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The Biden administration, in its final months, moved to lift that ban, but federal officials on Thursday delayed the change a day before it was set to take effect — and some in Indian Country say they’re holding their breath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re living in somewhat unprecedented times of pushing the boundary of executive authority over a variety of things,” Elizabeth Reese, a Stanford Law School professor and citizen of the Nambé Pueblo, told KQED before the rule change was delayed. “I think we’re all watching to see if the [Trump] administration continues the Biden administration policy on lifting that ban for re-petitioning and know that this is something that a lot of tribes are watching for — and that it means a lot to them to be able to re-petition their federal recognition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, officials under President Trump have not given any indication whether they will ultimately keep the rule change, but the Bureau of Indian Affairs published \u003ca href=\"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-02558.pdf\">a document (PDF)\u003c/a> on Thursday in the Federal Register that delayed lifting the ban on re-petitioning until March 21 while the Trump administration reviews it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal recognition designates a tribe as a sovereign nation and gives it access to federal resources it wouldn’t otherwise be eligible for. Petitioning, an administrative process within the Department of the Interior’s Office of Federal Acknowledgement, is the most common of the few ways tribes can presently get recognition — including through a congressional act and a federal court ruling — but it’s also notoriously lengthy and complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tribes can wait years before their petitions are denied, exhausting appeals, and then — since explicitly being banned in 1994 — being left with no way to petition again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s been the case for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101889209/east-bay-ohlone-tribes-struggle-for-federal-recognition\">the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, which was denied in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chairwoman Charlene Nijmeh said deciding to re-petition is not so simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11957424 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stand in the shadows. 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That was until a 2020 federal court ruling found that the Department of the Interior’s reasons for implementing the ban were “arbitrary and capricious,” leading the Interior Department to reconsider the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muwekma would be one of more than 30 tribes, including four in California, that would be able to re-petition for recognition if the rule change goes into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bureau of Indian Affairs Director Bryan Mercier, in Thursday’s Federal Register document, said the rule change was delayed because of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/regulatory-freeze-pending-review/\">Trump memo on a “regulatory freeze”\u003c/a> issued on his first day in office, requiring all executive agencies and departments to consider postponing final rules 60 days from its effective date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether to allow re-petitioning is a policy determination that falls within the scope of ‘the management of all Indian affairs,’ and the new administration needs time to review the policy determination, consistent with the direction set forth in the [presidential memo],” Mercier wrote in the document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from the Department of the Interior and Bureau of Indian Affairs did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12010054 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1322038432.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the Trump administration has not given any indication whether it will keep the rule change or otherwise delay it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the process was created in 1978, only 18 of the country’s 574 federally recognized tribes have gained recognition through petitioning. Most came through signing treaties — an option that is no longer available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pamunkey Indian Tribe in Virginia most recently received acknowledgment through the process in 2016. President Donald Trump also signed an executive order on one of his first days asking the Department of the Interior to create a plan for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/25/g-s1-44677/lumbee-tribe-recognition-north-carolina-trump\">recognizing the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina\u003c/a>, which has long sought the designation but has faced pushback from other tribes over the legitimacy of its claim to Native identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the re-petitioning rule change does eventually take effect, Reese, the Stanford law professor, said the Trump administration’s attempts to slash government bureaucracy won’t likely help the complicated federal recognition process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, questions over the administration’s attempts to freeze federal funding and eliminate diversity initiatives stirred uncertainty among tribal leaders. 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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was banned from all tribal lands in her home state of South Dakota until one tribe \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kristi-noem-tribal-ban-south-dakota-e6d39081a38ff9961400a582c3153ee3\">lifted its order\u003c/a> days before her confirmation hearing. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s nominee to lead the Health and Human Services Department, was endorsed by some tribal nations during his failed presidential campaign and candidacy for the Cabinet post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese said some of Trump’s policies actually align with Indian Country needs. Shrinking the size of the federal government, for example, “actually does need to happen in Indian Country,” she said, and giving “more freedom and flexibility to tribes in how they spend federal dollars is good policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concern is that the dollars themselves are still incredibly vital,” she continued. “I worry that in cutting inefficient bureaucracies, Trump will go beyond that and cut what he thinks are unnecessary programs that are, in fact, very necessary to the health and safety of Native people across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Muwekma, tribal leaders have since turned to trying to gain recognition through an act of Congress, with Nijmeh even unsuccessfully running for a South Bay seat in last year’s March primary. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Feb. 13: This story was updated to reflect the news that the rule change was being delayed while the Trump administration reviews it.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/native-american\"> Native American\u003c/a> tribes that unsuccessfully petitioned for federal recognition have been barred from trying again. The Biden administration, in its final months, moved to lift that ban, but federal officials on Thursday delayed the change a day before it was set to take effect — and some in Indian Country say they’re holding their breath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re living in somewhat unprecedented times of pushing the boundary of executive authority over a variety of things,” Elizabeth Reese, a Stanford Law School professor and citizen of the Nambé Pueblo, told KQED before the rule change was delayed. “I think we’re all watching to see if the [Trump] administration continues the Biden administration policy on lifting that ban for re-petitioning and know that this is something that a lot of tribes are watching for — and that it means a lot to them to be able to re-petition their federal recognition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, officials under President Trump have not given any indication whether they will ultimately keep the rule change, but the Bureau of Indian Affairs published \u003ca href=\"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-02558.pdf\">a document (PDF)\u003c/a> on Thursday in the Federal Register that delayed lifting the ban on re-petitioning until March 21 while the Trump administration reviews it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal recognition designates a tribe as a sovereign nation and gives it access to federal resources it wouldn’t otherwise be eligible for. Petitioning, an administrative process within the Department of the Interior’s Office of Federal Acknowledgement, is the most common of the few ways tribes can presently get recognition — including through a congressional act and a federal court ruling — but it’s also notoriously lengthy and complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tribes can wait years before their petitions are denied, exhausting appeals, and then — since explicitly being banned in 1994 — being left with no way to petition again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s been the case for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101889209/east-bay-ohlone-tribes-struggle-for-federal-recognition\">the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, which was denied in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chairwoman Charlene Nijmeh said deciding to re-petition is not so simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11957424 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stand in the shadows. Her face and body are illuminated by a spotlight. She has long, brown hair and wears a blue and tan-print jacket and jeans. She looks somber.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlene Nijmeh, chair of the Muwekma Ohlone tribe in the Bay Area, stands for a portrait next to Strawberry Creek in Berkeley, California, on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. The East Bay Ohlone tribe has long struggled for federal recognition. \u003ccite>(Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a promise,” she said. “The question I have is: Are these the same people — which I know they are in the [Interior Department’s] Office of Federal Acknowledgement — are those the same people determining our petition again, who determined it the first time when they gave us the denial?