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As the Trump administration continues its fights in the courts to limit who gets to be a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023740/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-trumps-executive-order-ending-birthright-citizenship\">U.S. citizen at birth\u003c/a>, Chinese and Chinese American organizers and lawmakers in San Francisco are stepping up to honor the legacy of Wong Kim Ark by mobilizing to defend birthright citizenship on the national stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Attacks on our constitutional rights are only meant to divide us further in an already fractured world,” Norman Wong, Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson, said on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next to him stood officials from across the state, including San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, who has filed multiple lawsuits for the city against the federal government, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2025/01/21/san-francisco-city-attorney-and-attorneys-general-file-suit-to-protect-birthright-citizenship/\">including one over birthright citizenship\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong Kim Ark was born right on that same block on Sacramento Street in the 1870s to Chinese immigrants. In 1894, he traveled to China to visit his family. During his trip, he \u003ca href=\"https://theamericanscholar.org/birthright-citizens-and-paper-sons/\">married a woman and had a child with her\u003c/a>. On his way back to the U.S., he was detained in San Francisco. Customs officials claimed that he was not a U.S. citizen but rather a Chinese national through his parents, blocking him from entering the country due to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033800\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250328_WONG-KIM-ARK_DB_00062-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033800\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250328_WONG-KIM-ARK_DB_00062-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250328_WONG-KIM-ARK_DB_00062-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250328_WONG-KIM-ARK_DB_00062-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250328_WONG-KIM-ARK_DB_00062-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250328_WONG-KIM-ARK_DB_00062-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250328_WONG-KIM-ARK_DB_00062-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250328_WONG-KIM-ARK_DB_00062-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A press conference marking the conclusion of Wong Kim Ark week in San Francisco’s Chinatown on the corner of Grant Avenue and Sacramento Street, at the birthplace of Wong Kim Ark, March 28, 2025. Honoring his legacy and the fight for birthright citizenship, this event featured a plaque rendering of Wong Kim Ark celebrating his enduring impact on birthright citizenship and the ongoing efforts to protect this fundamental right. \u003ccite>(David M Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wong Kim Ark sued the U.S. government in order to be recognized as an American citizen. His case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which affirmed that the Constitution \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/169/649\">recognized Wong as a U.S. citizen\u003c/a> because he was born on American soil. The ruling established birthright citizenship as a constitutional principle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wong Kim Ark was not a hero alone,” said Norman Wong, noting that his great-grandfather had the financial and legal support of San Francisco’s Chinese community. “Now we need each of us to find the hero inside to make our world right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong Kim Ark’s case is what could stop President Donald Trump from fulfilling one of his biggest campaign promises: ending birthright citizenship for the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his first day back in the White House, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024082/qa-what-to-know-about-birthright-citizenship\">signed an executive order\u003c/a> that would radically transform who gets to be a U.S. citizen at birth. The order goes further than what Trump \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1663537082633953282\">promised on the campaign trail\u003c/a>: It denies birthright citizenship to babies born on or after Feb. 19, 2025, who don’t have at least one parent who is a citizen or a lawful permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, multiple federal judges have already \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-future-trumps-order-blocking-birthright-citizenship/story?id=118460936\">issued injunctions against the executive order\u003c/a>, blocking the federal government from moving forward with Trump’s plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to lift the pause on his policy in some \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/us/politics/trump-birthright-citizenship-supreme-court.html\">parts of the country\u003c/a>. During a March 24 event dedicated to Wong Kim Ark, Chiu described this idea as chaotic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12015449 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241119_BirthrightCitizenshipExplainer_GC-16_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could have an entire generation of babies, newborns, kids, who were born here in the United States who are literally classless,” Chiu said. “It would create a permanent generation of folks who have never lived anywhere else but are considered undocumented. And we’re talking about kids who would not be able to naturalize or obtain citizenship elsewhere because they’re born here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about casting an entire underclass of babies to lifelong immigration purgatory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie proclaimed March 28, 2025, as Wong Kim Ark Day in the city, while California Attorney General Rob Bonta mentioned Wong multiple times when he announced that the state \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-sues-trump-administration-over-unconstitutional\">would sue the federal government over Trump’s birthright executive order\u003c/a>. And earlier in March, state legislators — including Bay Area Reps. 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Congress originally passed the Fourteenth Amendment in response to the laws many Southern states instituted after the Civil War that severely restricted the rights of formerly enslaved Black Americans and their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so proud of this community, the Chinatown community, because Asian Americans have been in the fight for civil rights for a really long time,” Lee said. “And we don’t just do it for ourselves, we do it in collaboration with other communities of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Norman Wong, a San Francisco native like his great-grandfather, defending birthright citizenship is also about his father and \u003ca href=\"https://theamericanscholar.org/birthright-citizens-and-paper-sons/\">the family’s complex history\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late into his life, Norman Wong’s father was interviewed by local press and even taken to events on Angel Island where Wong Kim Ark was detained. His father started taking pride in the Wong Kim Ark story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He did these things without our knowledge,” Wong said. “I was well into my adulthood, probably middle-aged, before I ever heard the name Wong Kim Ark. My father didn’t talk about his past. It’s because my father had a very painful childhood when he came over [from China.]”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021919 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_JapaneseAmericanActivism_GC-47-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His father began sharing more with him and his wife, pulling out articles and talking about the reporters who visited him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents of our generation, it was different. You did what you were told, and you didn’t really ask questions,” Wong said. “Now, we have all these young people that wanna bring up these questions. I’d like to be part of this, [for] my grandchildren … I think it’s really important to know who your ancestors are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want my children and my grandchildren and their children to have a better life … I don’t see them having a better life in this country if everything turns draconian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the story equally involves his mother’s side. The Trump administration recently invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-el-salvador-immigration-dd4f61999f85c4dd8bcaba7d4fc7c9af\">detain and deport hundreds of immigrants\u003c/a> to El Salvador. The last time the act was used was 84 years ago, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. 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"content": "\u003cp>BAKERSFIELD — In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bakersfield\">Bakersfield\u003c/a> resident Elizabeth Ramirez’s mother broke three bones in a fall, leaving Ramirez with a new set of responsibilities: cooking and cleaning for her mom, bathing her and driving her to appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I was caregiving for her on top of my kids,” Ramirez said. “It was just a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few years of juggling, Ramirez became a registered care provider for her mother through the state’s In-Home Supportive Services, a program provided \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032878/gop-cuts-to-medicaid-snap-would-shrink-californias-economy-by-17-billion-and-kill-nearly-140000-jobs-new-study-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">through Medi-Cal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the work I put into making sure she’s safe and healthy, I get paid for it now,” Ramirez said. “It’s such a good support system that keeps people from drowning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No congressional seat in California relies more on Medi-Cal than the 22nd District, which follows Interstate 5 and Highway 99 as they stretch southeast from Avenal and Delano, through almond and pistachio orchards, to Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two-thirds of residents are enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, which provides health care to low-income residents, people with disabilities and those living in nursing homes or need of a personal caregiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11933948 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1245162773.jpg\" alt=\"oil pumps in a field\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1245162773.