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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy were to unilaterally pull back the funding commitment before then, it could deal another blow to a project that has already faced significant challenges, including yearslong delays, harsh internal audits and billions of dollars in cost increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the level of concern about Trump’s potential influence is mixed among officials and experts, he has already intruded on other big transit projects, banking on significant federal support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s administration earlier this year clawed back $4 billion from California’s in-progress high-speed rail project, denigrating the long-delayed infrastructure work in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in mid-October, remarks to reporters, Trump said a $16 billion rail project in New York and New Jersey, known as the Gateway project, was “terminated,” in part, analysts said, to politically punish Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who has championed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since those initial comments, mixed signals from the administration about its intentions for the Gateway have only sown more \u003ca href=\"https://prospect.org/2025/10/27/another-rail-headache-for-new-york-new-jersey-courtesy-of-trump/\">concern and consternation, and fueled anxiety in the Bay Area.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s dire,” Santa Clara City Councilmember Suds Jain, a member of the VTA board and oversight subcommittee, told KQED about the president’s potential to complicate the South Bay project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062944\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251104-BART-SAN-JOSE-FUNDING-CONCERNS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" 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already struggling with a budget deficit, to help backfill the funding, or to simply “outlast” Trump, by using existing local and state funds to build portions of the project until the president is out of office, and then apply for the federal money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stacey Hendler Ross, a VTA spokesperson, told KQED the agency believes the project has strong support, based on reports from the agency’s lobbyists in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a matter of if [the project] will receive federal funding, but when,” Hendler Ross said in an email.[aside postID=news_12059533 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1020x680.jpg']The Federal Transit Administration, in an emailed statement, said its staff is working with VTA to meet the requirements for the federal funding. “This involves multiple steps completed over several years,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob Wasserman, a research program manager at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, agreed he doesn’t think projects like VTA’s BART extension would be cut off entirely by the federal government. But there could still be trouble caused by any meddling with the funding, he said, and political leadership could play a big role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think they’ll ultimately be totally canceled for lack of federal funding, but it certainly will engender delays, which add cost,” Wasserman said. “I think if the Republican administration, an administration hostile to California, is still in power at the time they apply for their funds, it could be a huge issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the uncertainty comes while questions about the feasibility of the project linger. The Trump administration aside, some VTA board members and other critics have raised concerns about the potential for more delays and even higher costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to turn into California’s version of the Boston Big Dig, where you start digging, you run out of money, and you’re going to have major delays, major cost increases,” Barney Smits, a retired engineer who worked for BART for 25 years, said at a public meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VTA decided in June to ditch its primary contractor on the project, a joint venture called Kiewit Shea Traylor, because of a dispute over the cost of tunneling and trackwork. That decision could add 18 months to the timeline before tunneling begins, which is currently pegged for 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250623-VTAWESTPORTAL-JG-3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers and machinery are seen at VTA’s West Portal construction site in San José on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other transit agency experts brought in to review VTA’s progress suggested the agency consider keeping the original contractor or “major components of that team” to take on a new tunneling contract because of their expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if the agency plans to reconsider its contracting decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jain, in an October meeting, said the project has been marred by “rookie mistakes” and mismanagement, and he has “little confidence” it can be completed for $12.7 billion, let alone $12.1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan Hill Mayor Mark Turner, a VTA board member, asked Maguire during a joint BART and VTA meeting in October about the prospect of added costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have years to go on this project. Are we possibly looking at a price tag of $15 to $20 billion? Are you saying we can hold this to $12 billion throughout the rest of the project?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The answer to that is yes, but it’s a qualified yes,” Maguire said. “Yes, if we continue to make decisions, get contracts out there, get contractors locked in at prices that are valid today so that we don’t lose any more time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But during Trump’s second term, local leaders have grown increasingly concerned about the potential for the federal funding to be cut off or delayed, and have pressed top project officials to put together a backup plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve asked it every month recently, and I’ll continue to ask, what the status of a plan B is,” San José Mayor Matt Mahan, who chairs a VTA subcommittee intended to more closely oversee the project, said at an October meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in uncharted waters in Washington. If it becomes clear that the [federal funding] may not be in the works for us for many years, what’s our progress on having a more … radical Plan B so that we continue to have a project?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063142\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 938px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12063142 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/VTA_Graphic-Board_Aerial-Alignment-Map_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"938\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/VTA_Graphic-Board_Aerial-Alignment-Map_0.jpg 938w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/VTA_Graphic-Board_Aerial-Alignment-Map_0-160x96.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The four-station South Bay BART extension is expected to extend the system through San José and up to Santa Clara. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Valley Transportation Authority)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Responses from top project officials at VTA have so far left a lot to the imagination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Maguire, the chief megaprojects delivery officer leading the effort, said in October that after hearing from board members about the concerns, he and his team are working on what the agency calls an “adaptive plan” and expect to deliver it to the board next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The adaptive plan will address the specific risk of not knowing when the federal share will be available. We will explore what options best address this risk and report back early next year,” Maguire said in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an interview with KQED in early October, Maguire said it is “hard to see” what the specifics of a Plan B might look like, noting that the primary focus for the agency has been figuring out the logistics of building the 53-foot-diameter tunnel the extension will run through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project, earlier this year, began its first heavy construction, with crews building a “launch structure” — essentially a massive, reinforced hole in the ground where a future $76 million tunnel-boring machine can be dropped into the earth to begin digging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062941 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251104-BART-SAN-JOSE-FUNDING-CONCERNS-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251104-BART-SAN-JOSE-FUNDING-CONCERNS-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251104-BART-SAN-JOSE-FUNDING-CONCERNS-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251104-BART-SAN-JOSE-FUNDING-CONCERNS-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction crews work at the West Portal site as part of the project to bring BART through downtown San José on Nov. 4, 2025 \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even with the $5.1 billion commitment from the federal government, combined with county taxes and state funds totaling nearly $7 billion, the six-mile, four-station extension is still over budget by roughly $700 million to $1 billion, officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VTA staff have been working for the last year to slash costs to bring the project in line with the $12.1 billion in what they hope will be the available pot of money, through trims such as axing a maintenance yard and parking garages and simplifying station designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some board members have raised the potential of harsher cuts — especially if federal funding doesn’t materialize soon — including cutting some stations out of the extension altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VTA must prove that it can build the project within a timeline and cost that Federal Transit Administration overseers approve in order to formally apply for the funding, something Maguire said the agency plans on doing in late 2026 or early 2027.