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean Nijmeh is opposed to removing the ban on re-petitioning, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long, the recognition process has been broken and has led to deeply unjust determinations that are not rooted in fairness or even the public interest,” Nijmeh wrote in a letter to Bureau of Indian Affairs administrators ahead of the change that she shared with KQED. “This rule change will make just a little bit fairer, creating a narrow window for justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another attempt to do away with the ban in a 2015 final rule failed. That was until a 2020 federal court ruling found that the Department of the Interior’s reasons for implementing the ban were “arbitrary and capricious,” leading the Interior Department to reconsider the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muwekma would be one of more than 30 tribes, including four in California, that would be able to re-petition for recognition if the rule change goes into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bureau of Indian Affairs Director Bryan Mercier, in Thursday’s Federal Register document, said the rule change was delayed because of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/regulatory-freeze-pending-review/\">Trump memo on a “regulatory freeze”\u003c/a> issued on his first day in office, requiring all executive agencies and departments to consider postponing final rules 60 days from its effective date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether to allow re-petitioning is a policy determination that falls within the scope of ‘the management of all Indian affairs,’ and the new administration needs time to review the policy determination, consistent with the direction set forth in the [presidential memo],” Mercier wrote in the document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from the Department of the Interior and Bureau of Indian Affairs did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the Trump administration has not given any indication whether it will keep the rule change or otherwise delay it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the process was created in 1978, only 18 of the country’s 574 federally recognized tribes have gained recognition through petitioning. Most came through signing treaties — an option that is no longer available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pamunkey Indian Tribe in Virginia most recently received acknowledgment through the process in 2016. President Donald Trump also signed an executive order on one of his first days asking the Department of the Interior to create a plan for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/25/g-s1-44677/lumbee-tribe-recognition-north-carolina-trump\">recognizing the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina\u003c/a>, which has long sought the designation but has faced pushback from other tribes over the legitimacy of its claim to Native identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the re-petitioning rule change does eventually take effect, Reese, the Stanford law professor, said the Trump administration’s attempts to slash government bureaucracy won’t likely help the complicated federal recognition process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, questions over the administration’s attempts to freeze federal funding and eliminate diversity initiatives stirred uncertainty among tribal leaders. Last month, however, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum signed an order that excludes tribal nations from Trump’s directives targeting “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Gender Ideology Extremism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026280\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/AP25016621783047-1-1-scaled-e1738972969977.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Gov. Doug Burgum, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Interior Department as Secretary of the Interior, testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matthew Campbell, deputy director of the Native American Rights Fund and member of the Native Village of Gambell, said it’s still too early to see how Burgum might lead the Department of the Interior, which houses the Bureau of Indian Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important that we always remind the administration of the important relationships that tribal nations have with the United States and the unique history and political nature of that relationship,” Campbell said, “and the unique obligation that the United States has to consult with tribal nations before they take action that may harm or affect tribes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s new leadership has a variety of relationships with Indian Country. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was banned from all tribal lands in her home state of South Dakota until one tribe \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kristi-noem-tribal-ban-south-dakota-e6d39081a38ff9961400a582c3153ee3\">lifted its order\u003c/a> days before her confirmation hearing. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s nominee to lead the Health and Human Services Department, was endorsed by some tribal nations during his failed presidential campaign and candidacy for the Cabinet post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese said some of Trump’s policies actually align with Indian Country needs. Shrinking the size of the federal government, for example, “actually does need to happen in Indian Country,” she said, and giving “more freedom and flexibility to tribes in how they spend federal dollars is good policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concern is that the dollars themselves are still incredibly vital,” she continued. “I worry that in cutting inefficient bureaucracies, Trump will go beyond that and cut what he thinks are unnecessary programs that are, in fact, very necessary to the health and safety of Native people across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Muwekma, tribal leaders have since turned to trying to gain recognition through an act of Congress, with Nijmeh even unsuccessfully running for a South Bay seat in last year’s March primary. Pushback, including from federally recognized tribes, has stalled their efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the pushback from lawmakers centered on concerns about tribal gaming in the Bay Area and keeping the recognition process fair for all tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because other members of the Bay Area congressional delegation share my concerns about gaming, the Tribe’s decision has left us at an impasse,” former Rep. Anna Eshoo wrote in an Aug. 22 letter to the San José City Council, “and prevented us from engaging constructively on the complex underlying issue of whether legislative recognition should be pursued at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who Nijmeh ran against in that March primary, also called a San José City Council resolution urging congressional action “misleading.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nijmeh told KQED that building a casino is not why the Muwekma want federal recognition, but they also don’t want to give up that right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is our right, as a sovereign, to use that economic tool if we choose to do it. And that is the word: ‘choose,’” Nijmeh said. “Our current administration is not looking at that right now. We’re focusing on keeping our 614 tribal citizens in our homeland, being able to buy or acquire land to build our native village, to keep our children here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution in San José ultimately died. A similar Richmond City Council resolution to support the tribe’s bid — brought forward by former Councilmember Gayle McLaughlin, who told KQED ahead of the vote that she had no worries about gaming — was postponed indefinitely last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to opposition to the tribe’s efforts, Nijmeh said the tribe’s spirit “will never die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I pray this time it will be different,” Nijmeh said in that letter to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. “But either way, Muwekma Ohlone is a Sovereign Nation, and we will continue to be one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland representatives promised to look under “every couch cushion” for firefighting funds after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">station closures last month\u003c/a>. Now, three say they’ve found the money and are proposing a plan to prevent more shutdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Oakland’s city administrator shuttered two firehouses to cut costs, warning that four more would follow this month without new funding. The city faces a $130 million budget deficit, worsened by the stalled Coliseum sale, a key piece of its budget plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Council members have asked finance in the past, help us find every last penny, but ultimately, it’s up to us to really do the digging and find every penny, which has been the case here,” said Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, who represents part of the fire-prone Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran, along with Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan and Zac Unger, are asking the whole council to redirect $8.75 million to the fire department. “That would be enough to prevent the closure of four stations and be able to hopefully reopen two more at some point before the end of the fiscal year,” said Ramachandran, noting that there wasn’t a timeline for reopening the stations in Grass Valley and Woodminster yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was one of the harshest critics of Oakland’s July budget, which included a controversial provision that would drastically slash spending and shift most fiscal powers to budget staff if the city’s deal to sell its 50% stake in the Coliseum didn’t go according to plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026399\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland councilmember, Janani Ramachandran, right, addresses a crowd, as Representative Barbara Lee looks on at the grand opening of of the Barbara Lee Campaign Headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the budget passed, the Coliseum deal quickly — and quietly — shifted. Initially, the local developers, the African American Sports and Entertainment Group, and former Mayor Sheng Thao revised the contract to delay payments and shorten the closing time. But last fall, AASEG fell behind on payments while negotiating a second deal with the Oakland A’s for its stake in the property. That agreement requires a complicated county approval process, which has been slow and unstable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay triggered the contingency budget, and Budget Administrator Bradley Johnson announced in November that without immediate and drastic changes, the city could run out of money. Since public safety accounts for the bulk of the city’s overspending, police and fire departments had to be part of the budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a significant pre-existing structural issue as an organization,” Johnson said at a council meeting. “To maintain our solvency, now is the time that we have to take action to solve it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11893199 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52109_6217605359_e609311dd5_o-qut-1020x670.