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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When is it OK for a president to use military forces on civilians in a state over the objections of their governor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When that governor is Gavin Newsom, California Republican leaders say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a rare move, President Donald Trump overrode Newsom and local leaders in sending 4,000 National Guard members and 700 active-duty Marines to Los Angeles in response to protests against the president’s immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/national-guard-los-angeles-appeals-court/\">challenging Trump’s order in federal court.\u003c/a> While the president argues that he has the sole authority to deploy the military, legal scholars and \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.64.0.pdf#page=28\">judges\u003c/a> have warned that the move risks intruding upon state sovereignty and tilting the constitutional balance of power between the federal and state governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most California Republican lawmakers, who have vehemently opposed “\u003ca href=\"https://sr40.senate.ca.gov/content/senator-brian-jones-introduces-religion-essential-act\">government overreach\u003c/a>,” would not say where they stand on Trump’s military intervention in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters asked all 29 Republican lawmakers in the state Legislature whether they support Trump’s troop deployment. Only six answered, and all sided with Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democrats had it coming, those lawmakers argued, because their lenient immigration and crime policies — including a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/01/california-sanctuary-state/\">2017 state “sanctuary” law\u003c/a> that limits local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement agents — forced Trump’s hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the root cause of the rioting and violence that we are witnessing this year,” state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/marie-alvarado-gil-165433\">Marie Alvarado-Gil\u003c/a> of Modesto said of the sanctuary law \u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/tnda7zejwkyhstl66tc2f/AAQkBbl-PrFSyZNx69FlB0s?e=2&preview=Senator+Alvarado-Gil+-+A+Message+to+Immigrant+Families.mp4&rlkey=m4mfhr6sdmxfcp0jeidvi6598&st=z5vl8mm5&dl=0\">in a video last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Republicans also seized on sporadic violent clashes, captured in viral videos on social media, as proof of Newsom and other Democrats’ failure to rein in violence. The GOP lawmakers argued that’s why Trump had to step in, even though \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5346247-lapd-chief-donald-trump-national-guard-la-protests/\">local police had said they did not need help\u003c/a> from federal troops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do you do when you have a governor who’s not leading (and) is not doing anything about unrest and violence in his own state?” said Assembly Republican Leader \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/james-gallagher-108\">James Gallagher\u003c/a> of Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/032723-Oil-and-Gas-Bill-Assembly-Floor-MG-CM-02-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Republican Assemblymember James Gallagher argues against Gov. Newsom's oil profit penalty plan at the Capitol on March 27, 2023. If passed, the bill would impose a penalty on oil companies for high gas prices. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters\">\u003cfigcaption>Republican Assemblymember James Gallagher argues against Gov. Newsom’s oil profit penalty plan at the Capitol on March 27, 2023. \u003cem>Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But would the Republican lawmakers say the same if a Democratic president descended the military upon a red state over the head of its governor? Some said yes as others bit their tongues, arguing it should be judged on a case-by-case basis and refusing to entertain hypotheticals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It depends on the situation,” Gallagher told CalMatters. “What are the times when you can and when you can’t? That’s what the court’s going to decide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12043221 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25159020191076-2000x1333.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s no surprise that state Republicans are using the opportunity to slam Democrats on immigration and crime: Those strategies have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/immigrant-legal-aid-budget/\">worked for the minority party\u003c/a> in the past. It’s also a chance for them to demonstrate their loyalty to Trump, who wields a definitive influence over the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is particularly worrisome when Republicans are aligned with Trump in a move to override state authority, which tears at the fabric of the \u003ca href=\"https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt10-3-4/ALDE_00013624/\">U.S. Constitution\u003c/a>, said Eric Schickler, political science professor at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you think about what the framers were worried about when they created the Constitution, it’s exactly this kind of dynamic,” he said. “It’s not an exaggeration to say the nature of the U.S. political system has changed. And it’s changed not just because of Trump’s force of will as an individual, but it’s changed because members of his party, when he’s asserted authority, have sided with him consistently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That alignment could cost Republicans in 2026, said Mike Madrid, a longtime GOP strategist and a vocal critic of Trump. \u003ca href=\"https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3924\">Polling in recent weeks\u003c/a> has shown that Trump’s immigration policies and military deployment in Los Angeles are \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2025/protests-ice-los-angeles-trump-deployment-poll/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f006\">growingly unpopular\u003c/a> among Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think people are seeing this as an immigration issue anymore. They are seeing it the way the governor has framed this, which is a constitutional issue, a federal overreach issue, a due process issue,” Madrid said. “That puts Republicans on very troubling ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California GOP lawmakers: Trump ‘stepped up’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While Trump’s executive order told the troops to guard federal personnel and properties, he and his administration have also repeatedly suggested that the troops are there to \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114654277401980803\">crack down\u003c/a>. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week even said the military was there to “liberate the city from the socialists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military presence has stoked fear among legal experts and some law enforcement officials, who argue there is no legal standing for Trump’s use of authority. 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They cited videos of brick-throwing, Molotov-cocktail-tossing protesters and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-la-immigration-protests-fact-check.html\">made unsubstantiated claims\u003c/a> that paid agitators stoked violence among protesters — a claim Trump has made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/jeff-gonzalez-187454\">Jeff Gonzalez\u003c/a>, a Coachella Republican and the only incumbent lawmaker who is a retired Marine, initially would not say if the scale of the Los Angeles protests warranted federal intervention, stating he did not have the “confidential intelligence” to weigh in. He also did not commit to supporting the same actions if they came from another president, arguing each situation is different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/012325-Capitol-Session-FG-31-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003cfigcaption>Assemblymember Jeff Gonzalez speaks during session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Jan. 23, 2025. \u003cem>Fred Greaves for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But when a CalMatters reporter pushed for comments, Gonzalez pointed to videos of violence as justification for Trump’s deployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have leaders that don’t step up, someone needs to step up, and that’s what took place,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/steven-choi-100940\">Steven Choi\u003c/a> of Irvine told CalMatters that while he supports states’ rights, when immigration agents face violence or interference, “it is appropriate for federal authorities to protect both those agents and federal properties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/tony-strickland-188489\">Tony Strickland\u003c/a>, a former mayor of Huntington Beach, said there is precedent for federalizing the California National Guard to quell domestic riots, referencing the 1992 turmoil in Los Angeles over the acquittal of police officers who severely beat Black activist Rodney King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in that example, then-President George H.W. Bush deployed troops at the request of then-Republican Gov. Pete Wilson and then-Democratic Mayor Tom Bradley. 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Senate Republican Leader \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/brian-jones-42\">Brian Jones\u003c/a>, of San Diego, failed this year to push through a measure that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb554\">would have made the cooperation mandatory\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/09012023-Suspense-RL-CM-12-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A person seated in a formal meeting room is captured through a blurred foreground. The individual wears glasses, a suit, and a tie, seated on a red chair with a nameplate visible on the desk. The neutral-toned walls and wooden furniture add to the professional atmosphere.\">\u003cfigcaption>State Senate Republican Leader Brian Jones, a San Diego Republican, during the state Senate Appropriations Committee session in Sacramento on Sept. 1, 2023. \u003cem>Rahul Lal for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is California’s lack of cooperation that forced federal immigration agents to hunt down “violent criminals” in public, Jones argued. He dismissed arrests, such as that of a 4-year-old girl on life-saving medication in Bakersfield, as “collateral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the federal agents are having to go into neighborhoods and find these violent felons to capture and report and prosecute … there are going to be collateral arrests in that, and that’s the state that Gov. 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We are going to ingratiate people into the fabric of our culture, our politics and our economy,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Could support for troops cost Republicans?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Aligning with Trump has its perks. The president — the face of a growingly populist party — can galvanize Republican voters and help legislators cement their conservative base. Even as the president’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/poll-americans-disapprove-trumps-performance-republicans-manage-splits-rcna212585\">approval rating slips among Americans\u003c/a>, Republican voters continue to show strong support for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Republicans could lose ground, especially among Latino voters, over Trump’s fierce crackdown on immigration and the protests, Madrid predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Latinos flocked toward Trump in 2024 despite the president’s promise of mass deportation, that threat is no longer “abstract” but “existential,” Madrid said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most California Republican lawmakers, who have vehemently opposed “\u003ca href=\"https://sr40.senate.ca.gov/content/senator-brian-jones-introduces-religion-essential-act\">government overreach\u003c/a>,” would not say where they stand on Trump’s military intervention in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters asked all 29 Republican lawmakers in the state Legislature whether they support Trump’s troop deployment. Only six answered, and all sided with Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democrats had it coming, those lawmakers argued, because their lenient immigration and crime policies — including a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/01/california-sanctuary-state/\">2017 state “sanctuary” law\u003c/a> that limits local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement agents — forced Trump’s hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the root cause of the rioting and violence that we are witnessing this year,” state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/marie-alvarado-gil-165433\">Marie Alvarado-Gil\u003c/a> of Modesto said of the sanctuary law \u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/tnda7zejwkyhstl66tc2f/AAQkBbl-PrFSyZNx69FlB0s?e=2&preview=Senator+Alvarado-Gil+-+A+Message+to+Immigrant+Families.mp4&rlkey=m4mfhr6sdmxfcp0jeidvi6598&st=z5vl8mm5&dl=0\">in a video last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Republicans