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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">President Donald Trump\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has made no secret of his disdain for sanctuary laws, but the first time he was president, his administration repeatedly ended up on the losing side of legal cases over whether states, cities and counties can be forced to participate in immigration enforcement.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2017, courts of appeals \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/21/565678707/enter-title\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sided\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, as well as the city of Chicago, in two cases challenging Trump’s attempts to withhold federal law enforcement funds from sanctuary jurisdictions. An appeals court also \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/06/court-turns-down-governments-sanctuary-state-petition/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ruled\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that California’s statewide sanctuary law was legal in a suit brought by the Trump administration. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, none of the cases went to the U.S. Supreme Court. Eight years later, the legal battle is being reprised. San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, along with 14 other jurisdictions, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026179/san-francisco-leads-lawsuit-against-trumps-threats-to-punish-sanctuary-cities\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">are suing again\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> over Trump’s expanded order to strip sanctuary jurisdictions of all federal funding, not just law enforcement grants. The Trump administration has filed two lawsuits — one against the state of Illinois and one against the state of New York — over laws limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement officials.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump and the Department of Justice are also threatening to investigate and prosecute state and local officials who impede or interfere with the enforcement of federal immigration laws. Defenders of sanctuary laws argue that they do not obstruct immigration enforcement but simply prevent local police from carrying out the federal government’s responsibilities.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is the federal government coercing local officials to bend to their will or face defunding or prosecution and that is illegal,” San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said as he introduced the latest San Francisco lawsuit last month. “Last I checked, we still live in a democracy under the rule of law.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024429\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At issue are decades-old policies that supporters say encourage immigrant communities to cooperate with police, as well as fundamental disagreements over the separation of powers between federal and state governments.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Backers of sanctuary laws say they exist to enhance public safety and they point to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014673117\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">studies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> showing no negative effects on crime rates. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are striving to create a culture of trust and security within our communities so that our residents know that they can come to the county when they are in need,” Santa Clara County Counsel Tony LoPresti said. “That includes feeling safe, coming to local law enforcement to report crimes or to participate in investigations without fearing that they or their loved ones face deportation.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">LoPresti and other local officials argue that immigration enforcement is the purview of the federal government and that state and local officials cannot be forced or coerced into doing that job. Chiu said the purpose of sanctuary laws is not to interfere with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024430\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of elected and public safety officials, labor leaders, and community members fill the steps in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Jan. 28, 2025, during a press conference to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“ICE agents can come to all of our cities and states and enforce immigration law lawfully,” Chiu said. “What we are saying is under the Constitution, under the law, immigration enforcement is squarely a responsibility of the federal government, not a responsibility of state and local government … and we have a right to use our scarce law enforcement resources to actually solve crimes and promote public safety, not to be forced to have our law enforcement officers commandeered as ICE agents.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Critics maintain sanctuary laws make people less safe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The main objection that I have to sanctuary policies is that they undermine public safety because they inevitably result in criminal aliens that ICE is trying to take custody of for removal being released back into the community,” said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for less immigration into the U.S.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12030930 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250312-RICHMOND-CITY-HALL-MD-02-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vaughan was referring to the limits sanctuary policies place on prison and jail officials’ ability to communicate with ICE about people in their custody. While federal officials are automatically notified about every inmate booked into a jail or prison and sent their fingerprints, many sanctuary policies prohibit local and state officials from cooperating further, such as by providing a release date or holding someone in custody beyond that release date for ICE.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“ICE isn’t asking [local officials] to enforce immigration laws,” Vaughan said. “They’re asking them to give the kind of cooperation that these local agencies would give to any other — and every other — law enforcement agency.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vaughan rejects the argument that immigration communities will be scared to come forward and report crimes in the absence of sanctuary policies, saying federal surveys of victims show immigrants are actually \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cis.org/Report/Are-Immigrants-Less-Willing-Report-Crime\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">more likely than citizens\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to report crimes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, the legal cases do not focus on public safety; they largely center on how much power the federal government has to compel state and local governments to act — or to punish them for refusing to comply.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Liberal and conservative scholars agree that the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution, which divides power between the federal and state governments, offers sanctuary jurisdictions some legal protection.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12024757 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait in line to register and enter an informational session about immigration services at Willow Cove Elementary in Pittsburg, California, on Jan. 29, 2025. More than 300 people attended the event organized by Stand Together Contra Costa and the Pittsburg Unified School District, which offered free, private consultation with immigration attorneys, medical services and a resource fair. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The federal government can’t force the states to enforce immigration law,” said Josh Blackman, a constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law Houston. “That’s called commandeering.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blackman, an adjunct scholar at the conservative Cato Institute, said that the constitutional principle — that the federal government cannot force state and local governments to use their resources for federal purposes — was the basis of court rulings in favor of sanctuary jurisdictions during Trump’s first term.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump’s first administration tried to cut off law enforcement grant funding, but the courts found that cooperation with immigration enforcement was not a condition Congress had placed on the grants. Trump’s recent executive order goes even further, threatening to cut off all federal funding to sanctuary jurisdictions. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The broadness of the executive order is giving some sanctuary supporters hope that they will prevail again. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/05162019_Trump_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1316\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/05162019_Trump_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/05162019_Trump_qed-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/05162019_Trump_qed-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/05162019_Trump_qed-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/05162019_Trump_qed-1536x1011.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/05162019_Trump_qed-1920x1263.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he delivers remarks on immigration at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C. on May 16, 2019. \u003ccite>(Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fred Tsao, senior policy counsel with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrants and Refugee Rights, said even if Congress were to pass a law similar to the executive order, “they’re still going to run afoul of the 10th Amendment issue.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tsao noted that the current Supreme Court precedent on federal overreach was established through a lawsuit brought by Republican-led states challenging the Affordable Care Act’s requirement to expand Medicaid or risk losing funding. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">President Donald Trump\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has made no secret of his disdain for sanctuary laws, but the first time he was president, his administration repeatedly ended up on the losing side of legal cases over whether states, cities and counties can be forced to participate in immigration enforcement.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2017, courts of appeals \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/21/565678707/enter-title\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sided\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, as well as the city of Chicago, in two cases challenging Trump’s attempts to withhold federal law enforcement funds from sanctuary jurisdictions. An appeals court also \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/06/court-turns-down-governments-sanctuary-state-petition/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ruled\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that California’s statewide sanctuary law was legal in a suit brought by the Trump administration. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, none of the cases went to the U.S. Supreme Court. Eight years later, the legal battle is being reprised. San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, along with 14 other jurisdictions, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026179/san-francisco-leads-lawsuit-against-trumps-threats-to-punish-sanctuary-cities\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">are suing again\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> over Trump’s expanded order to strip sanctuary jurisdictions of all federal funding, not just law enforcement grants. The Trump administration has filed two lawsuits — one against the state of Illinois and one against the state of New York — over laws limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement officials.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump and the Department of Justice are also threatening to investigate and prosecute state and local officials who impede or interfere with the enforcement of federal immigration laws. Defenders of sanctuary laws argue that they do not obstruct immigration enforcement but simply prevent local police from carrying out the federal government’s responsibilities.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is the federal government coercing local officials to bend to their will or face defunding or prosecution and that is illegal,” San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said as he introduced the latest San Francisco lawsuit last month. “Last I checked, we still live in a democracy under the rule of law.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024429\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At issue are decades-old policies that supporters say encourage immigrant communities to cooperate with police, as well as fundamental disagreements over the separation of powers between federal and state governments.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Backers of sanctuary laws say they exist to enhance public safety and they point to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014673117\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">studies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> showing no negative effects on crime rates. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are striving to create a culture of trust and security within our communities so that our residents know that they can come to the county when they are in need,” Santa Clara County Counsel Tony LoPresti said. “That includes feeling safe, coming to local law enforcement to report crimes or to participate in investigations without fearing that they or their loved ones face deportation.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">LoPresti and other local officials argue that immigration enforcement is the purview of the federal government and that state and local officials cannot be forced or coerced into doing that job. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vaughan was referring to the limits sanctuary policies place on prison and jail officials’ ability to communicate with ICE about people in their custody. While federal officials are automatically notified about every inmate booked into a jail or prison and sent their fingerprints, many sanctuary policies prohibit local and state officials from cooperating further, such as by providing a release date or holding someone in custody beyond that release date for ICE.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“ICE isn’t asking [local officials] to enforce immigration laws,” Vaughan said. “They’re asking them to give the kind of cooperation that these local agencies would give to any other — and every other — law enforcement agency.