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021911/oakland-hills-burned-before-la-fires-have-many-terrified-it-will-happen-again\">Residents in the Oakland Hills\u003c/a>, near the two shuttered stations, spent January watching the destructive Los Angeles blazes and worrying about their own city’s ability to respond if a fast-moving fire started in their neighborhoods, which have been ravaged by fire before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire union president Seth Olyer said that without the two stations operating, response times have been longer and resources spread thin. In January, a house fire near a closed station took crews more than 10 minutes to respond to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called the loss of four more stations unsustainable and unprecedented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This would take us from a fire department that prides itself on being able to keep small incidents small and prevent the spread of fire to really almost being spectators as we do our absolute best to try and keep fires contained to the city block they originated,” Olyer told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am definitely singing the praises of Councilmembers Kaplan and Ramachandran for their efforts to try and come together and find these funds,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021175\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station No. 25 on Jan. 5, 2025, located on Butters Drive in the East Oakland Hills. It’s one of two stations scheduled to close until June. The closure is part of the city’s effort to confront its $129 million budget deficit. In 2023, Fire Station 25 responded to 834 calls. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He previously said that thanks to Kaplan, the city had identified revenue from events at the Oakland Arena and Coliseum to stave off the additional closures for another month. “But, again, the fact remains that there are still miles and miles of the Oakland Hills where Oaklanders are unprotected from fire and [emergency services] needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The councilmembers’ resolution would pull more than $2.5 million in unexpected revenue from events at the Coliseum and Oakland Arena and about the same amount from the city’s self-insurance liability fund. It also proposes using about $1 million in transportation dollars, and some revenue from increased parking enforcement and a toll contract, according to Ramachandran.[aside postID=news_12025747 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00457-1020x680.jpg']The resolution was approved by the Rules and Legislation committee on Thursday morning, though a key aspect — rescinding the city administrator’s expanded fiscal powers — was removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That power we’re expressly trying to take back to council because our powers are budget and legislation,” Ramachandran told KQED before the vote. Some of the staff’s budget decisions, especially around public safety, have been unpopular with public and council representatives. “What we’re seeing is a whole lot of cut, cut, cut to different programs and services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amended resolution, which Ramachandran feels confident will have strong support, is slated to go before the whole board on March 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it doesn’t pass, the four additional closures could take effect as soon as next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number one thing that we have been hearing from the public every single day since the closure of these fire stations has been, ‘Save our stations, reopen and keep open some of the bread and butter of public safety,’” she told KQED. “It’s been an issue that’s united Oaklanders perhaps more than any other that I’ve seen during my time as a council member so far, and the message is extremely loud and clear that we cannot afford to lose homes, lose lives, lose businesses, lose anything due to fires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Its next hearing is scheduled for Feb. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy announced by the National Institutes of Health would set a 15% cap on overhead reimbursements going to research institutions. The money, also referred to as indirect cost reimbursements, is used by grantees to cover non-research-related costs such as waste management and electricity. Previously, reimbursement rates were determined through negotiations between the NIH and individual research institutions, and it is still unclear whether the agency has the legal authority to do away with those regulatory procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research institutions in California rely on federal funding to offset operating costs, and the NIH provides a significant portion of those federal grants, according to a press release issued by Bonta’s office. The University of California, for example, received over $2 billion in contract and grant funding in the last academic year. If the NIH’s new policy goes into effect, the university could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in annual funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12025963 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-11-BL-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These time-honored University partnerships have led to some of the most powerful and impactful research discoveries in human history,” the UC Office of the President said in a statement on Monday. “Life-saving treatments for cancer, diabetes, heart attacks, and strokes, including in children, and new technologies and industries that translate into hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs are all at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University administration also expressed concerns about what the NIH’s indirect funding cap could mean for its research initiatives. 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Barbara Lee speaks to the crowd as Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, right, addresses the room at the grand opening of her campaign headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the past two decades, the Duongs have been prolific donors to political campaigns and elected officials at the local, state and federal levels. Some politicians have returned those donations as an FBI investigation involving the Duongs has come into focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal campaign finance data show that since 1998, David Duong, Andy Duong and other members of the Duong family have contributed at least $66,250 to Lee. Most recently, David Duong contributed $5,000 to Lee’s unsuccessful run for Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As for the $5000 donated to her senate campaign in 2023, Barbara Lee is donating that to Meals on Wheels,” Mesfin said in a follow-up email on Feb. 7, hours before Lee’s campaign launch in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a room full of supporters at her new campaign headquarters on Saturday, Lee spoke of regaining public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to make sure that all of the issues around ethics and transparency, the gaps are closed in this city. Because we have to restore trust and confidence with our residents,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the citys contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Campaign finance records released so far do not show Lee has received donations from the Duongs during her run for mayor, and the past donations themselves are not an indication of wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that the Duongs are long-standing donors to Lee, often giving at the maximum allowed,” said Brendan Glavin, director of insights at OpenSecrets, which tracks money in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glavin reviewed campaign finance data for Barbara Lee’s political campaigns since 1998 at KQED’s request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal election finance documents show that Lee’s congressional campaign committee was \u003ca href=\"https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/389/202411050300227389/202411050300227389.pdf\">terminated as of November\u003c/a>. However, a committee for Lee’s Senate run, which remains open, had $48,791.98 cash on hand and $91,035.13 in debts as of Dec. 31, according to the most recent data available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors allege that David and Andy Duong financed negative political mailers targeting Thao’s opponents in the 2022 mayoral election and that following the election, the Duongs and a person identified as “co-conspirator 1” paid $95,000 to Jones for a no-show job. The unnamed co-conspirator appears to be local businessman and political operative Mario Juarez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022840\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Jones, longtime partner of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, leaves the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In exchange, Thao allegedly promised to extend the Duongs’ recycling company’s contract with the city, give the Duongs and the co-conspirator influence over city appointments and use public money to purchase housing units from another company owned by the Duongs and the co-conspirator, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/lorenmtaylor/status/1887565988570513462\">post on social media platform X on Thursday\u003c/a>, former Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor, one of Lee’s opponents in the mayor’s race, said the scandal had caused the public to lose trust in Oakland city government and pressed Lee to return the donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m calling on all East Bay officials — including my opponent in the upcoming special election, Former Congresswoman Barbara Lee — who have received money from the Duong family to donate those funds to charity,” Taylor said. “We must demonstrate to residents that we have learned from these events and that the public can trust us to lead Oakland during the difficult time that lies ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to campaign finance records, the Duongs have donated to politicians at almost every level of government for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State campaign finance data show members of the family have contributed often to big-name Democrats like Rob and Mia Bonta, Jerry Brown and Kamala Harris, while David Duong has donated to both Democrats and Republicans at the federal level, including $250,000 to a committee called Trump Victory in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Rep. Barbara Lee, center right, receives a welcome hug from Oakland District 4 Councilmember Janani Ramachandran at the grand opening of the Barbara Lee Campaign Headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2021, California’s Fair Political Practices Commission produced a report in support of a finding of probable cause alleging that Andy Duong, between at least 2016 and 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991426/oakland-fbi-raids-also-targeted-this-powerful-family-heres-what-we-know\">orchestrated an elaborate campaign contribution laundering scheme\u003c/a> for the benefit of California Waste Solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report describes how Duong allegedly sought out people to write campaign contribution checks and then reimbursed them with cash to bypass campaign donation limits while CWS had ongoing business with Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, Duong allegedly provided committees and candidates with checks at campaign fundraisers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While Duong and CWS concealed the true source of the contributions, Duong ensured the targeted candidates were aware of his commitment to raise money for their campaign by attending candidate fundraisers, bringing individuals to campaign fundraisers, and at times hosting campaign fundraisers,” the report reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is still open and under investigation, a spokesperson for FPPC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campaign door hangers are on display at the grand opening of the headquarters for the Barbara Lee campaign headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was opened as a joint investigation with the Oakland Public Ethics Commission, which the FBI credited at a January press conference for the initial information that led to the agency’s multiyear investigation of Thao, Jones and the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, after the FBI raided Thao’s home and three addresses associated with the Duongs and their business, several elected officials returned donations they received from the Duongs, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta returned $155,100 “out of an abundance of caution,” according to then-spokesperson Nathan Click.