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1245162773-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1245162773-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-1245162773-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oil wells are seen at an oil facility by Interstate 5 near Bakersfield. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 22nd District is also experiencing an intense political shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2020, voters here supported Joe Biden over Donald Trump in the presidential election by a 55%-42% margin. In November, Trump won the 22nd District, 52%-46% over Kamala Harris. The 19-point shift between 2020 and 2024 was the largest in California, securing incumbent Rep. David Valadao a comfortable victory that helped the GOP maintain control of the House of Representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connie Conway, the chair of the Republican Party of Tulare County, said Trump drew support from new voters — enough to start a young Republicans chapter in the county — and disaffected Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I say this to people all the time, and I know because I’m a lifelong Central Valley girl, ‘We’re pretty conservative no matter what your party registration is,” Conway said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, Trump made his largest gains in districts like the 22nd — inland, working class, majority-Latino and, according to a KQED analysis, heavily reliant on Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not known for our excess wealth, at least in our part of the Central Valley. We’re just hard-working people that share a lot of the same values: family, faith,” Conway said. “I think in this past election, that really resonated with a lot of folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GOP Gains and Medi-Cal Enrollment\" aria-label=\"Scatter Plot\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-svLzI\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/svLzI/6/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"576\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Republicans in Congress are moving ahead with plans to slash the health care program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Republicans passed a budget resolution in February that set a goal of $2 trillion in spending cuts. It was the first step toward passing a budget that party leaders hope will include over $4.5 trillion in new spending and tax cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top Republicans ruled out reductions to Social Security, Medicare and defense, leaving Medicaid as the most expensive program on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The path to achieving the centerpiece of Trump’s legislative agenda could go straight through the pocketbooks of the voters who powered GOP progress in 2024. Cuts to Medicaid, which has enjoyed bipartisan support, could imperil representatives like Valadao and give \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032994/democrats-focus-their-message-on-gop-cuts-to-medicaid\">new life to Democrats\u003c/a> looking for ways to reverse their decline in California’s working class communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033446 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/DonaldTrump100DaysGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to say that there is an opportunity, since nothing good will come out of this budget, but the opportunity to clarify and define what we as a party are doing in this term of Trump is going to be critical,” said Orrin Evans, a Democratic strategist who has worked on multiple House campaigns in the state. “We have to be united in standing against this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED cross-referenced district-by-district Medicaid enrollment numbers from the UC Berkeley Labor Center with presidential vote totals from the 2020 and 2024 elections in each of the state’s 52 congressional districts, compiled by the California Target Book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 13 seats with the largest shift toward Trump in 2024 — the top quartile of districts — eight were among the top quartile in Medi-Cal reliance. Twelve of the 13 had Medi-Cal populations above the state average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Valadao voted for the budget resolution, he has expressed concerns for his constituents who benefit from Medi-Cal and said he would not vote for a final budget bill “that risks leaving them behind.” It’s unclear how the party would offset the costs of tax cuts without targeting Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing so could bring political risk for California Republicans beyond just vulnerable incumbents like Valadao. The GOP made \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025617/confronting-trump-gotten-harder-california-legislature\">significant inroads\u003c/a> in communities still represented by Democrats in Congress — in the Central Valley, Inland Empire and along the state’s southern border — which fueled Republican gains further down the ballot in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shifts reflect the acceleration of a yearslong \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011642/how-the-diploma-divide-is-reshaping-politics-in-a-key-california-house-race\">political realignment\u003c/a> along \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101908312/how-the-diploma-divide-polarizes-the-u-s-electorate\">educational lines\u003c/a>. During the Trump era, Democrats have gained ground in highly-educated suburban areas, such as coastal Orange and San Diego counties, and lost support in more working-class counties further inland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12010091 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1255046550-1-scaled-e1743452454384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican Rep. David Valadao of California’s 22nd Congressional District, pictured in 2022. \u003ccite>(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In November, Republicans scored \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016328/special-session-to-trump-proof-california-opens-in-sacramento\">two shocking victories\u003c/a> in state Assembly districts long held by Democrats in Imperial and Riverside counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao’s Bakersfield seat fits the profile of these areas in political transition. According to estimates from the U.S. Census’ American Community Survey, nearly 60% of the citizen voting-age population is Latino, the most of any district in California. Meanwhile, fewer than one in 10 residents over age 24 hold a college degree, the lowest share of any district in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That particular district, President Trump did far better than other Republican candidates had done at the top of the ticket,” said Tal Eslick, Valadao’s former chief of staff, on KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030830/could-gop-spending-cuts-cost-republicans-the-house\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “So I think this is an example of a district that’s changing, especially among, I would say, Hispanic males.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eslick and Conway attributed the GOP’s 2024 turnaround in the area to a mix of economic concerns, such as the cost of living, and social issues, including the debate over transgender rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can imagine a 70-year-old Hispanic female from Corcoran, I don’t think the trans issues or other issues like that resonated with her,” Eslick said. “I think [Democrats] lost many of those folks, and those folks went towards President Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s exactly in these areas of the state that the health care coverage provided by Medi-Cal is a lifeline for residents, said Scott Graves, budget director at the California Budget & Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the more rural areas of the state, in farming communities, they’re doing some pretty backbreaking jobs,” Graves said. “They’re not getting very well compensated for it, and they’re very unlikely to be offered a health coverage plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government covers roughly half of most Medicaid costs in California, splitting the expense with the state government. Under the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid expanded to cover Californians making up to 138% of the federal poverty level ($21,597 for a single adult in 2025), with the federal government covering 90% of the new costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12032710 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-16-KQED-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-16-KQED-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-16-KQED-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-16-KQED-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-16-KQED-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-16-KQED-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-16-KQED-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Ramirez outside the MLK Community Center in Bakersfield, where Rep. Ro Khanna held a town hall meeting on March 23, 2025, the first of three town hall events Khanna was set to hold in Republican-held congressional districts across the state. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Medi-Cal dollars are inextricably woven into the local economy in this part of the state. Kaweah Health Medical Center in Visalia is the largest hospital in Tulare County. It’s also the county’s largest employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital receives more than 30% of its revenue through Medi-Cal, according to Gary Herbst, Kaweah’s CEO, compared to less than 20% from private insurance. When Herbst first arrived at Kaweah in 1992, that ratio was reversed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herbst has begun planning for various scenarios of cuts to Medicaid. If the federal government were to lower its cost-sharing to 45% for both traditional and expansion Medi-Cal enrollees, the loss for Kaweah would be around $60 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we were to lose 50, 60 million dollars a year in Medi-Cal funding, then where would I cut? How many hundreds of people would I have to lay off? How many services would I have to close?” he said. “We’ve never faced losses of this magnitude.”[aside postID=news_12022068 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-536950177-1020x680.jpg']Doctors and nurses at Kaweah would still be required to provide emergency services to anyone who shows up at the hospital, regardless of their ability to pay. So the cuts could potentially come to services such as colonoscopy screenings, surgeries for hip and knee replacements or primary care visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not possible to cover a $50- to $60-million reduction in funding and say, ‘Oh, we’re just going to stop providing services to Medi-Cal patients,’” Herbst said. “We would literally be forced to close an entire service, probably multiple services, so it would affect all patients that are receiving those services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consequences appeared to be on Valadao’s mind when he spoke on the House floor before voting to advance the GOP budget framework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve heard from countless constituents who tell me the only way they can afford health care is through programs like Medicaid, and I will not support a final reconciliation bill that risks leaving them behind,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao said Congress is faced with “a historic opportunity to advance the key priorities of this administration.” By cutting spending, Congress would be able to extend crucial provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, such as the doubling of the standard deduction and the child tax credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Valadao spoke, Rep. Steve Scalise, the House Majority Leader, said California’s 22nd District “is going to have a very loud voice as this process moves forward.” He said Medicaid could be strengthened by weeding out “waste, fraud and abuse,” without providing details on where that exists in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11930872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11930872 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1231769719.jpg\" alt=\"A white man in a blue suit.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1231769719.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1231769719-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1231769719-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1231769719-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.) speaks during a news conference with other House Republican members on immigration in Washington in 2021. \u003ccite>(Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Valadao declined an interview for this story. Longtime allies such as Eslick and Conway were skeptical that Republicans in Congress would actually carry out large cuts to Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see a scenario in which Republicans, or for that matter any politician, go after an entitlement program that is pretty popular and obviously a key issue for a large swath of people,” Eslick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems impossible for Republicans to achieve their ambitious goals for cutting spending without touching Medicaid. The budget plan passed by the House called for $880 billion in cuts over the next 10 years from programs overseen by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Just $581 billion of spending \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-03/61235-Boyle-Pallone.pdf\">under the committee’s\u003c/a> jurisdiction is for programs other than Medicaid, according to the Congressional Budget Office.[aside postID=news_12032718 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-21-KQED-5-1020x680.jpg']Valadao is a political survivor, one of just two Republicans left in the House who voted to impeach Trump in 2021, but he’s not immune to the high-stakes politics of health care. In 2017, he voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. A year later, he lost his campaign for re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“David Valadao has a very clear choice: he can vote on behalf of his district or he can take another step towards a successful lobbying career which he will assume as soon as he is defeated,” said Evans, the Democratic strategist. “Voting for this draconian budget, there is no argument in how it would advance or help constituents in his district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another clue about Medicaid’s political potency lies in a little-noticed ballot measure passed in November by California voters. Proposition 35 extended a state tax on providers of health care plans and restricted the revenue to fund Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative passed overwhelmingly with 68% of the vote — outpacing other ballot measures with similar levels of bipartisan support — and it tallied 70% approval in those 13 seats that saw the largest shift toward Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dustin Corcoran, CEO of the California Medical Association, which represents physicians in the state, said Medicaid is often a blind spot for policymakers and elected officials, who typically receive health coverage on the private market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corcoran saw a different reality as he traveled the state as co-chair of the Proposition 35 campaign. One stop took him to the campus of the UC Merced, in the heart of the 13th Congressional District, which has the third-highest Medi-Cal population and fourth-largest shift toward Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He asked this icebreaker: Who knows what Medicaid is?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every hand went up,” Corcoran said. “Every single hand in the room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to say that there is an opportunity, since nothing good will come out of this budget, but the opportunity to clarify and define what we as a party are doing in this term of Trump is going to be critical,” said Orrin Evans, a Democratic strategist who has worked on multiple House campaigns in the state. “We have to be united in standing against this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED cross-referenced district-by-district Medicaid enrollment numbers from the UC Berkeley Labor Center with presidential vote totals from the 2020 and 2024 elections in each of the state’s 52 congressional districts, compiled by the California Target Book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 13 seats with the largest shift toward Trump in 2024 — the top quartile of districts — eight were among the top quartile in Medi-Cal reliance. Twelve of the 13 had Medi-Cal populations above the state average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Valadao voted for the budget resolution, he has expressed concerns for his constituents who benefit from Medi-Cal and said he would not vote for a final budget bill “that risks leaving them behind.” It’s unclear how the party would offset the costs of tax cuts without targeting Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing so could bring political risk for California Republicans beyond just vulnerable incumbents like Valadao. The GOP made \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025617/confronting-trump-gotten-harder-california-legislature\">significant inroads\u003c/a> in communities still represented by Democrats in Congress — in the Central Valley, Inland Empire and along the state’s southern border — which fueled Republican gains further down the ballot in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shifts reflect the acceleration of a yearslong \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011642/how-the-diploma-divide-is-reshaping-politics-in-a-key-california-house-race\">political realignment\u003c/a> along \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101908312/how-the-diploma-divide-polarizes-the-u-s-electorate\">educational lines\u003c/a>. During the Trump era, Democrats have gained ground in highly-educated suburban areas, such as coastal Orange and San Diego counties, and lost support in more working-class counties further inland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12010091 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1255046550-1-scaled-e1743452454384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican Rep. David Valadao of California’s 22nd Congressional District, pictured in 2022. \u003ccite>(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In November, Republicans scored \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016328/special-session-to-trump-proof-california-opens-in-sacramento\">two shocking victories\u003c/a> in state Assembly districts long held by Democrats in Imperial and Riverside counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao’s Bakersfield seat fits the profile of these areas in political transition. According to estimates from the U.S. Census’ American Community Survey, nearly 60% of the citizen voting-age population is Latino, the most of any district in California. Meanwhile, fewer than one in 10 residents over age 24 hold a college degree, the lowest share of any district in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That particular district, President Trump did far better than other Republican candidates had done at the top of the ticket,” said Tal Eslick, Valadao’s former chief of staff, on KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030830/could-gop-spending-cuts-cost-republicans-the-house\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “So I think this is an example of a district that’s changing, especially among, I would say, Hispanic males.