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vaughan rejects the argument that immigration communities will be scared to come forward and report crimes in the absence of sanctuary policies, saying federal surveys of victims show immigrants are actually \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cis.org/Report/Are-Immigrants-Less-Willing-Report-Crime\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">more likely than citizens\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to report crimes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, the legal cases do not focus on public safety; they largely center on how much power the federal government has to compel state and local governments to act — or to punish them for refusing to comply.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Liberal and conservative scholars agree that the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution, which divides power between the federal and state governments, offers sanctuary jurisdictions some legal protection.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12024757 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250125_Immigration-Forum_DB_00985-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait in line to register and enter an informational session about immigration services at Willow Cove Elementary in Pittsburg, California, on Jan. 29, 2025. More than 300 people attended the event organized by Stand Together Contra Costa and the Pittsburg Unified School District, which offered free, private consultation with immigration attorneys, medical services and a resource fair. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The federal government can’t force the states to enforce immigration law,” said Josh Blackman, a constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law Houston. “That’s called commandeering.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blackman, an adjunct scholar at the conservative Cato Institute, said that the constitutional principle — that the federal government cannot force state and local governments to use their resources for federal purposes — was the basis of court rulings in favor of sanctuary jurisdictions during Trump’s first term.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump’s first administration tried to cut off law enforcement grant funding, but the courts found that cooperation with immigration enforcement was not a condition Congress had placed on the grants. Trump’s recent executive order goes even further, threatening to cut off all federal funding to sanctuary jurisdictions. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The broadness of the executive order is giving some sanctuary supporters hope that they will prevail again. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/05162019_Trump_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1316\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/05162019_Trump_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/05162019_Trump_qed-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/05162019_Trump_qed-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/05162019_Trump_qed-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/05162019_Trump_qed-1536x1011.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/05162019_Trump_qed-1920x1263.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he delivers remarks on immigration at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C. on May 16, 2019. \u003ccite>(Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fred Tsao, senior policy counsel with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrants and Refugee Rights, said even if Congress were to pass a law similar to the executive order, “they’re still going to run afoul of the 10th Amendment issue.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tsao noted that the current Supreme Court precedent on federal overreach was established through a lawsuit brought by Republican-led states challenging the Affordable Care Act’s requirement to expand Medicaid or risk losing funding. The court ruled in favor of the states.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tsao helped write the Illinois and Chicago sanctuary laws, which the Trump administration is suing to overturn. He said the suit relies on another constitutional principle: the Supremacy Clause, which establishes that federal law takes precedence over state law if the two conflict. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But UCLA School of Law professor Hiroshi Motomura\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">said it’s not clear that sanctuary laws actually conflict with federal immigration laws because they’ve been narrowly crafted to specify only what local officials cannot do.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Motomura, a scholar of immigration and citizenship, argued that the Trump administration’s goal in pursuing litigation likely goes beyond just winning the legal case: The suits are forcing sanctuary cities, counties and states to use their resources to mount costly legal battles.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">UC Berkeley’s Caitlin Patler agreed, noting that the lawsuits send a message to other local and state officials who may be considering enacting their own sanctuary laws. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think there is some element of the federal government right now trying to put pressure on local governments,” said Patler, an associate professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy. “Litigation is costly. Litigation is time-consuming. Litigation can be politically detrimental for, say, an elected sheriff. And so, it could have a chilling effect on other jurisdictions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s bullying.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vaughan said litigation and funding threats may be the only tools at the federal government’s disposal to push local officials to change policies she believes “cross a line and undermine public safety.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We didn’t get any real (legal) impact on the sanctuary cities in the last administration,” Blackman said. “I think to the extent you have a different story now, it might actually be political more than legal.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There have been several unsuccessful attempts in Chicago to repeal that city’s sanctuary laws. And in California, Republican lawmakers recently introduced legislation to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028147/republicans-seek-to-weaken-californias-sanctuary-law\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">weaken the state’s sanctuary law\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bill has not yet received a hearing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The hole in California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/medi-cal/\">Medi-Cal\u003c/a> budget seems to be bigger than what state officials reported just last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California health care officials told the Legislature on Monday that the state will need another $2.8 billion to be able to pay Medi-Cal providers through the end of the fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s on top of a $3.4 billion loan that the administration told lawmakers last week it needed to make \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/03/medi-cal-budget-shortfall/\">“critical” payments for Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, the state-federal health insurance program for people with low income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combined, that’s $6.2 billion in spending above what was projected in the budget Gov. Gavin Newsom signed last summer. 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For one, the state underestimated the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/12/undocumented-health-insurance-new-california-laws-2024/\">number of immigrants without legal status\u003c/a> who would sign up to the program in the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bass said the department had about one month of data regarding new policies before it had to make projections for the budget Newsom signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These changes were unprecedented, and all happened at once,” Bass said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The developments include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>More immigrants without legal status enrolled in the program than expected. Over the last 10 years, California has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-health-care-coverage/\">expanded Medi-Cal coverage\u003c/a> to undocumented people in different age groups. The final group, adults ages 26 to 49, were allowed to apply for Medi-Cal starting Jan. 1, 2024. 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California’s overall Medi-Cal population ballooned during the COVID-19 pandemic when the federal government temporarily suspended income eligibility checks to keep people insured during the national emergency. The number of people who dropped off the program after the pandemic was smaller than the department assumed.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Bass said other states are also going over budget, noting health care spending in general is increasing across the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going over budget has vexed some state Republicans who say the governor and Democrats over-promised when they decided to expand Medi-Cal services to all immigrants with low income. Democrats have come out in defense of the expansion and the state’s efforts to keep people covered during the pandemic.[aside postID=news_12022068 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-536950177-1020x680.jpg']“The things that you’re talking about means that we have been successful,” Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo, a Santa Clarita Democrat, told Bass during Monday’s hearing. “We have been successful about keeping people covered, about making sure that they have access to health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiavo added that California’s current shortfall is solvable, but less so are the potential cuts to Medicaid that Congress is currently weighing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Republicans recently voted to advance a proposal that could result in cuts of\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/02/medicaid-medi-cal-trump-cuts/\"> $880 billion to a group of programs\u003c/a>, largely Medicaid, over the next 10 years. According to some estimates, that could translate into annual losses of \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/california-at-risk-proposed-federal-funding-cuts-jeopardize-key-services/\">$10 billion to $20 billion a year\u003c/a> for California, an amount that state officials have said the state would not be able to backfill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), which works to ensure that people have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. Visit www.chcf.org to learn more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The things that you’re talking about means that we have been successful,” Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo, a Santa Clarita Democrat, told Bass during Monday’s hearing. “We have been successful about keeping people covered, about making sure that they have access to health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiavo added that California’s current shortfall is solvable, but less so are the potential cuts to Medicaid that Congress is currently weighing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Republicans recently voted to advance a proposal that could result in cuts of\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/02/medicaid-medi-cal-trump-cuts/\"> $880 billion to a group of programs\u003c/a>, largely Medicaid, over the next 10 years. According to some estimates, that could translate into annual losses of \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/california-at-risk-proposed-federal-funding-cuts-jeopardize-key-services/\">$10 billion to $20 billion a year\u003c/a> for California, an amount that state officials have said the state would not be able to backfill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), which works to ensure that people have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. Visit www.chcf.org to learn more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The California health care program that covers almost 15 million people is costing more money than Gov. Gavin Newsom projected, creating a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/california-budget/\">new budget problem\u003c/a> in a lean year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now his administration is borrowing $3.4 billion from the state’s general fund to cover the unexpected cost increase. It’s unclear when the administration plans to restore the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration acknowledged that more people are enrolled in the program than the state anticipated, and that the state is spending $2.7 billion more than it planned on coverage expansions for immigrants without legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 1.6 million immigrants without legal status are enrolled in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/medi-cal/\">Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, according to state data. The program is a lifeline to people who traditionally have not had access to health insurance, and California is one of six states that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/press-release/more-states-are-providing-fully-state-funded-health-coverage-to-some-individuals-regardless-of-immigration-status/\">offer coverage to immigrant adults \u003c/a>regardless of whether they are in the country legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones said Newsom has overpromised and under-delivered on health care at a time when all Californians are struggling to afford the cost of living in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democrats and the governor are picking priorities, and they’re prioritizing people that have come into our country illegally over people who immigrated here legally, people that are citizens,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s Medi-Cal expansion for undocumented immigrants costs about $8.5 billion from the state general fund annually, according to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/258448\">a recent budget hearing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we weren’t spending eight-and-a-half billion dollars on illegal immigrants, we wouldn’t need to borrow $3.4 billion to cover the difference,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>H.D. Palmer, a spokesperson for the state’s finance department, acknowledged that the rise in spending is partially attributable to higher-than-projected costs associated with larger enrollment numbers for California’s undocumented population. In January,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Documents/Budget-Highlights/DHCS-FY-2025-26-Governors-Budget-Highlights.pdf\">Department of Health Care Services (PDF)\u003c/a>, which oversees Medi-Cal, estimated California is spending $2.7 billion beyond what it budgeted due to the cost of covering care and prescriptions for newly enrolled immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But immigrants aren’t the only population that is using Medi-Cal more than the state expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Medi-Cal population in general ballooned during the COVID-19 pandemic when the federal government temporarily suspended income eligibility checks to keep people insured during the national emergency. Before the pandemic about 13 million people used Medi-Cal. That number peaked at 15.6 million in 2023 when \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/collection/medi-cal-end-public-health-emergency/#:~:text=The%20requirement%20ended%20on%20March,Californians%20may%20leave%20the%20program.