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But if Trump or his Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy were to unilaterally pull back the funding commitment before then, it could deal another blow to a project that has already faced significant challenges, including yearslong delays, harsh internal audits and billions of dollars in cost increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the level of concern about Trump’s potential influence is mixed among officials and experts, he has already intruded on other big transit projects, banking on significant federal support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s administration earlier this year clawed back $4 billion from California’s in-progress high-speed rail project, denigrating the long-delayed infrastructure work in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in mid-October, remarks to reporters, Trump said a $16 billion rail project in New York and New Jersey, known as the Gateway project, was “terminated,” in part, analysts said, to politically punish Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who has championed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since those initial comments, mixed signals from the administration about its intentions for the Gateway have only sown more \u003ca href=\"https://prospect.org/2025/10/27/another-rail-headache-for-new-york-new-jersey-courtesy-of-trump/\">concern and consternation, and fueled anxiety in the Bay Area.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s dire,” Santa Clara City Councilmember Suds Jain, a member of the VTA board and oversight subcommittee, told KQED about the president’s potential to complicate the South Bay project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062944\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251104-BART-SAN-JOSE-FUNDING-CONCERNS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251104-BART-SAN-JOSE-FUNDING-CONCERNS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251104-BART-SAN-JOSE-FUNDING-CONCERNS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251104-BART-SAN-JOSE-FUNDING-CONCERNS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction crews work at the West Portal site as part of the project to bring BART through downtown San José on Nov. 4, 2025 \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration has been trying to penalize blue states,” he said. “So it’s not a great situation for this project because of how much power they have and how much control they have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jain said he thinks the VTA’s only viable “Plan B” options would be to lobby California leaders, already struggling with a budget deficit, to help backfill the funding, or to simply “outlast” Trump, by using existing local and state funds to build portions of the project until the president is out of office, and then apply for the federal money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stacey Hendler Ross, a VTA spokesperson, told KQED the agency believes the project has strong support, based on reports from the agency’s lobbyists in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a matter of if [the project] will receive federal funding, but when,” Hendler Ross said in an email.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California voters overwhelmingly approved Prop. 50, which will redraw our Congressional maps in an effort to push back against President Donald Trump. In Santa Clara County, voters also appeared to pass a sales tax measure to partially make up for federal funding cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, we break down how Prop. 50 will change U.S. House districts in the Bay, Santa Clara County’s Measure A, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s retirement announcement after nearly 40 years representing San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063016/how-prop-50s-win-reshapes-californias-2026-elections\">How Proposition 50’s Win Reshapes California’s 2026 Elections | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062796/nancy-pelosi-leaves-congress-after-38-years-defining-generations-of-democratic-power\">Nancy Pelosi Retiring After 38 Years Representing San Francisco in Congress | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062794/santa-clara-county-sales-tax-measure-appears-poised-to-pass-amid-federal-cuts\">Santa Clara County Sales Tax Measure Appears Poised to Pass Amid Federal Cuts | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC5256405939&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Ericka Cruz-Gavarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:00:06] Well, good evening, everybody. And let me underscore, it’s been a good evening. For everybody, not just the Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:16] On Tuesday night, Californians overwhelmingly passed Proposition 50, which gives the state temporary power to redraw our congressional maps. All election season, California Democrats built up Prop 50 as a clapback to President Donald Trump by redrawing the congressional maps to help Democrats retake the House in next year’s midterm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:00:44] We stood tall and we stood firm in response to Donald Trump’s recklessness. And tonight, after poking the bear, this bear roared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter \u003c/strong>[00:00:56] Everything that’s going on in the world, this has given me a slight little hope as a chance to fight back, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter \u003c/strong>[00:01:04] We have to stop the Trump machine and we have to get a fair election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter \u003c/strong>[00:01:09] There’s so much already altered that I feel like we have to make it fair so that there’s a balanced reception of people’s opinions and that seems like the only way to do it right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:23] Today, we’re going to talk with KQED’s politics and government correspondent, Guy Marzorati, about the results of the election and how Prop 50 will change congressional districts in the Bay Area. Plus, Measure A passes in Santa Clara County, and Nancy Pelosi announces her retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:50] So Guy, this is not your first rodeo. Of course, you stayed up for many an election night. But we didn’t think this year was gonna be an election year in California, and it was. I’m curious how this compares to past election years that you’ve covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:06] Yeah, I would say it was a easier election night than a lot of past ones, just because we really got the big result pretty early in the evening. Right after polls closed at 8 o’clock, the Associated Press called that Proposition 50 had passed. And so it wasn’t really a lot of, you know, suspense. I think going into election night, we’re fairly confident Proposition 50 was going to pass. And so now it’s just kind of digging through the results and kind of ripple effects from Prop 50 that will be following.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:49] Yeah, and let’s talk about Prop 50 for a little bit. This was really billed as California’s rebuke against Trump. So as you mentioned, it wasn’t really surprising that Prop 50 passed in California. How much did it pass by though? Do we know anything about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:08] Right now, with what the Associated Press estimates as about three quarters of the votes in, Prop 50 is passing with 64 percent of the vote, which is a huge margin. To see, you know, 64 percent for this, I think, speaks to the success that the Governor Gavin Newsom was able to have in convincing voters to really, yes, make this a partisan fight and a referendum on the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:33] So Guy, I mean Prop 50’s win wasn’t always a guarantee. There were some early polls that showed California voters were hesitant to redraw the maps. So how did we end up with such a landslide for the Yes side?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:47] Yeah, I think in the end, this election became a lot more about President Donald Trump than about redistricting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:03:57] Donald Trump does not believe in fair and free elections, period and full stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:04:04] Which was Newsom’s goal all along, was to not make this about whether or not voters favored independent citizen-led redistricting, which remains popular. I mean, there was a CNN exit poll of Prop 50 that said 92% of voters favored independent redistricting in California. 60% of those voters still voted for Prop 50. So in the end, I think voters were able to hold two things together. One, that they supported the idea of having citizens draw lines, not favoring either political party, but also using this election to push back against the Trump administration and the efforts by Republicans nationwide to pursue seats through gerrymandering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:49] Yeah, and Governor Newsom really came out as sort of the face of Prop 50 in many ways and was really the guy pitching this as this fight against Donald Trump. What did he say at the end of election day after seeing these results?