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Bay Congressman Ro Khanna donated $5,800 in contributions from the Duongs to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action, Maitri and Community Seva, a spokesperson for the congressman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022900 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00001-1020x681.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for then-Senate candidate Adam Schiff’s campaign \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/silicon-valley-san-jose-politicians-give-back-donations-following-fbi-raids-david-duong-california-waste-solutions/\">told the \u003cem>San José Spotlight\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last year that “following public news reports, the campaign will be giving $26,000 — the total contributions received from Mr. Duong and his family — to a local nonprofit helping address housing and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s review of campaign finance records at the city, state and federal level did not uncover documentation of other candidates in the current Oakland mayors’ race receiving donations from the Duongs in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that almost anyone else in local politics who wants to reassure their constituents that they are clean and above board should consider doing the same thing,” said Dan Schnur, professor of political communication at USC and UC Berkeley and the former chair of California’s Fair Political Practices Commission. “It sounds like the Lee campaign decided that avoiding unnecessary bad publicity is more valuable than the $5,000. That is a wise decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous photos posted to Andy Duong’s Instagram account show him posing with major Democratic politicians at the state and federal level, including Hillary Clinton, Rob Bonta, Harris and Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Taylor and Lee also appear in photos posted to the account. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BsXKPmcAvGN/?img_index=3\">Jan. 7, 2019 post\u003c/a>, Thao, Taylor and former Oakland City Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas, now an Alameda County supervisor, appear in selfies with Andy Duong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was when the three of us — Nikki Bas, myself and Sheng Thao — were inaugurated. That was when we were first sworn into office as new council members,” Taylor said. “So there was a lot of photos being taken with a lot of people that I didn’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said that after Bonta returned donations from the Duongs, his staff reviewed their campaign financial records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as I know, I have never received any financial contributions from the Duong family,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Lee’s campaign did not respond to questions about the extent and nature of her relationship with members of the Duong family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BVvmt3Zgf3f/?hl=en\">June 24, 2017\u003c/a> photo, Andy Duong appears next to Lee at her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six days later, campaign finance records show, he contributed $2,700 to Lee’s reelection campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, who is running to be mayor of Oakland in an April 15 special election, served in Congress for more than 25 years before retiring and announcing her candidacy last month. A spokesperson for Lee, who opened her campaign headquarters in downtown Oakland on Saturday, said she planned to donate the most recent contributions from David Duong to Meals on Wheels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Barbara Lee has zero tolerance for any pay to play or special interest influence, has denounced these disturbing allegations, and has never been involved in any City vendor selection or contract issuance — and she fully supports strengthening City ethics practices,” Bilen Mesfin, a spokesperson for Lee’s mayoral campaign, told KQED Feb. 6. “As her final congressional term has reached its natural conclusion, her previous congressional accounts are now closed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026401 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00494-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Repr. Barbara Lee speaks to the crowd as Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, right, addresses the room at the grand opening of her campaign headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the past two decades, the Duongs have been prolific donors to political campaigns and elected officials at the local, state and federal levels. Some politicians have returned those donations as an FBI investigation involving the Duongs has come into focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal campaign finance data show that since 1998, David Duong, Andy Duong and other members of the Duong family have contributed at least $66,250 to Lee. Most recently, David Duong contributed $5,000 to Lee’s unsuccessful run for Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As for the $5000 donated to her senate campaign in 2023, Barbara Lee is donating that to Meals on Wheels,” Mesfin said in a follow-up email on Feb. 7, hours before Lee’s campaign launch in downtown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a room full of supporters at her new campaign headquarters on Saturday, Lee spoke of regaining public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to make sure that all of the issues around ethics and transparency, the gaps are closed in this city. Because we have to restore trust and confidence with our residents,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the citys contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Campaign finance records released so far do not show Lee has received donations from the Duongs during her run for mayor, and the past donations themselves are not an indication of wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that the Duongs are long-standing donors to Lee, often giving at the maximum allowed,” said Brendan Glavin, director of insights at OpenSecrets, which tracks money in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glavin reviewed campaign finance data for Barbara Lee’s political campaigns since 1998 at KQED’s request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal election finance documents show that Lee’s congressional campaign committee was \u003ca href=\"https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/389/202411050300227389/202411050300227389.pdf\">terminated as of November\u003c/a>. However, a committee for Lee’s Senate run, which remains open, had $48,791.98 cash on hand and $91,035.13 in debts as of Dec. 31, according to the most recent data available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors allege that David and Andy Duong financed negative political mailers targeting Thao’s opponents in the 2022 mayoral election and that following the election, the Duongs and a person identified as “co-conspirator 1” paid $95,000 to Jones for a no-show job. The unnamed co-conspirator appears to be local businessman and political operative Mario Juarez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022840\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Jones, longtime partner of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, leaves the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In exchange, Thao allegedly promised to extend the Duongs’ recycling company’s contract with the city, give the Duongs and the co-conspirator influence over city appointments and use public money to purchase housing units from another company owned by the Duongs and the co-conspirator, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/lorenmtaylor/status/1887565988570513462\">post on social media platform X on Thursday\u003c/a>, former Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor, one of Lee’s opponents in the mayor’s race, said the scandal had caused the public to lose trust in Oakland city government and pressed Lee to return the donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m calling on all East Bay officials — including my opponent in the upcoming special election, Former Congresswoman Barbara Lee — who have received money from the Duong family to donate those funds to charity,” Taylor said. “We must demonstrate to residents that we have learned from these events and that the public can trust us to lead Oakland during the difficult time that lies ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to campaign finance records, the Duongs have donated to politicians at almost every level of government for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State campaign finance data show members of the family have contributed often to big-name Democrats like Rob and Mia Bonta, Jerry Brown and Kamala Harris, while David Duong has donated to both Democrats and Republicans at the federal level, including $250,000 to a committee called Trump Victory in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00434-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Rep. Barbara Lee, center right, receives a welcome hug from Oakland District 4 Councilmember Janani Ramachandran at the grand opening of the Barbara Lee Campaign Headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2021, California’s Fair Political Practices Commission produced a report in support of a finding of probable cause alleging that Andy Duong, between at least 2016 and 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991426/oakland-fbi-raids-also-targeted-this-powerful-family-heres-what-we-know\">orchestrated an elaborate campaign contribution laundering scheme\u003c/a> for the benefit of California Waste Solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report describes how Duong allegedly sought out people to write campaign contribution checks and then reimbursed them with cash to bypass campaign donation limits while CWS had ongoing business with Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, Duong allegedly provided committees and candidates with checks at campaign fundraisers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While Duong and CWS concealed the true source of the contributions, Duong ensured the targeted candidates were aware of his commitment to raise money for their campaign by attending candidate fundraisers, bringing individuals to campaign fundraisers, and at times hosting campaign fundraisers,” the report reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is still open and under investigation, a spokesperson for FPPC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00076-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campaign door hangers are on display at the grand opening of the headquarters for the Barbara Lee campaign headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was opened as a joint investigation with the Oakland Public Ethics Commission, which the FBI credited at a January press conference for the initial information that led to the agency’s multiyear investigation of Thao, Jones and the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, after the FBI raided Thao’s home and three addresses associated with the Duongs and their business, several elected officials returned donations they received from the Duongs, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta returned $155,100 “out of an abundance of caution,” according to then-spokesperson Nathan Click.