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eslick and Conway attributed the GOP’s 2024 turnaround in the area to a mix of economic concerns, such as the cost of living, and social issues, including the debate over transgender rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can imagine a 70-year-old Hispanic female from Corcoran, I don’t think the trans issues or other issues like that resonated with her,” Eslick said. “I think [Democrats] lost many of those folks, and those folks went towards President Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s exactly in these areas of the state that the health care coverage provided by Medi-Cal is a lifeline for residents, said Scott Graves, budget director at the California Budget & Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the more rural areas of the state, in farming communities, they’re doing some pretty backbreaking jobs,” Graves said. “They’re not getting very well compensated for it, and they’re very unlikely to be offered a health coverage plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government covers roughly half of most Medicaid costs in California, splitting the expense with the state government. Under the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid expanded to cover Californians making up to 138% of the federal poverty level ($21,597 for a single adult in 2025), with the federal government covering 90% of the new costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12032710 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-16-KQED-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-16-KQED-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-16-KQED-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-16-KQED-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-16-KQED-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-16-KQED-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-16-KQED-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Ramirez outside the MLK Community Center in Bakersfield, where Rep. 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If the federal government were to lower its cost-sharing to 45% for both traditional and expansion Medi-Cal enrollees, the loss for Kaweah would be around $60 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we were to lose 50, 60 million dollars a year in Medi-Cal funding, then where would I cut? How many hundreds of people would I have to lay off? How many services would I have to close?” he said. “We’ve never faced losses of this magnitude.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Valadao is a political survivor, one of just two Republicans left in the House who voted to impeach Trump in 2021, but he’s not immune to the high-stakes politics of health care. In 2017, he voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. A year later, he lost his campaign for re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“David Valadao has a very clear choice: he can vote on behalf of his district or he can take another step towards a successful lobbying career which he will assume as soon as he is defeated,” said Evans, the Democratic strategist. “Voting for this draconian budget, there is no argument in how it would advance or help constituents in his district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another clue about Medicaid’s political potency lies in a little-noticed ballot measure passed in November by California voters. Proposition 35 extended a state tax on providers of health care plans and restricted the revenue to fund Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative passed overwhelmingly with 68% of the vote — outpacing other ballot measures with similar levels of bipartisan support — and it tallied 70% approval in those 13 seats that saw the largest shift toward Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dustin Corcoran, CEO of the California Medical Association, which represents physicians in the state, said Medicaid is often a blind spot for policymakers and elected officials, who typically receive health coverage on the private market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corcoran saw a different reality as he traveled the state as co-chair of the Proposition 35 campaign. One stop took him to the campus of the UC Merced, in the heart of the 13th Congressional District, which has the third-highest Medi-Cal population and fourth-largest shift toward Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He asked this icebreaker: Who knows what Medicaid is?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every hand went up,” Corcoran said. “Every single hand in the room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than 100 LGBTQ+ rights activists and community members marched in Kentfield, the Marin County community where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> recently purchased a new home, on Monday as part of International Transgender Day of Visibility, which highlights discrimination faced by trans people worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates are calling on state leaders to reaffirm their commitment to the transgender community following recent attacks from the Trump administration and Newsom. The governor split with fellow Democrats earlier this month, describing the party’s progressive politics as “toxic” and the participation of transgender athletes in female sports “deeply unfair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants held signs that read “Let Trans Kids Play” and “Do Better Newsom,” a reference to Newsom’s comments about the trans community on his new podcast. In a friendly interview with conservative talk show host Charlie Kirk in early March, Newsom appeared to agree with Kirk regarding the fairness of transgender athletes participating in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation frustrated state Democrats and LGBTQ advocacy groups who saw Newsom’s failure to push back as an acquiescence to conservative attacks on trans youth and athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033881\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents, children and supporters march to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s home in Kentfield in support of trans youth on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom “has been a huge ally and advocate for so many years,” said Sister Shalita Corndog, an activist with the nonprofit Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco’s famed drag troupe. “We are all just shocked and confused and devastated about what happened in his interview… wondering why he’s not more explicitly in favor of and supportive of people like us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a> passed an executive order seeking to bar transgender athletes from women’s athletics. Several conservative states, including Florida and Texas, already prohibit trans students from participating in teams that align with their gender identity, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026189/transgender-athletes-face-new-hurdles-as-ncaa-adopts-stricter-policy-citing-trump-order\">the NCAA changed its participation policy\u003c/a> to align with Trump’s directives shortly after it was passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when we are seeing legislators attempt to undermine everything from marriage equality to the existence of trans people to LGBTQ+ rights in the workplace, we need our allies to step up and speak out,” the Human Rights Campaign said in a statement. “This is not a moment to sit politely in the face of authoritarian bullies or throw people under the bus for political posturing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033886\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police in front of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s home in Kentfield on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Janna Barkin, an author and trans rights advocate who participated in Monday’s march, said Newsom has been at the forefront of the LGBTQ movement in California for decades, making his recent about-face even more disheartening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want our local representatives, our California representatives, to stand strong and make public statements, press conferences and letters to constituents stating that they’re unwavering in their commitment to the trans community and transgender rights,” Barkin said.[aside postID=news_12033501 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_SFBarber_GC-15_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, advocacy groups have worked with legislators to push for bills reaffirming the state’s support for the trans community, said Amy Wrena, an organizer with nonprofit Rainbow Families Action Group. Representatives such as state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) have introduced bills that would defend transgender workers from discrimination and protect trans access to health care, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We plan to celebrate and to show that trans people are here,” Barkin told KQED. “They’re beautiful parts of our community and we’re here to be joyful and celebratory and visible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The march to Newsom’s home ended in a dance party as Lady Gaga’s “Born this Way” and Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” played. The demonstration ended peacefully after law enforcement arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/dventon\">Danielle Venton\u003c/a> contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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In a friendly interview with conservative talk show host Charlie Kirk in early March, Newsom appeared to agree with Kirk regarding the fairness of transgender athletes participating in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation frustrated state Democrats and LGBTQ advocacy groups who saw Newsom’s failure to push back as an acquiescence to conservative attacks on trans youth and athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033881\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-02-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents, children and supporters march to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s home in Kentfield in support of trans youth on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom “has been a huge ally and advocate for so many years,” said Sister Shalita Corndog, an activist with the nonprofit Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco’s