also seized on sporadic violent clashes, captured in viral videos on social media, as proof of Newsom and other Democrats’ failure to rein in violence. The GOP lawmakers argued that’s why Trump had to step in, even though \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5346247-lapd-chief-donald-trump-national-guard-la-protests/\">local police had said they did not need help\u003c/a> from federal troops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do you do when you have a governor who’s not leading (and) is not doing anything about unrest and violence in his own state?” said Assembly Republican Leader \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/james-gallagher-108\">James Gallagher\u003c/a> of Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/032723-Oil-and-Gas-Bill-Assembly-Floor-MG-CM-02-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Republican Assemblymember James Gallagher argues against Gov. Newsom's oil profit penalty plan at the Capitol on March 27, 2023. If passed, the bill would impose a penalty on oil companies for high gas prices. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters\">\u003cfigcaption>Republican Assemblymember James Gallagher argues against Gov. Newsom’s oil profit penalty plan at the Capitol on March 27, 2023. \u003cem>Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But would the Republican lawmakers say the same if a Democratic president descended the military upon a red state over the head of its governor? Some said yes as others bit their tongues, arguing it should be judged on a case-by-case basis and refusing to entertain hypotheticals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It depends on the situation,” Gallagher told CalMatters. “What are the times when you can and when you can’t? That’s what the court’s going to decide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s no surprise that state Republicans are using the opportunity to slam Democrats on immigration and crime: Those strategies have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/immigrant-legal-aid-budget/\">worked for the minority party\u003c/a> in the past. It’s also a chance for them to demonstrate their loyalty to Trump, who wields a definitive influence over the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is particularly worrisome when Republicans are aligned with Trump in a move to override state authority, which tears at the fabric of the \u003ca href=\"https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt10-3-4/ALDE_00013624/\">U.S. Constitution\u003c/a>, said Eric Schickler, political science professor at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you think about what the framers were worried about when they created the Constitution, it’s exactly this kind of dynamic,” he said. “It’s not an exaggeration to say the nature of the U.S. political system has changed. And it’s changed not just because of Trump’s force of will as an individual, but it’s changed because members of his party, when he’s asserted authority, have sided with him consistently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That alignment could cost Republicans in 2026, said Mike Madrid, a longtime GOP strategist and a vocal critic of Trump. \u003ca href=\"https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3924\">Polling in recent weeks\u003c/a> has shown that Trump’s immigration policies and military deployment in Los Angeles are \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2025/protests-ice-los-angeles-trump-deployment-poll/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f006\">growingly unpopular\u003c/a> among Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think people are seeing this as an immigration issue anymore. They are seeing it the way the governor has framed this, which is a constitutional issue, a federal overreach issue, a due process issue,” Madrid said. “That puts Republicans on very troubling ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California GOP lawmakers: Trump ‘stepped up’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While Trump’s executive order told the troops to guard federal personnel and properties, he and his administration have also repeatedly suggested that the troops are there to \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114654277401980803\">crack down\u003c/a>. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week even said the military was there to “liberate the city from the socialists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military presence has stoked fear among legal experts and some law enforcement officials, who argue there is no legal standing for Trump’s use of authority. Unleashing military forces on domestic protesters can also have a chilling effect, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-07/what-is-title-10-trump-homan-national-guard\">risk escalating the situation further\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/opinion/lapd-troops-la-protests.html\">create confusion among civilians\u003c/a>, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters also reached out to U.S. Reps. David Valadao, Young Kim and Ken Calvert, three Republicans who will likely face fierce challenges from Democrats in 2026. None of them responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While acknowledging California’s sovereignty, some state Republican lawmakers told CalMatters Trump needed to intervene due to what they perceived as a lack of leadership from Newsom. They cited videos of brick-throwing, Molotov-cocktail-tossing protesters and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-la-immigration-protests-fact-check.html\">made unsubstantiated claims\u003c/a> that paid agitators stoked violence among protesters — a claim Trump has made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/jeff-gonzalez-187454\">Jeff Gonzalez\u003c/a>, a Coachella Republican and the only incumbent lawmaker who is a retired Marine, initially would not say if the scale of the Los Angeles protests warranted federal intervention, stating he did not have the “confidential intelligence” to weigh in. He also did not commit to supporting the same actions if they came from another president, arguing each situation is different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/012325-Capitol-Session-FG-31-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003cfigcaption>Assemblymember Jeff Gonzalez speaks during session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Jan. 23, 2025. \u003cem>Fred Greaves for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But when a CalMatters reporter pushed for comments, Gonzalez pointed to videos of violence as justification for Trump’s deployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have leaders that don’t step up, someone needs to step up, and that’s what took