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:07] Yeah, what we heard from Newsom on election night was really a call for other states to follow in California’s footsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:05:16] We need the state of Virginia. We need state of Maryland. We need our friends in New York, in Illinois, in Colorado. We need to see other states meet this moment head on as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:29] He made the case for other democratic states to do something similar, to pursue plans, to redraw their congressional maps to help Democrats, because Prop 50 is really part of this nationwide fight over congressional district lines, where we’ve seen Republican states like Texas, like Missouri, like North Carolina, do their own gerrymandering. California has now approved a gerrymander plan favoring Democrats, and there could other states that Newsom called out. As possibly pursuing this down the line as we get closer to the 2026 midterms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:06:03] We can de facto end Donald Trump’s presidency as we know it. The minute Speaker Jeffreys gets sworn in as Speaker of the House of Representatives, it is all on the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:21] Well, let’s talk about what it actually means now that Prop 50 has passed, because obviously what happens now is that our congressional districts will be redrawn, and you’ve done a bit of reporting before this about the Bay Area cities that are gonna be really impacted by Prop 50, and some of them include Pittsburgh and Antioch, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:47] That’s right. When you look at the 8th congressional district, which includes Pittsburgh, includes Antioch, this is really kind of at the heart of the debate over Proposition 50. This was a district that was drawn by the Citizens Commission based on input that they got from residents. So they heard from residents in Pittsburgh and Antioch, but also in communities like Martinez, Richmond, Vallejo, residents who said, we have a lot in common and we’d like to be included in one congressional district. And these communities, working class, very racially diverse, expressed that to the commission and got included in one Congressional District. What the Prop 50 map does is it takes these heavily democratic voters in Antioch and in Pittsburgh, and it loops them into a district with communities in the Central Valley. And the purpose of that is to help a democratic incumbent in the central valley have an easier path to re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:49] It’s interesting, though, because in the reporting you did ahead of the election, many Democratic voters in some of these cities like Antioch and Pittsburgh knew the impact that this would have on their communities and remember how much work went into building that very diverse district, but still supported Prop 50, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:12] That’s true. I mean, even the county supervisor Shanelle Scales-Preston who represents a lot of that area on the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, it was a tough decision for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shanelle Scales-Preston \u003c/strong>[00:08:22] I’m born and raised here in this community and you know I want to make sure that representation is there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:28] She understood the impact of having these communities grouped together in a congressional district. She talked about how where she lives in Pittsburgh, she’s like, this is not like the Central Valley. We have very different needs than constituents in the Central valley. But at the same time, she was like, the fact that if we can get Democrats to flip the House of Representatives, it will mean potentially more funding for the issues that I care about in my community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shanelle Scales-Preston \u003c/strong>[00:09:00] These cuts that are coming down from the federal government, starting in January, I mean, it’s going to be a huge, a huge cut. And so I think… You know, if there’s any way that we’re able to get more seats so that we can help the people here on the ground, we gotta do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:48] Well, I wanna move on, Guy, to one local measure that was on the ballot for voters in Santa Clara County where you live, Measure A. This was, of course, the sales tax increase, which also passed. Can you remind us briefly what this does?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:09] Yeah, so Measure A in Santa Clara County, it raises the county sales tax by 5 eighths of a cent for every dollar you spend, and it’s gonna raise about $330 million a year for the county. This was put on the ballot by the County Board of Supervisors after we saw these big federal budget cuts to Medicaid, to SNAP, food benefits, and the county leaders basically went to voters and said, Would you be willing to raise taxes on yourself to help? Backfill some of the money that we’re losing as a result of these federal budget cuts, particularly with healthcare. Santa Clara County runs four public hospitals. These are heavily reliant on Medicaid dollars coming from the federal government. So without those, the county was looking at basically a loss of about a billion dollars a year by the end of the decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:10:57] What was your feeling when you saw the uh… The numbers flash across the screen there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Williams \u003c/strong>[00:11:01] Gratitude and relief gratitude for our community and its continued commitment to a public health care system that works for everyone in our\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:13] James Williams, who’s the county executive in Santa Clara County, was talking with my colleague Joseph Geha on election night and really described the fact that he felt like the passage of Measure A in Santa Clare County gives the county a fighting chance as it kind of grapples with these federal cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Williams \u003c/strong>[00:11:29] We are staring down such a devastating level of federal budget cuts. That daunting task still remains in front of us, but the passage of Measure 8 tonight makes a huge world of difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:44] Now the question is, this campaign was really run as we’re gonna save the county’s four public hospitals by passing measure A, will the county leaders do that? Will they be able to keep the doors open at all four of the county public hospitals? When Joseph asked James Williams that question, does this guarantee the hospitals remain open? James Williams didn’t 100% say, yes, I guarantee that. So that’s gonna be something to watch going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:17] Well, I wanna transition now, Guy, into something that’s not explicitly election-related, at least to this year’s election, but I do have to ask you about the news around Nancy Pelosi and her announcement that she, after 38 years of representing San Francisco in Congress, will not be seeking re-election. Pretty big news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:12:43] Yeah, huge. I mean, Pelosi has been not only like an impactful leader locally, but someone who really will go down in history as one of the most significant speakers of the House of Representatives in American history, whether you’re talking about, you know, the Affordable Care Act, the work that she did during the Biden administration, pushing that legislative agenda. 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I mean it does seem like we are in this very interesting moment, it seems like, with the Democratic Party really, and folks really wanting to see a sort of generational change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] Yeah, I think that’s that’s very true. And I do think you’ll see, I think a lot of that discussion go into the 2026 midterms in the June primary in California, younger democratic challengers may be taking on established incumbents. Look, there was already a number of folks who had who had signed up to run for this congressional seat, perhaps in anticipation that Pelosi would make this move. State Senator Scott Weiner has announced that he’s running to succeed Pelosi. So is Saikat Chakrabarti , who is the former chief of staff to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. We’ve heard Connie Chan, a member of the board of supervisors in San Francisco as a potential contender. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Ericka Cruz-Gavarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:00:06] Well, good evening, everybody. And let me underscore, it’s been a good evening. For everybody, not just the Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:16] On Tuesday night, Californians overwhelmingly passed Proposition 50, which gives the state temporary power to redraw our congressional maps. All election season, California Democrats built up Prop 50 as a clapback to President Donald Trump by redrawing the congressional maps to help Democrats retake the House in next year’s midterm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:00:44] We stood tall and we stood firm in response to Donald Trump’s recklessness. And tonight, after poking the bear, this bear roared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter \u003c/strong>[00:00:56] Everything that’s going on in the world, this has given me a slight little hope as a chance to fight back, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter \u003c/strong>[00:01:04] We have to stop the Trump machine and we have to get a fair election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voter \u003c/strong>[00:01:09] There’s so much already altered that I feel like we have to make it fair so that there’s a balanced reception of people’s opinions and that seems like the only way to do it right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:23] Today, we’re going to talk with KQED’s politics and government correspondent, Guy Marzorati, about the results of the election and how Prop 50 will change congressional districts in the Bay Area. Plus, Measure A passes in Santa Clara County, and Nancy Pelosi announces her retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:50] So Guy, this is not your first rodeo. Of course, you stayed up for many an election night. But we didn’t think this year was gonna be an election year in California, and it was. I’m curious how this compares to past election years that you’ve covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:06] Yeah, I would say it was a easier election night than a lot of past ones, just because we really got the big result pretty early in the evening. Right after polls closed at 8 o’clock, the Associated Press called that Proposition 50 had passed. And so it wasn’t really a lot of, you know, suspense. I think going into election night, we’re fairly confident Proposition 50 was going to pass. And so now it’s just kind of digging through the results and kind of ripple effects from Prop 50 that will be following.