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Gavin Newsom signed a plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023677/california-legislature-moves-toward-approving-aid-for-wildfire-recovery-and-legal-battles\">provide $2.5 billion in relief\u003c/a> to communities damaged by the Los Angeles fires ahead of President Donald Trump’s Friday tour of the Pacific Palisades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This money will be made available immediately,” Newsom said Thursday. “We want to get these dollars out in real-time, so there’s no anxiety and stress associated with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and fellow Democrats in California continue to search for the right balance between collaboration and confrontation with the new president, who has repeatedly threatened to condition federal reimbursement on major changes to the state’s water system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After approving bipartisan fire relief funding, the state Senate passed a more controversial proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023345/california-legislatures-special-session-fire-aid-trump-lawsuits-faces-1st-test\">finance legal battles against the federal government\u003c/a>, potentially including disputes over federal disaster aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here for the long haul, to support the president where we can, to defend our values where we must, to have the backs of diverse communities,” Newsom said. “At the same time, we work together on critical issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former President Joe Biden, in one of his final acts in office, pledged federal support for the next three months. 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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Thursday that Democrats would \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/23/congress/dems-fire-aid-debt-limit-00200221\">not support that plan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the debt limit, it’s not exactly clear what sort of conditions Republicans are considering. Trump has repeatedly made false claims that firefighters were unable to battle the Los Angeles blazes because Newsom declined to send more water south from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Los Angeles is not currently facing a water shortage.[aside postID=news_12021435 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192441530.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not what California Republican lawmakers have been pushing: Policy reforms introduced by state GOP legislators are more focused on increasing controlled burns and other wildfire prevention by suspending environmental laws. And some Republican Congress members who represent swing districts have flatly rejected any conditions on aid, including Orange County Republican Rep. Young Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When natural disaster hits your communities, it is not partisan, it is not a blue or red issue — we are talking about life and death,” Kim said in an \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RepYoungKim/status/1881887004566114314\">interview\u003c/a> on \u003cem>Fox 11 Los Angeles\u003c/em>. “We are talking about communities that are hurting, so there shouldn’t be any conditions other than making sure we bring the resources and aid as soon as possible to our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Democrats agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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The state’s shaky \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021019/la-fires-threaten-california-insurance-market-stability-housing-costs\">home insurance market\u003c/a> now must absorb record losses, likely resulting in higher premiums for all policyholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, residential energy costs, already the second-highest in the nation, seem destined to rise further as utilities pass along the expense of reducing their own fire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more disasters that happen, the more insurance costs rise. And the more that existing housing is destroyed, we have to build even more in order to respond to the need,” said Moira Birss, an Oakland-based senior fellow with the Climate and Community Institute. “So climate change is definitely making things a lot harder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023445\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of a house in Altadena, California, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state appears to have reached an inflection point. Californians, already grappling with expensive housing and years of inflation, are being hit simultaneously with the costs of slowing global warming and the price of living on an overheated planet. This conundrum is forcing state leaders to consider whether more of the state’s climate spending should be used to ease the hit on Californians’ wallets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has led global efforts to combat climate change, which scientists say is driving unprecedented fires, storms and heat waves. Tough restrictions on pollution and unmatched investments in clean energy and electric vehicles allowed California to meet early benchmarks for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1927229/california-meets-key-climate-change-goal-early\">reducing greenhouse gas emissions\u003c/a>. While researchers warn that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1979603/california-overhauls-its-sea-level-rise-plan-as-climate-change-reshapes-coastal-life\">consequences of inaction\u003c/a> will saddle residents with exorbitant costs in the future, many of California’s climate initiatives come with added costs at the gas pump or on their electricity bills, at a time when prices have risen across the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the lead-up to the election, prices and jobs \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-october-2024/\">topped the list of concerns for Californians\u003c/a>. While Democrats maintained supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature, Republicans flipped two seats in the state Assembly and one in the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016294/california-democrats-prepare-for-trump-vow-renewed-focus-affordability\">first day of the new legislative session in December\u003c/a>, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Hollister), urged his caucus to “consider every bill through the lens of Californians who are anxious about affordability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979470\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240314-SPEAKER-RIVAS-PB-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240314-SPEAKER-RIVAS-PB-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240314-SPEAKER-RIVAS-PB-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240314-SPEAKER-RIVAS-PB-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240314-SPEAKER-RIVAS-PB-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240314-SPEAKER-RIVAS-PB-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240314-SPEAKER-RIVAS-PB-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker of the California State Assembly Robert Rivas on the State Capitol grounds in Sacramento on March 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Specifically, we must focus on building more housing and lowering energy costs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to private-sector estimates, the Los Angeles fires will be the costliest in American history, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022375/many-in-pacific-palisades-were-not-wealthy-after-fire-can-they-rebuild\">leaving thousands of homeowners to navigate a lengthy rebuild\u003c/a> in neighborhoods where demand for contractors and construction materials will be overwhelming. Others without insurance could be forced to sell and simply walk away from their previous lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal and state leaders have mobilized resources to assist with the recovery. Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021941/newsom-expands-special-session-speed-up-los-angeles-wildfire-relief-funds\">Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders proposed $2.5 billion\u003c/a> in addition to federal funding, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022146/california-fast-tracks-wildfire-recovery-eases-key-building-regulations-temporarily\">streamlined rules for rebuilding homes\u003c/a>. California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has blocked insurance companies from not renewing policies in the fire zone for one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the hit to the insurance market will spread far beyond the fire lines. The rising threat of wildfire, along with the escalating costs of construction, have already led insurance companies such as State Farm, Allstate and Nationwide to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985175/insurance-in-california-is-changing-heres-how-it-may-affect-you\">reduce or eliminate coverage in the state\u003c/a>. To draw those companies back into California’s teetering market, Lara agreed to allow the insurers to raise premiums on homeowners more easily — a move they are likely to make to cover the losses incurred in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10914233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10914233\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/dave-jones.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1222\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/dave-jones.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/dave-jones-400x255.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/dave-jones-800x509.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/dave-jones-1180x751.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/dave-jones-960x611.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones. \u003ccite>( Courtesy of California Department of Insurance)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Rates were already going to go up as a result of the regulatory changes,” Dave Jones, California’s former insurance commissioner, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101908485/l-a-fires-place-enormous-pressure-on-insurance-industry\">told KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “They’re going to go up even higher as a result of the experience of these wildfires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones added the state may need to step in and provide subsidies for premiums — basically Obamacare for home insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given what’s happening vis-à-vis climate change and our failure to transition [away from] fossil fuels, it’s only going to get worse,” Jones said. “And I don’t think we’re going to rate-increase or modify regulations out of this problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home energy market has become ground zero for some of the toughest choices pitting economic equity against emission reductions. The state has placed ambitious mandates on utilities such as Pacific Gas & Electric, San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985611/is-california-still-on-track-to-meet-its-goal-of-100-clean-power-by-2045\">generate more of their power from renewable sources\u003c/a>, which has raised the cost of electricity. Additionally, the utilities are scrambling to prevent their aging power lines from continuing to spark wildfires — and they’ve added the costs of infrastructure upgrades to energy bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When state regulators decided to spread electricity costs more equitably among ratepayers — by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11935425/california-votes-to-lower-incentives-for-rooftop-solar-panels-to-evenly-spread-overall-energy-costs\">reducing payments to rooftop solar users\u003c/a> in 2022 and approving an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905607/california-puc-considers-new-fixed-charge-for-electricity\">income-based fixed charge on monthly power bills\u003c/a> last year — they were met with outrage from some environmentalists who argued the changes would remove the incentive for users to conserve energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021876\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SCELawsuitAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SCELawsuitAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SCELawsuitAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SCELawsuitAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SCELawsuitAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SCELawsuitAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SCELawsuitAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Southern California Edison workers service a utility pole in the aftermath of the Eaton Fire on Jan. 12, 2025, in Altadena, California. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4950\">report released last month\u003c/a>, the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office warned that more tradeoffs are ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Legislature likely will confront difficult decisions about how to approach electricity rates in order to best support its varied goals, including balancing the desires to both mitigate and adapt to climate change as well as preserve affordability,” the report read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taken together, the impacts of a warming planet and efforts to slow that warming will add more costs for Californians in the short-term, at a time when residents already feel burdened by the price of housing and groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conventional wisdom over the years, when the economies were strong and the state budget was strong, was to pass [climate-related] costs on to the consumer,” said former state Sen. Bill Dodd, a Democrat who represented Napa and Sonoma during the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/tag/north-bay-fires\">2017 North Bay fires\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodd said the election revealed a political version of “price elasticity” — that is, how sensitive voters are to price increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023451 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_BIllDodd_credit_BertJohnson-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_BIllDodd_credit_BertJohnson-1_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_BIllDodd_credit_BertJohnson-1_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_BIllDodd_credit_BertJohnson-1_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_BIllDodd_credit_BertJohnson-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_BIllDodd_credit_BertJohnson-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_BIllDodd_credit_BertJohnson-1_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California state Sen. Bill Dodd in Sacramento on May 15, 2017. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So if [reducing emissions] is going to be a major policy in the state — and it should be — well, the state is going to have to prioritize in its budget ways of getting these things done without tacking it on the bills,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Democrats remain confident that programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions do not need to be sacrificed at the altar of affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re able to walk and chew gum at the same time,” state Sen. Catherine Blakespear (D-Encinitas) said. “We can focus on the climate crisis, which is a multiyear, and really, a multidecade effort, and also focus on the affordability crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023248 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1495481816_qed-1020x652.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature’s best opportunity to navigate those twin crises may come this year when members of the Assembly and Senate could begin negotiations with Newsom to renew \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11573588/california-lawmakers-approve-plan-to-extend-cap-and-trade-system\">California’s landmark climate program\u003c/a>, known as cap-and-trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program sets a limit on the amount of planet-warming greenhouse gasses that can be emitted each year and then holds auctions where refineries, power plants and factories bid for the ability to pollute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blakespear, who chairs the Senate’s Environmental Quality Committee, pointed to the importance of existing programs like the California Climate Credit, which uses \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810853/you-could-receive-a-63-credit-on-your-april-utility-bill\">revenue from the cap-and-trade auctions\u003c/a> to pay down the costs of Californians’ energy bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not well recognized what it is and people don’t recognize it as a rebate that’s coming back to them,” Blakespear said. “So it’s really important that when the state does these things, that we communicate with people what’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But far more cap-and-trade dollars are invested into efforts to further reduce carbon emissions, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-high-speed-rail\">constructing a high-speed rail system\u003c/a>, improving buses and trains and building more housing near transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11922992 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS46694_009_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS46694_009_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS46694_009_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS46694_009_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS46694_009_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS46694_009_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Legislature wraps up its two-year legislative session on Aug. 31, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some Democrats in the Legislature are eyeing more of that money for immediate financial relief for Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://climatechangepolicies.legislature.ca.gov/sites/climatechangepolicies.legislature.ca.gov/files/FINAL_JLCCCP%20How%20Can%20California%20Climate%20Policies%20Ensure%20Affordability%20While%20Achieving%20Jobs%20and%20Justice.pdf\">report\u003c/a> last year from members of the Democrat-led Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies urged colleagues to consider using more cap-and-trade revenue to help residents pay their energy bills. Raising the price of carbon and putting the new money into programs like the California Climate Credit, they argued, could chop $350 a year from the average household’s energy bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Delivering climate solutions at scale that actually reduce household energy-related expenses has never been more critical,” the authors wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At stake is whether California leaders can maintain global leadership in reducing carbon emissions while easing the energy transitions for residents — and whether Newsom and the Legislature will be forced to prioritize spending more of the state’s limited dollars ensuring Californians are not crushed by the costs of a warming planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, residential energy costs, already the second-highest in the nation, seem destined to rise further as utilities pass along the expense of reducing their own fire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more disasters that happen, the more insurance costs rise. And the more that existing housing is destroyed, we have to build even more in order to respond to the need,” said Moira Birss, an Oakland-based senior fellow with the Climate and Community Institute. “So climate change is definitely making things a lot harder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023445\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of a house in Altadena, California, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state appears to have reached an inflection point. Californians, already grappling with expensive housing and years of inflation, are being hit simultaneously with the costs of slowing global warming and the price of living on an overheated planet. This conundrum is forcing state leaders to consider whether more of the state’s climate spending should be used to ease the hit on Californians’ wallets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has led global efforts to combat climate change, which scientists say is driving unprecedented fires, storms and heat waves. Tough restrictions on pollution and unmatched investments in clean energy and electric vehicles allowed California to meet early benchmarks for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1927229/california-meets-key-climate-change-goal-early\">reducing greenhouse gas emissions\u003c/a>. While researchers warn that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1979603/california-overhauls-its-sea-level-rise-plan-as-climate-change-reshapes-coastal-life\">consequences of inaction\u003c/a> will saddle residents with exorbitant costs in the future, many of California’s climate initiatives come with added costs at the gas pump or on their electricity bills, at a time when prices have risen across the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the lead-up to the election, prices and jobs \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-october-2024/\">topped the list of concerns for Californians\u003c/a>. While Democrats maintained supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature, Republicans flipped two seats in the state Assembly and one in the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016294/california-democrats-prepare-for-trump-vow-renewed-focus-affordability\">first day of the new legislative session in December\u003c/a>, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Hollister), urged his caucus to “consider every bill through the lens of Californians who are anxious about affordability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979470\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240314-SPEAKER-RIVAS-PB-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240314-SPEAKER-RIVAS-PB-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240314-SPEAKER-RIVAS-PB-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240314-SPEAKER-RIVAS-PB-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240314-SPEAKER-RIVAS-PB-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240314-SPEAKER-RIVAS-PB-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240314-SPEAKER-RIVAS-PB-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker of the California State Assembly Robert Rivas on the State Capitol grounds in Sacramento on March 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Specifically, we must focus on building more housing and lowering energy costs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to private-sector estimates, the Los Angeles fires will be the costliest in American history, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022375/many-in-pacific-palisades-were-not-wealthy-after-fire-can-they-rebuild\">leaving thousands of homeowners to navigate a lengthy rebuild\u003c/a> in neighborhoods where demand for contractors and construction materials will be overwhelming. Others without insurance could be forced to sell and simply walk away from their previous lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal and state leaders have mobilized resources to assist with the recovery. Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021941/newsom-expands-special-session-speed-up-los-angeles-wildfire-relief-funds\">Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders proposed $2.5 billion\u003c/a> in addition to federal funding, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022146/california-fast-tracks-wildfire-recovery-eases-key-building-regulations-temporarily\">streamlined rules for rebuilding homes\u003c/a>. California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has blocked insurance companies from not renewing policies in the fire zone for one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the hit to the insurance market will spread far beyond the fire lines. The rising threat of wildfire, along with the escalating costs of construction, have already led insurance companies such as State Farm, Allstate and Nationwide to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985175/insurance-in-california-is-changing-heres-how-it-may-affect-you\">reduce or eliminate coverage in the state\u003c/a>. To draw those companies back into California’s teetering market, Lara agreed to allow the insurers to raise premiums on homeowners more easily — a move they are likely to make to cover the losses incurred in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10914233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10914233\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/dave-jones.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1222\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/dave-jones.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/dave-jones-400x255.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/dave-jones-800x509.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/dave-jones-1180x751.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/dave-jones-960x611.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones. \u003ccite>( Courtesy of California Department of Insurance)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Rates were already going to go up as a result of the regulatory changes,” Dave Jones, California’s former insurance commissioner, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101908485/l-a-fires-place-enormous-pressure-on-insurance-industry\">told KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “They’re going to go up even higher as a result of the experience of these wildfires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones added the state may need to step in and provide subsidies for premiums — basically Obamacare for home insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given what’s happening vis-à-vis climate change and our failure to transition [away from] fossil fuels, it’s only going to get worse,” Jones said. “And I don’t think we’re going to rate-increase or modify regulations out of this problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home energy market has become ground zero for some of the toughest choices pitting economic equity against emission reductions. The state has placed ambitious mandates on utilities such as Pacific Gas & Electric, San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985611/is-california-still-on-track-to-meet-its-goal-of-100-clean-power-by-2045\">generate more of their power from renewable sources\u003c/a>, which has raised the cost of electricity. Additionally, the utilities are scrambling to prevent their aging power lines from continuing to spark wildfires — and they’ve added the costs of infrastructure upgrades to energy bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When state regulators decided to spread electricity costs more equitably among ratepayers — by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11935425/california-votes-to-lower-incentives-for-rooftop-solar-panels-to-evenly-spread-overall-energy-costs\">reducing payments to rooftop solar users\u003c/a> in 2022 and approving an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905607/california-puc-considers-new-fixed-charge-for-electricity\">income-based fixed charge on monthly power bills\u003c/a> last year — they were met with outrage from some environmentalists who argued the changes would remove the incentive for users to conserve energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021876\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SCELawsuitAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SCELawsuitAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SCELawsuitAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SCELawsuitAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SCELawsuitAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SCELawsuitAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SCELawsuitAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Southern California Edison workers service a utility pole in the aftermath of the Eaton Fire on Jan. 12, 2025, in Altadena, California. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4950\">report released last month\u003c/a>, the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office warned that more tradeoffs are ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Legislature likely will confront difficult decisions about how to approach electricity rates in order to best support its varied goals, including balancing the desires to both mitigate and adapt to climate change as well as preserve affordability,” the report read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taken together, the impacts of a warming planet and efforts to slow that warming will add more costs for Californians in the short-term, at a time when residents already feel burdened by the price of housing and groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conventional wisdom over the years, when the economies were strong and the state budget was strong, was to pass [climate-related] costs on to the consumer,” said former state Sen. Bill Dodd, a Democrat who represented Napa and Sonoma during the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/tag/north-bay-fires\">2017 North Bay fires\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodd said the election revealed a political version of “price elasticity” — that is, how sensitive voters are to price increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023451 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_BIllDodd_credit_BertJohnson-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_BIllDodd_credit_BertJohnson-1_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_BIllDodd_credit_BertJohnson-1_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_BIllDodd_credit_BertJohnson-1_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_BIllDodd_credit_BertJohnson-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_BIllDodd_credit_BertJohnson-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_BIllDodd_credit_BertJohnson-1_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California state Sen. Bill Dodd in Sacramento on May 15, 2017. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So if [reducing emissions] is going to be a major policy in the state — and it should be — well, the state is going to have to prioritize in its budget ways of getting these things done without tacking it on the bills,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Democrats remain confident that programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions do not need to be sacrificed at the altar of affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re able to walk and chew gum at the same time,” state Sen. Catherine Blakespear (D-Encinitas) said. “We can focus on the climate crisis, which is a multiyear, and really, a multidecade effort, and also focus on the affordability crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature’s best opportunity to navigate those twin crises may come this year when members of the Assembly and Senate could begin negotiations with Newsom to renew \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11573588/california-lawmakers-approve-plan-to-extend-cap-and-trade-system\">California’s landmark climate program\u003c/a>, known as cap-and-trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program sets a limit on the amount of planet-warming greenhouse gasses that can be emitted each year and then holds auctions where refineries, power plants and factories bid for the ability to pollute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blakespear, who chairs the Senate’s Environmental Quality Committee, pointed to the importance of existing programs like the California Climate Credit, which uses \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810853/you-could-receive-a-63-credit-on-your-april-utility-bill\">revenue from the cap-and-trade auctions\u003c/a> to pay down the costs of Californians’ energy bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not well recognized what it is and people don’t recognize it as a rebate that’s coming back to them,” Blakespear said. “So it’s really important that when the state does these things, that we communicate with people what’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But far more cap-and-trade dollars are invested into efforts to further reduce carbon emissions, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-high-speed-rail\">constructing a high-speed rail system\u003c/a>, improving buses and trains and building more housing near transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11922992 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS46694_009_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS46694_009_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS46694_009_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS46694_009_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS46694_009_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS46694_009_Sacramento_InaugurationDay_01202021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Legislature wraps up its two-year legislative session on Aug. 31, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some Democrats in the Legislature are eyeing more of that money for immediate financial relief for Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://climatechangepolicies.legislature.ca.gov/sites/climatechangepolicies.legislature.ca.gov/files/FINAL_JLCCCP%20How%20Can%20California%20Climate%20Policies%20Ensure%20Affordability%20While%20Achieving%20Jobs%20and%20Justice.pdf\">report\u003c/a> last year from members of the Democrat-led Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies urged colleagues to consider using more cap-and-trade revenue to help residents pay their energy bills. Raising the price of carbon and putting the new money into programs like the California Climate Credit, they argued, could chop $350 a year from the average household’s energy bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Delivering climate solutions at scale that actually reduce household energy-related expenses has never been more critical,” the authors wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At stake is whether California leaders can maintain global leadership in reducing carbon emissions while easing the energy transitions for residents — and whether Newsom and the Legislature will be forced to prioritize spending more of the state’s limited dollars ensuring Californians are not crushed by the costs of a warming planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a> continuing to call for mass deportations and his administration threatening recalcitrant state and local leaders with federal prosecution, officials in sanctuary cities like Oakland and San Francisco are preparing for the worst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a few hours after entering the Oval Office on Monday, Trump signed several executive orders on immigration, including one that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023126/california-leaders-to-sue-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-border-policies\">threatens to end birthright citizenship\u003c/a> for children whose parents are living in the U.S. without permanent legal status. Meanwhile, fears of federal raids and deportations have gripped immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite pressure from the Trump administration, officials in Oakland and San Francisco said they are committed to shielding members of the immigrant community, including those without legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever Trump says or threatens, we are a sanctuary city, and we are a sanctuary state,” state Sen. Jesse Arreguín (D–Berkeley) said Wednesday in Oakland, where officials discussed new initiatives and protections for immigrant families. “We are ready to protect our immigrant families. That’s what Oakland does as a proud sanctuary city and a place of refuge for decades, and the state of California is a committed partner in this work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arreguín pointed to bills being \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023345/california-legislatures-special-session-fire-aid-trump-lawsuits-faces-1st-test\">considered in a special legislative session\u003c/a> to allocate $25 million to funding litigation against the Trump administration and another $25 million for nonprofit legal aid providers assisting Californians at risk of deportation or detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023544 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-22-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-22-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-22-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-22-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-22-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-22-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-22-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Jesse Arreguín speaks during a press conference with leaders from community groups throughout Alameda County in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland on Jan. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The efforts come amid reports of \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25501043-memorandum-from-the-acting-deputy-attorney-general-01/?mode=document\">a Justice Department memorandum\u003c/a> sent Tuesday directing the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces to take part in the enforcement of the president’s directives and instructing U.S. attorneys to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/22/donald-trump-justice-department-immigration-005783\">pursue prosecutions and legal action\u003c/a> against state and local officials who resist the beefed-up immigration protocol — a veiled threat against states such as California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials passed several sanctuary laws during Trump’s first administration and frequently \u003ca href=\"https://kqed.org/news/12023094/california-has-sued-trump-123-times-heres-where-it-won-and-lost\">pushed back\u003c/a> against the president’s anti-immigrant policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023252 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpJanuary6PardonsGetty-1020x686.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joaquín Torres, the elected assessor-recorder in San Francisco, said city officials there are also prepared to defend undocumented residents against the Trump administration’s hostile policies regardless of what federal officials threaten to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is working with community organizations to educate people on their rights and the protections they’re guaranteed through the city’s sanctuary laws, Torres said. He noted that San Francisco County has an \u003ca href=\"https://immigrants.sf.gov/help/rapid-response\">emergency hotline for immigrants\u003c/a> that is monitored 24/7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been preparing and getting information out to communities so that they can know their rights no matter what actions are taken by the federal government,” Torres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: “We’re not going to fall prey to scare tactics. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joaquín Torres, the elected assessor-recorder in San Francisco, said city officials there are also prepared to defend undocumented residents against the Trump administration’s hostile policies regardless of what federal officials threaten to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is working with community organizations to educate people on their rights and the protections they’re guaranteed through the city’s sanctuary laws, Torres said. He noted that San Francisco County has an \u003ca href=\"https://immigrants.sf.gov/help/rapid-response\">emergency hotline for immigrants\u003c/a> that is monitored 24/7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been preparing and getting information out to communities so that they can know their rights no matter what actions are taken by the federal government,” Torres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: “We’re not going to fall prey to scare tactics. We are not going to allow fear to divide our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023542\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monique Berlanga, Executive Director for Centro Legal de La Raza, speaks during a press conference with leaders from community groups throughout Alameda County in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland on Jan. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>East Bay officials will also revive a rapid response hotline that residents can use to report Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity or to access legal assistance, they said at Wednesday’s press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hotline will be run by a coalition of community organizations headed by the legal nonprofit Centro Legal de la Raza. According to Monique Berlanga, executive director of the group, the emergency line will be active for the next three years and will cost around $4.