place,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/steven-choi-100940\">Steven Choi\u003c/a> of Irvine told CalMatters that while he supports states’ rights, when immigration agents face violence or interference, “it is appropriate for federal authorities to protect both those agents and federal properties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/tony-strickland-188489\">Tony Strickland\u003c/a>, a former mayor of Huntington Beach, said there is precedent for federalizing the California National Guard to quell domestic riots, referencing the 1992 turmoil in Los Angeles over the acquittal of police officers who severely beat Black activist Rodney King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in that example, then-President George H.W. Bush deployed troops at the request of then-Republican Gov. Pete Wilson and then-Democratic Mayor Tom Bradley. The riots were also far more violent, resulting in 63 deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strickland argued that deaths have been avoided in Los Angeles only because Trump sent in the military, echoing the president’s \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114670085083632579\">assertion\u003c/a> that the city otherwise would have burned to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you wait till 63 people die before you call them in?” Strickland said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Blaming California’s sanctuary law\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Republicans argued that Trump’s use of military force was necessary because of California’s 2017 sanctuary state law, which has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/18/714882333/federal-appeals-panel-upholds-california-sanctuary-state-law\">upheld in federal court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their logic goes like this: Had California police been more cooperative with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, federal agents wouldn’t have had to arrest immigrants in the streets, Californians wouldn’t have been so riled and Trump wouldn’t have had to deploy troops to protect those agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under current law, local law enforcement can choose to alert federal immigration authorities about an upcoming release of an inmate if \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/01/california-sanctuary-state/\">they are convicted of violent felonies\u003c/a>. Senate Republican Leader \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/brian-jones-42\">Brian Jones\u003c/a>, of San Diego, failed this year to push through a measure that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb554\">would have made the cooperation mandatory\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/09012023-Suspense-RL-CM-12-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A person seated in a formal meeting room is captured through a blurred foreground. The individual wears glasses, a suit, and a tie, seated on a red chair with a nameplate visible on the desk. The neutral-toned walls and wooden furniture add to the professional atmosphere.\">\u003cfigcaption>State Senate Republican Leader Brian Jones, a San Diego Republican, during the state Senate Appropriations Committee session in Sacramento on Sept. 1, 2023. \u003cem>Rahul Lal for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is California’s lack of cooperation that forced federal immigration agents to hunt down “violent criminals” in public, Jones argued. He dismissed arrests, such as that of a 4-year-old girl on life-saving medication in Bakersfield, as “collateral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the federal agents are having to go into neighborhoods and find these violent felons to capture and report and prosecute … there are going to be collateral arrests in that, and that’s the state that Gov. Newsom and the Democratic leadership have created,” Jones told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/tom-lackey-10\">Tom Lackey\u003c/a>, a Palmdale Republican who served in the California Highway Patrol for 28 years, said the sanctuary law “created all of this fear and chaos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are seeing now is a situation where the supermajority has limited tools to manage immigration; creating a communication breakdown between local and federal law enforcement, and a vacuum that invites a heavier hand from Washington,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Madrid said blaming the tension all on the state’s sanctuary law is an “extraordinarily weak” argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If that were the case, this would have been a situation long before,” he said. “It is consciously deceptive in telling a very, very small part of the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Madrid called the state’s sanctuary law a “patchwork” policy, he argued immigration is an issue entirely “on the doorstep of the federal government.” The Trump administration has missed opportunities to rein in the border, Madrid argued, noting Trump last year helped \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/politics/gop-senators-angry-trump-immigration-deal\">kill a bipartisan legislative deal\u003c/a> over border security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What California has decided to do is to say: ‘Fine, if you are not going to control border security and … leave us as the largest border state in the country to deal with it, we are going to accommodate it. We are going to ingratiate people into the fabric of our culture, our politics and our economy,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Could support for troops cost Republicans?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Aligning with Trump has its perks. The president — the face of a growingly populist party — can galvanize Republican voters and help legislators cement their conservative base. Even as the president’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/poll-americans-disapprove-trumps-performance-republicans-manage-splits-rcna212585\">approval rating slips among Americans\u003c/a>, Republican voters continue to show strong support for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Republicans could lose ground, especially among Latino voters, over Trump’s fierce crackdown on immigration and the protests, Madrid predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Latinos flocked toward Trump in 2024 despite the president’s promise of mass deportation, that threat is no longer “abstract” but “existential,” Madrid said. Moreover, more Americans are alarmed by Trump’s use of the military on its own people, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He so overplayed his hand on immigration crackdowns that it’s now about overreach and not about border security,” Madrid said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For the record: A previous version of the story incorrectly stated that Los Angeles police officers killed Black activist Rodney King in 1992. They did not kill him but severely beat him.