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:49] Yeah, and let’s talk about Prop 50 for a little bit. This was really billed as California’s rebuke against Trump. So as you mentioned, it wasn’t really surprising that Prop 50 passed in California. How much did it pass by though? Do we know anything about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:08] Right now, with what the Associated Press estimates as about three quarters of the votes in, Prop 50 is passing with 64 percent of the vote, which is a huge margin. To see, you know, 64 percent for this, I think, speaks to the success that the Governor Gavin Newsom was able to have in convincing voters to really, yes, make this a partisan fight and a referendum on the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:33] So Guy, I mean Prop 50’s win wasn’t always a guarantee. There were some early polls that showed California voters were hesitant to redraw the maps. So how did we end up with such a landslide for the Yes side?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:47] Yeah, I think in the end, this election became a lot more about President Donald Trump than about redistricting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:03:57] Donald Trump does not believe in fair and free elections, period and full stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:04:04] Which was Newsom’s goal all along, was to not make this about whether or not voters favored independent citizen-led redistricting, which remains popular. I mean, there was a CNN exit poll of Prop 50 that said 92% of voters favored independent redistricting in California. 60% of those voters still voted for Prop 50. So in the end, I think voters were able to hold two things together. One, that they supported the idea of having citizens draw lines, not favoring either political party, but also using this election to push back against the Trump administration and the efforts by Republicans nationwide to pursue seats through gerrymandering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:49] Yeah, and Governor Newsom really came out as sort of the face of Prop 50 in many ways and was really the guy pitching this as this fight against Donald Trump. What did he say at the end of election day after seeing these results?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:07] Yeah, what we heard from Newsom on election night was really a call for other states to follow in California’s footsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:05:16] We need the state of Virginia. We need state of Maryland. We need our friends in New York, in Illinois, in Colorado. We need to see other states meet this moment head on as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:29] He made the case for other democratic states to do something similar, to pursue plans, to redraw their congressional maps to help Democrats, because Prop 50 is really part of this nationwide fight over congressional district lines, where we’ve seen Republican states like Texas, like Missouri, like North Carolina, do their own gerrymandering. California has now approved a gerrymander plan favoring Democrats, and there could other states that Newsom called out. As possibly pursuing this down the line as we get closer to the 2026 midterms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom \u003c/strong>[00:06:03] We can de facto end Donald Trump’s presidency as we know it. The minute Speaker Jeffreys gets sworn in as Speaker of the House of Representatives, it is all on the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:21] Well, let’s talk about what it actually means now that Prop 50 has passed, because obviously what happens now is that our congressional districts will be redrawn, and you’ve done a bit of reporting before this about the Bay Area cities that are gonna be really impacted by Prop 50, and some of them include Pittsburgh and Antioch, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:47] That’s right. When you look at the 8th congressional district, which includes Pittsburgh, includes Antioch, this is really kind of at the heart of the debate over Proposition 50. This was a district that was drawn by the Citizens Commission based on input that they got from residents. So they heard from residents in Pittsburgh and Antioch, but also in communities like Martinez, Richmond, Vallejo, residents who said, we have a lot in common and we’d like to be included in one congressional district. And these communities, working class, very racially diverse, expressed that to the commission and got included in one Congressional District. What the Prop 50 map does is it takes these heavily democratic voters in Antioch and in Pittsburgh, and it loops them into a district with communities in the Central Valley. And the purpose of that is to help a democratic incumbent in the central valley have an easier path to re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:49] It’s interesting, though, because in the reporting you did ahead of the election, many Democratic voters in some of these cities like Antioch and Pittsburgh knew the impact that this would have on their communities and remember how much work went into building that very diverse district, but still supported Prop 50, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:12] That’s true. I mean, even the county supervisor Shanelle Scales-Preston who represents a lot of that area on the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, it was a tough decision for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shanelle Scales-Preston \u003c/strong>[00:08:22] I’m born and raised here in this community and you know I want to make sure that representation is there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:28] She understood the impact of having these communities grouped together in a congressional district. She talked about how where she lives in Pittsburgh, she’s like, this is not like the Central Valley. We have very different needs than constituents in the Central valley. But at the same time, she was like, the fact that if we can get Democrats to flip the House of Representatives, it will mean potentially more funding for the issues that I care about in my community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shanelle Scales-Preston \u003c/strong>[00:09:00] These cuts that are coming down from the federal government, starting in January, I mean, it’s going to be a huge, a huge cut. And so I think… You know, if there’s any way that we’re able to get more seats so that we can help the people here on the ground, we gotta do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:48] Well, I wanna move on, Guy, to one local measure that was on the ballot for voters in Santa Clara County where you live, Measure A. This was, of course, the sales tax increase, which also passed. Can you remind us briefly what this does?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:09] Yeah, so Measure A in Santa Clara County, it raises the county sales tax by 5 eighths of a cent for every dollar you spend, and it’s gonna raise about $330 million a year for the county. This was put on the ballot by the County Board of Supervisors after we saw these big federal budget cuts to Medicaid, to SNAP, food benefits, and the county leaders basically went to voters and said, Would you be willing to raise taxes on yourself to help? Backfill some of the money that we’re losing as a result of these federal budget cuts, particularly with healthcare. Santa Clara County runs four public hospitals. These are heavily reliant on Medicaid dollars coming from the federal government. So without those, the county was looking at basically a loss of about a billion dollars a year by the end of the decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:10:57] What was your feeling when you saw the uh… The numbers flash across the screen there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Williams \u003c/strong>[00:11:01] Gratitude and relief gratitude for our community and its continued commitment to a public health care system that works for everyone in our\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:13] James Williams, who’s the county executive in Santa Clara County, was talking with my colleague Joseph Geha on election night and really described the fact that he felt like the passage of Measure A in Santa Clare County gives the county a fighting chance as it kind of grapples with these federal cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>James Williams \u003c/strong>[00:11:29] We are staring down such a devastating level of federal budget cuts. That daunting task still remains in front of us, but the passage of Measure 8 tonight makes a huge world of difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:44] Now the question is, this campaign was really run as we’re gonna