May, but I’ve just been looking back also at some of the things that we’ve been covering this month, quite the range. We’ve covered the potential closure of the Valero refinery in Benicia, Barbara Lee’s mayoral win in Oakland, and we also celebrated Youth Takeover week here at KQED. It’s this KQED-wide initiative to basically uplift the voices of young people around the Bay Area. And we did this really fun episode with four young people from across the Bay area. Jessica, I wonder if you can talk a little bit more about that one. It was a really fun one that we got to produce with Bay Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:01:17] Yeah, Youth Takeover was a super fun project that we did with high school students who are part of the Youth Advisory Board at KQED. And basically what happened was they sent us some audio diaries over the past few months, and we listened to them and we cut them down into an episode basically about what it’s like to be a high schooler in the Bay Area. We had two juniors and two seniors who live all across the Bay Area, sharing their stories about everything from dreams of designing a web comic to picking colleges, to what it’s gonna mean to not have their parents around or their teachers around when they go off to school. It’s just crazy to see some of the same concerns, even though so much has changed in the over decade that I’ve been in high school, but I could definitely relate to a lot of the things that they were going through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:02:16] I think one thing I appreciated about this process was how open-ended it was compared to the ways that high school students, college students, younger people are often in the news, or even in our stories, you know, usually they are talked about or quoted directly in reference to some news story, maybe it’s about education policy, maybe its about, you know student protests. But I think that one thing that was both really cool and honestly a big contrast from how we usually do things is that this played out over a long period of time. And we didn’t say, hey, we really want to hear your opinion on this thing that is happening. It really was about just tell us what’s going on in your life. So I mean, it was really impressed with the four students, Abby, Oumou, Olivia, and Riya. I’m glad that we made the time to do it, and we’ll do it again. Can I ask a question? As you listened back to the episode, which, I guess, teenage anxiety or emotion did you resonate with the most?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:17] Definitely Oumou’s angst and the way that she uses music to process her feelings was very, very relatable to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:03:32] I think for me, there’s a moment where Abby talks about having some FOMO around missing school events because of sports and those particular commitments in her life and I definitely felt that. It just sort of took me back to like school dances and things that other kids were doing that I wasn’t able to attend sometimes and just like the angst and just the worry of like, no, I’m gonna regress socially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:01] Still relatable, unfortunately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:04] Maybe even more so relatable now. Oh gosh. What about you, Alan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:09] If I had to pick one, I mean, it was present for everybody, but particularly for Riya, is just the anxiety around college admissions. I remember being so excited, so ready to get out of high school and experience college. And it felt like that, at that point, that was the most important decision I’d ever made in my entire life. And in some respects, you could say that it was, but knowing intellectually that like, it’s probably bad that I’m comparing myself to my peers and where I get in is not a measure of how smart I am, how valuable I am but you almost can’t help it and so just that anxiety and around the waiting, waiting too, what’s challenging then is still challenging now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:48] Well, if you haven’t listened to this episode already, make sure to go back and listen to it. It’s a really fun listen. When we come back, we’ll dig into some of the other stories from around the Bay Area that we have been watching this month. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:15] And welcome back to The Bay’s Monthly News Roundup, where we discuss some of the other stories that we have been following this month. Jessica, let’s have you kick us off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:05:24] So for listeners of The Bay, we have talked a few times about the special election in San Jose D3, which encompasses downtown and Japantown and is actually where I live. So just a quick little recap. The former council member for D3 Omar Torres resigned after he was charged with sexual abuse and an interim council member was appointed. And there was a special election held earlier this month, and we just got the results. You know, this city council race for District 3 was really important, and we did an episode on this, actually, with politics reporter, Guy Marzorati, because it really makes a difference as to whether or not Mayor Matt Mahan is able to really pushed through a lot of things on his agenda faster, specifically around permanently moving funds towards short-term interim housing, as opposed to permanent affordable housing, and also around homelessness. You know, there have been some controversial proposals around arresting people who refuse shelter three times within 18 months. And so this race and who ends up in this seat is a really big deal as to how far Mayor Mahan can go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:06:46] Gabby Chavez Lopez, the executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, ended up getting about 30% of the vote. That was not enough to declare an outright victory, and so it’s going to be a runoff. But what was really interesting was second place was up for grabs because it was really, really close between Anthony Tordillos, who is the head of San Jose’s planning commission and also works at YouTube. Matthew Quevedo, who is Matt Mahan’s deputy chief of staff. Earlier this week, Santa Clara County election officials have officially said that Anthony Tordillos got second place with a six vote lead over Matthew Quevedo. And so he is gonna be going into the runoff with Gabby Chavez Lopez on June 24th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:07:36] What does it mean that Tordillos has made it to the runoff