\">eligibility checks resumed\u003c/a>. Today 14.9 million people are enrolled, according to \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010\">state data\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12022068 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-536950177-1020x680.jpg']The Legislative Analyst’s Office has also noted \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2025/5010/Understanding-Recent-Increases-Medi-Cal-Senior-Caseload-030525.pdf\">a 40% growth over the last four years (PDF)\u003c/a> in the number of seniors enrolled in Medi-Cal. While seniors make up only about 10% of the program’s enrollees, they account for a large part of the program’s spending because benefits such as long-term care are among the most expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medi-Cal spends about $15,000 a year per senior. That compares to the $8,000 a year the program spends on average on other enrollees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office said these issues are neither new nor unique to California. Medi-Cal is California’s version of Medicaid, the federal-state program that provides health coverage nationwide to low-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rising Medicaid costs are a national challenge, affecting both red and blue states alike,” Elana Ross, a spokesperson for the governor’s office, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Democrats pledge to protect immigrant health care\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sen. Roger Niello, a long-time critic of the state’s closed-door budgeting process, which is typically hashed out between Democratic leaders and the governor, acknowledged that other factors like senior enrollment and high drug costs could be contributing to the high expenses. He said Republicans are worried about increasing spending on immigrant health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Republican from Roseville criticized the lack of transparency from Newsom’s finance department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The completely opaque nature of the request, which says nothing about any of that, is entirely inappropriate,” Niello said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Roger Niello holds a news conference in the rotunda of the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 13, 2025. Niello requested more transparency from Gov. Newsom as to why the state needs $3.5 billion to keep Medi-Cal solvent. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers said they need more information about what exactly is behind the unexpected spending increases, but pushed back on the idea that the state would need to roll back coverage for its undocumented population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant workers and families, who pay billions in taxes, deserve access to care, and I am proud to protect California’s progress expanding Medi-Cal,” Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said in a statement. “There are tough choices ahead, and Assembly Democrats will closely examine any proposal from the governor. But let’s be clear: We will not roll over and leave our immigrants behind.”[aside postID=news_12029294 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg']Immigrants lacking permanent status contribute approximately \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/news/new-study-undocumented-immigrants-contribute-8-5-billion-in-california-taxes-a-year/\">$8.5 billion in state and local taxes a year\u003c/a>, according to an analysis by the California Budget and Policy Center, a nonprofit research group. That’s about the same amount it’s costing the state to give them Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers first allowed undocumented children to enroll in Medi-Cal in 2016 under Gov. Jerry Brown. Since then Newsom has approved adding young adults up to age 25 in 2020 and older adults and seniors in 2022. Adults ages 26–49 were the final group added in 2024. Throughout those years, even \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/01/undocumented-health-care-politics/\">some Republican lawmakers supported covering this population.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Republicans need to take a better and keen-eyed look at the timeline associated with those expansions,” said Assemblymember Mia Bonta, an Oakland Democrat who leads the Health Committee. “For them to just try to play the blame game and put it all at the feet of California values to ensure that we have universal health coverage for all with this particular age group being included is just specious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Billions more in potential Medicaid cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Dawn Addis, who chairs a budget subcommittee on health, said she will be questioning Newsom officials closely about the spending increase in an upcoming hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really need to understand the details of what the Department of Finance is saying, what the executive is seeing, and how they’re calculating this information,” Addis, a Democrat from San Luis Obispo, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addis emphasized that the biggest threat to Medi-Cal right now is coming from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Republicans recently voted to advance a proposal that could result in cuts of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/02/medicaid-medi-cal-trump-cuts/\">$880 billion to a group of programs\u003c/a>, largely Medicaid, over the next 10 years. The California Budget and Policy Center has estimated that the proposals currently at play in Congress could translate into annual losses of $10 billion to $20 billion a year for the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason why it’s so important for us to fight back against cuts at the federal level to Medicaid is because there is no easy or painless solution to fill that budget hole,” said Amanda McAllister-Wallner, interim executive director of Health Access California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health Access California along with the California Immigrant Policy Center spearheaded the campaign nearly a decade ago to insure all immigrants in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister-Wallner said it was unfair and unreasonable to pin the state budget shortfall on the immigrant expansions. Over the same time period, the state has added benefits, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MediCalExplainedNewServicesGlance20202023.pdf\">doula services and family therapy (PDF)\u003c/a>, and invested heavily in reforming the system through a multibillion-dollar initiative called CalAIM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those changes that we’ve made in Medi-Cal made the program stronger (and) have made the state healthier,” McAllister-Wallner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Alexei Koseff contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Legislative Analyst’s Office has also noted \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2025/5010/Understanding-Recent-Increases-Medi-Cal-Senior-Caseload-030525.pdf\">a 40% growth over the last four years (PDF)\u003c/a> in the number of seniors enrolled in Medi-Cal. While seniors make up only about 10% of the program’s enrollees, they account for a large part of the program’s spending because benefits such as long-term care are among the most expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medi-Cal spends about $15,000 a year per senior. That compares to the $8,000 a year the program spends on average on other enrollees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office said these issues are neither new nor unique to California. Medi-Cal is California’s version of Medicaid, the federal-state program that provides health coverage nationwide to low-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rising Medicaid costs are a national challenge, affecting both red and blue states alike,” Elana Ross, a spokesperson for the governor’s office, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Democrats pledge to protect immigrant health care\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sen. Roger Niello, a long-time critic of the state’s closed-door budgeting process, which is typically hashed out between Democratic leaders and the governor, acknowledged that other factors like senior enrollment and high drug costs could be contributing to the high expenses. He said Republicans are worried about increasing spending on immigrant health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Republican from Roseville criticized the lack of transparency from Newsom’s finance department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The completely opaque nature of the request, which says nothing about any of that, is entirely inappropriate,” Niello said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Roger Niello holds a news conference in the rotunda of the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 13, 2025. Niello requested more transparency from Gov. Newsom as to why the state needs $3.5 billion to keep Medi-Cal solvent. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers said they need more information about what exactly is behind the unexpected spending increases, but pushed back on the idea that the state would need to roll back coverage for its undocumented population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant workers and families, who pay billions in taxes, deserve access to care, and I am proud to protect California’s progress expanding Medi-Cal,” Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said in a statement. “There are tough choices ahead, and Assembly Democrats will closely examine any proposal from the governor. But let’s be clear: We will not roll over and leave our immigrants behind.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Immigrants lacking permanent status contribute approximately \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/news/new-study-undocumented-immigrants-contribute-8-5-billion-in-california-taxes-a-year/\">$8.5 billion in state and local taxes a year\u003c/a>, according to an analysis by the California Budget and Policy Center, a nonprofit research group. That’s about the same amount it’s costing the state to give them Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers first allowed undocumented children to enroll in Medi-Cal in 2016 under Gov. Jerry Brown. Since then Newsom has approved adding young adults up to age 25 in 2020 and older adults and seniors in 2022. Adults ages 26–49 were the final group added in 2024. Throughout those years, even \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/01/undocumented-health-care-politics/\">some Republican lawmakers supported covering this population.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Republicans need to take a better and keen-eyed look at the timeline associated with those expansions,” said Assemblymember Mia Bonta, an Oakland Democrat who leads the Health Committee. “For them to just try to play the blame game and put it all at the feet of California values to ensure that we have universal health coverage for all with this particular age group being included is just specious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Billions more in potential Medicaid cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Dawn Addis, who chairs a budget subcommittee on health, said she will be questioning Newsom officials closely about the spending increase in an upcoming hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really need to understand the details of what the Department of Finance is saying, what the executive is seeing, and how they’re calculating this information,” Addis, a Democrat from San Luis Obispo, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addis emphasized that the biggest threat to Medi-Cal right now is coming from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Republicans recently voted to advance a proposal that could result in cuts of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/02/medicaid-medi-cal-trump-cuts/\">$880 billion to a group of programs\u003c/a>, largely Medicaid, over the next 10 years. The California Budget and Policy Center has estimated that the proposals currently at play in Congress could translate into annual losses of $10 billion to $20 billion a year for the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason why it’s so important for us to fight back against cuts at the federal level to Medicaid is because there is no easy or painless solution to fill that budget hole,” said Amanda McAllister-Wallner, interim executive director of Health Access California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health Access California along with the California Immigrant Policy Center spearheaded the campaign nearly a decade ago to insure all immigrants in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister-Wallner said it was unfair and unreasonable to pin the state budget shortfall on the immigrant expansions. Over the same time period, the state has added benefits, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MediCalExplainedNewServicesGlance20202023.pdf\">doula services and family therapy (PDF)\u003c/a>, and invested heavily in reforming the system through a multibillion-dollar initiative called CalAIM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those changes that we’ve made in Medi-Cal made the program stronger (and) have made the state healthier,” McAllister-Wallner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Alexei Koseff contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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As governor, I won’t ever back down when Trump hurts Californians — whether he’s holding up disaster relief, attacking our rights or our communities, or screwing over working families to benefit himself and his cronies,” Porter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contest to replace \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">term-limited Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> already