save the county’s four public hospitals by passing measure A, will the county leaders do that? Will they be able to keep the doors open at all four of the county public hospitals? When Joseph asked James Williams that question, does this guarantee the hospitals remain open? James Williams didn’t 100% say, yes, I guarantee that. So that’s gonna be something to watch going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:17] Well, I wanna transition now, Guy, into something that’s not explicitly election-related, at least to this year’s election, but I do have to ask you about the news around Nancy Pelosi and her announcement that she, after 38 years of representing San Francisco in Congress, will not be seeking re-election. Pretty big news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:12:43] Yeah, huge. I mean, Pelosi has been not only like an impactful leader locally, but someone who really will go down in history as one of the most significant speakers of the House of Representatives in American history, whether you’re talking about, you know, the Affordable Care Act, the work that she did during the Biden administration, pushing that legislative agenda. So an icon in California, as well as national politics, and perhaps the first of a changing of the guard that we might see. Here in our own state’s congressional delegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:17] Nancy Pelosi posted a video on Thursday morning announcing her decision to not seek re-election. What did she say in this video?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:13:30] She titled the video like a letter to San Francisco and really, you know, in the video talked about her own career representing the city in Congress, but also just like, you now, in her words, like what made San Francisco special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Pelosi \u003c/strong>[00:13:46] Here we don’t fear the future, we forge it. From the gold rush to the miracles of science and technology, our city has always been the cradle of innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:13:56] So almost like a love letter to the city as she eventually made the announcement in the video that she would not be seeking another term in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Pelosi \u003c/strong>[00:14:05] As we go forward, my message to the city I love is this. San Francisco, know your power. We have made history, we have made progress. We have always led the way. And now we must continue to do so by remaining full participants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:24] I mean, do we know anything about why she’s making this announcement now? I mean it does seem like we are in this very interesting moment, it seems like, with the Democratic Party really, and folks really wanting to see a sort of generational change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] Yeah, I think that’s that’s very true. And I do think you’ll see, I think a lot of that discussion go into the 2026 midterms in the June primary in California, younger democratic challengers may be taking on established incumbents. Look, there was already a number of folks who had who had signed up to run for this congressional seat, perhaps in anticipation that Pelosi would make this move. State Senator Scott Weiner has announced that he’s running to succeed Pelosi. So is Saikat Chakrabarti , who is the former chief of staff to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. We’ve heard Connie Chan, a member of the board of supervisors in San Francisco as a potential contender. So I wonder now that Pelosi has made this announcement, if we might see some other California Congress members kind of follow suit, um, and announce that they won’t be running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:35] Well, Guy, my last question for you. I mean, between the results that we’ve seen in California, both locally but also statewide, Democrats winning in New Jersey and Virginia and also New York City, I feel like the national media is really talking about this election as the first big rebuke of President Donald Trump. Does that seem right to you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:16:01] I think that’s absolutely spot on. I think whether you’re talking about Proposition 50 or these other results across the country, this really was an election about Trump in large measure. Look at the exit polling around Proposition 50 in California, where almost two-thirds of voters said they disapproved of Trump in a CNN exit poll. Over 90% of those voters voted for Prop 50. Even among voters who said they somewhat disapprove of the Democratic Party, 60% voted for Prop 50. So again, this was not about loving everything that Democrats are putting forward in some cases, but simply the fact that people are opposed in large measure to the way this administration is acting on a whole suite of policies, and they express that in a lot of the election results on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:59] Well, Guy, as always, thank you so much for breaking this all down. Appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Former House Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a>’s love for San Francisco was evident in the iconic images of streetcars, the Golden Gate Bridge and the city’s vibrant neighborhoods that made up her retirement video on Thursday morning — a kind of love letter to her district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike some members of Congress, Pelosi came back from Washington regularly, often appearing at San Francisco ribbon cuttings, town hall meetings and rallies. She was never a stranger to those she represented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie called Pelosi “one of the city’s great leaders” as he spoke at an event in the Sunset District on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In college, I had the opportunity to intern for Speaker Emerita Pelosi,” Lurie said. “I’ve been fortunate to benefit from her mentorship and guidance, and she has played a similar role for generations of leaders in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside a coffee shop on Castro Street, Twin Peaks resident Peter Sichel reflected on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062796/nancy-pelosi-leaves-congress-after-38-years-defining-generations-of-democratic-power\">Pelosi’s legacy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that she’s not 20,” he said. “She’s had a very successful career.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027565\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-10-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during a press conference announcing legislation to increase nightlife in Downtown San Francisco to help the recovery of the neighborhood, in Union Square, San Francisco, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sichel said he got to know Pelosi personally during his four decades living in San Francisco and described her as confident and approachable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s another story when you interact with someone on a personal level, and I think she has great integrity and I felt I was treated with a great deal of respect,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Mission District, Norma Sanchez was still in shock over the news of Pelosi’s retirement as she took her dog on a morning walk through Franklin Square.[aside postID=news_12063196 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/SFODelaysGetty.jpg']“I was so sad. I don’t know why she’s retiring,” Sanchez said. “She is still working like she’s young; she can still do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others said retirement was the right move for Pelosi, who at 85 is among the oldest members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think in general we’re seeing a theme of a new guard coming in for the Democratic Party,” said Aneil Marathi, a resident of the Mission who moved to the city a year ago. “I think this is one of the better things that she’s done — recognizing where the tide is going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Pelosi was elected in 1987, her district was being ravaged by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11808367/coronavirus-lessons-from-veterans-of-the-aids-epidemic\">the HIV/AIDS epidemic\u003c/a>. Her first speech on the House floor called on Congress to do more, and she set about increasing federal funding to fight the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She promoted legislation, funding, and programs for prevention, research, cure, and medical interventions to save lives,” the San Francisco AIDS Foundation wrote in a statement. “No single member has been more relentless or more fearless in the face of HIV.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a conversation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061434/newsom-trump-sending-troops-to-monitor-californias-election-is-a-2026-preview\">with KQED’s Political Breakdow\u003c/a>n last month, Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than 644,000 Bay Area residents who use CalFresh — the state’s version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, sometimes referred to as food stamps — have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061440/calfresh-snap-ebt-shutdown-find-food-banks-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-alameda-oakland-contra-costa-newsom-national-guard\">hit by a delay in November SNAP payments\u003c/a> due to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/government-shutdown\">ongoing federal government shutdown.