and not Matthew Quevedo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:07:43] So, Matthew Quevedo being Mayhan’s deputy chief of staff, if he ended up in this seat, it was expected to be validation of the mayor’s agenda. You know, Quevedo talked about being the sixth vote on the council to help push Mayhan’s plan specifically around short-term interim housing and shifting funds from permanent affordable housing to short- term interim housing. But with Tordillos and Chavez-Lopez advancing, they’re more on the progressive side. They’ve also pushed more for permanent affordable housing. So it’s not a total rejection of Mahan, but it does signal that it might be a bit harder for him moving forward to streamline his agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:30] I’m still not over the six vote difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:08:33] I know, it’s crazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:08:36] Vote people, it matters. So this is going to a runoff. Jessica, what happens next?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:08:43] So starting end of May, ballots are gonna be sent out for the runoff, which is officially on June 24th between Chavez-Lopez and Tordillos. We’ll see who comes out on top. Is Tordillos going to collect the more conservative votes that were distributed between Quevedo and the rest of the people who were running? Or will something else happen? It’s unclear, but we’ll have to wait and see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:13] Jessica, thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:14] Thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:22] And next, we’re going to talk about the story that I’ve been following this month. I’ve be thinking a lot about the impact of Trump’s tariffs on certain communities here in the Bay Area. I’ve thinking about Little Saigon in San Jose and Chinatown in San Francisco, where right now many businesses have sort of entered survival mode. Our colleague Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman has been talking with business owners in San Francisco Chinatown specifically, who are really, really struggling right now. They’re dealing with declining sales and really an uncertain future as the U.S.-China trade war drags on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:10:08] Yeah, I mean, tariffs have dominated the news cycle, and it’s definitely made me wonder about local businesses here as well. Do you know, like, what exactly business owners are experiencing at their shops? Like, have prices already gone up? Like, what’s going on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:24] Yeah, our colleague Azul talked with business owners in Chinatown, including the owner of Mei’s Groceries on Stockton Street, Mei Zhu. She’s been the owner there for the past 11 years. And 90% of her goods at the store are imported. We’re talking about like dry noodles, candies, cookies. And now these items are subject to tariffs as high as 245%, she told Azul, which has meant that she’s had to raise her prices for some of her items by 50%. Some items cost 145% more, so she just stopped stocking them entirely. And for the remaining stock, she says that higher prices are really just driving customers away. I mean, if you can imagine, we’ve been talking about the high cost of groceries. For a long time now, this as sort of an added bonus has really affected her business. She told Azul that sales are down 30%. And I mean, when Azul talked with other business owners, in Chinatown that’s really kind of reflected across the board, a lot of these businesses are just really having a hard time right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:45] It’s hard for me not to think about specifically what San Francisco’s Chinatown has been through in the last five years or so, particularly with COVID, you know, anti-Asian hate. This is a neighborhood that’s just been through a lot, even before the tariffs. I wonder how much of that, if at all, was present in some of the conversations that Azul was having with people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:05] Yeah, totally. Azul talked with Malcolm Young, who’s the executive director of the Chinatown Community Development Center. And, you know, he says Chinatown is really built around trade. Many business owners have basically been able to create an opportunity for upward mobility using their relationships home back in China. And these are the same businesses who’ve really gone through hard times before. And he does see this as just kind of another hump that the community has to go through and that Chinatown has overcome a lot, but it also really needs our help right now. Zhu from Mei’s Groceries said that if things continue like this for another month or two, the only option for her is to close her business and to stop operating. And other owners really echoed this. And customers who Azul also talked with say that they’re not really encouraged to shop at these stores with these prices. So the end result is kind of obvious, but there’s sort of this feeling of like wanting to remain hopeful and that the community’s already been through so much and we can get to go through this again, but really it needs our help right now. Well, that is it for my story and I want to pivot to our last story here from senior editor Alan Montecillo. What have you been following this month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:13:40] Well, this story takes place in Berkeley, specifically around the Berkeley Hills. There’s a story on KQED’s website that was reported by Matthew Green and Samantha Kennedy. Earlier this month, the city approved rules that would require about 900 homes around Tilden Park to essentially remove vegetation and flammable materials around their homes to reduce fire risk. 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So I mean, it was really impressed with the four students, Abby, Oumou, Olivia, and Riya. I’m glad that we made the time to do it, and we’ll do it again. Can I ask a question? As you listened back to the episode, which, I guess, teenage anxiety or emotion did you resonate with the most?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:17] Definitely Oumou’s angst and the way that she uses music to process her feelings was very, very relatable to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:03:32] I think for me, there’s a moment where Abby talks about having some FOMO around missing school events because of sports and those particular commitments in her life and I definitely felt that. 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