has lured a large scrum of announced and likely candidates that would be upended if Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026900/could-kamala-harris-shake-up-californias-governor-race-democrats-weigh-in\">decides to seek the state’s top office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris, a former state attorney general and U.S. senator, has not ruled out seeking the governorship since she left Washington in January after a failed presidential bid. Porter is friendly with the former vice president and has indicated she would step aside if Harris joins the race. In 2012, Harris, then California’s attorney general, appointed Porter to be the state’s independent bank monitor in a multibillion-dollar nationwide mortgage settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Harris gets in the race “there are very few politicians who would want to take her on,” said Claremont McKenna College political scientist Jack Pitney. “She’d be likely to win the Democratic nomination and Democrats are likely to win the governorship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter, who made an unsuccessful run for U.S. Senate last year and also is known for her small-dollar fundraising prowess, becomes one of the best-known candidates, joining former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, among others, on the Democratic side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats are expected to easily hold the seat in a state where they outnumber registered Republicans by nearly 2-to-1. Republicans have not won a statewide election in California in nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the GOP side, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco last month became \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-race-riverside-county-sheriff-9f251ca0f09a16344ae3902c7ffe009e\">the first major Republican\u003c/a> to announce a bid to replace Newsom, whose term runs through early January 2027. He blamed Democrats for the ongoing homelessness crisis and runaway housing prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12026900 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2196870022-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if Harris gets in the race, the state’s open primary system can be unpredictable — all candidates appear on a single ballot, regardless of party, and only the top two vote-getters advance to the November general election. Trump-aligned candidates could enter on the GOP side, generating conservative interest, or a wealthy candidate could emerge with the funds to rattle the expected order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These open primaries are hard to handicap,” said Democratic consultant Andrew Acosta. “It just makes it harder to predict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter, a progressive favorite, created an \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-senate-schiff-garvey-porter-democrats-b12c0742e3eca3a0784199b263ffed97\">online backlash\u003c/a> after losing the 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-politics-california-dianne-feinstein-united-states-senate-172759fa83faa0a70a2195a91dedb6f3\">Senate race\u003c/a>, when she faulted “billionaires spending millions to rig this election.” She finished third in the primary — behind Democrat and now-Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/adam-schiff\">Adam Schiff\u003c/a> and Republican Steve Garvey — and did not advance to the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some likened her words to Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud in 2020. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if Harris gets in the race, the state’s open primary system can be unpredictable — all candidates appear on a single ballot, regardless of party, and only the top two vote-getters advance to the November general election. Trump-aligned candidates could enter on the GOP side, generating conservative interest, or a wealthy candidate could emerge with the funds to rattle the expected order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These open primaries are hard to handicap,” said Democratic consultant Andrew Acosta. “It just makes it harder to predict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter, a progressive favorite, created an \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-senate-schiff-garvey-porter-democrats-b12c0742e3eca3a0784199b263ffed97\">online backlash\u003c/a> after losing the 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-politics-california-dianne-feinstein-united-states-senate-172759fa83faa0a70a2195a91dedb6f3\">Senate race\u003c/a>, when she faulted “billionaires spending millions to rig this election.” She finished third in the primary — behind Democrat and now-Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/adam-schiff\">Adam Schiff\u003c/a> and Republican Steve Garvey — and did not advance to the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some likened her words to Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud in 2020. Porter later clarified her initial statement to say she didn’t believe the California vote count or election process had been compromised but she didn’t recant her earlier remarks. Rigged, she said in a follow-up, “means manipulated by dishonest means.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been an active fundraiser since leaving her Southern California House district in January and returned to teaching at the UC Irvine School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A consumer protection attorney before her election to the House, Porter became known in Congress for her unsparing interrogations of business leaders and other committee witnesses, often using her whiteboard to break down complex figures while using plainspoken language to assail corporate greed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First elected to Congress in 2018, Porter said in her video that “I first ran for office to hold Trump accountable. I feel that same call to serve now to stop him from hurting Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Newsom administration is moving swiftly to distribute by May billions of dollars from the 2024 mental health bond narrowly approved by voters, but concerns are emerging about whether areas of the state that have the greatest need will be left behind, according to testimony at legislative oversight hearing this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/mental-health/2024/03/proposition-1-gavin-newsom-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Proposition 1\u003c/a>, championed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, pledged to inject $6.4 billion into the state’s overburdened mental health and addiction treatment system. Newsom promised voters the move would help the state address its \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/01/hud-pit-count-2024/#:~:text=The%20number%20of%20homeless%20Californians,state%20as%20of%20January%202024.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">homelessness crisis\u003c/a>, which is often publicly associated with \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/07/california-homelessness-myths/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unaddressed mental health and substance use issues\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of the money, $4.4 billion, would be used to build treatment facilities to help meet the state’s estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1824-1-v2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10,000-bed shortage\u003c/a>. The rest of the bond money would be used on housing and managed by the state’s housing department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom wanted to move as fast as possible. Last year, he announced the state would \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/mental-health/2024/05/mental-health-housing-proposition-1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">release the bond money months ahead of schedule\u003c/a>. During a press conference last year, Newsom told counties to move with a “sense of urgency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re either part of the problem or you’re not. Period,” he said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that timeline could neglect counties that have the fewest mental health resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Moving this money out fast does come at a cost, because there will be some who are left behind,” said Susan Holt, Fresno County Behavioral Health director, during the Tuesday Assembly Health Committee hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Small and rural counties say they simply don’t have the manpower or expertise to navigate the complex grant requirements governing this one-time, multibillion-dollar investment. A recent \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2025/4954/Building-CA-Behavorial-Health-Infrastructure-Progress-Update-020525.pdf\">Legislative Analyst’s Office report (PDF)\u003c/a> found that a majority of money distributed from programs similar to Prop. 1 in the past went to regions of the state that need it least. The area with the highest unmet need, the southern San Joaquin Valley, didn’t get any state money in previous rounds of funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To meet the population need, the region needs to nearly triple its capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to Prop. 1, Holt testified that Fresno County submitted nine grant applications for primarily acute care beds and did not receive any money from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can speak with conviction and assurance that we understand the urgency,” Holt said. “Sometimes with this much money we need to go a little bit slower in order to go faster in the end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties are also concerned that the state has provided money for treatment facilities but not for workforce or services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Miller, an analyst from the Legislative Analyst’s Office, examined how the state spent similar building funds in the past. His analysis found that the state has historically awarded funds to “launch ready” projects that can be completed on a quick timeline, a criteria that gives an advantage to more sophisticated counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which regions got more mental health funding?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For example, a 2022 RAND study found that Los Angeles and the greater Sacramento region have sufficient adult acute care capacity, yet collectively those areas received nearly three-fourths of the funding distributed for acute care beds, roughly $130 million, according to the analyst’s office. Instead, those areas have a higher need for sub-acute care and community residential treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A great deal of resources and staff are needed to put together a compelling launch ready project,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other areas of the state that received less money than expected based on need were the Inland Empire, Central Coast and Bay Area, Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, who authored the legislation that put Prop. 1 on the ballot, said voters were very skeptical about how the state spends its money and that promises were made to get the money to counties quickly. But the Democrat from Thousand Oaks also questioned whether the accelerated timeline was sensible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/03/election-result-proposition-1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prop. 1 passed\u003c/a> by the narrowest of margins last year, 50.2% to 49.8%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you think the administration’s … implementation has been too aggressive, or are the goals realistic?” Irwin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State backs projects it believes will succeed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Marlise Perez, a division chief for the Department of Health Care Services, pushed back against the notion that awards would leave small counties behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want it to appear that we’re only awarding the shiniest applications,” Perez said, pointing to almost $200 million in grants that were awarded to small counties prior to Prop. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the administration must support projects that can actually be completed, Perez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the analyst’s office, 18 small counties received no funding in previous grant rounds. According to Perez, 16 of them didn’t apply. [aside postID=\"science_1995393,news_11986218,news_11980415\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately we can only award who applies. That has been a challenge,” Perez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her office is helping those counties with the application and now expects seven to apply for the next round of funding. One of the more difficult grant requirements is that facilities guarantee they can provide services for the next 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still with more than $3.3 billion rolling out in two months, there’s little room to pivot how the money will be targeted. This round of grants will focus once again on “launch ready” projects. The remaining $1.1 billion will be awarded by early 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Applicants have submitted projects totaling more than $8.8 billion, double the amount of money available, an indication of the severe needs across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, a Fresno Democrat, said when the system rewards those who have historically been able to provide services there is a risk of “baking in historical inequities and disparities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Lawmakers should hit the brakes on one of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature programs for cleaning up homeless encampments, \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007\">according to a report\u003c/a> out Wednesday from the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LAO found lawmakers lack the basic information needed to assess how well the effort — called Encampment Resolution Funding Program — is working and should hold off on further investment until it’s given “compelling evidence that program goals are being met.