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062034/san-francisco-will-cover-full-snap-benefits-for-november-amid-federal-shutdown\">San Francisco \u003c/a>and Contra Costa County, residents will be receiving prepaid cards this month to cover at least some of their missing food funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money will come at a time when it’s still unclear how soon SNAP payments will be distributed this month. On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office confirmed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/\">some CalFresh recipients have begun to see benefits payments\u003c/a> arrive in full onto their EBT cards, after a judge \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-11-6-2025#0000019a-5af9-d003-addb-deffec620000\">ruled a second time that the White House must pay these benefits\u003c/a> in full by Friday. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/updated-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap-november-benefit-issuance\">The U.S. Department of Agriculture also announced\u003c/a> Friday it will comply with the court order and start sending out full November SNAP benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s still not known exactly how these funds will continue to roll out, especially since \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b\">the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Friday to block the judge’s order\u003c/a>, and has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/07/us/trump-news-shutdown?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare\">now appealed to the Supreme Court\u003c/a> after that request was denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid all this uncertainty, if you’re on CalFresh and you live in San Francisco or Contra Costa County, here’s what to know about getting your prepaid card — from how to activate it to how much money the card will contain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#HowContraCostaresidentsonCalFreshcanaccesstheirdebitcard\">How Contra Costa residents on CalFresh can access their debit card\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>I’m a San Francisco resident using CalFresh. When will my prepaid grocery card arrive?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Roughly 112,000 people in San Francisco receive benefits through CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the San Francisco Human Services Agency, all SNAP recipients in San Francisco will receive a letter in the mail this week — the first week of November — with instructions on how to receive their grocery card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062567\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-24-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-24-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-24-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-24-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trent Rhorer, executive director of the SFHSA, said that if you’re a CalFresh user living in San Francisco, your letter will most likely arrive on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don’t need to contact the city to request your card — it’ll be mailed out automatically to you,\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program-frequently-asked-questions\"> as long as you were signed up for CalFresh by the end of October.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A SFHSA spokesperson told KQED that the agency isn’t publicizing the details of the instructions contained in the letter, “to help prevent fraud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I don’t have a fixed address within San Francisco?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>An estimated 5,000–6,000 people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco use CalFresh, Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re unhoused or currently living in a shelter, and if you have your mail delivered via general delivery to the Hyde St. post office, your letter about the grocery card will be delivered to that location, Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, he said, you can speak to staff at the San Francisco community support agency, homeless shelter or Navigation Center you use, and they’ll be able to help you activate the card too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t need to receive the letter to activate the card,” Rhorer said, since “you can actually call the call center with your personal identifying information, and they can activate the digital card right there.” Support staff at these agencies and shelters will provide the correct phone number for you to call.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I access my grocery card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You won’t receive the actual grocery card itself in the mail. Instead, the letter will contain an activation code, which will be unique to you and which will allow you to access a digital gift card either online or by phone, Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll then be able to load your card funds onto your phone through Apple Wallet or Google Play, he said. If you prefer, you can request a physical card in the mail, but this will take 5–7 business days to arrive, SFHSA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only one card will be sent to San Francisco CalFresh users, and you’ll have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program-frequently-asked-questions\">activate your card by Dec. 31 \u003c/a>for it to remain valid.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What kind of information will I have to provide to access my card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You should follow the instructions in the letter to activate your card either online or through a call center, when you’ll be prompted to “enter personal identifying information,” Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062569\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-28-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-28-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-28-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-28-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Gudmundsdottir sorts fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This means that if your letter was stolen by someone else who attempted to use your activation code to access your gift card, they still won’t know your personal information to be able to complete the process, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll never be asked for your bank account details or Social Security information to redeem the grocery card, SFHSA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Once I have my virtual or physical card, how do I spend the funds?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>SFHSA said that you’ll be able to use the prepaid grocery card at grocery stores and “most markets that accept EBT.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The replacement card will\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/food/calfresh/using-calfresh\"> work exactly as their CalFresh EBT card would have worked\u003c/a>,” Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like EBT, your card’s funds “cannot be used to purchase sugary or alcoholic beverages or tobacco products,” SFHSA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13982957 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/monster-pho-free-event-1020x947.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much money will I get through my prepaid grocery card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One thing to note: the amount on your grocery card might not match the amount you’d have normally received in November through your CalFresh benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because how much each household receives on their card has been calculated “based on the average CalFresh benefit amount for households of a similar size to yours,” SFHSA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The amount you’ll see on your card:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli> For a 1–2 person household: $200\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> For a 3–4 person household: $350\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> For a household with 5 or more people: $500\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Some households might get a little bit more in the gift card” than their regular EBT funds, Rhorer said — but “some households might get a little less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I still use my card if the government shutdown ends or partial SNAP benefits are paid this month?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes. The grocery card program is intended to “help offset the impact of federal actions that have delayed the reloading of EBT cards for CalFresh recipients,” SFHSA said, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program-frequently-asked-questions\">will move ahead regardless \u003c/a>of what happens this month at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhorer said that even if the federal government releases partial SNAP funds this month, he suspects that this might happen “maybe in mid-November or late November” — which would still be some time after CalFresh payments were meant to arrive, in the first 10 days of the month, and after San Francisco CalFresh households have accessed their prepaid gift cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12060772\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SNAP and EBT Accepted here sign. SNAP and Food Stamps provide nutrition benefits to supplement the budgets of disadvantaged families. \u003ccite>(Jet City Image/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Plus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So, hopefully, at the end of the day, the households are certainly made whole for their benefits in November,” Rhorer said. “And perhaps many households will receive a little bit more than they otherwise would have received.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the federal government announces the imminent release of SNAP dollars, “It’s going to be a 7–10 day delay,” he said. “We want people to be able to put food on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should I do if my card doesn’t arrive?