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Bay Congressman Ro Khanna donated $5,800 in contributions from the Duongs to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action, Maitri and Community Seva, a spokesperson for the congressman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for then-Senate candidate Adam Schiff’s campaign \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/silicon-valley-san-jose-politicians-give-back-donations-following-fbi-raids-david-duong-california-waste-solutions/\">told the \u003cem>San José Spotlight\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last year that “following public news reports, the campaign will be giving $26,000 — the total contributions received from Mr. Duong and his family — to a local nonprofit helping address housing and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s review of campaign finance records at the city, state and federal level did not uncover documentation of other candidates in the current Oakland mayors’ race receiving donations from the Duongs in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that almost anyone else in local politics who wants to reassure their constituents that they are clean and above board should consider doing the same thing,” said Dan Schnur, professor of political communication at USC and UC Berkeley and the former chair of California’s Fair Political Practices Commission. “It sounds like the Lee campaign decided that avoiding unnecessary bad publicity is more valuable than the $5,000. That is a wise decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous photos posted to Andy Duong’s Instagram account show him posing with major Democratic politicians at the state and federal level, including Hillary Clinton, Rob Bonta, Harris and Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Taylor and Lee also appear in photos posted to the account. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BsXKPmcAvGN/?img_index=3\">Jan. 7, 2019 post\u003c/a>, Thao, Taylor and former Oakland City Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas, now an Alameda County supervisor, appear in selfies with Andy Duong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was when the three of us — Nikki Bas, myself and Sheng Thao — were inaugurated. That was when we were first sworn into office as new council members,” Taylor said. “So there was a lot of photos being taken with a lot of people that I didn’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said that after Bonta returned donations from the Duongs, his staff reviewed their campaign financial records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as I know, I have never received any financial contributions from the Duong family,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Lee’s campaign did not respond to questions about the extent and nature of her relationship with members of the Duong family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BVvmt3Zgf3f/?hl=en\">June 24, 2017\u003c/a> photo, Andy Duong appears next to Lee at her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six days later, campaign finance records show, he contributed $2,700 to Lee’s reelection campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Alarm bells rang in Jeff Leopold’s mind when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a> slapped a new 10% tariff on Chinese imports last week. Planned tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025404/canada-tariffs-paused-california-wineries-fear-trade-dispute-would-be-crushing\">paused\u003c/a>, but that didn’t put Leopold, who owns six Ace Hardware stores in the Bay Area, at ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the products he sells are imported from other countries, including China, Canada and Mexico. Leopold calculated how much more he would have to pay for a shipment of outdoor summer furniture that he had ordered on its way from China. He said he’ll have to pass the extra costs on to customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a margin we have to work off to make a living,” said Leopold, 58. “And you get a retail item at a certain price point, it just doesn’t sell. But we don’t have an option when the tariffs are just thrown at us like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Trump claimed that tariffs — a fee on goods imported to the United States — would be paid by other countries. However, Americans are likely to be stuck paying higher prices on imports such as consumer electronics, cars, toys and more. A recent \u003ca href=\"https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/trump-tariffs-trade-war/\">analysis of Trump’s tariffs\u003c/a> published by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation found that the levies would cause employers to cut jobs and U.S. households to pay more in taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has argued tariffs on China, and potentially on Mexico and Canada, are needed to force those countries to do more to stem the flow of illegal immigration, fentanyl and other drugs into the U.S. That doesn’t ring true for Leopold, whose family has experienced the devastation caused by a fentanyl overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026036 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Store owner Michelle Leopold works with Noah Gowe, a store employee at the Standard 5 & 10 Ace, a family-owned hardware store in San Francisco’s Laurel Heights neighborhood, on Feb. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Further complicating matters for business owners is an already existing tariff imposed by the first Trump administration on certain Chinese imports, which Leopold said raises the total duties on his furniture shipment to 35%. Then, there are the sweeping fees on all imports from Mexico and Canada that may take effect in less than a month. The \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/business/economy/trump-steel-aluminum-tariffs.html\">reported\u003c/a> Trump is ready to impose tariffs of 25% on steel and aluminum imports on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Retail’s tough right now. People aren’t spending as much because interest rates are higher. People are uncertain about politics and the economy,” said Leopold, who learned the business as a kid helping at his dad’s hardware store in San Francisco, which he now runs. “And then you throw something like this on it, it doesn’t help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the nation’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-top-import-partner-every-u-s-state/#google_vignette\">top importer\u003c/a> of Chinese goods, the administration’s trade maneuvering means uncertainty for many businesses. The state imported nearly $200 billion in goods from China, Mexico and Canada in 2023, according to \u003ca href=\"https://calchamberalert.com/2024/02/16/california-trade-down-in-2023-but-state-still-a-top-exporter/#:~:text=California%20Imports,%24147.77%20billion%20the%20previous%20year.&text=Mexico%20imports%20increased%20to%20%2461.51%20billion%20from%20%2460.46%20billion%20in%202022.&text=Imports%20from%20Taiwan%20were%20up,from%20%2428.59%20billion%20in%202022.\">data\u003c/a> compiled by the California Chamber of Commerce. The previous year, it was $232 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours before the tariffs on America’s largest trading partners were to go into effect, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 members of her country’s National Guard to the border. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1886529228193022429\">said\u003c/a> Canada would expand a $1.3 billion plan — announced in December — to reinforce the border, appoint a “Fentanyl Czar” and list drug cartels as terrorist organizations to appease Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026034\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12026034\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-14-BL-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-14-BL-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-14-BL-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-14-BL-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-14-BL-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-14-BL.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family photos hang on the wall of Jeff Leopold’s office at Standard 5 & 10 Ace, a family-owned hardware store in San Francisco’s Laurel Heights neighborhood, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. The photos include his son Trevor, who died from fentanyl poisoning in 2019. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s not a trade issue, but he’s linked it to trade,” said Kyle Handley, who teaches economics at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. “And so now you brought in a whole host of other issues where we’ve got to think about policing on the border, narcotics and drugs and things like that. And there’s no trade solution for those problems. There’s just a trade threat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Leopold and his wife, Michelle Leopold, the issue is personal. Their 18-year-old son, Trevor, died of an accidental fentanyl overdose in his freshman dorm at Sonoma State University five years ago. Trevor thought he was buying an OxyContin pill and took it before bed, Michelle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He never woke up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Leopolds, who live near their San Rafael store, doubt Trump’s approach will make much of a dent in fentanyl trafficking. Since Trevor’s death, Michelle has \u003ca href=\"https://www.wearenotalone.community/\">volunteered\u003c/a> to educate parents, high school students, Boy Scouts and others about fentanyl poisoning. She has trained their employees how to use Narcan to reverse opioid overdoses, and the medicine is part of first aid kits at their stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the federal government should increase education on the issue and make Narcan widely available in communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see any connection between stopping fentanyl and the tariffs. It’s just insane how there is supposed to be a connection,” said Michelle, 59, whose business cards read: The “Mom” in our six Mom & Pop Hardware Stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncertainty of an escalating trade war makes it difficult for businesses to plan. 