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas said at the press conference that the Board of Supervisors has created a committee that specifically focuses on protecting immigrant communities in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that we uphold our collective vision to ensure that everyone, whether you are an immigrant, a resident, undocumented or not, that you are able to go to school safely, able to seek health care services safely and able to go about your daily routine without fear,” Bas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/rcooke\">Riley Cooke\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s not only Washington, D.C., where “efficiency” has become the buzzword du jour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With California facing an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/11/california-budget-deficit-legislative-analyst/\">uncertain fiscal future\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom made his own pitch for a leaner state government last week as he previewed his annual budget proposal. Touting billions of dollars in savings from eliminating empty positions and scaling back spending on everything from travel to printing, the Democratic governor compared his efforts to the Department of Government Efficiency, the incoming Trump administration’s push to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-government-trump.html\">slash costs across the federal government\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all taxpayers. We all want to make sure our money is being well invested, not wasted. We want more efficiency,” Newsom told reporters during a stop at the Stanislaus State campus in Turlock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our D.O.G.E. is spelled O.D.I.” he said, referring to the Office of Data and Innovation he created in 2019 to improve public services through technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept isn’t entirely unfamiliar for Newsom, who has been interested in reinventing government since he served in San Francisco City Hall — and even once \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2013-feb-08-la-ca-jc-gavin-newsom-20130210-story.html\">wrote a book about it\u003c/a>. But his approach as governor has been nearly antithetical to D.O.G.E., which under the leadership of entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy aims to trim trillions of dollars of what they consider waste from the federal budget by cutting programs and dismantling entire agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, in his six years in the governor’s office, Newsom has steadily guided California’s government to expand its mission and scope: launching flashy initiatives, creating new departments and offering more services to more people, even during periods of deficit. The number of employees per capita — a measurement of the size of state government compared to the population it serves — has reached its highest level in more than five decades of \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2025-26/pdf/BudgetSummary/BS_SCH6.pdf\">tracking by the state Finance Department (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Under Gavin Newsom, California’s government has grown larger than ever\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-MuhV9\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/MuhV9/12/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"649\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Newsom’s own office has more than doubled in size. At the end of 2024, the governor’s office employed 381 people, including an expanded unit dedicated to “land use and climate innovation,” according to payroll data provided by the State Controller’s Office, compared to 150 at the end of 2018, before Newsom was sworn in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s another reflection of how Newsom’s governing philosophy contrasts sharply with President-elect Donald Trump and his allies, who treat government as a burden and an obstacle to their ideological goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Newsom believes there are a lot more societal problems that government should be in the middle of,” Keely Bosler, who served as finance director during his first term, told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marybel Batjer, who was Newsom’s first government operations secretary and launched the Office of Data and Innovation, said he has expanded state government not because he is an “old dog Democrat who thinks government is good,” but because he wants to help people. She said D.O.G.E. should aim to make government more effective, rather than simply cutting it back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You won’t save money that way. You will have more people who are homeless. You will have more people who are sicker. You will have more pandemics,” Batjer said. “Elon Musk doesn’t know shit from Shinola about how government works. He’s a little piggy that’s been at the trough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet embracing government efficiency, at least rhetorically, could be a boon to Newsom, who has sought ways to moderate his image after a tough November election for Democrats in which the party lost ground with working-class voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever eager to be on the vanguard of the Democratic Party, especially as he reportedly mulls a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/11/gavin-newsom-trump-president/\">future campaign for president\u003c/a>, Newsom has embarked on a tour to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/newsom-california-counties-trump.html\">promote jobs and economic development\u003c/a> in communities that voted for Trump. His budget preview last week in Turlock was the latest stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the governor tries to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/trump-los-angeles-fire-aid-newsom/\">navigate a fraught relationship with Trump\u003c/a> going forward, expressing interest in the president’s ideas could also be a way to build a bridge to the federal government, which controls many of the resources that California needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Language is diplomacy,” said Elizabeth Ashford, a communications strategist who has worked for both Democratic and Republican governors in California. “It would be malpractice if there’s no dialogue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s early tenure as governor coincided with surging tax revenues and then federal aid from the COVID pandemic, which ballooned the state budget by tens of billions of dollars and underwrote an ambitious and wide-ranging agenda. Total budget expenditures are nearly \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/352/2023/03/CHART-B.pdf\">$100 billion more this fiscal year (PDF)\u003c/a> than before Newsom took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that money has gone to one-time projects or to extending existing services, whether because of ideology (making undocumented immigrants \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/12/undocumented-health-insurance-new-california-laws-2024/\">eligible for health care\u003c/a> and free transitional kindergarten \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/07/transitional-kindergarten/\">available to all children\u003c/a>) or necessity (hiring thousands more state firefighters).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/10/gavin-newsom-profile-california-governor-election/\">known for his “big, hairy audacious goals”\u003c/a> and love of making history, has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article239461768.html\">consistently added programs and positions\u003c/a> with entirely new objectives for state government, swelling its ranks as he transformed its role in Californians’ lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Where California government has grown or contracted\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-nagAY\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/nagAY/7/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"670\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impulse was visible on Newsom’s very first day in January 2019\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>when shortly after being sworn in, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/01/07/first-acts-as-governor/\">established the position of California surgeon general\u003c/a> to address the root causes of health conditions, alongside an executive order that would allow the state to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2019/01/lower-california-prescription-drug-costs/\">more broadly negotiate with pharmaceutical companies\u003c/a> to lower the costs of prescription drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first budget a few months later, Newsom created his 50-person Office of Data and Innovation (then known as the Office of Digital Innovation) and spun off a Department of Youth and Community Restoration to focus on supporting young people in the corrections system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New government infrastructure has followed regularly in the years since. These include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>A 106-person Wildfire Safety Division in the California Public Utilities Commission, which grew into the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety at the California Natural Resources Agency, with nearly twice as many funded positions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Department of Finance Protection and Innovation, a reboot of a business oversight department, with dozens of new employees in divisions to combat consumer financial abuse and study emergency financial services technologies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A 13-person office of equity and a 14-person disaster cost tracking unit within the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications, with more than two dozen staff to manage community engagement and public awareness campaigns.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California’s first chief equity officer, tasked with developing a statewide equity and inclusion framework.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Additional expansions represent major pieces of Newsom’s platform, including his recent battle against the oil industry. In 2023, he strong-armed the Legislature to create the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight within the California Energy Commission, a watchdog to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/03/california-gas-prices-newsom-oil/\">investigate alleged price gouging\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he has not followed through on his campaign promise to set up a single-payer system in California, the governor in 2022 did launch the Office of Health Care Affordability, a regulator that aims to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/04/health-care-costs-rule/\">slow the rising cost of care\u003c/a>. The California Volunteers office has quintupled in size under Newsom to manage his new initiatives to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/us/california-service-corps.html\">engage young people in community service\u003c/a> and climate action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/gavin-newsom-2025-california-budget/\">latest budget plan unveiled last week\u003c/a>, Newsom proposed creating two new state agencies, to oversee housing and homelessness programs and consumer protection programs. Additional details are not yet available, though state officials said these would largely be a reorganization of departments that already exist.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12021637,news_12018471,news_12020389,news_12021308\"]It’s difficult to get a comprehensive picture of how Newsom’s priorities have enlarged state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His Finance Department was unable to answer questions about whether several of his biggest and most expensive initiatives added new positions to the state payroll, including CalAIM, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/02/california-medi-cal-reform/\">first-of-its-kind overhaul\u003c/a> of medical care for low-income patients; Homekey, which funds the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/11/newsom-pandemic-beat-homelessness/\">conversion of hotels and motels into homeless housing\u003c/a>; the trash pickup program Clean California; and CARE Court, a system to push people with mental illness \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/08/care-court-california-start/\">off the streets and into treatment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase in the workforce is also driven by laws predating Newsom, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-gas-tax-signing-20170428-story.html\">gas tax hike\u003c/a> that has funded thousands of new jobs to repair California’s roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversely, the governor has shrunk some parts of the state government, such as by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/01/california-prison-cost-per-inmate/\">closing several prisons\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the overall trend is up. There are 436,435 government positions in the state budget that Newsom just proposed, including at the public university systems, \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2024-25/pdf/BudgetSummary/BS_SCH6.pdf\">according to the Finance Department (PDF)\u003c/a>, or about 11.1 state employees per 1,000 Californians. That number has increased from 9.5 before Newsom took office — and is a record high going back to at least 1970, when the Finance Department’s tracking begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office did not respond to a question about how efficiency fits into Newsom’s governing philosophy. But a spokesperson provided a list of initiatives from the Office of Data and Innovation “that are building efficiencies across state departments,” including new tools to forecast community water systems at risk of running dry, evaluate housing projects for streamlined approval, and enhance public participation in the permitting process for toxic substance storage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Suzette Valladares, a Lancaster Republican, told CalMatters that it was “laughable” for Newsom to claim California has been a leader in government efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s scary to think that he thinks we’re doing good,” she said. “From my perspective, instead of taking shots at the D.O.G.E., he should be taking notes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2023/03/california-high-speed-rail/\">underfunded