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A SFHSA spokesperson told KQED by email that if you’re a San Francisco resident receiving CalFresh and you don’t receive your letter by Monday, Nov. 10, reach out to the agency’s CalFresh call center at 855-355-5757.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/contact-us\">contact SFHSA directly by phone or email\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/contact-us/locations\">visit an SFHSA office in person\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For general questions about the grocery cards, San Francisco CalFresh users can call 3-1-1, according to SFHSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowContraCostaresidentsonCalFreshcanaccesstheirdebitcard\">\u003c/a>I’m a Contra Costa County resident using CalFresh. When can I access my debit card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>More than 65,000 households in Contra Costa County rely on CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting Monday, Nov. 10, Contra Costa residents on SNAP can \u003ca href=\"https://ehsd.org/2025/11/05/county-declares-emergency-over-calfresh-funding-disruption-due-to-federal-shutdown/\">pick up a debit card in person from one of the county’s Employment and Human Services Department buildings\u003c/a>, located at:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>1305 Macdonald Ave., Richmond\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>151 Linus Pauling Drive, Hercules\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>400 Ellinwood Way, Pleasant Hill\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>4545 Delta Fair Blvd., Antioch\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953001\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Stacked brown cardboard boxes of cauliflower and sweet potatoes in a paved outdoor area.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66299_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boxes of vegetables await distribution at a San Francisco-Marin Food Bank pop-up pantry in the Richmond District of San Francisco on June 13, 2023. Volunteers at food pantries often help set up, build grocery bags, distribute food, check in participants, manage the line, and help with other tasks as needed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cards can be picked up every day starting Monday, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. The last day to pick up a debit card is Saturday, Nov. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Bullock-Hayes, director of the Workforce Services Bureau for the Contra Costa County Employment and Human Services Department, said that county residents will first receive a text message inviting them to an appointment at one of these locations — “to address shorter wait times, we hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if an appointment time isn’t convenient, “people are welcome to come whenever they need to, because we want to make sure that people have access to food,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I can’t pick up my Contra Costa debit card in person that week?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If circumstances mean you can’t come to one of those four offices to collect your card, you should \u003ca href=\"https://ehsd.org/overview/contact/\">contact the Contra Costa County Employment and Human Services Department\u003c/a> to arrange an alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will provide support,” Bullock-Hayes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What kind of information will I have to provide to access my debit card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You should bring your EBT card and a form of ID to pick up your Contra Costa debit card, Bullock-Hayes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike San Francisco, which is only providing prepaid cards to residents who were already using CalFresh by October, Contra Costa County will also provide cards to residents who are eligible for CalFresh but who aren’t already signed up — after helping them apply for SNAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Once I have my virtual or physical card, how do I spend the funds?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After a Contra Costa County resident has picked up their physical grocery card, they should be able to “go to the grocery stores or [other] resources to purchase foods right away,” Bullock-Hayes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll be able to use your debit card like you would have used your EBT card, and “it can be used at any retailer that sells food, and those retailers that usually carry and accept EBT cards,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for which foods and items you can purchase using the debit card, Bullock-Hayes said you’ll be informed about those stipulations when you first access your debit card, which “will outline how the card should be used.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12062018 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FoodPantryGetty1.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much money will I get through my debit card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The dollar amount on your debit card will likely not match the amount you’d have normally received in November through your CalFresh benefits in Contra Costa, and will be based on household size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062817/more-bay-area-counties-join-push-to-send-prepaid-grocery-cards-amid-federal-snap-lapse\">the county had planned to initially load the debit cards with 50% of the available funds\u003c/a> and reload the cards every week. But now, Contra Costa CalFresh recipients will have the full benefit amount available on their debit card when they pick it up, which is intended to last two weeks, Bullock-Hayes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t throw your debit card away once you’ve used up the funds, she said. “After the two weeks, we will need to evaluate the status of the federal shutdown and what information we receive,” Bullock-Hayes said. “If additional benefits are available, then we will be able to add those to the cards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I still use my card if the government shutdown ends or partial SNAP benefits are paid this month?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes. “We are planning to move forward with issuing the cards and giving the money to residents to use,” said Bullock-Hayes, and the county has no plans to stop card usage if there are further developments at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want people to go out and use the … benefits for the food that they need,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/aemslie\">\u003cem>Alex Emslie\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kdebenedetti\">\u003cem>Katie DeBenedetti\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s still not known exactly how these funds will continue to roll out, especially since \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b\">the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Friday to block the judge’s order\u003c/a>, and has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/07/us/trump-news-shutdown?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare\">now appealed to the Supreme Court\u003c/a> after that request was denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid all this uncertainty, if you’re on CalFresh and you live in San Francisco or Contra Costa County, here’s what to know about getting your prepaid card — from how to activate it to how much money the card will contain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#HowContraCostaresidentsonCalFreshcanaccesstheirdebitcard\">How Contra Costa residents on CalFresh can access their debit card\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>I’m a San Francisco resident using CalFresh. When will my prepaid grocery card arrive?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Roughly 112,000 people in San Francisco receive benefits through CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the San Francisco Human Services Agency, all SNAP recipients in San Francisco will receive a letter in the mail this week — the first week of November — with instructions on how to receive their grocery card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062567\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-24-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-24-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-24-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-24-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trent Rhorer, executive director of the SFHSA, said that if you’re a CalFresh user living in San Francisco, your letter will most likely arrive on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don’t need to contact the city to request your card — it’ll be mailed out automatically to you,\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program-frequently-asked-questions\"> as long as you were signed up for CalFresh by the end of October.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A SFHSA spokesperson told KQED that the agency isn’t publicizing the details of the instructions contained in the letter, “to help prevent fraud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I don’t have a fixed address within San Francisco?