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/california-republicans-trump-military-los-angeles/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nestled inside Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a bold idea: to penalize colleges and universities whose students leave with mountains of student loan debt but not nearly the earnings boost to pay it off — and to reward schools that do the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, as U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon told lawmakers in a recent hearing, it’s a way to force schools to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5423327/education-secretary-questioned-about-shrinking-federal-role\">“a little skin in the game.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This risk-sharing plan would, among other things, require higher education institutions — public and private, for-profit and nonprofit, undergraduate and graduate — to reimburse the federal government for a portion of the federal loan debt their students do not repay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Congressional Budget Office \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-05/HEDWork_Reconciliation2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimates that\u003c/a>, if enacted, the full risk-sharing proposal would save the government more than $6 billion over the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke with student loan experts who saw both promise and cause for concern in Republicans’ plan. Here’s what to know:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How it would work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The proposal would divide a school’s student loan borrowers by the kind of program they attended, separating English majors from biology majors, for example, or those who enrolled for a master’s in social work versus a master’s in business administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan would then calculate, for each program, how much borrowers were supposed to pay toward their federal student loan debts for the year, but didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools could also be penalized when students enroll in an income-based repayment plan. They would be forced to reimburse the government for a share of the interest and principal the Education Department willingly waives for lower-income borrowers as part of these plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much of that outstanding debt schools end up having to repay would depend on some complicated math, including the program’s cost and how much money its graduates earn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What schools would be hit hardest?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Schools and programs that are basically charging a whole lot of money, using a whole lot of student loans and not necessarily producing the outcomes that we might expect for those student debt burdens,” says Preston Cooper at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute (AEI).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not just a stick but a carrot too\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Republicans’ plan wouldn’t just penalize schools for graduating students with large debts and poor earnings potential. It would also award “PROMISE Grants” to colleges that provide low-income students a great value for the money — meaning federal loans and grants — they spent on their college education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with the cost-sharing proposal, these grants — worth up to $5,000 for every student in a school’s cohort who received federal aid — would go to schools with relatively lower tuition and debt loads and stronger student outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an extra twist, the stick would fund the carrot, with schools’ risk-sharing payments being recycled into these benefit payments to top-performing schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The plan would exclude loans in default\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Higher education experts point to a few flaws with the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One: The math used to decide whether a school should be penalized omits a key variable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It] would not include loan balances that were in default, which is very odd,” says Dominique Baker, who studies college access at the University of Delaware.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12038094 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-2204718967-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker says a plan to hold schools accountable for unpaid student loans should necessarily include debts that have gone into default. She’s not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where the proposal jumps the shark, giving a pass to the loans that hurt borrowers and taxpayers the most,” says Jordan Matsudaira, who served as deputy under secretary at the U.S. Department of Education in the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matsudaira speculates that the omission of defaulted loans is Republicans’ “concession to institutions or programs that do generate particularly high default rates. So those could be for-profit colleges. Those could also be colleges that serve a lot of underserved populations: low-income, minority populations that generate loans with disproportionately high default rates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AEI’s Cooper explains it this way: “Lawmakers are trying to find a balance between holding schools accountable and ensuring risk-sharing penalties are not overwhelming for institutions. Including defaulted loans makes sense in principle, but doing so would have significantly increased penalties. 