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and legislators \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/10/29/california-launches-encampment-resolution-grant-program/\">rolled out the competitive grant in 2021\u003c/a> to help local governments address “specific, persistent encampments” with the aim of moving people into permanent housing or temporary shelter until long-term housing becomes available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state invested $900 million in the program since its launch, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some communities, this is a really important tool,” said Susannah Parsons, director of policy and legislation for the nonprofit, All Home, “and certainly a means by which local jurisdictions can respond to intense political pressure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">ordered state agencies\u003c/a> to clear encampments and urged local governments to do the same. The order seized on an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">opening from the Supreme Court\u003c/a>, which issued a ruling that gave cities greater leeway to fine and jail people for camping illegally, even when no alternative shelter is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parsons agrees that better data on outcomes is essential, but she said holding back new funding could hamper efforts to address homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The prospect of losing access to that funding … is a big deal,” she said, noting that the uniquely flexible dollars are used for everything from medical care to emergency rental subsidies. “And it’s in the context of a funding landscape that is really uncertain, and that is making it really difficult for us to see the kind of progress that we need.”[aside postID=news_12030023 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250210_Unhoused-Ban_DMB_00270_qed-1020x680.jpg']The analyst’s recommendation, part of its 2025–26 budget assessment, echoes a report from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982237/california-audit-questions-state-homelessness-spending-san-jose\">state auditor last year\u003c/a> that found California has little idea how effective the billions it’s spent addressing homelessness have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and legislators have since put an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011525/newsom-announces-830-million-in-homelessness-spending-with-strings\">emphasis on accountability\u003c/a>, but when it comes to this program, those efforts have yet to come to fruition. His office did not return requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers haven’t received data on how many people have been housed using the money or even how many encampments have been addressed, according to the LAO, which provides nonpartisan policy advice to the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without that data, the analyst points out, the Legislature can’t determine whether the funding is resulting in an encampment “resolution” or encampment sweeps, which simply move people from one corner to the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, 70% of grant funds have yet to be spent. Of the $258 million that has been, about a third was used on temporary shelter, with the remainder spent on street outreach, services and permanent housing, among other uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know what’s most effective — it’s helping people back into housing and providing services to support that transition, instead of measures that just move them around,” Alex Visotzky, Senior California Policy Fellow with the National Alliance to End Homelessness, said. “Voters and folks experiencing homelessness want to see public dollars spent on what works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators added new reporting requirements for the program last year, but those progress reports aren’t due until next month. Until lawmakers have those in hand, the LAO suggests they use spring budget hearings to press the administration for any available data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the politics of Sacramento oppose the politics of Washington, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> is able to insulate itself. The state’s environmental laws, agencies and funding streams allow it — to a certain extent — to set its own agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, California can set its own clean car targets, clean water standards and goals for prescribed burning. In — or more literally on — about half of the state, that’s not the case because the federal government owns it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, on this land, federal policies apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service is the biggest landowner, holding 43% of all federal land within California’s borders. Next is the Bureau of Land Management, with 32%. The National Park Service controls 16%. The state of California, comparatively, holds just 3% of the state’s landmass, so those who care about California’s public lands and about limiting explosive wildfires also care about federal policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet policy on federal public lands is currently in chaos. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029178/trumps-mass-layoffs-noaa-cut-into-bay-area-weather-service\">Firings\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">funding freezes\u003c/a>, emails that demand employees list five things they accomplished during the week and high-profile resignations have caused \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027914/wide-us-forest-service-layoffs-leave-safety-projects-delayed-fire-crews-depleted\">upheaval and bewilderment \u003c/a>for the people entrusted to care for public lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current and former federal and state employees told KQED they were concerned about delayed fire safety projects, canceled training for fire responders, slow response times to fires, and depleted ranks of firefighters and firefighting support staff. The trickle-down effects could mean communities are left at a higher fire risk of wildfire while public lands are neglected and ill-managed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we manage large fires, about half the positions are actually suppression,” said Dan Munsey, San Bernardino County’s fire chief, referring to firefighters who directly engage with the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029490\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People demonstrate against federal employee layoffs at Yosemite National Park on March 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AFP via Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The other half, he said, are support positions — fire modelers, map makers, logistics. Many positions have been cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you reduce positions in the Forest Service and other federal agencies, it’ll very likely have a direct impact,” Munsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildland firefighters are concerned about travel restrictions announced last week that could mean delays if a serious fire erupted and a call was issued for aid. The emailed guidance, reviewed by KQED, stipulated that even travel related to national security, public safety and immigration enforcement had to be approved by the Department of the Interior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://kqedsf.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/media/index.html?appid=76a7a35148c4486bb2069a5ead8d421f\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 14px\">\u003ci>Map by Matthew Green/KQED\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riva Duncan, a longtime Forest Service employee who is now spokesperson for the nonprofit advocacy group Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, expressed doubt that agency heads would allow firefighter travel to be delayed but said the confusion was understandable and that direction from the federal government was not clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some wildfire safety projects around the state have been put on hold. Sometimes, the projects, which already take so long that the community the project was meant to protect, \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2022/08/16/stalled-us-forest-service-project-could-have-protected-california-town-from-caldor-fire-destruction/\">get burned before it gets completed\u003c/a>, as did the town of Grizzly Flats in the 2021 Caldor Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11929377\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A smoke-filled view of woods with a fire truck on one side of the road.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Cal Fire truck drives on a smoke-filled Highway 50 between Pollock Pines and Strawberry on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, as the Caldor Fire burns nearby. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Contractors working on a plan to prepare communities for wildfire in Shasta County, as well as a project assessing wildfire hazards in the wildland-urban interface in Plumas County, have been told to stop work until USDA Community Wildfire Defense grants are unfrozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Vizzachero, who was fired from his job as a Los Padres National Forest biologist, was contributing work to wildfire protection plans for Ohai, Santa Barbara, Montecito and Monterey. He’s handed the work to a colleague, who already has a full plate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agencies such as the National Weather Service also assist in fire response. An annual training for incident meteorologists, who interpret how forecasted weather conditions will impact fire and responding crews, was canceled last week with short notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[W]e have no choice but to cancel,” said the email from a director at the NWS, which KQED reviewed, owing to travel and spending restrictions and short staffing. “[We] understand and appreciate that many [incident meteorologists] were still willing to make it work, but we cannot ask them to do that given the risks and impacts to their home offices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some wildfire prevention work is proceeding. Last week, a public-private partnership in the works for months that will bring 400 miles of fire breaks to the area between Oregon and California was announced. It’s funded by the American Relief Act, which passed in December. And several planned prescribed burns have gone forward. KQED spoke to one firefighter from the site of a pile burn in Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955379\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Three people in fire fighter's clothing walk through a recently burned patch of forest.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Forest Service firefighters walk through a prescribed burn area along the San Juan Ridge near Nevada City, California, on June 27, 2023, days after the fire to ensure the fire is completely out. The area is heavily forested and borders the Yuba River near historic towns that date to the 1849 California Gold Rush. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a letter dated Feb. 26, Congressional representatives from California and Oregon wrote to Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a> expressing concern over the firings and funding freezes, noting the “loss of skilled employees, many of whom possess specialized training in modern wildfire prevention techniques, will have lasting effects on the U.S. Forest Service’s ability to respond to the growing threat of wildfires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is particularly concerning that many of those laid off were probationary employees who were actively involved in these critical projects,” the letter said. “Their departure, along with the broader staff reductions, leaves the agency dangerously understaffed as we head into another fire season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ranks among federal firefighters were thin, even before the recent layoffs. Munsey \u003ca href=\"https://sbcsentinel.com/2024/03/munsey-asks-congress-for-federal-aid-to-fund-firefighting-efforts-in-desert-mountain-areas/\">testified before Congress\u003c/a> in 2024 that he does not feel the Forest Service has been a good public safety partner. Over 80% of land within county boundaries is federally owned, but his department responds to a majority of calls that occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That represents 8,550 calls last year,” Munsey told KQED. “This is taking away from our local government and subsidizing the federal system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, he decided not to sign the annual local mutual aid agreement with the Forest Service. He said he will continue to respond to emergency calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11053456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11053456\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forest Service crews work to cut down hazard trees in Lower Lake, California, on Aug. 16, 2016, following the Clayton fire. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[When we sign], we’re saying we’re going to send you resources to support you on your land and, theoretically, they’re supposed to send us resources to support us on our land. But it’s been very imbalanced,” Munsey said. “Local government has given resources to the federal government at a much higher scale. That costs our local citizens over $14 million of local tax funds to mitigate these emergencies on federal land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, 13 of the 25 Forest Service fire stations in the county were not staffed, he said. The Forest Service has lost almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/wildfires-forest-service-firefighters-preparedness-level-five\">half its permanent employees\u003c/a> since 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The message to [the federal government] is, ‘We’re not going to sign a reciprocal agreement until you staff all your fire stations,’” Munsey said. “When you staff your fire stations, then I’ll sign it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s worried fire response this season will be significantly impacted if some of the lost positions don’t return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, it’s really unbalanced because you won’t staff your positions that are required to keep our community safe,” Munsey said, adding that some representatives have told him they think the positions will return. “I’m hopeful this is just a reset, but it’s really hard to tell where it’s going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027921\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of New Bullards Bar Reservoir in the Tahoe National Forest near Camptonville, California, on Aug. 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For years, federal wildland firefighters have called for improved pay and working conditions. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, passed in 2021, boosted pay for wildland firefighters by about $20,000 a year, a bump that is still in effect. However, the raise will sunset on March 14 unless Congress extends it. Representatives have also introduced a flurry of legislation designed to fix forests and federal firefighter pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One proposed bill with bipartisan support is the creation of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/441?