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>An estimated 5,000–6,000 people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco use CalFresh, Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re unhoused or currently living in a shelter, and if you have your mail delivered via general delivery to the Hyde St. post office, your letter about the grocery card will be delivered to that location, Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, he said, you can speak to staff at the San Francisco community support agency, homeless shelter or Navigation Center you use, and they’ll be able to help you activate the card too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t need to receive the letter to activate the card,” Rhorer said, since “you can actually call the call center with your personal identifying information, and they can activate the digital card right there.” Support staff at these agencies and shelters will provide the correct phone number for you to call.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I access my grocery card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You won’t receive the actual grocery card itself in the mail. Instead, the letter will contain an activation code, which will be unique to you and which will allow you to access a digital gift card either online or by phone, Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll then be able to load your card funds onto your phone through Apple Wallet or Google Play, he said. If you prefer, you can request a physical card in the mail, but this will take 5–7 business days to arrive, SFHSA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only one card will be sent to San Francisco CalFresh users, and you’ll have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program-frequently-asked-questions\">activate your card by Dec. 31 \u003c/a>for it to remain valid.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What kind of information will I have to provide to access my card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You should follow the instructions in the letter to activate your card either online or through a call center, when you’ll be prompted to “enter personal identifying information,” Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062569\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-28-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-28-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-28-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251031-SFMARINFOODBANK-28-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Gudmundsdottir sorts fresh produce into boxes at the San Francisco‑Marin Food Bank warehouse in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This means that if your letter was stolen by someone else who attempted to use your activation code to access your gift card, they still won’t know your personal information to be able to complete the process, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll never be asked for your bank account details or Social Security information to redeem the grocery card, SFHSA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Once I have my virtual or physical card, how do I spend the funds?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>SFHSA said that you’ll be able to use the prepaid grocery card at grocery stores and “most markets that accept EBT.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The replacement card will\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/food/calfresh/using-calfresh\"> work exactly as their CalFresh EBT card would have worked\u003c/a>,” Rhorer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like EBT, your card’s funds “cannot be used to purchase sugary or alcoholic beverages or tobacco products,” SFHSA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much money will I get through my prepaid grocery card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One thing to note: the amount on your grocery card might not match the amount you’d have normally received in November through your CalFresh benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because how much each household receives on their card has been calculated “based on the average CalFresh benefit amount for households of a similar size to yours,” SFHSA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The amount you’ll see on your card:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli> For a 1–2 person household: $200\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> For a 3–4 person household: $350\u003c/li>\n\u003cli> For a household with 5 or more people: $500\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Some households might get a little bit more in the gift card” than their regular EBT funds, Rhorer said — but “some households might get a little less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I still use my card if the government shutdown ends or partial SNAP benefits are paid this month?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes. The grocery card program is intended to “help offset the impact of federal actions that have delayed the reloading of EBT cards for CalFresh recipients,” SFHSA said, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program/calfresh-emergency-grocery-card-program-frequently-asked-questions\">will move ahead regardless \u003c/a>of what happens this month at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhorer said that even if the federal government releases partial SNAP funds this month, he suspects that this might happen “maybe in mid-November or late November” — which would still be some time after CalFresh payments were meant to arrive, in the first 10 days of the month, and after San Francisco CalFresh households have accessed their prepaid gift cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12060772\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SNAP and EBT Accepted here sign. SNAP and Food Stamps provide nutrition benefits to supplement the budgets of disadvantaged families. \u003ccite>(Jet City Image/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Plus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So, hopefully, at the end of the day, the households are certainly made whole for their benefits in November,” Rhorer said. “And perhaps many households will receive a little bit more than they otherwise would have received.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the federal government announces the imminent release of SNAP dollars, “It’s going to be a 7–10 day delay,” he said. “We want people to be able to put food on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should I do if my card doesn’t arrive?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A SFHSA spokesperson told KQED by email that if you’re a San Francisco resident receiving CalFresh and you don’t receive your letter by Monday, Nov. 10, reach out to the agency’s CalFresh call center at 855-355-5757.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/contact-us\">contact SFHSA directly by phone or email\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/contact-us/locations\">visit an SFHSA office in person\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For general questions about the grocery cards, San Francisco CalFresh users can call 3-1-1, according to SFHSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowContraCostaresidentsonCalFreshcanaccesstheirdebitcard\">\u003c/a>I’m a Contra Costa County resident using CalFresh. 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Volunteers at food pantries often help set up, build grocery bags, distribute food, check in participants, manage the line, and help with other tasks as needed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cards can be picked up every day starting Monday, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. The last day to pick up a debit card is Saturday, Nov. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Bullock-Hayes, director of the Workforce Services Bureau for the Contra Costa County Employment and Human Services Department, said that county residents will first receive a text message inviting them to an appointment at one of these locations — “to address shorter wait times, we hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if an appointment time isn’t convenient, “people are welcome to come whenever they need to, because we want to make sure that people have access to food,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I can’t pick up my Contra Costa debit card in person that week?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If circumstances mean you can’t come to one of those four offices to collect your card, you should \u003ca href=\"https://ehsd.org/overview/contact/\">contact the Contra Costa County Employment and Human Services Department\u003c/a> to arrange an alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will provide support,” Bullock-Hayes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What kind of information will I have to provide to access my debit card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You should bring your EBT card and a form of ID to pick up your Contra Costa debit card, Bullock-Hayes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike San Francisco, which is only providing prepaid cards to residents who were already using CalFresh by October, Contra Costa County will also provide cards to residents who are eligible for CalFresh but who aren’t already signed up — after helping them apply for SNAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Once I have my virtual or physical card, how do I spend the funds?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After a Contra Costa County resident has picked up their physical grocery card, they should be able to “go to the grocery stores or [other] resources to purchase foods right away,” Bullock-Hayes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll be able to use your debit card like you would have used your EBT card, and “it can be used at any retailer that sells food, and those retailers that usually carry and accept EBT cards,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for which foods and items you can purchase using the debit card, Bullock-Hayes said you’ll be informed about those stipulations when you first access your debit card, which “will outline how the card should be used.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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