famed drag troupe. “We are all just shocked and confused and devastated about what happened in his interview… wondering why he’s not more explicitly in favor of and supportive of people like us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a> passed an executive order seeking to bar transgender athletes from women’s athletics. Several conservative states, including Florida and Texas, already prohibit trans students from participating in teams that align with their gender identity, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026189/transgender-athletes-face-new-hurdles-as-ncaa-adopts-stricter-policy-citing-trump-order\">the NCAA changed its participation policy\u003c/a> to align with Trump’s directives shortly after it was passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when we are seeing legislators attempt to undermine everything from marriage equality to the existence of trans people to LGBTQ+ rights in the workplace, we need our allies to step up and speak out,” the Human Rights Campaign said in a statement. “This is not a moment to sit politely in the face of authoritarian bullies or throw people under the bus for political posturing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033886\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250331-Trans-Newsom-Rally-AC-07-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police in front of Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/voting-elections-trump-executive-order-4e9edb53f47e61e241a43ceef8164022\">executive order\u003c/a> seeking to change \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/preserving-and-protecting-the-integrity-of-american-elections/\">how U.S. elections are run\u003c/a> is creating uncertainty for state and local election officials and worries about voter confusion before the next federal election, the 2026 midterms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Election officials were already dealing with the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/election-security-cisa-kristi-noem-cybersecurity-5bac8ce416c46b4fbe44c94ae5874b39\">loss of some cybersecurity assistance\u003c/a> from the federal government and now face the potential for \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-voting-executive-order-citizenship-proof-4bbcf7e13183d8c5004ceb0ca53c7845\">major changes\u003c/a> that include a new voter registration requirement, decertification of certain voting systems and stricter ballot deadlines for many states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Connecticut, Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas is hopeful that ballot scanners the state just bought for $20 million will be acceptable under the executive order, but she worries about other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like states have millions and millions of dollars that they can just upgrade their election equipment every couple of years,” said Thomas, a Democrat. “Imagine people purchased new equipment and now it no longer can be used. There is no remedy for that in the order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Trump’s order is \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-executive-order-elections-voting-constitution-8908477167fd65dc9cd485e1fde5b804\">likely to face legal challenges\u003c/a>, it’s unclear what will be required and when. That means more uncertainty for election officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no idea what the timeline is for things in the executive order,” said Joseph Kirk, who oversees elections in Bartow County, Georgia. “I really hope we have some clarity on some of this stuff soon because no matter what the answers are, I need to take care of my voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Order inserts the federal government into state election operations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the order Tuesday, Trump criticized the work of election officials across the country and praised how other nations conduct their elections. Trump has long questioned the integrity of U.S. elections, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/events-united-states-presidential-election-03fcd572e84b42a1bfeb5b6f503d9149\">falsely claiming after his White House win in 2016\u003c/a>, when the Republican won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton, that his support would have been higher if not for large numbers of noncitizens voting in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-2020-election-lies-debunked-4fc26546b07962fdbf9d66e739fbb50d?utm_source=RecoReel&utm_medium=articlePage&utm_id=Taboola\">continues to claim\u003c/a> his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden was the result of a “rigged” election. There is \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/voter-fraud-election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-7fcb6f134e528fee8237c7601db3328f\">no evidence of widespread fraud\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/top-officials-elections-most-secure-66f9361084ccbc461e3bbf42861057a5\">no evidence that voting systems were manipulated\u003c/a>, with multiple \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-election-2020-elections-government-and-politics-4b6643aa699480dc63cbce8555aac946\">reviews\u003c/a> in the states where Trump challenged the outcome confirming his loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11303920 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/GettyImages-633702748-1180x925.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years since, election officials in many parts of the U.S. have endured \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/election-workers-threats-2024-law-enforcement-d2702ae1e1e57c766c3df36f1a7ff763\">harassment and threats\u003c/a>, a barrage of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-georgia-presidential-florida-dfbe7f00418a35c70c9d53fa3a260111\">record requests\u003c/a> by groups skeptical of their work and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-austin-texas-voting-legislature-f6bca0efd177745538e0c08aca796fb0\">legislative changes\u003c/a> pushed by state lawmakers who argue new restrictions are necessary to restore public confidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s order, combined with recent decisions by his administration to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-election-security-fbi-cisa-foreign-interference-98f1e17c8a6d5923db945a27f06458e7\">pause certain cybersecurity work\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/election-security-cisa-trump-kristi-noem-6c437543f5d26d890704e5f2a8400502\">pull funding\u003c/a> for a dedicated information-sharing network for election offices, have prompted concern about the role of the federal government in elections moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“States run our elections, but the federal government has been an important partner in assisting election officials,” said Larry Norden, an election security expert with the Brennan Center for Justice. “To be a partner, you have to be trusted. You have to provide consistency and certainty. The last few months have utterly destroyed that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Concerns about requirement to prove US citizenship\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the major changes outlined in the executive order is a requirement for people to show documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when they register to vote. That is something Republicans in Congress \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/congress-voting-migrants-citizenship-elections-republicans-8056bde9ea64b13fd20985d56a6a0fde\">pushed last year at Trump’s urging\u003c/a>, but the effort stalled amid Democratic opposition in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/voting-congress-citizenship-voter-id-republicans-88342cf09d01b0555851aa3d64c45432\">plan to try again\u003c/a> with the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, known as the SAVE Act. A House committee is scheduled to discuss the bill on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the executive order, several Republicans who are top state election officials issued statements praising provisions that direct federal agencies to help states verify voter eligibility and citizenship. Their Democratic counterparts have been more critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voting rights groups are raising concerns about the citizenship requirement. They say millions of Americans do not have easy access to their birth certificates, only about half have U.S. passports, and married women would need multiple documents if they have changed their name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While voting by noncitizens does occur, it typically involves \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/noncitizens-voting-republicans-election-2024-immigration-09b86e6768f755fd875f3c51b0e8ea70\">a tiny fraction of ballots\u003c/a> and is more often \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/noncitizen-voting-republicans-prosecutions-2024-election-ohio-ae9dafeeb47ea8941bf82f5988b269ef\">an individual mistake\u003c/a> rather than an intentional and coordinated attempt to subvert an election. It also can lead to felony charges and deportation. Under Trump’s order, the burden would fall to election officials to implement this requirement. Experts say that would be expensive and there’s no additional federal money to help pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s creating an entirely new bureaucracy in every single state for the collection of that data, for the storage of that data, and for the retrieval of that data,” said David Becker, a former Justice Department lawyer who leads the Center for Election Innovation & Research. “You don’t wave a magic wand and do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931540\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11931540\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022.jpg\" alt=\"Voters seated at desks to vote.