high-speed rail project\u003c/a> and homelessness services as bloated spending by Newsom. Republicans have been highly critical that California’s homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/09/pit-count-analysis-2024/\">continues to increase\u003c/a>, despite the governor dedicating tens of billions of dollars in additional money to the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been at the helm of this mess, yet he has the audacity to mock the federal government’s efforts to cut waste,” Valladares said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the trajectory appears to be shifting course. With growing budget deficits projected in the coming years, Newsom has been forced to tighten California’s belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His administration has identified about 6,500 vacant positions that it plans to eliminate and imposed a nearly 8% cut to state operations, which it projects will collectively save almost $5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also have an imperative and that is to meet you where you want us to be,” Newsom said at his budget preview event in Turlock. “That’s leaner, just like you have been in your household. Just like I’ve been in mine. We all have to be more efficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not the first California governor to take this stance — and those previous experiences suggest how difficult it could be to go further, if Newsom wants to. His office did not respond to a question about whether the governor is planning further cuts to the size of state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2004, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, commissioned the California Performance Review to overhaul state bureaucracy. The 2,500-page report \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-aug-04-me-cpr4-story.html\">recommended more than 1,000 steps\u003c/a> to shrink the state government and save billions of dollars annually, including consolidating departments and agencies, eliminating 118 boards and commissions, and cutting 12,000 jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanne Kozberg, a veteran of a similar “reinventing government” effort under another previous Republican governor, Pete Wilson, co-chaired the California Performance Review. She told CalMatters that, based on feedback to the report, she suggested focusing their work on just 11 main initiatives, but the Schwarzenegger administration wanted to “go big and bold.” Instead, up against tremendous resistance from Democrats to such sweeping changes, Schwarzenegger \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/schwarzenegger-promise-to-blow-up-boxes-fizzled/\">dropped his plan\u003c/a> and moved onto other priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s the trouble you run into: How do you implement? Every program has a constituent,” Kozberg said. “It takes a coalition of the enthusiastic. Because nobody really wants to give up their authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kozberg said that, to succeed, you need not just a leader who is devoted to achieving more efficiency, but also champions inside of government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It isn’t sexy. It takes knowledge of government,” she said. “You could do it and you should do it, but it’s going to take a lot of tenacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight years later, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown did push through a \u003ca href=\"https://archive.gov.ca.gov/archive/gov39/2012/03/30/news17476/index.html\">reorganization and consolidation plan\u003c/a> to “make government more efficient,” aided by a political environment in which an economic recession and steep budget deficits were the prevailing concern. It included eliminating 20 departments, offices and boards, merging the state’s personnel agencies and slashing funding for employee travel and cell phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bosler, who served under Brown before working for Newsom, said some of what California governors have done in the name of efficiency is to demonstrate their values to the public — and some of it is just for show. But it’s difficult to eliminate more than a minor part of state government, she said, because the vast majority of money in the budget pays for services, which are much harder to take away from people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Government is not the bastion of efficiency. It’s just not what the incentives are,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bosler expressed trepidation about Newsom’s latest approach, demanding an across-the-board 7.95% spending cut for every agency and department. Though it’s easier and appears value neutral, she said, that’s not the effect that it ultimately has on Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a real evaluation of whether this is making government better,” Bosler said. “I worry about all the things that are not going to get done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept isn’t entirely unfamiliar for Newsom, who has been interested in reinventing government since he served in San Francisco City Hall — and even once \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2013-feb-08-la-ca-jc-gavin-newsom-20130210-story.html\">wrote a book about it\u003c/a>. But his approach as governor has been nearly antithetical to D.O.G.E., which under the leadership of entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy aims to trim trillions of dollars of what they consider waste from the federal budget by cutting programs and dismantling entire agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, in his six years in the governor’s office, Newsom has steadily guided California’s government to expand its mission and scope: launching flashy initiatives, creating new departments and offering more services to more people, even during periods of deficit. The number of employees per capita — a measurement of the size of state government compared to the population it serves — has reached its highest level in more than five decades of \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2025-26/pdf/BudgetSummary/BS_SCH6.pdf\">tracking by the state Finance Department (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Under Gavin Newsom, California’s government has grown larger than ever\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-MuhV9\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/MuhV9/12/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"649\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Newsom’s own office has more than doubled in size. At the end of 2024, the governor’s office employed 381 people, including an expanded unit dedicated to “land use and climate innovation,” according to payroll data provided by the State Controller’s Office, compared to 150 at the end of 2018, before Newsom was sworn in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s another reflection of how Newsom’s governing philosophy contrasts sharply with President-elect Donald Trump and his allies, who treat government as a burden and an obstacle to their ideological goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Newsom believes there are a lot more societal problems that government should be in the middle of,” Keely Bosler, who served as finance director during his first term, told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marybel Batjer, who was Newsom’s first government operations secretary and launched the Office of Data and Innovation, said he has expanded state government not because he is an “old dog Democrat who thinks government is good,” but because he wants to help people. She said D.O.G.E. should aim to make government more effective, rather than simply cutting it back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You won’t save money that way. You will have more people who are homeless. You will have more people who are sicker. You will have more pandemics,” Batjer said. “Elon Musk doesn’t know shit from Shinola about how government works. He’s a little piggy that’s been at the trough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet embracing government efficiency, at least rhetorically, could be a boon to Newsom, who has sought ways to moderate his image after a tough November election for Democrats in which the party lost ground with working-class voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever eager to be on the vanguard of the Democratic Party, especially as he reportedly mulls a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/11/gavin-newsom-trump-president/\">future campaign for president\u003c/a>, Newsom has embarked on a tour to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/newsom-california-counties-trump.html\">promote jobs and economic development\u003c/a> in communities that voted for Trump. His budget preview last week in Turlock was the latest stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the governor tries to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/trump-los-angeles-fire-aid-newsom/\">navigate a fraught relationship with Trump\u003c/a> going forward, expressing interest in the president’s ideas could also be a way to build a bridge to the federal government, which controls many of the resources that California needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Language is diplomacy,” said Elizabeth Ashford, a communications strategist who has worked for both Democratic and Republican governors in California. “It would be malpractice if there’s no dialogue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s early tenure as governor coincided with surging tax revenues and then federal aid from the COVID pandemic, which ballooned the state budget by tens of billions of dollars and underwrote an ambitious and wide-ranging agenda. Total budget expenditures are nearly \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/352/2023/03/CHART-B.pdf\">$100 billion more this fiscal year (PDF)\u003c/a> than before Newsom took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that money has gone to one-time projects or to extending existing services, whether because of ideology (making undocumented immigrants \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/12/undocumented-health-insurance-new-california-laws-2024/\">eligible for health care\u003c/a> and free transitional kindergarten \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/07/transitional-kindergarten/\">available to all children\u003c/a>) or necessity (hiring thousands more state firefighters).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/10/gavin-newsom-profile-california-governor-election/\">known for his “big, hairy audacious goals”\u003c/a> and love of making history, has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article239461768.html\">consistently added programs and positions\u003c/a> with entirely new objectives for state government, swelling its ranks as he transformed its role in Californians’ lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Where California government has grown or contracted\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-nagAY\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/nagAY/7/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"670\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impulse was visible on Newsom’s very first day in January 2019\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>when shortly after being sworn in, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/01/07/first-acts-as-governor/\">established the position of California surgeon general\u003c/a> to address the root causes of health conditions, alongside an executive order that would allow the state to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2019/01/lower-california-prescription-drug-costs/\">more broadly negotiate with pharmaceutical companies\u003c/a> to lower the costs of prescription drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first budget a few months later, Newsom created his 50-person Office of Data and Innovation (then known as the Office of Digital Innovation) and spun off a Department of Youth and Community Restoration to focus on supporting young people in the corrections system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New government infrastructure has followed regularly in the years since. These include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>A 106-person Wildfire Safety Division in the California Public Utilities Commission, which grew into the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety at the California Natural Resources Agency, with nearly twice as many funded positions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Department of Finance Protection and Innovation, a reboot of a business oversight department, with dozens of new employees in divisions to combat consumer financial abuse and study emergency financial services technologies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A 13-person office of equity and a 14-person disaster cost tracking unit within the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications, with more than two dozen staff to manage community engagement and public awareness campaigns.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California’s first chief equity officer, tasked with developing a statewide equity and inclusion framework.