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They may not make the investments that they would have made. They’ll just hold off on all that. And that’s ultimately bad for economic growth and bad for people in the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Ports of Entry handled a third of all Chinese imports that entered the U.S. in 2024, a whopping $159 billion in goods, according to data analyzed by Handley. If the new tariff causes trade volume to drop, logistics, transportation, warehousing and other businesses could be directly hurt, he said.[aside postID=forum_2010101908786 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/02/iStock-2189862167-1-1020x574.jpg']Some store owners in Oakland told KQED they believed the tariffs could lead to more manufacturing jobs for American workers as Trump wants, but many economists doubt the positions will materialize. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Trump claimed that tariffs — a fee on goods imported to the United States — would be paid by other countries. However, Americans are likely to be stuck paying higher prices on imports such as consumer electronics, cars, toys and more. A recent \u003ca href=\"https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/trump-tariffs-trade-war/\">analysis of Trump’s tariffs\u003c/a> published by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation found that the levies would cause employers to cut jobs and U.S. households to pay more in taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has argued tariffs on China, and potentially on Mexico and Canada, are needed to force those countries to do more to stem the flow of illegal immigration, fentanyl and other drugs into the U.S. That doesn’t ring true for Leopold, whose family has experienced the devastation caused by a fentanyl overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026036 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-20-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Store owner Michelle Leopold works with Noah Gowe, a store employee at the Standard 5 & 10 Ace, a family-owned hardware store in San Francisco’s Laurel Heights neighborhood, on Feb. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Further complicating matters for business owners is an already existing tariff imposed by the first Trump administration on certain Chinese imports, which Leopold said raises the total duties on his furniture shipment to 35%. Then, there are the sweeping fees on all imports from Mexico and Canada that may take effect in less than a month. The \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/business/economy/trump-steel-aluminum-tariffs.html\">reported\u003c/a> Trump is ready to impose tariffs of 25% on steel and aluminum imports on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Retail’s tough right now. People aren’t spending as much because interest rates are higher. People are uncertain about politics and the economy,” said Leopold, who learned the business as a kid helping at his dad’s hardware store in San Francisco, which he now runs. “And then you throw something like this on it, it doesn’t help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the nation’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-top-import-partner-every-u-s-state/#google_vignette\">top importer\u003c/a> of Chinese goods, the administration’s trade maneuvering means uncertainty for many businesses. The state imported nearly $200 billion in goods from China, Mexico and Canada in 2023, according to \u003ca href=\"https://calchamberalert.com/2024/02/16/california-trade-down-in-2023-but-state-still-a-top-exporter/#:~:text=California%20Imports,%24147.77%20billion%20the%20previous%20year.&text=Mexico%20imports%20increased%20to%20%2461.51%20billion%20from%20%2460.46%20billion%20in%202022.&text=Imports%20from%20Taiwan%20were%20up,from%20%2428.59%20billion%20in%202022.\">data\u003c/a> compiled by the California Chamber of Commerce. The previous year, it was $232 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours before the tariffs on America’s largest trading partners were to go into effect, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 members of her country’s National Guard to the border. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1886529228193022429\">said\u003c/a> Canada would expand a $1.3 billion plan — announced in December — to reinforce the border, appoint a “Fentanyl Czar” and list drug cartels as terrorist organizations to appease Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026034\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12026034\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-14-BL-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-14-BL-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-14-BL-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-14-BL-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-14-BL-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250206-TrumpTariffs-14-BL.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family photos hang on the wall of Jeff Leopold’s office at Standard 5 & 10 Ace, a family-owned hardware store in San Francisco’s Laurel Heights neighborhood, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. The photos include his son Trevor, who died from fentanyl poisoning in 2019. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s not a trade issue, but he’s linked it to trade,” said Kyle Handley, who teaches economics at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. “And so now you brought in a whole host of other issues where we’ve got to think about policing on the border, narcotics and drugs and things like that. And there’s no trade solution for those problems. There’s just a trade threat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Leopold and his wife, Michelle Leopold, the issue is personal. Their 18-year-old son, Trevor, died of an accidental fentanyl overdose in his freshman dorm at Sonoma State University five years ago. Trevor thought he was buying an OxyContin pill and took it before bed, Michelle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He never woke up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Leopolds, who live near their San Rafael store, doubt Trump’s approach will make much of a dent in fentanyl trafficking. Since Trevor’s death, Michelle has \u003ca href=\"https://www.wearenotalone.community/\">volunteered\u003c/a> to educate parents, high school students, Boy Scouts and others about fentanyl poisoning. She has trained their employees how to use Narcan to reverse opioid overdoses, and the medicine is part of first aid kits at their stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the federal government should increase education on the issue and make Narcan widely available in communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see any connection between stopping fentanyl and the tariffs. It’s just insane how there is supposed to be a connection,” said Michelle, 59, whose business cards read: The “Mom” in our six Mom & Pop Hardware Stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncertainty of an escalating trade war makes it difficult for businesses to plan. 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It included no signing statement from the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to underplay what initially seemed to be a major priority for Newsom — one set to catapult him to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/11/gavin-newsom-trump-president/\">forefront of the Democratic ranks\u003c/a> as the party struggled to respond to President Donald Trump’s re-election — underscores the awkward position that the governor now finds himself in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/02/gavin-newsom-la-fire-aid-trump/\">flew to Washington, D.C., to lobby for disaster aid\u003c/a>, which Trump and other Republican leaders have repeatedly threatened to withhold \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/trump-la-fires-newsom/\">unless California overhauls its water and elections policies\u003c/a>. 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Congressional Republicans appear to still be \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article299925119.html#campaignName=sacramento_breaking_newsletter\">adamant about setting conditions for any aid\u003c/a>. [aside postID=\"news_12021740,news_12022978,news_12024151\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though not unexpected, it means Newsom will likely have to continue playing nice with Trump for at least a while longer, even as other Democrats across the country increasingly speak out against the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Attorney General Rob Bonta, whose office will receive the $25 million lawsuit fund, has recently taken the lead. 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"content": "\u003cp>In just a few weeks, President Donald Trump’s administration has shown its intense determination \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024591/trump-administration-rescinds-federal-funding-freeze-order-confusion-remains\">to change the way federal funds are distributed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House has sought to either freeze, cut or condition federal funding, in order to fulfill \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998288/what-is-project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-director-steps-down\">the goals of Trump’s MAGA movement\u003c/a>. In one of the most contentious actions of this administration’s first days, the acting head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) sent out \u003ca href=\"https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/da3a3829590efbb7/b0c025ff-full.pdf\">a two-page memo (PDF)\u003c/a> on Jan. 27 directing all federal agencies to temporarily pause funding related to “foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024591/trump-administration-rescinds-federal-funding-freeze-order-confusion-remains\">temporarily suspended the OMB memo\u003c/a> two days later, but by that point \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/g-s1-45313/trump-federal-funding-freeze-reversed\">panic and confusion had spread nationwide\u003c/a> about what funding would be affected. The administration soon after rescinded the memo. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/presssec/status/1884672871944901034\">that this “is simply a rescission of the OMB memo”\u003c/a> and that “the President’s EOs on federal funding remain in full force and effect and will be rigorously implemented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leavitt was referring to the multiple executive orders that Trump has signed since taking office that explicitly call for major changes to federal funding rules — all of which could impact the hundreds of nonprofit organizations, private companies and academic institutions that depend on federal grants and contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no historical precedent for this barrage of executive orders. So the key question is: \u003cem>Does \u003c/em>the president have the power to change how federal funding is spent with a single stroke of a pen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Trump’s orders — \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-schooling/\">Ending Radical Indoctrination In K–12 Schooling\u003c/a> — calls for officials to eliminate “federal funding or support for illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K–12 schools, including based on gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another one — \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/unleashing-american-energy/\">Unleashing American Energy\u003c/a> — Trump ordered agencies to “immediately pause the disbursement of funds” that go to build electric vehicle charging stations. And the White House has even threatened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/\">halt research and education grants to hospitals\u003c/a> that provide gender-affirming care to transgender individuals under the age of 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other executive orders \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/\">target federal funding of “gender ideology”\u003c/a> — the term used by the White House to discredit the existence and health care needs of transgender individuals — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing/\">any programming and staffing across the federal government related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who controls federal funding?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although these executive orders are full of direct and bold language, legal experts say that a lot of what they call for goes against the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never seen a president in history do so much that’s clearly illegal, so fast,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the School of Law at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As mandated by the U.S. Constitution, Congress is the branch of government \u003ca href=\"https://history.house.gov/Institution/Origins-Development/Power-of-the-Purse/\">with the power to tax and spend public money\u003c/a>. Every year, the Senate and the House of Representatives must agree on a budget that will fund federal agencies, along with programs that distribute money to state and city governments, research institutions, nonprofit organizations and federal contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a budget has been approved, it is the responsibility of the president to see that these funds reach who they are meant for. If Congress sets aside $100 billion for education, the White House has to ensure that $100 billion goes to education spending, and is not used for something else — like the military. But if the president wants to freeze certain funds, he or she will have to send a formal request to Congress and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/93/statute/STATUTE-88/STATUTE-88-Pg297.pdf\">wait 45 days for their approval (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds that the federal government is currently distributing were already confirmed by Congress in previous budget agreements — so by law, Trump is required to fund programs that he may disagree with until every dollar that Congress allocated is spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And an executive order can’t override this process either. “In our legal system, executive orders are pretty low on the hierarchy of types of law,” said Dave Owen, professor at UC Law San Francisco, whose research focuses on environmental law and water resource management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An executive order can’t change the Constitution. An executive order also can’t change legislation,” he explained. “If Congress enacts spending provisions — for example, funding programs for electric vehicles — and a new president comes in and doesn’t like those programs, he has no authority to just stop spending on those programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, it included millions of dollars in \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/alternative-fuel-vehicle-refueling-property-credit\">tax credits for individuals and businesses that install electric vehicle chargers\u003c/a>, something that the Biden administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/us/politics/electric-vehicle-chargers-network.html\">hoped would encourage more people to use electric vehicles\u003c/a>. Joe Biden may no longer be the president, but the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act requires Trump to still fund this project until the designated dollars run out — despite his executive order that claims otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What about checks and balances?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If one branch of government is exceeding their authority, the Constitution outlines a system of checks and balances where the other branches can push back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 50 years ago, Congress passed a law that controls how the president distributes federal funding — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/93/statute/STATUTE-88/STATUTE-88-Pg297.pdf\">Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (PDF)\u003c/a> (CBA) — in response to President Richard Nixon’s attempts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/07/archives/nixons-impounding-of-billions-in-federal-money-is-complicated-issue.html\">freeze billions of dollars in federal funding for programs he did not support\u003c/a>. This legislation not only requires the president to spend all the money that Congress has set aside in the federal budget, but to spend it in the way that Congress intended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where there’s a federal statute that allocates funds, the president cannot choose to not spend those funds — that’s called impoundment,” said Chemerinsky. “It violates the separation of powers, because it undermines Congress’ spending power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Impoundment is exactly what many members of Congress \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/07/archives/nixons-impounding-of-billions-in-federal-money-is-complicated-issue.html\">accused Nixon of doing in the 1970s\u003c/a>: directing federal agencies to withhold funds from projects \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110331/documents/HMKP-116-JU00-20191211-SD118.pdf\">he thought were wasteful (PDF)\u003c/a>. And now this law, originally designed to limit Nixon’s power, may be what decides how much Trump can actually impact the process that distributes federal funds — and how effective these executive orders might be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Congress, where Republicans control both chambers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/28/trump-tiktok-bailout-00200800\">has so far shown little interest in fighting against Trump’s barrage of executive orders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other option is through the courts, said UC Berkeley’s Chemerinsky. “There are certainly many things President Trump is doing that are illegal and they require lawsuits to challenge them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal judges can temporarily block or overturn an executive order if they believe it goes against the Constitution or established law. Individual states and civil rights groups across the country have already announced lawsuits against dozens of Trump’s executive orders. On Feb. 4, for example, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with transgender young adults in Maryland, sued the federal government over \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/\">Protecting Children From Chemical And Surgical Mutilation\u003c/a>, the executive order that would block research and education grants that offer gender-affirming care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier that same week, two federal judges — one in Maryland and another in Washington state — issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024082/qa-what-to-know-about-birthright-citizenship\">nationwide preliminary injunction stopping the president’s executive order\u003c/a> that would severely limit which babies born in the U.S. are eligible for birthright citizenship. As long as that preliminary injunction exists, the Trump administration cannot move forward with its plans to change birthright citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Couldn’t Trump still make these changes regardless?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In several of these executive orders regarding funding, Trump ordered federal departments to start reviewing existing contracts and grants that deal with DEI, environmental justice and the needs of transgender people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It \u003cem>is \u003c/em>possible for the federal government to break an existing contract. However, the government — just like anybody else — is bound by the agreements it signs and can be sued by the other party for breach of contract. And if the government loses this kind of lawsuit, “it’s going to have to pay damages,” said UC Law’s Owen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That means \u003cem>we \u003c/em>will pay,” he said. “The American taxpayer is going to be on the hook for massive legal fees and then also a massive breach of contract damages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option for the Trump administration is wait for Congress to start negotiations for the next fiscal year budget to then push for changes in funding rules.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12024082,news_12021521,news_12024785\"]Congress is still finalizing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/g-s1-46934/congress-republicans-trump-policy\">a budget resolution for the current fiscal year\u003c/a> before the March 14 deadline to avoid a government shutdown. If they reach an agreement, Congress will then have to approve a comprehensive budget for the 2025–2026 cycle by Sept. 30, and lawmakers will be looking at recommendations from White House officials to decide what to fund — or cut — across the federal government. This list could include grants and programs that Trump disagrees with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This administration wants to politicize everything it can,” said Owen. “In previous administrations, even as the administration had pretty strong policy commitments, there were some things like grant administration for medical or scientific research that were left relatively nonpartisan — and that’s not happening this time around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though the legal future of these executive orders remains uncertain, individuals and institutions are already feeling the impact of Trump’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 5, Trump signed the order titled “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/\">Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports\u003c/a>,” which threatens universities and athletic associations — like the NCAA — with rescinding all federal funds if they allow transgender women to play on the same teams as cisgender women. Within 24 hours, the Department of Education \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025974/federal-officials-investigate-san-jose-state-under-trumps-order-trans-athletes\">began an investigation into San José State University\u003c/a>, where transgender athletes can play on the team that matches the gender they identify with. The investigation will look into whether SJSU discriminated against cisgender female athletes and jeopardized their right to equal opportunity and fair play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NCAA, the largest governing body for college athletics in the country, soon after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/g-s1-46938/ncaa-transgender-athletes-ban-trump\">confirmed that it would limit the participation of transgender athletes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same week, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles announced that it is pausing new hormone therapies for transgender patients under the age of 19 as the hospital continues “to carefully evaluate the [Protecting Children From Chemical And Surgical Mutilation] Executive Order to fully understand its implications.