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voters fill the City Hall Voting Center in San Francisco on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Increasing risk of voter confusion\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kate Sweeney Bell, who oversees elections in Indiana’s Marion County, said she does not expect major problems in her state because it has restrictive voting laws that she says have resulted in some of the lowest voter turnout in the country. She worries, though, about the rest of the U.S. and the amount of public education that will be needed to ensure voters are aware of whatever changes are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel for every other state that doesn’t have the prohibitive laws that Indiana does, because it’s a rough couple of election cycles when changes like this are made,” Sweeney Bell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One challenge is the likelihood that protracted legal battles will delay clarity for both election officials and the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If election officials are uncertain about the rules, there is no doubt that voters will not understand them — creating distrust in the process and ultimately in the validity of the outcome,” said Ryan Macias, an election security and voting systems expert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncertainty comes as election officials are preparing for the 2026 elections. Dean Logan, who oversees elections in Los Angeles County, said running a successful election depends on extensive planning, a trained workforce and proper equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last-minute changes or unilateral mandates significantly increase the risk of voter confusion and operational inconsistencies and can erode voter confidence,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Order could lead to changes in voting machines, without paying for it\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump’s order also targets voting systems in a way that could require some counties to change machines without offering additional money to help them pay for it. 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You have to provide consistency and certainty. The last few months have utterly destroyed that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Concerns about requirement to prove US citizenship\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the major changes outlined in the executive order is a requirement for people to show documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when they register to vote. That is something Republicans in Congress \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/congress-voting-migrants-citizenship-elections-republicans-8056bde9ea64b13fd20985d56a6a0fde\">pushed last year at Trump’s urging\u003c/a>, but the effort stalled amid Democratic opposition in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/voting-congress-citizenship-voter-id-republicans-88342cf09d01b0555851aa3d64c45432\">plan to try again\u003c/a> with the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, known as the SAVE Act. A House committee is scheduled to discuss the bill on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the executive order, several Republicans who are top state election officials issued statements praising provisions that direct federal agencies to help states verify voter eligibility and citizenship. Their Democratic counterparts have been more critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voting rights groups are raising concerns about the citizenship requirement. They say millions of Americans do not have easy access to their birth certificates, only about half have U.S. passports, and married women would need multiple documents if they have changed their name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While voting by noncitizens does occur, it typically involves \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/noncitizens-voting-republicans-election-2024-immigration-09b86e6768f755fd875f3c51b0e8ea70\">a tiny fraction of ballots\u003c/a> and is more often \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/noncitizen-voting-republicans-prosecutions-2024-election-ohio-ae9dafeeb47ea8941bf82f5988b269ef\">an individual mistake\u003c/a> rather than an intentional and coordinated attempt to subvert an election. It also can lead to felony charges and deportation. Under Trump’s order, the burden would fall to election officials to implement this requirement. Experts say that would be expensive and there’s no additional federal money to help pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s creating an entirely new bureaucracy in every single state for the collection of that data, for the storage of that data, and for the retrieval of that data,” said David Becker, a former Justice Department lawyer who leads the Center for Election Innovation & Research. “You don’t wave a magic wand and do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931540\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11931540\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022.jpg\" alt=\"Voters seated at desks to vote.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voters fill the City Hall Voting Center in San Francisco on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Increasing risk of voter confusion\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kate Sweeney Bell, who oversees elections in Indiana’s Marion County, said she does not expect major problems in her state because it has restrictive voting laws that she says have resulted in some of the lowest voter turnout in the country. She worries, though, about the rest of the U.S. and the amount of public education that will be needed to ensure voters are aware of whatever changes are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel for every other state that doesn’t have the prohibitive laws that Indiana does, because it’s a rough couple of election cycles when changes like this are made,” Sweeney Bell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One challenge is the likelihood that protracted legal battles will delay clarity for both election officials and the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If election officials are uncertain about the rules, there is no doubt that voters will not understand them — creating distrust in the process and ultimately in the validity of the outcome,” said Ryan Macias, an election security and voting systems expert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncertainty comes as election officials are preparing for the 2026 elections. Dean Logan, who oversees elections in Los Angeles County, said running a successful election depends on extensive planning, a trained workforce and proper equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last-minute changes or unilateral mandates significantly increase the risk of voter confusion and operational inconsistencies and can erode voter confidence,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Order could lead to changes in voting machines, without paying for it\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump’s order also targets voting systems in a way that could require some counties to change machines without offering additional money to help them pay for it. It directs the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, an independent and bipartisan agency created by Congress, to amend voluntary standards for voting systems to prohibit devices that use a barcode or QR code on ballots, with an exception for ones designated for voters with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order calls for the commission within 180 days to review, re-certify where appropriate and rescind “all previous certifications of voting equipment based on prior standards.” Beyond the legality of the order, experts say federal law outlines specific procedures and public comment periods for updating the standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are voting systems that do not use barcodes, the process for states to replace equipment takes time, said Mark Lindeman, policy and strategy director with Verified Voting, which focuses on election technology. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:42 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland mayoral candidate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/loren-taylor\">Loren Taylor\u003c/a> distanced himself on Thursday from recent campaign ads that appeared to show fake news headlines from Bay Area news organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Chrisjonesmom17/status/1903085400211722291\">recent video ad\u003c/a> shows a woman in her kitchen contemplating similarities between former East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee, who is running for mayor of Oakland, and former Mayor Sheng Thao, who was indicted on bribery charges after being recalled last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point in the video, a news article appears with a \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/03/21/misleading-ads-fake-oaklandside-headline-oakland-mayor-race/\">design nearly identical\u003c/a> to \u003cem>The Oaklandside’s\u003c/em> website, featuring the headline: “Barbara Lee accused of hiding rental income for taxes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story isn’t real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An independent expenditure committee called Oakland Neighbors, Businesses & Public Safety Advocates for Loren Taylor for Mayor 2025 and against Barbara Lee paid for the ad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do agree that it’s misleading,” Taylor said about the ad. “I have been consistent relative to my campaign and those that I am directly engaged with, that we will run an honest, fact-based campaign. It’s important that we draw the contrast, we identify what the stakes are for Oaklanders, but doing that in a fact-based, data-driven way, and I encourage others to do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909352/oakland-mayoral-hopeful-loren-taylor-on-why-local-experience-matters\">made the comments on KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> on Thursday. He and Lee are the expected frontrunners in the April 15 special election to replace Thao. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032042/oakland-special-election-candidate-guide-and-how-to-vote\">Voting is already underway\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027698\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_02196-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Representative Barbara Lee addresses the room, as Loren Taylor (center) and Renia Webb observe, at a public forum hosted by Greenbelt Alliance, Housing Action Coalition and East Bay for Everyone, in downtown Oakland, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. All are running for mayor. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taylor also commented on Google Ads that his campaign purchased that linked to news articles and featured text that resembled headlines but didn’t match the headlines in the stories themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One version of an ad the campaign purchased read, “Lee’s Ties to Corruption — Lee’s Dirty Money Problem” and “Barbara Lee accepted $66k from a bribery-linked family — what else is she hiding?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users who clicked on the ad were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025747/barbara-lee-return-5000-donations-from-family-linked-oakland-bribery-scandal\">taken to a KQED story\u003c/a> with the headline, “Barbara Lee to Return $5,000 in Donations From Family Linked to Oakland Bribery Scandal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The advertisement is intended to direct people towards the actual source, not replace the headline,” Taylor said on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> when asked about the Google Ad. “We want to direct people towards that versus replacing, and so the actual article that’s there is what KQED produced and developed.”[aside postID=news_12021907 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250106-BarbaraLeeExitInterview-09-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ad appeared in Google search results for users in Oakland for 37 days in February and March, \u003ca href=\"https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR10257854853292228609/creative/CR12444605085177085953?region=US&topic=political\">according to Google’s Ads Transparency Center\u003c/a>, which discloses it was shown 9-10,000 times at a cost of $2,000-$2,500 to Taylor’s campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Friday, the \u003ca href=\"https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR10257854853292228609/creative/CR12444605085177085953?region=US&topic=political\">ad’s text had changed\u003c/a> to reflect the original KQED headline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got the response and we corrected — we no longer put that there,” Taylor said on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. “But that was not the intent. Our intent was to direct people towards KQED’s article, and that’s what the ads now sort of focus on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Taylor campaign ad that linked to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/16/barbara-lee-ron-dellums-oakland-mayor-00232049?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw7pO_BhAlEiwA4pMQvNUC6GPRiuFSdDKBcI_R-Bovu3hiDwGogRjvMTR6M_otjmPRBQ1TZxoCBPgQAvD_BwE\">a \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em> story\u003c/a> ran for at least five days in March. One version of the ad read, “\u003ca href=\"https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR10257854853292228609/creative/CR11515748725867675649?region=US&topic=political\">Barbara Lee is a Risky Gamble – Barbara Lee = Dellums 2.0?\u003c/a>,” referring to the late East Bay Rep. Ron Dellums, who also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021907/can-barbara-lee-avoid-mentors-missteps-run-oakland-mayor\">served as mayor of Oakland\u003c/a> after serving in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/lorenmtaylor/status/1903561920239874227/photo/2\">March 22 statement posted on the social media platform X\u003c/a>, Taylor said his campaign’s Google Ad linking to the KQED story did not replace its headline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every political campaign uses Google Ads to advertise. And Google Ads do not replace headlines but instead allow for captions similar to social media posts. Our caption is not meant to replace KQED’s headline — and there is no intention to misrepresent that to voters,” Taylor wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement went on: “If the design of Google’s advertising platform is causing confusion with KQED’s original headline, that should be taken up with Google,” he added. “Our campaign will continue to monitor to confirm if there’s actual confusion versus an overblown issue by supporters of Lee and adjust accordingly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033384\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00603_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00603_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00603_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00603_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00603_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00603_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00603_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loren Taylor takes notes ahead of a public forum hosted by Greenbelt Alliance, Housing Action Coalition and East Bay for Everyone in downtown Oakland, California, on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s campaign isn’t the only one purchasing Google ads and linking them to news sites to influence voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group called Supporters of Barbara Lee for Oakland Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR00300604778226909185/creative/CR06927962791693254657?region=US&topic=political\">began running an ad on Thursday\u003c/a> that read, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi5uvWdo6uMAxVjkcMCHRoBDbUQ0Qx6BAgAEAE\">EB Times: No on Loren Taylor” and “\u003c/a>We found that Loren Taylor is surprisingly unprepared in his campaign for Oakland Mayor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR00300604778226909185/creative/CR01537716987684192257?region=US&topic=political\">Another ad\u003c/a> included the text, “Loren Taylor has failed to build a coalition to govern effectively. No to Loren Taylor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both ads linked to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/22/editorial-oakland-elect-barbara-lee-mayor-charlene-wang-council/\">\u003cem>East Bay Times\u003c/em> editorial\u003c/a> endorsing Lee for mayor and Charlene Wang for Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate ad that appeared in Google search results for “Loren Taylor” on Friday displayed the text, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=DChcSEwi_2q7ZhK2MAxUVz8IEHa1oOUYYABABGgJwdg&co=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkZm_BhDrARIsAAEbX1GkaGvJ49uPfXsuzg4LYxfYoh9vzbe8HnMXZbbS6WRkTlJWpQPsQrAaAryTEALw_wcB&sig=AOD64_1xCmPoq60bu1Y0OIhZracvGnHnLA&q&adurl&ved=2ahUKEwizrqrZhK2MAxVBFjQIHa4iCQkQ0Qx6BAgWEAE&nis=7\">Loren Taylor Isn’t Change” and “\u003c/a>Vote No on Loren Taylor — Loren Taylor & Sheng Thao got us into this mess in the first place.”[aside postID=news_12032042 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/14772659073_f7e7f00d0a_k_qed-1020x765.jpg']The ad \u003ca href=\"https://notthechangeoaklandneeds.com/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkZm_BhDrARIsAAEbX1GbjLREGIl57dV5RW7Wxa4sq02liUnuHIY-JGAOdrZjRGogXpcxAYUaAjajEALw_wcB\">linked to a website\u003c/a> describing Taylor as an “ineffective city hall insider who got us into this mess in the first place.” The website disclosed it was paid for by an independent expenditure group, Supporters of Barbara Lee for Oakland Mayor 2025, A Coalition of Business, Labor and Public Safety Organizations for a Better Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mailers with similar messaging paid for by the same committee were recently sent out to Oakland voters. KQED contacted a law firm whose phone number is listed on the committee’s campaign finance filings but did not receive a response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Google spokesperson said that it’s common for advertisers to link to external websites, including news sites, in the text of their ad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ads in question are explicitly labeled as ‘Sponsored’ so that they’re easily distinguishable from Search results and they also include ‘paid for by’ disclosures so it’s clear to users who paid for them,” Michael Aciman, a company spokesperson, said in an email. “For this type of ad format, the advertiser provides the text in their ad and the ad also links to the original news article in full.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ads may have markers indicating that a campaign paid for them, but that doesn’t mean they’re not misleading, said Subramaniam Vincent, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/journalism-and-media-ethics/\">Journalism and Media Ethics program\u003c/a> at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Google user seeing the ad, he said, “may or may not notice that the headline on the KQED story and the framing and the thrust of the story and the findings in the story and the scope of the story are actually different from the conclusion in the campaign headline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Vincent said, misrepresentative ads are a reality of political campaigning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Misrepresentation is kind of the name of the game,” he said. “Politicians are engaged in making claims against their opponents because their speech is protected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The unit already had two vacant positions when President Trump ordered a federal hiring freeze on Jan. 20, which have not been filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This person’s doing the job by themselves, and our hands are kind of tied because of the hiring freeze,” said Dalton Behringer, the Bay Area office’s union steward for the National Weather Service Employees Organization. “There’s definitely a possibility of a degradation of service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people don’t even realize this job exists,” said Behringer, who is a meteorologist with the weather service’s Bay Area office but spoke to KQED after hours in his union capacity. “Ninety-five percent of the delays at San Francisco International Airport are actually due to the weather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meteorologists located at the weather service offices in Seattle, Washington, and Palmdale, California, are helping, but those teams are also