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Additional expansions represent major pieces of Newsom’s platform, including his recent battle against the oil industry. In 2023, he strong-armed the Legislature to create the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight within the California Energy Commission, a watchdog to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/03/california-gas-prices-newsom-oil/\">investigate alleged price gouging\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he has not followed through on his campaign promise to set up a single-payer system in California, the governor in 2022 did launch the Office of Health Care Affordability, a regulator that aims to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/04/health-care-costs-rule/\">slow the rising cost of care\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s difficult to get a comprehensive picture of how Newsom’s priorities have enlarged state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His Finance Department was unable to answer questions about whether several of his biggest and most expensive initiatives added new positions to the state payroll, including CalAIM, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/02/california-medi-cal-reform/\">first-of-its-kind overhaul\u003c/a> of medical care for low-income patients; Homekey, which funds the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/11/newsom-pandemic-beat-homelessness/\">conversion of hotels and motels into homeless housing\u003c/a>; the trash pickup program Clean California; and CARE Court, a system to push people with mental illness \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/08/care-court-california-start/\">off the streets and into treatment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase in the workforce is also driven by laws predating Newsom, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-gas-tax-signing-20170428-story.html\">gas tax hike\u003c/a> that has funded thousands of new jobs to repair California’s roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversely, the governor has shrunk some parts of the state government, such as by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/01/california-prison-cost-per-inmate/\">closing several prisons\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the overall trend is up. There are 436,435 government positions in the state budget that Newsom just proposed, including at the public university systems, \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2024-25/pdf/BudgetSummary/BS_SCH6.pdf\">according to the Finance Department (PDF)\u003c/a>, or about 11.1 state employees per 1,000 Californians. That number has increased from 9.5 before Newsom took office — and is a record high going back to at least 1970, when the Finance Department’s tracking begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office did not respond to a question about how efficiency fits into Newsom’s governing philosophy. But a spokesperson provided a list of initiatives from the Office of Data and Innovation “that are building efficiencies across state departments,” including new tools to forecast community water systems at risk of running dry, evaluate housing projects for streamlined approval, and enhance public participation in the permitting process for toxic substance storage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Suzette Valladares, a Lancaster Republican, told CalMatters that it was “laughable” for Newsom to claim California has been a leader in government efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s scary to think that he thinks we’re doing good,” she said. “From my perspective, instead of taking shots at the D.O.G.E., he should be taking notes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2023/03/california-high-speed-rail/\">underfunded high-speed rail project\u003c/a> and homelessness services as bloated spending by Newsom. Republicans have been highly critical that California’s homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/09/pit-count-analysis-2024/\">continues to increase\u003c/a>, despite the governor dedicating tens of billions of dollars in additional money to the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been at the helm of this mess, yet he has the audacity to mock the federal government’s efforts to cut waste,” Valladares said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the trajectory appears to be shifting course. With growing budget deficits projected in the coming years, Newsom has been forced to tighten California’s belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His administration has identified about 6,500 vacant positions that it plans to eliminate and imposed a nearly 8% cut to state operations, which it projects will collectively save almost $5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also have an imperative and that is to meet you where you want us to be,” Newsom said at his budget preview event in Turlock. “That’s leaner, just like you have been in your household. Just like I’ve been in mine. We all have to be more efficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not the first California governor to take this stance — and those previous experiences suggest how difficult it could be to go further, if Newsom wants to. His office did not respond to a question about whether the governor is planning further cuts to the size of state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2004, then-Gov. 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She told CalMatters that, based on feedback to the report, she suggested focusing their work on just 11 main initiatives, but the Schwarzenegger administration wanted to “go big and bold.” Instead, up against tremendous resistance from Democrats to such sweeping changes, Schwarzenegger \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/schwarzenegger-promise-to-blow-up-boxes-fizzled/\">dropped his plan\u003c/a> and moved onto other priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s the trouble you run into: How do you implement? Every program has a constituent,” Kozberg said. “It takes a coalition of the enthusiastic. Because nobody really wants to give up their authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kozberg said that, to succeed, you need not just a leader who is devoted to achieving more efficiency, but also champions inside of government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It isn’t sexy. It takes knowledge of government,” she said. “You could do it and you should do it, but it’s going to take a lot of tenacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight years later, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown did push through a \u003ca href=\"https://archive.gov.ca.gov/archive/gov39/2012/03/30/news17476/index.html\">reorganization and consolidation plan\u003c/a> to “make government more efficient,” aided by a political environment in which an economic recession and steep budget deficits were the prevailing concern. It included eliminating 20 departments, offices and boards, merging the state’s personnel agencies and slashing funding for employee travel and cell phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bosler, who served under Brown before working for Newsom, said some of what California governors have done in the name of efficiency is to demonstrate their values to the public — and some of it is just for show. But it’s difficult to eliminate more than a minor part of state government, she said, because the vast majority of money in the budget pays for services, which are much harder to take away from people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Government is not the bastion of efficiency. It’s just not what the incentives are,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bosler expressed trepidation about Newsom’s latest approach, demanding an across-the-board 7.95% spending cut for every agency and department. Though it’s easier and appears value neutral, she said, that’s not the effect that it ultimately has on Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a real evaluation of whether this is making government better,” Bosler said. “I worry about all the things that are not going to get done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> signed an executive order suspending environmental review processes for victims looking to rebuild after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/wildfire\">Los Angeles wildfires\u003c/a> destroyed over 40,000 acres of land and more than 12,000 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision, which effectively waives the California Environmental Quality Act and the California Coastal Act, comes as a surprise in a state that boasts some of the strictest building regulations and environmental review processes. California has received criticism for the difficulty of getting building projects approved, a process that is also notoriously expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the order Newsom signed Sunday, state and local agencies are directed to help the residents of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties by expediting processes that would hinder reconstruction. They have also been tasked with identifying additional building codes that can be safely suspended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the fires are extinguished, victims who have lost their homes and businesses must be able to rebuild quickly and without roadblocks,” Newsom said in a Sunday \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/01/12/governor-newsom-signs-executive-order-to-help-los-angeles-rebuild-faster-and-stronger/\">press release\u003c/a>. “The executive order I signed today will help cut permitting delays, an important first step in allowing our communities to recover faster and stronger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The environmental safety restrictions that govern construction projects are an obstacle for anyone looking to build in the state. Legislators have also expanded regulations aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021125/la-fires-renew-debate-over-prescribed-burns-and-fire-preparedness-in-california\">improving fire and earthquake resilience\u003c/a> in fire-prone neighborhoods. These requirements, like installing sprinkler systems and external water tanks, can be cost-prohibitive for homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021322\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of a house in Altadena, California, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some state residents have also questioned why the process for rebuilding was not streamlined after other wildfires. Republican Assemblymember David Tangipa, who represents the Central Valley, said that wildfire victims are still recovering from the Creek Fire in 2020 in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DavidTangipa/status/1878470719161700812\">social media post\u003c/a> and called on the state government to address the disparity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Sedlar, a climate analyst at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said the issue is more complex than simply rebuilding. He said he’s worried that Newsom’s order may come with unintended consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CEQA review is something that’s been a thorn in the side of many housing advocates because a lot of localities use that to hold up development,” Sedlar said. “My concern is that there’s a bullet point that directs state agencies to identify additional permanent requirements, including provisions of the building code, that can safely be suspended to accelerate rebuilding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sedlar noted that in areas like Los Angeles County, a high risk of wildfires necessitates resiliency measures when it comes to rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021263\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buildings are destroyed along Fair Oaks Avenue in Altadena, California, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense to rebuild as things were before because that’s the opposite of adaptive resilience,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The focus instead should be on mitigating the costs associated with making these neighborhoods safer, whether that’s through state or federal assistance, according to Sedlar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the United States, experts and state officials are working together to find solutions that account for rising building costs, environmental safety and the need for hardened homes. In 2006, Florida legislators introduced \u003ca href=\"https://mysafeflhome.com/\">My Safe Florida Home\u003c/a>, a program that distributes funds to applicants looking to improve the resiliency of their homes against natural disasters like hurricanes. The program is wildly popular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022375 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PacificPalisadesRebuild2-1020x827.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis allocated $200 million to the program in July, funding ran out in less than 10 days, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox13news.com/news/part-my-safe-florida-home-program-runs-out-funding-2-weeks-after-applications-open\">news reports\u003c/a>. Because applications were divided into five groups based on need, only lower-income applicants aged 60 were eligible for consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given California’s large population size, Sedlar said, the state would face similar difficulties in creating a grant program that covers all interested homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a huge risk of wildfire throughout the state,” Sedlar said. “How do you allocate enough money to cover everyone? Obviously, there are areas that are less susceptible to fires — urban fires, wildfires — than others, but it’s still going to be extremely competitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the wildfires broke, several conservative politicians, pundits and donors have spread misinformation and criticized state leaders, alleging that inept policymaking led to disaster. President-elect Donald Trump’s comments have caused some state officials to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021435/trumps-misinformation-la-fires-fuels-concerns-over-future-disaster-aid-california\">worry over how a Trump administration may affect future federal aid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Congressional leaders have touted the idea of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022111/republican-leaders-push-conditions-disaster-relief-california-wildfire-victims\">placing conditions\u003c/a> on federal assistance for California wildfire victims. At a Monday press conference, House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed, without evidence, that state and local officials were complicit in the scope of the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireSchoolAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1328\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireSchoolAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireSchoolAP-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireSchoolAP-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireSchoolAP-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireSchoolAP-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireSchoolAP-1920x1275.