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important to remember that the federal government has not yet actually frozen funds for any hospital or research institution due to their care for transgender people. 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So the key question is: \u003cem>Does \u003c/em>the president have the power to change how federal funding is spent with a single stroke of a pen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Trump’s orders — \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-schooling/\">Ending Radical Indoctrination In K–12 Schooling\u003c/a> — calls for officials to eliminate “federal funding or support for illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K–12 schools, including based on gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another one — \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/unleashing-american-energy/\">Unleashing American Energy\u003c/a> — Trump ordered agencies to “immediately pause the disbursement of funds” that go to build electric vehicle charging stations. And the White House has even threatened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/\">halt research and education grants to hospitals\u003c/a> that provide gender-affirming care to transgender individuals under the age of 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other executive orders \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/\">target federal funding of “gender ideology”\u003c/a> — the term used by the White House to discredit the existence and health care needs of transgender individuals — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing/\">any programming and staffing across the federal government related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who controls federal funding?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although these executive orders are full of direct and bold language, legal experts say that a lot of what they call for goes against the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never seen a president in history do so much that’s clearly illegal, so fast,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the School of Law at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As mandated by the U.S. Constitution, Congress is the branch of government \u003ca href=\"https://history.house.gov/Institution/Origins-Development/Power-of-the-Purse/\">with the power to tax and spend public money\u003c/a>. Every year, the Senate and the House of Representatives must agree on a budget that will fund federal agencies, along with programs that distribute money to state and city governments, research institutions, nonprofit organizations and federal contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a budget has been approved, it is the responsibility of the president to see that these funds reach who they are meant for. If Congress sets aside $100 billion for education, the White House has to ensure that $100 billion goes to education spending, and is not used for something else — like the military. But if the president wants to freeze certain funds, he or she will have to send a formal request to Congress and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/93/statute/STATUTE-88/STATUTE-88-Pg297.pdf\">wait 45 days for their approval (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds that the federal government is currently distributing were already confirmed by Congress in previous budget agreements — so by law, Trump is required to fund programs that he may disagree with until every dollar that Congress allocated is spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And an executive order can’t override this process either. “In our legal system, executive orders are pretty low on the hierarchy of types of law,” said Dave Owen, professor at UC Law San Francisco, whose research focuses on environmental law and water resource management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An executive order can’t change the Constitution. An executive order also can’t change legislation,” he explained. “If Congress enacts spending provisions — for example, funding programs for electric vehicles — and a new president comes in and doesn’t like those programs, he has no authority to just stop spending on those programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, it included millions of dollars in \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/alternative-fuel-vehicle-refueling-property-credit\">tax credits for individuals and businesses that install electric vehicle chargers\u003c/a>, something that the Biden administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/us/politics/electric-vehicle-chargers-network.html\">hoped would encourage more people to use electric vehicles\u003c/a>. Joe Biden may no longer be the president, but the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act requires Trump to still fund this project until the designated dollars run out — despite his executive order that claims otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What about checks and balances?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If one branch of government is exceeding their authority, the Constitution outlines a system of checks and balances where the other branches can push back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 50 years ago, Congress passed a law that controls how the president distributes federal funding — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/93/statute/STATUTE-88/STATUTE-88-Pg297.pdf\">Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (PDF)\u003c/a> (CBA) — in response to President Richard Nixon’s attempts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/07/archives/nixons-impounding-of-billions-in-federal-money-is-complicated-issue.html\">freeze billions of dollars in federal funding for programs he did not support\u003c/a>. This legislation not only requires the president to spend all the money that Congress has set aside in the federal budget, but to spend it in the way that Congress intended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where there’s a federal statute that allocates funds, the president cannot choose to not spend those funds — that’s called impoundment,” said Chemerinsky. “It violates the separation of powers, because it undermines Congress’ spending power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Impoundment is exactly what many members of Congress \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/07/archives/nixons-impounding-of-billions-in-federal-money-is-complicated-issue.html\">accused Nixon of doing in the 1970s\u003c/a>: directing federal agencies to withhold funds from projects \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110331/documents/HMKP-116-JU00-20191211-SD118.pdf\">he thought were wasteful (PDF)\u003c/a>. And now this law, originally designed to limit Nixon’s power, may be what decides how much Trump can actually impact the process that distributes federal funds — and how effective these executive orders might be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Congress, where Republicans control both chambers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/28/trump-tiktok-bailout-00200800\">has so far shown little interest in fighting against Trump’s barrage of executive orders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other option is through the courts, said UC Berkeley’s Chemerinsky. “There are certainly many things President Trump is doing that are illegal and they require lawsuits to challenge them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal judges can temporarily block or overturn an executive order if they believe it goes against the Constitution or established law. Individual states and civil rights groups across the country have already announced lawsuits against dozens of Trump’s executive orders. On Feb. 4, for example, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with transgender young adults in Maryland, sued the federal government over \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/\">Protecting Children From Chemical And Surgical Mutilation\u003c/a>, the executive order that would block research and education grants that offer gender-affirming care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier that same week, two federal judges — one in Maryland and another in Washington state — issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024082/qa-what-to-know-about-birthright-citizenship\">nationwide preliminary injunction stopping the president’s executive order\u003c/a> that would severely limit which babies born in the U.S. are eligible for birthright citizenship. As long as that preliminary injunction exists, the Trump administration cannot move forward with its plans to change birthright citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Couldn’t Trump still make these changes regardless?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In several of these executive orders regarding funding, Trump ordered federal departments to start reviewing existing contracts and grants that deal with DEI, environmental justice and the needs of transgender people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It \u003cem>is \u003c/em>possible for the federal government to break an existing contract. However, the government — just like anybody else — is bound by the agreements it signs and can be sued by the other party for breach of contract. And if the government loses this kind of lawsuit, “it’s going to have to pay damages,” said UC Law’s Owen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That means \u003cem>we \u003c/em>will pay,” he said. “The American taxpayer is going to be on the hook for massive legal fees and then also a massive breach of contract damages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option for the Trump administration is wait for Congress to start negotiations for the next fiscal year budget to then push for changes in funding rules.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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