short-staffed, Behringer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s order included a non-specific exemption for public safety jobs, which the White House has said includes air traffic controllers. However, it is not clear if the meteorologists who support them are also exempt. Behringer said he is not sure if the administration will fill the vacancies and is unsure who could authorize a hire; typically, regional managers would do so, but it would require approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meteorologist works with the air traffic controllers at a command center in Fremont. Their role is to provide real-time weather updates seven days a week, forecasting any turbulence from around 40,000 feet in the air down to the runway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029178 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/NOAAGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes issuing pre-shift briefings, weather advisories and coordinating with the weather service’s Aviation Weather Center. The work is similar to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s public-facing weather service located in Monterey. But the center’s forecasters are looking for threats to airplanes, thunderstorms, strong wind, volcanic ash and anything else that could affect flights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This information, compiled by looking at local weather observations and satellite imagery, is vital for safely landing the around 1.2 million passenger flights and 140,000 cargo flights that travel to the region each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meteorologists from this office provide guidance to jets flying west from places like Nevada, north from Southern California, east as they approach from Asia and south as they draw near from Alaska, Behringer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aspects of the job are quite hidden,” Behringer said. “If you’re on a flight and everything went smoothly, you can thank the air traffic controllers, but a meteorologist was feeding them the information, and in this case, the sole meteorologist there at the Oakland Center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mineta International Airport officials said they “aren’t in a position to provide feedback” on the situation. San Francisco International Airport press officers did not respond to KQED’s interview request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the Oakland International Airport said in a statement that it “relies upon its partners for flight traffic direction and weather data” and referred KQED to the Federal Aviation Administration for further comment. The FAA directed questions to NOAA.[aside postID=forum_2010101909160 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/03/GettyImages-2203084546-noaa-1020x574.jpg']Scott Smullen, NOAA’s deputy director of communications, would not speculate if the hiring freeze could impact its service to the region. “Per long-standing practice, we are not discussing internal personnel and management matters,” Smullen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the agency remains dedicated to its mission of “providing timely information, research, and resources that serve the American public and ensure our nation’s environmental and economic resilience.” He added agency staff will “continue to provide weather information, forecasts and warnings pursuant to our public safety mission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/aviation/cwsu\">21 of these weather service units nationwide\u003c/a> who work alongside air traffic controllers. 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The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030313/uc-berkeley-scientists-protest-trump-administrations-cuts-to-research-funding\">preliminary injunction was extended\u003c/a> earlier this month after Rhode Island U.S. District Court Judge John McConnell declared the cuts unsupported by any constitutional authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-20-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-20-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-20-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-20-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-20-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-20-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-20-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener speaks during a press conference in Union Square, San Francisco, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the judge’s order, some research funding freezes have continued unobstructed through the Trump administration’s use of procedural loopholes prohibiting health officials from giving public notice of grant review meetings, a required step before funding can be disbursed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the NIH — the largest research funding institution in the world — allocated over $30 billion in grants to research projects. The University of California system said it received roughly $2.6 billion in NIH research funding. Wiener said cuts, including those to research that touches on diversity, equity and inclusion, would be a major setback for scientific development.[aside postID=news_12032892 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250310-TRUMP-SF-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“In California, we should be supporting scientific research around diverse communities,” said Wiener, who is widely thought to be a contender for Sen. Nancy Pelosi’s House seat in the midterms. “But to be clear, what Trump and Musk are doing is way broader than that. They’re upending all scientific research, DEI and otherwise, and so we need to do what we can to enhance our science research capacity here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Institute of Scientific Research would fill the void caused by federal funding cuts, Wiener said. The agency would support state institutions and researchers conducting studies in areas including, but not limited to, biomedicine, climate, coastal and marine ecosystems and disease prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would also direct CalRX, a state program that produces and distributes prescription drugs such as generic insulin, to partner with other agencies to improve vaccine accessibility for Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s local public health departments are already reckoning with a measles outbreak, with over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033049/san-mateo-county-measles-case-highlights-risk-for-unvaccinated-expert-sayshttps:/www.kqed.org/news/12033049/san-mateo-county-measles-case-highlights-risk-for-unvaccinated-expert-says\">300 confirmed measles cases\u003c/a> this year. Many experts are attributing the rise in infections to lower vaccination rates in school-age children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy and other health officials have already begun proposing alternatives to traditional vaccinations when it comes to dealing with diseases such as measles. While Kennedy has said the measles vaccine is effective at protecting children from the disease, he also suggested in an op-ed for Fox News that improved nutrition and vitamin intake is the “best defense” against infectious illnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033385\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A syringe is filled with a dose of the Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site inside Reuther Hall at Forty Acres on March 13, 2021, in Delano, California. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. 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If Trump is successful in pushing forth sweeping cuts to critical state programs such as MediCaid, California could face a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032878/gop-cuts-to-medicaid-snap-would-shrink-californias-economy-by-17-billion-and-kill-nearly-140000-jobs-new-study-finds\">severe budget deficit\u003c/a>, Wiener said, adding that state leaders are looking for ways to prepare for the worst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Scientific research is a crucial pillar of California’s economy and of our success, and we should never lose sight of that,” he said. “We’re all nervous. We are all scared…It’s paralyzing the level of harm that [the Trump administration] is doing. We need to all take a deep breath and focus on what we as individuals or as leaders can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/skennedy\">\u003cem>Samantha Kennedy\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The agency would support state institutions and researchers conducting studies in areas including, but not limited to, biomedicine, climate, coastal and marine ecosystems and disease prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would also direct CalRX, a state program that produces and distributes prescription drugs such as generic insulin, to partner with other agencies to improve vaccine accessibility for Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s local public health departments are already reckoning with a measles outbreak, with over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033049/san-mateo-county-measles-case-highlights-risk-for-unvaccinated-expert-sayshttps:/www.kqed.org/news/12033049/san-mateo-county-measles-case-highlights-risk-for-unvaccinated-expert-says\">300 confirmed measles cases\u003c/a> this year. Many experts are attributing the rise in infections to lower vaccination rates in school-age children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy and other health officials have already begun proposing alternatives to traditional vaccinations when it comes to dealing with diseases such as measles. While Kennedy has said the measles vaccine is effective at protecting children from the disease, he also suggested in an op-ed for Fox News that improved nutrition and vitamin intake is the “best defense” against infectious illnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033385\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1231697879_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A syringe is filled with a dose of the Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site inside Reuther Hall at Forty Acres on March 13, 2021, in Delano, California. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. 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