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A firefighter studies the charred remains of St. Mark’s School, a preschool and K-6 grade school on Altadena Drive, on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, in Altadena, California. \u003ccite>(Chris Pizzello/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson and other conservatives have also suggested that federal assistance be made contingent upon California Democrats agreeing to raise the national debt ceiling, an issue that Trump has been vocal about in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do we need to do to reduce the risk and make the Pacific Palisades buildable again?” said Bill Jackson, who leads the San Francisco Republican Party. “Our national governments are not piggy banks for communities that do not have a realistic approach toward sustaining themselves and defending themselves in the event of a natural disaster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California leaders have introduced several proposals to address fire mitigation. On Monday, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021941/newsom-expands-special-session-speed-up-los-angeles-wildfire-relief-funds\">expanded the special session\u003c/a> that began in December to include $1.5 billion for fire preparedness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Insurance also introduced plans for a statewide home-hardening grant program that would fund projects such as installing fire-resistant roofs and defensible spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making homes and communities safer from wildfires needs to be a top priority for our state,” Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said during a press conference last week. “Looking forward, I will also work with the state Legislature and the Governor’s Administration to support my proposal to provide consumers with home hardening grants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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These requirements, like installing sprinkler systems and external water tanks, can be cost-prohibitive for homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021322\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-055-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The remains of a house in Altadena, California, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some state residents have also questioned why the process for rebuilding was not streamlined after other wildfires. Republican Assemblymember David Tangipa, who represents the Central Valley, said that wildfire victims are still recovering from the Creek Fire in 2020 in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DavidTangipa/status/1878470719161700812\">social media post\u003c/a> and called on the state government to address the disparity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Sedlar, a climate analyst at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said the issue is more complex than simply rebuilding. He said he’s worried that Newsom’s order may come with unintended consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CEQA review is something that’s been a thorn in the side of many housing advocates because a lot of localities use that to hold up development,” Sedlar said. “My concern is that there’s a bullet point that directs state agencies to identify additional permanent requirements, including provisions of the building code, that can safely be suspended to accelerate rebuilding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sedlar noted that in areas like Los Angeles County, a high risk of wildfires necessitates resiliency measures when it comes to rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021263\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-043-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buildings are destroyed along Fair Oaks Avenue in Altadena, California, after the Eaton Fire swept through the area northeast of Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense to rebuild as things were before because that’s the opposite of adaptive resilience,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The focus instead should be on mitigating the costs associated with making these neighborhoods safer, whether that’s through state or federal assistance, according to Sedlar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the United States, experts and state officials are working together to find solutions that account for rising building costs, environmental safety and the need for hardened homes. 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"content": "\u003cp>California has decided to abandon its groundbreaking regulations phasing out diesel trucks and requiring cleaner locomotives because the incoming Trump administration is unlikely to allow the state to implement them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials have long considered the rules regulating diesel vehicles essential to cleaning up California’s severe air pollution and combating climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The withdrawal comes after the Biden administration recently approved the California Air Resources Board’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/california-moves-accelerate-100-new-zero-emission-vehicle-sales-2035\">mandate phasing out new gas-powered cars\u003c/a> by 2035 but had not yet approved other waivers for four diesel vehicle standards that the state has adopted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President-elect Donald J. Trump has threatened to revoke or challenge all zero-emission vehicle rules and California’s other clean-air standards. By withdrawing its requests for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approval, the Newsom administration is signaling a dramatic step back as the state recalibrates in anticipation of the new Trump era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has withdrawn its pending waiver and authorization requests that U.S. EPA has not yet acted on,” Air Resources Board Chair Liane Randolph said in a statement. “While we are disappointed that U.S. EPA was unable to act on all the requests in time, the withdrawal is an important step given the uncertainty presented by the incoming administration that previously attacked California’s programs to protect public health and the climate and has said will continue to oppose those programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists were distressed, saying it puts communities at risk and dismantles key programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To meet basic standards for healthy air, California has to shift to zero-emissions trucks and trains in the coming years. Diesel is one of the most dangerous kinds of air pollution for human health, and California’s diesel problem is big enough to cast its own shadow,” Paul Cort, director of the group Earthjustice’s Right To Zero campaign, said in a statement. The group called on “Governor (Gavin) Newsom, state legislators, and our air quality regulators to join us — to clean up our freight system and fix the mess EPA’s inaction has created.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/advanced-clean-fleets\">Advanced Clean Fleet\u003c/a> rule, which phases out diesel trucks, was one of the most far-reaching and controversial rules that California has enacted in recent years to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gases. It would have ended the sale of new fossil-fuel trucks in 2036 and required large trucking companies to convert their medium and heavy-duty fleets to electric or hydrogen models by 2042.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truck fleet rule was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/08/electric-cars-california-to-phase-out-gas-cars/#:~:text=This%20regulation%20will%20essentially%20end,and%20100%25%20for%202035%20models.\">approved in 2022\u003c/a> after years of analysis, public hearings and discussions with industries and experts. It would have ended diesel’s stronghold on goods movement in the state, with potentially profound effects on the state’s environment and economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trucking companies had already sued the state to stop the measure, saying electric and hydrogen big rigs are not practical for long-haul uses and that it would destroy the state’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The California Trucking Association has consistently stated the Advanced Clean Fleets Rule was unachievable,” Eric Sauer, chief executive of the association, said in a statement. He said the industry would work with the state air board and EPA “to further reduce emissions in a technologically feasible and\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>cost-effective manner that preserves our State and the Nation’s critical supply chain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diesel exhaust has been linked to cancer and contains fine particles that can trigger asthma and heart attacks, as well as gases that form smog. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/12/california-diesel-truck-ban-zero-emission/\">Lower-income, disadvantaged communities of color near ports, freeways and \u003c/a>warehouses, especially in the Los Angeles and Long Beach area, have long complained about noxious and dangerous diesel exhaust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state withdrew three other measures regulating emissions from diesel-powered \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/reducing-rail-emissions-california\">locomotives\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/carb-passes-amendments-commercial-harbor-craft-regulation\">commercial harbor craft\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/transport-refrigeration-unit\">refrigeration unit engines\u003c/a> that are hauled by trucks and rail cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the railroad rule, only locomotives less than 23 years old would have been allowed in California beginning in 2030, unless they were zero emissions. The rule also limited how long they could idle. People living in communities with trains and rail yards have long complained that the emissions are making them sick. \u003ca href=\"https://www.aar.org/news/chorus-of-diverse-voices-railroads-urge-epa-denial-of-california-locomotive-authorization/\">Railroads said\u003c/a> no zero-emission locomotive technology exists yet, so the rule’s “timeline is impossible” and that it would prematurely retire viable equipment and disrupt goods movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Clean Air Act, Congress more than a half-century ago granted California the unique ability to set its own aggressive emission standards for cars, trucks and other vehicles because of its severe smog. However, the federal EPA must grant California a waiver to implement them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the EPA has granted California the waivers. Only one waiver was initially denied — a 2008 rule setting greenhouse gas emission standards for cars — and that decision \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2019-09/California-Waiver-Background-Legal-091719A.pdf\">was quickly reversed and the waiver granted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Trump was last in office, his administration took aim at the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-auto-emissions-standards-fight-with-donald-trump-explained/\">special status\u003c/a> to enact stricter rules — one of the more significant environmental clashes of the first Trump era. The Biden administration in 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engines/notice-decision-reconsideration-previous-withdrawal\">reversed\u003c/a> those efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California air-quality officials have been waiting for years for the Biden administration’s EPA to approve the last four rules, hoping that time wouldn’t run out. However, the EPA failed to act in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randolph told CalMatters that Biden’s EPA had informed California that it did not have time to complete the four waivers, prompting the air board to withdraw them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we knew that, we realized that we needed to deploy an offensive strategy to make sure that we maintained control of the waivers, and so we pulled them back,” Randolph said. “The Trump administration has not indicated a lot of support for our clean air and climate strategy, right? So our concern was that if we leave them hanging out there, we don’t know what they’re going to do with them. So we thought it would be better to maintain control.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12016258,news_12017428,news_12017611\"]What’s more, Randolph said litigation will be increasingly likely under the incoming Trump administration, so it was time to “protect and defend the work that we’ve already done.” Some business groups have already sued to try to block the mandate banning sales of gas-powered cars in 2035.