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22sheehy%22%7D&s=7&r=2\">single federal wildfire service\u003c/a>. This could be good, said Duncan of Grassroots Wildland Firefighters. But the bill doesn’t have a lot of substance. One thing it does specify is that the director of the service would be a political appointee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We strongly oppose that,” Duncan said. “We don’t think that those kinds of positions should be a political appointee. They should be an experienced fire manager coming from in the ranks, who is being put in the job for their skills and experience, not for their political party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12028548 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/ButteCountyFireGetty-1020x663.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Duncan thinks the time is right for a discussion about how things should be done differently. Land management agencies, she points out, are now nearly overwhelmed with fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s become such a huge part of their budgets,” she said. “It was never supposed to be that way. And I believe other resource areas have suffered because of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amanda Monthei, a former hotshot wildland firefighter who is a writer and host of the \u003ca href=\"https://lifewithfirepodcast.com/\">Life with Fire\u003c/a> podcast, has mixed feelings about the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first instinct is that this is a great idea. Then my secondary instinct is, like, what are they trying to pull?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monthei wondered if the creation of a new agency was an excuse to corral money for firefighters, who are always politically popular, and then cut money for managing trees, wildlife and water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been talk for a long time about either turning over federal lands to states, and there are some states pushing for that because they feel like they can do it better,” Duncan said. “And then there’s also discussion about privatization. Not going to state agencies but to the highest bidder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of the chapter about the Department of the Interior in \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-16.pdf\">Project 2025\u003c/a>, a document outlining a far-right vision for remaking the federal government, was William Perry Pendley. He was never confirmed but served as acting director of the Bureau of Land Management during Trump’s first administration. In past statements, he argued that the federal government \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/trumps-pick-for-managing-federal-lands-doesnt-believe-the-government-should-have-any/2019/07/31/0bc1118c-b2cf-11e9-8949-5f36ff92706e_story.html\">shouldn’t even own land,\u003c/a> and instead, the resources on public land should be available to companies to extract for profit. Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 during the campaign but now is executing a lot of what the document outlined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some people worried that this firing of all these employees in the land management agencies is the first step to then cripple the agencies so they can go, ‘See? They can’t do it. We told you,’” Duncan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunters, anglers and conservation groups oppose public land privatization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Randy Moore, the former Forest Service chief and an employee of the agency for 45 years, announced his resignation. The following day, Tom Shultz was announced as the new chief. At the Idaho Forest Group, Shultz was vice president of resources and government affairs, where he led timber procurement, and he previously served as director of the Idaho Department of Public Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 1, Trump signed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-expansion-of-american-timber-production/\">executive order\u003c/a> calling for the “immediate expansion of American timber production.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet policy on federal public lands is currently in chaos. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029178/trumps-mass-layoffs-noaa-cut-into-bay-area-weather-service\">Firings\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">funding freezes\u003c/a>, emails that demand employees list five things they accomplished during the week and high-profile resignations have caused \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027914/wide-us-forest-service-layoffs-leave-safety-projects-delayed-fire-crews-depleted\">upheaval and bewilderment \u003c/a>for the people entrusted to care for public lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current and former federal and state employees told KQED they were concerned about delayed fire safety projects, canceled training for fire responders, slow response times to fires, and depleted ranks of firefighters and firefighting support staff. The trickle-down effects could mean communities are left at a higher fire risk of wildfire while public lands are neglected and ill-managed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we manage large fires, about half the positions are actually suppression,” said Dan Munsey, San Bernardino County’s fire chief, referring to firefighters who directly engage with the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029490\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People demonstrate against federal employee layoffs at Yosemite National Park on March 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AFP via Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The other half, he said, are support positions — fire modelers, map makers, logistics. Many positions have been cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you reduce positions in the Forest Service and other federal agencies, it’ll very likely have a direct impact,” Munsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildland firefighters are concerned about travel restrictions announced last week that could mean delays if a serious fire erupted and a call was issued for aid. The emailed guidance, reviewed by KQED, stipulated that even travel related to national security, public safety and immigration enforcement had to be approved by the Department of the Interior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://kqedsf.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/media/index.html?appid=76a7a35148c4486bb2069a5ead8d421f\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 14px\">\u003ci>Map by Matthew Green/KQED\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riva Duncan, a longtime Forest Service employee who is now spokesperson for the nonprofit advocacy group Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, expressed doubt that agency heads would allow firefighter travel to be delayed but said the confusion was understandable and that direction from the federal government was not clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some wildfire safety projects around the state have been put on hold. Sometimes, the projects, which already take so long that the community the project was meant to protect, \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2022/08/16/stalled-us-forest-service-project-could-have-protected-california-town-from-caldor-fire-destruction/\">get burned before it gets completed\u003c/a>, as did the town of Grizzly Flats in the 2021 Caldor Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11929377\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A smoke-filled view of woods with a fire truck on one side of the road.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Cal Fire truck drives on a smoke-filled Highway 50 between Pollock Pines and Strawberry on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, as the Caldor Fire burns nearby. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Contractors working on a plan to prepare communities for wildfire in Shasta County, as well as a project assessing wildfire hazards in the wildland-urban interface in Plumas County, have been told to stop work until USDA Community Wildfire Defense grants are unfrozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Vizzachero, who was fired from his job as a Los Padres National Forest biologist, was contributing work to wildfire protection plans for Ohai, Santa Barbara, Montecito and Monterey. He’s handed the work to a colleague, who already has a full plate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agencies such as the National Weather Service also assist in fire response. An annual training for incident meteorologists, who interpret how forecasted weather conditions will impact fire and responding crews, was canceled last week with short notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[W]e have no choice but to cancel,” said the email from a director at the NWS, which KQED reviewed, owing to travel and spending restrictions and short staffing. “[We] understand and appreciate that many [incident meteorologists] were still willing to make it work, but we cannot ask them to do that given the risks and impacts to their home offices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some wildfire prevention work is proceeding. Last week, a public-private partnership in the works for months that will bring 400 miles of fire breaks to the area between Oregon and California was announced. It’s funded by the American Relief Act, which passed in December. And several planned prescribed burns have gone forward. KQED spoke to one firefighter from the site of a pile burn in Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955379\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Three people in fire fighter's clothing walk through a recently burned patch of forest.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Forest Service firefighters walk through a prescribed burn area along the San Juan Ridge near Nevada City, California, on June 27, 2023, days after the fire to ensure the fire is completely out. The area is heavily forested and borders the Yuba River near historic towns that date to the 1849 California Gold Rush. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a letter dated Feb. 26, Congressional representatives from California and Oregon wrote to Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a> expressing concern over the firings and funding freezes, noting the “loss of skilled employees, many of whom possess specialized training in modern wildfire prevention techniques, will have lasting effects on the U.S. Forest Service’s ability to respond to the growing threat of wildfires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is particularly concerning that many of those laid off were probationary employees who were actively involved in these critical projects,” the letter said. “Their departure, along with the broader staff reductions, leaves the agency dangerously understaffed as we head into another fire season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ranks among federal firefighters were thin, even before the recent layoffs. Munsey \u003ca href=\"https://sbcsentinel.com/2024/03/munsey-asks-congress-for-federal-aid-to-fund-firefighting-efforts-in-desert-mountain-areas/\">testified before Congress\u003c/a> in 2024 that he does not feel the Forest Service has been a good public safety partner. Over 80% of land within county boundaries is federally owned, but his department responds to a majority of calls that occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That represents 8,550 calls last year,” Munsey told KQED. “This is taking away from our local government and subsidizing the federal system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, he decided not to sign the annual local mutual aid agreement with the Forest Service. He said he will continue to respond to emergency calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11053456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11053456\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forest Service crews work to cut down hazard trees in Lower Lake, California, on Aug. 16, 2016, following the Clayton fire. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[When we sign], we’re saying we’re going to send you resources to support you on your land and, theoretically, they’re supposed to send us resources to support us on our land. But it’s been very imbalanced,” Munsey said. “Local government has given resources to the federal government at a much higher scale. That costs our local citizens over $14 million of local tax funds to mitigate these emergencies on federal land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, 13 of the 25 Forest Service fire stations in the county were not staffed, he said. 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The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, passed in 2021, boosted pay for wildland firefighters by about $20,000 a year, a bump that is still in effect. However, the raise will sunset on March 14 unless Congress extends it. Representatives have also introduced a flurry of legislation designed to fix forests and federal firefighter pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One proposed bill with bipartisan support is the creation of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/441?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22sheehy%22%7D&s=7&r=2\">single federal wildfire service\u003c/a>. This could be good, said Duncan of Grassroots Wildland Firefighters. But the bill doesn’t have a lot of substance. One thing it does specify is that the director of the service would be a political appointee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We strongly oppose that,” Duncan said. “We don’t think that those kinds of positions should be a political appointee. 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"content": "\u003cp>Go broad or go deep? That’s one of the big questions state lawmakers are debating as they grapple with how to most effectively use $\u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4958\">1.5 billion \u003c/a>that voters approved last year for projects to reduce the impact of California wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That money comes from \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/11/california-election-news-proposition-4-environment/\">Proposition 4\u003c/a>, the November ballot measure that authorized a $10 billion bond to pay for climate-related projects such as water systems and wildfire mitigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his January budget proposal, Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/gavin-newsom/\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> recommended that $325 million of the bond money should be allocated in the upcoming fiscal year to a variety of wildfire prevention programs. 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The additional money could expand the program to two more counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The selection process could be similar for one of the new programs proposed under the Prop. 4 funding: providing financial assistance to vulnerable Californians to create a five-foot zone around their home that could protect it from burning down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You talked about, how do we prioritize? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>This column was reported for Political Breakdown, a bi-monthly newsletter offering analysis and context on Bay Area and California political news. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/political-breakdown\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not surprising that just three weeks into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump’s\u003c/a> second term, California finds itself in the crosshairs over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026179/san-francisco-leads-lawsuit-against-trumps-threats-to-punish-sanctuary-cities\">sanctuary laws\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026189/transgender-athletes-face-new-hurdles-as-ncaa-adopts-stricter-policy-citing-trump-order\">transgender athletes\u003c/a>, climate change and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023248/trump-again-wades-into-california-water-use-fight-drawing-skepticism-from-experts\">water policies\u003c/a>, to name just a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has forced Gov. Gavin Newsom, in light of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/wildfire\">devastation from fires in Los Angeles\u003c/a>, to exchange his years of anti-Trump rhetoric for something more akin to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026230/after-years-of-attacks-newsom-tries-flattery-on-trump\">kissing the ring\u003c/a> of a president who is acting like a king hellbent on settling scores and punishing political enemies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is fighting back in the courts. Attorney General Rob Bonta joined blue state attorneys general in seeking to stop Trump orders to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">freeze federal funding\u003c/a>, including grants funding research at public and private universities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this comes as the announced candidates for the 2026 gubernatorial election await a decision from a possible contender: former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">Vice President Kamala Harris\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta told \u003cem>Politico’s\u003c/em> Dustin Gardiner that \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/05/california-governor-ag-newsom-00202528\">he won’t run for governor\u003c/a> as had been widely expected. Gardiner shared details of his conversation with Bonta on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026230/after-years-of-attacks-newsom-tries-flattery-on-trump\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta, who has known Harris for years, told \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em> he thought she’d be “a great governor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would support her if she ran,” Bonta said. “I’ve always supported her in everything she’s done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, toured the devastation from the Los Angeles wildfires. She met with first responders and people who lost their homes and businesses. They served meals at a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been home for two weeks and three days. My plans are to be in touch with my community, to be in touch with the leaders and figure out what I can do to support them,” Harris said when asked if she was running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly, Harris is keeping her options open. And why shouldn’t she?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Vice President Kamala Harris at the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/97b1p0sq\">Berkeley IGS poll\u003c/a> cosponsored by the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> that was published in November found Harris would have clear advantages over the likely field of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the survey, taken in October before the 2024 election, voters were asked whether they would consider supporting Harris for governor. Forty-six percent said they were either very or somewhat likely to consider voting for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, even without Harris in the race, no candidate received more than the 13% when voters were asked to name their first or second choice for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ten years ago, I said to her, I thought she would make a great governor. And I think the same thing today,” said Brian Brokaw, a political strategist who worked for Harris in her successful runs for state attorney general and the U.S. Senate, as well as her failed run for president in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brokaw, who said he hasn’t talked to Harris recently, expects her to announce a decision “within a month or two.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is always taking her time and coming to these big types of life decisions. And then once she makes a decision, she doesn’t stop,” Brokaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without Bonta in the race, Democrats have a potentially strong field of gubernatorial candidates already. The list includes Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, former Assembly Speaker and Senate President Toni Atkins and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Kamala Harris’ entry into the race would be an earthquake that would have, you know, all sorts of aftershocks down the ballot,” Brokaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris knows most of the candidates, some of them quite well. And that could be awkward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think one of the challenges is that (Harris) and Eleni Kounalakis are very close friends,” said Democratic fundraiser Mark Buell, adding that Kounalakis “is pretty well out there in the race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026794\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis on Political Breakdown on Feb. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kounalakis, who was on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026783/what-hungarys-authoritarian-regime-can-teach-us-now\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em> on Thursday\u003c/a>, has racked up support for her campaign from a few prominent Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think (Harris) has an incredibly important leadership role to play in the future, should she choose to take one. And I suspect that she is adjusting and processing,” Kounalakis said. “I think that things are going to change probably in the next couple of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I’m waiting, just like most of my supporters and others who I hope will be my supporters are kind of waiting to see what happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boxer, who has also endorsed Villaraigosa, admits Harris “would be so formidable.” She said the first question Harris has to answer is whether she wants to run for president in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re just doing it (running for governor) because you lost another race, people get it,” Boxer said. “The voters are very smart. They want you to be enthused, excited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, if it seems like Harris views the governor’s job as a consolation prize to the presidency, it won’t help her candidacy. Running for governor and winning would essentially foreclose another run for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t talked to anybody that said they hope she doesn’t run (for governor),” Buell said. “And there’s enough of a base that I think that there are people who would like to see her do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Buell said, there was considerably less enthusiasm for another Harris option: Another run for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would tell you that the party leaders that I’ve talked to don’t see her as the most viable (candidate) four years from now,” Buell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her political career, Harris has often been criticized for seeming to lack authenticity while campaigning. She is cautious and often guarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If she runs, I would expect her to wage a much more personal campaign for governor of her home state,” said Dan Schnur, who teaches political communication at UC Berkeley and the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schnur, who called Harris “one of the most risk-averse politicians in the country,” said a run for governor would give her a chance to campaign in friendlier political territory than she often experienced in her 100-day run for president — and on issues where she is more personally comfortable.[aside postID=news_12019149 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-2181827064-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has never had a female governor, and Harris, as well as the other women running, could break that barrier. Aimee Allison, whose organization She the People advocates for electing more women of color, said at this moment, that alone is not enough for any candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even more important than representation, they have to make an argument that the old guard and the old way of politicking isn’t going to work in Trump’s America, not Trump 2.0,” Allison said. “There’s too many attacks, and they’re coming from so many different places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Newsom has pivoted from criticizing Trump to figuring out how to flatter him enough to get what California needs in disaster relief, Allison said accommodation is not an option for the next governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be willing to get into the arena, set your agenda and fight like hell. That’s who we want right now,” Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris would not be the first former vice president who ran for president and lost, then turned around and ran for governor of California two years later. Richard Nixon did it in 1962 after losing a razor-thin race to John F. Kennedy. Nixon lost a bitter campaign to Pat Brown, the incumbent Democratic governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After saying he was done with politics, Nixon reemerged eight years later and was elected president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked what the downsides of Harris running for governor were, Schnur’s answer was simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She could lose,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta told \u003cem>Politico’s\u003c/em> Dustin Gardiner that \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/05/california-governor-ag-newsom-00202528\">he won’t run for governor\u003c/a> as had been widely expected. Gardiner shared details of his conversation with Bonta on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026230/after-years-of-attacks-newsom-tries-flattery-on-trump\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta, who has known Harris for years, told \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em> he thought she’d be “a great governor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would support her if she ran,” Bonta said. “I’ve always supported her in everything she’s done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, toured the devastation from the Los Angeles wildfires. She met with first responders and people who lost their homes and businesses. They served meals at a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been home for two weeks and three days. My plans are to be in touch with my community, to be in touch with the leaders and figure out what I can do to support them,” Harris said when asked if she was running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly, Harris is keeping her options open. And why shouldn’t she?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Vice President Kamala Harris at the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/97b1p0sq\">Berkeley IGS poll\u003c/a> cosponsored by the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> that was published in November found Harris would have clear advantages over the likely field of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the survey, taken in October before the 2024 election, voters were asked whether they would consider supporting Harris for governor. Forty-six percent said they were either very or somewhat likely to consider voting for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, even without Harris in the race, no candidate received more than the 13% when voters were asked to name their first or second choice for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ten years ago, I said to her, I thought she would make a great governor. And I think the same thing today,” said Brian Brokaw, a political strategist who worked for Harris in her successful runs for state attorney general and the U.S. Senate, as well as her failed run for president in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brokaw, who said he hasn’t talked to Harris recently, expects her to announce a decision “within a month or two.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is always taking her time and coming to these big types of life decisions. And then once she makes a decision, she doesn’t stop,” Brokaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without Bonta in the race, Democrats have a potentially strong field of gubernatorial candidates already. The list includes Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, former Assembly Speaker and Senate President Toni Atkins and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Kamala Harris’ entry into the race would be an earthquake that would have, you know, all sorts of aftershocks down the ballot,” Brokaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris knows most of the candidates, some of them quite well. And that could be awkward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think one of the challenges is that (Harris) and Eleni Kounalakis are very close friends,” said Democratic fundraiser Mark Buell, adding that Kounalakis “is pretty well out there in the race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026794\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis on Political Breakdown on Feb. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kounalakis, who was on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026783/what-hungarys-authoritarian-regime-can-teach-us-now\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em> on Thursday\u003c/a>, has racked up support for her campaign from a few prominent Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think (Harris) has an incredibly important leadership role to play in the future, should she choose to take one. And I suspect that she is adjusting and processing,” Kounalakis said. “I think that things are going to change probably in the next couple of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I’m waiting, just like most of my supporters and others who I hope will be my supporters are kind of waiting to see what happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boxer, who has also endorsed Villaraigosa, admits Harris “would be so formidable.” She said the first question Harris has to answer is whether she wants to run for president in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re just doing it (running for governor) because you lost another race, people get it,” Boxer said. “The voters are very smart. They want you to be enthused, excited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, if it seems like Harris views the governor’s job as a consolation prize to the presidency, it won’t help her candidacy. Running for governor and winning would essentially foreclose another run for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t talked to anybody that said they hope she doesn’t run (for governor),” Buell said. “And there’s enough of a base that I think that there are people who would like to see her do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Buell said, there was considerably less enthusiasm for another Harris option: Another run for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would tell you that the party leaders that I’ve talked to don’t see her as the most viable (candidate) four years from now,” Buell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her political career, Harris has often been criticized for seeming to lack authenticity while campaigning. 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"content": "\u003cp>PORTLAND, Ore. — President Donald Trump’s administration is holding up money for wildfire mitigation projects funded through legislation championed by his Democratic predecessor, threatening efforts to prevent catastrophic blazes like the ones that recently \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-los-angeles-wildfires-eaton-palisides-urban-area-a162c86589b9102a85c510246539ab72\">ripped through Southern California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision undermines Trump’s repeated insistence that communities need to clear combustible materials like fallen branches and undergrowth — “it’s called management of the floor,” he said while visiting Los Angeles last month — to guard against wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Peace, a spokesperson for the Interior Department, said via email that mitigation work is “currently undergoing review to ensure consistency” with Trump’s executive orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scrutiny is being applied only to projects using money from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, two centerpieces of former President Joe Biden’s administration. They included roughly $3 billion for wildfire mitigation efforts, often known as hazardous fuels reduction programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peace said those programs are continuing if funded by other congressional appropriations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lomakatsi Restoration Project, a forest management nonprofit that develops and implements programs to reduce hazardous fuels and wildfire threat in Oregon, northern California and Idaho, has stopped work on projects funded by Biden’s legislation, which provides 65% of its $17 million budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Executive director Marko Bey said he laid off 15 full-time employees after being told by federal officials the funding was frozen pending review, with no information on when it would be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just doesn’t make good business sense to keep operating, not knowing if we’re going to get paid or if at some point the administration is going to rescind some of this,” Bey said. He called it a “really challenging situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitigation work, which includes removing small and dead trees with logging equipment or through controlled burns, can prevent forests from becoming tinderboxes. It often takes place in winter and spring in preparation for warmer months when fires can be more severe. Wildfire season traditionally starts in May and ends in November, though blazes can occur year-round because of warmer, drier conditions exacerbated by climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest example came last month in the Los Angeles area, where fires killed at least 29 people and destroyed nearly 17,000 structures in what is projected to be among the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-natural-disasters-losses-insurance-recovery-d2f24e44d75503118643151eaee947fb\">costliest natural disasters in U.S. history\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has talked about forest management since his first term, when he visited California after the Camp Fire killed 85 people in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got to take care of the floors,” he said. “You know, the floors of the forest, very important.” In Finland, he said, “they spend a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021743\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand and talk in a brunt out part of a forested area.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump visits the charred wreckage of Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park with then Governor-elect Gavin Newsom, FEMA Administrator Brock Long, Paradise Mayor Jody Jones and then-Gov. Jerry Brown in Paradise on Nov. 17, 2018. \u003ccite>(Leah Millis/Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He issued an executive order intended to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-us-news-wildfires-forests-trees-907e413d06d8ef05dbd99815f4bb6503\">improve management of federal lands\u003c/a>, and in 2020 he complained about California officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, you gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests,” he said. “There are many, many years of leaves and broken trees, and they’re like, like, so flammable, you touch them and it goes up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we’re just going to have to make them pay for it,” he added, “because they don’t listen to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers have called for federal funding to resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Halting these payments is not only unlawful but also endangers our rural communities by removing a vital component of their economies and delaying critical work to mitigate the threat of wildfire,” Sens. Martin Heinrich New Mexico, Patty Murray of Washington, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota said Tuesday in a letter to the administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison Fields, a deputy press secretary at the White House, defended the administration’s approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because there’s a review doesn’t mean there’s not a desire for this work to get done,” he said. “Proper oversight of the dollars is just as important as ensuring that California gets restored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fields also said that “there has been no bigger advocate for restoring California to its natural beauty than President Trump, which is why he made it a point to visit the region in his first week in office and he’s continuing to put tremendous pressure on state and local government to reduce the barriers in restoring the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The review ordered by Trump is also disrupting a $1 billion grant program that helps local jurisdictions better prepare for fires through neighborhood risk assessments and community outreach programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimiko Barrett of Headwaters Economics in Bozeman, Montana, who worked with counties in the state to secure Community Wildfire Defense Grants, said grant recipients were told Monday that payments had been paused for at least 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coming out of Los Angeles, we have learned that this is a crisis involving very specific risk reduction efforts,” Barrett said. “Without this program communities will not have the tools to continue the very important mitigation work that’s needed.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"science_1993130,news_12024151,news_12024085\"]There are also concerns about how Trump’s recent executive order on downsizing the federal workforce could affect seasonal wildland firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaurine Pinover, a spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management, said firefighters are exempt from the order as public safety workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But confusion has caused delays. Ben McLane, a fire crew captain for the U.S. Forest Service in Washington state, said uncertainty over whether firefighters are exempt from the freeze stalled the hiring process for seasonal wildland firefighter positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Applicants whom McLane has selected for his crew have received some of the information they need to complete — such as medical and drug tests and fingerprinting — in order to be officially hired. But the process has not been completed because human resources lacks agency permission to move forward, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re very confused, and we’re not being told anything,” he said. “I don’t know whose job it is to say that firefighters are an essential aspect for public safety and are exempt from the hiring freeze. But whoever’s job it is, they need to say it, because if they don’t, then there will be situations where people call 911 and there aren’t enough firefighters to go around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law allowed for some small increases to the 18,700 federal firefighters in 2022, but issues with workforce understaffing and retention remain. The attrition rate for firefighters at the U.S. Forest Service has been 45% over the past four years, a group of Democratic senators said in a second letter to the administration this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We therefore need to focus on recruitment and retention of this critically important workforce, rather than place more uncertainty within it through an arbitrary freeze,” the lawmakers wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Brown reported from Billings, Montana, and Megerian from Washington. Associated Press writer Matthew Daly in Washington contributed.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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He called it a “really challenging situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitigation work, which includes removing small and dead trees with logging equipment or through controlled burns, can prevent forests from becoming tinderboxes. It often takes place in winter and spring in preparation for warmer months when fires can be more severe. Wildfire season traditionally starts in May and ends in November, though blazes can occur year-round because of warmer, drier conditions exacerbated by climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest example came last month in the Los Angeles area, where fires killed at least 29 people and destroyed nearly 17,000 structures in what is projected to be among the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-natural-disasters-losses-insurance-recovery-d2f24e44d75503118643151eaee947fb\">costliest natural disasters in U.S. history\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has talked about forest management since his first term, when he visited California after the Camp Fire killed 85 people in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got to take care of the floors,” he said. “You know, the floors of the forest, very important.” In Finland, he said, “they spend a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021743\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand and talk in a brunt out part of a forested area.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump visits the charred wreckage of Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park with then Governor-elect Gavin Newsom, FEMA Administrator Brock Long, Paradise Mayor Jody Jones and then-Gov. Jerry Brown in Paradise on Nov. 17, 2018. \u003ccite>(Leah Millis/Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He issued an executive order intended to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-us-news-wildfires-forests-trees-907e413d06d8ef05dbd99815f4bb6503\">improve management of federal lands\u003c/a>, and in 2020 he complained about California officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, you gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests,” he said. “There are many, many years of leaves and broken trees, and they’re like, like, so flammable, you touch them and it goes up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we’re just going to have to make them pay for it,” he added, “because they don’t listen to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers have called for federal funding to resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Halting these payments is not only unlawful but also endangers our rural communities by removing a vital component of their economies and delaying critical work to mitigate the threat of wildfire,” Sens. Martin Heinrich New Mexico, Patty Murray of Washington, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota said Tuesday in a letter to the administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison Fields, a deputy press secretary at the White House, defended the administration’s approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because there’s a review doesn’t mean there’s not a desire for this work to get done,” he said. “Proper oversight of the dollars is just as important as ensuring that California gets restored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fields also said that “there has been no bigger advocate for restoring California to its natural beauty than President Trump, which is why he made it a point to visit the region in his first week in office and he’s continuing to put tremendous pressure on state and local government to reduce the barriers in restoring the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The review ordered by Trump is also disrupting a $1 billion grant program that helps local jurisdictions better prepare for fires through neighborhood risk assessments and community outreach programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimiko Barrett of Headwaters Economics in Bozeman, Montana, who worked with counties in the state to secure Community Wildfire Defense Grants, said grant recipients were told Monday that payments had been paused for at least 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coming out of Los Angeles, we have learned that this is a crisis involving very specific risk reduction efforts,” Barrett said. “Without this program communities will not have the tools to continue the very important mitigation work that’s needed.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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