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know there’s going to be a lot of litigation in the offing, whether it’s entities suing us or us going on the offense and trying to protect our ability to move forward to address both air quality and climate change,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California may have to suspend any future rule-making for vehicles over the next four years of the Trump administration and rely instead on voluntary agreements with engine manufacturers, trucking companies, railroads and other industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The California Air Resources Board is assessing its option to continue its progress as part of its commitment to move forward the important work of improving the state’s air quality and reducing harmful pollutants that contribute to poor health outcomes and worsen climate change,” Randolph said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear that the public health, air quality, and climate challenges that California faces require urgent action. We are ready and committed to continuing the important work of building a clean-air future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truck fleet rule would have affected about 1.8 million medium and heavy-duty trucks on California roads, including delivery trucks used by FedEx, UPS and Amazon. The trucking industry had cited the high costs of zero-emission vehicles, limited charging and fueling infrastructure, and the financial burden on small operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some provisions, for drayage trucks that serve ports, were supposed to be implemented already, but the air board put them on hold pending the outcome of the Biden administration’s approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some companies, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.pepsico.com/our-stories/press-release/pepsico-beverage-s-sacramento-based-electric-fleet-is-driving-progress-toward-pepsico-s-net-zero-emissions-goal-in-nacfe-run-on-less-trucking-event\">Pepsi\u003c/a>, have already rolled out electric and hydrogen fleets. Amazon has deployed 50 heavy-duty electric trucks in Southern California as well as hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/everything-you-need-to-know-about-amazons-electric-delivery-vans-from-rivian\">electric vans\u003c/a> nationally. Sales of zero-emissions trucks have increased despite no deadlines having kicked in. In 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/fact-sheets/ACT-Credits-Summary%202023\">one out of every six trucks sold in the state\u003c/a> — more than 18,000 — were zero emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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By withdrawing its requests for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approval, the Newsom administration is signaling a dramatic step back as the state recalibrates in anticipation of the new Trump era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has withdrawn its pending waiver and authorization requests that U.S. EPA has not yet acted on,” Air Resources Board Chair Liane Randolph said in a statement. “While we are disappointed that U.S. EPA was unable to act on all the requests in time, the withdrawal is an important step given the uncertainty presented by the incoming administration that previously attacked California’s programs to protect public health and the climate and has said will continue to oppose those programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists were distressed, saying it puts communities at risk and dismantles key programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To meet basic standards for healthy air, California has to shift to zero-emissions trucks and trains in the coming years. Diesel is one of the most dangerous kinds of air pollution for human health, and California’s diesel problem is big enough to cast its own shadow,” Paul Cort, director of the group Earthjustice’s Right To Zero campaign, said in a statement. The group called on “Governor (Gavin) Newsom, state legislators, and our air quality regulators to join us — to clean up our freight system and fix the mess EPA’s inaction has created.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/advanced-clean-fleets\">Advanced Clean Fleet\u003c/a> rule, which phases out diesel trucks, was one of the most far-reaching and controversial rules that California has enacted in recent years to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gases. 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The suggestion that Congress should place conditions on relief aid needed by thousands of Californians provoked a mixed response from state leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Jackson, who leads the San Francisco Republican Party, said it would be appropriate to put stipulations on federal assistance. 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Republicans largely criticized those investments as they called on Newsom to put wildfire-related spending through the same fast-tracked process allowed in a special session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process allows bills passed by the Senate and Assembly to take effect more quickly than under the Legislature’s normal rules, which require a supermajority vote to speed up the enactment of a law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is organizing a Marshall Plan to help Los Angeles rebuild faster and stronger — including billions in new and accelerated state funding so we can move faster to deliver for the thousands who’ve lost their homes and livelihoods in these firestorms,” Newsom said in a statement. “To the people of Los Angeles: We have your back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s proposal includes $1 billion for emergency response and cleanup, for which the administration anticipates reimbursement from the federal government. 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"content": "\u003cp>After days of sniping back and forth with President-elect Donald Trump over California’s handling of the fires ravaging Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom today invited the incoming Republican president to visit the state and survey the damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic governor signed his public overture “with respect and an open hand.” But he also included praise for outgoing President Joe Biden and implicit criticism of Trump’s early handling of the tragedy — reflecting the tricky balance between cooperation and controlling the narrative that Newsom is trying to maintain as he seeks help from his biggest political nemesis to address one of the worst disasters in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread disinformation from the sidelines,” Newsom wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1877845635359191191/photo/1\">letter also shared on social media\u003c/a>. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans — displaced from their homes and fearful for the future — deserve to see all of us working in their best interests to ensure a fast recovery and rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Tuesday, when a series of fires driven by hurricane-force winds began breaking out across the Los Angeles region, Trump has repeatedly blasted Newsom and other California leaders online for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/la-fires-donald-trump-fact-check/\">mismanaging the state’s water\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113796555731896970\">called on “Newscum” to resign\u003c/a>. Frustrations that \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-08/lack-of-water-from-hydrants-in-palisades-fire-is-hampering-firefighters-caruso-says\">some fire hydrants ran dry\u003c/a> as crews battled a massive blaze in the Pacific Palisades — a failure that Newsom on Friday ordered the state to investigate — has underpinned much of the criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hostile rhetoric has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/california-fires-donald-trump-money/\">raised fears that Trump may follow through\u003c/a> on earlier threats to withhold disaster aid from California unless the state overhauls its water policy by allowing more supply to flow south to Central Valley farmers and Southern California. That would make it substantially more costly for the state to recover from the Los Angeles fires, which are already estimated to have caused economic losses of more than $50 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Trump administration officials told Politico last fall that the president-elect was \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/03/helene-trump-politics-natural-disaster-00182419\">flagrantly political with disaster funding\u003c/a> during his first term. Trump reportedly withheld approval for aid related to California’s 2018 wildfires because of the state’s Democratic leanings, until aides showed him that many of the residents of the affected areas had voted for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/us/politics/trump-california-wildfire-aid-newsom.html\">campaign trail last year\u003c/a>, he vowed that if the governor didn’t agree to divert more money to farmers, “we won’t give him money to put out all his fires.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12021693,news_12016262,news_12013395\"]The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to an inquiry about Newsom’s invitation to visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Biden has already issued a major disaster declaration for the Los Angeles fires, unlocking critical aid for the response and recovery, Trump could try to punish California by reversing the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would be an unprecedented move that would almost certainly be challenged in court, said Daniel Farber, a law professor at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law gives sitting presidents the power to issue a disaster declaration but does not spell out if they can retract one, Farber said. “I don’t think that ever occurred to Congress that that would be an issue.” He noted that the statute’s purpose was to dispense disaster aid “orderly and efficiently” — so a president reversing a previous administration’s declaration “would really undermine the whole premise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are no backseats,” Farber said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump could still slow-walk how the Federal Emergency Management Agency distributed funds. That’s something he did in his first term, after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017. A 2021 federal report \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudoig.gov/sites/default/files/2021-04/HUD%20OIG%20Final%20Report_2019SU008945I.pdf\">found that the Trump administration delayed $20 billion\u003c/a> in disaster aid to the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could definitely let FEMA know to drag their feet,” Farber said. “You say they are dragging their feet deliberately for political reasons, and they just say, ‘No, we are doing the best we can. There’s a lot of paperwork.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Newsom: ‘Sickens me to my core’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom and his administration have pushed back with increasing vehemence against accusations from Trump and other prominent Republicans that a lack of available water, poor vegetation management and bureaucratic incompetence are to blame for Los Angeles fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a video call with Biden on Friday morning, Newsom lamented the “hurricane-force winds of mis- and disinformation, lies, that people want to divide this country,” which he said were damaging California’s response efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to deal with this misinformation,” he said. “It infects real people that are out there, people I meet every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few hours later, in an email to political supporters, Newsom explicitly called out Trump and his allies for their “politically motivated lies” about the fires, which “sickens me to my core,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His letter to Trump, released not long after, was far softer. Newsom invoked their joint visits to Paradise and Malibu in 2018 to tour the devastation from the deadly Camp and Woolsey fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021743\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand and talk in a brunt out part of a forested area.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US President Donald Trump visits the charred wreckage of Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park with then Governor-elect Gavin Newsom, FEMA Administrator Brock Long, Paradise Mayor Jody Jones and then-Gov. Jerry Brown in Paradise on Nov. 17, 2018. \u003ccite>(Leah Millis/Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As you prepare to assume the presidency once more, I invite you to come to California again — to meet with the Americans affected by these fires, see the devastation firsthand, and join me and others in thanking the heroic firefighters and first responders who are putting their lives on the line,” Newsom wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bob Salladay, a spokesperson for the governor, said the invitation was not an attempt to reset their relationship, nor would Newsom soft-pedal his criticism about Trump’s behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a binary choice,” Salladay said in a text message. “We will have to engage with the Trump administration — he’s going to be the president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As for the letter, we would like to see the president-elect out here to show some compassion and interest in the people of California and Los Angeles,” he added. “Nothing more than that. His response will speak volumes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Roger Niello, a Roseville Republican, suggested that the California GOP could help Newsom navigate the complicated dynamics with the Trump administration — although he said the governor has yet to ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Though we’re in the minority, we do have a number of Republican legislators who have relationships with Republicans in Washington, D.C.,” Niello said. “To the extent that there are any challenges there, to the extent that we have a common approach toward things, we could assist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Mikhail Zinshteyn contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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