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He was the department’s first chief economist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the data was being collected as part of a Biden-era initiative, but, if the Big Beautiful Bill passes, “it’s not clear who at the Department of Education is actually going to be doing this because most data people were subject to the reduction-in-force,” says Robert Kelchen, who studies higher education finance at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/11/nx-s1-5324746/trump-education-department-layoffs-closure-reorganization\">initiated the termination\u003c/a> of more than 1,300 department employees in a massive reduction-in-force that, when coupled with the hundreds of workers who have left voluntarily, has left the department at roughly half its previous staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge recently ordered the administration to reinstate those fired workers — a decision \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/06/nx-s1-5425431/trump-scotus-education-department-injunction\">now being considered by the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This [bill] is the most substantial set of changes to higher education policy since at least 1992,” Kelchen says. “And it is hard to think about how the Department of Education can do all the data work behind it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Potential winners and losers\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s difficult to assess a policy built on data that doesn’t exist, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.aei.org/education/how-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-would-hold-colleges-accountable-for-outcomes/\">AEI’s Cooper has tried\u003c/a> using what’s available. He found that for-profit undergraduate programs and private, nonprofit graduate programs are likely to be hit hardest by these cost-sharing penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three schools on tap to pay the largest penalties, by Cooper’s calculations, would be: 1. Strayer University (for-profit), 2. University of Phoenix (for-profit) and 3. University of Southern California, or USC (private nonprofit).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If USC surprises you, it’s not because of their undergraduate programs, says Cooper. In 2019–’20, students in the school’s \u003cem>graduate\u003c/em> programs took on $533 million in debt, an enormous sum ranking it third in the nation that year in graduate school debt, \u003ca href=\"https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2021/11/01/usc_exemplifies_the_hypocrisy_of_demands_for_student_loan_relief_110665.html\">according to Cooper.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side, the 10 schools that stand to benefit most from PROMISE Grants, rewarding schools that give low-income students the most bang for their buck, include six public universities in the California state system (Long Beach, Fullerton, Northridge, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Pomona) and three public universities in Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are two states which are known for keeping public college tuition really low,” says Cooper. “These are also schools that tend to enroll fairly sizable, low-income student populations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper says many community colleges would also likely benefit from this system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of holding schools accountable for pushing unmanageable debts onto students isn’t new, though past efforts led by the Obama and Biden administrations focused largely on for-profit colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this proposal, Kelchen says, “the Republican mantra is ‘accountability for everyone.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its fate now depends on the Senate, where lawmakers recently released \u003ca href=\"https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/25-06-10_help_section_by_section_finalpdf.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their own, very different version\u003c/a> of a college accountability plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nestled inside Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a bold idea: to penalize colleges and universities whose students leave with mountains of student loan debt but not nearly the earnings boost to pay it off — and to reward schools that do the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, as U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon told lawmakers in a recent hearing, it’s a way to force schools to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5423327/education-secretary-questioned-about-shrinking-federal-role\">“a little skin in the game.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This risk-sharing plan would, among other things, require higher education institutions — public and private, for-profit and nonprofit, undergraduate and graduate — to reimburse the federal government for a portion of the federal loan debt their students do not repay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker says a plan to hold schools accountable for unpaid student loans should necessarily include debts that have gone into default. She’s not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where the proposal jumps the shark, giving a pass to the loans that hurt borrowers and taxpayers the most,” says Jordan Matsudaira, who served as deputy under secretary at the U.S. Department of Education in the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matsudaira speculates that the omission of defaulted loans is Republicans’ “concession to institutions or programs that do generate particularly high default rates. So those could be for-profit colleges. Those could also be colleges that serve a lot of underserved populations: low-income, minority populations that generate loans with disproportionately high default rates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AEI’s Cooper explains it this way: “Lawmakers are trying to find a balance between holding schools accountable and ensuring risk-sharing penalties are not overwhelming for institutions. Including defaulted loans makes sense in principle, but doing so would have significantly increased penalties. Lawmakers may have decided that was a bridge too far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker is also concerned about the plan to punish many schools whose borrowers enroll in income-based repayment plans, by forcing those schools to reimburse the government for a share of the interest and principal it waives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s bananas to me,” says Baker, who worries this might compel schools to steer students into less-affordable repayment plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The data doesn’t exist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The other big problem experts routinely pointed out with Republicans’ plan is that its math depends on a mountain of data — including the cost of individual, undergraduate programs — “that we do not have and have never had,” says Baker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the underlying data here are imaginary,” says Matsudaira, who should know. He was the department’s first chief economist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the data was being collected as part of a Biden-era initiative, but, if the Big Beautiful Bill passes, “it’s not clear who at the Department of Education is actually going to be doing this because most data people were subject to the reduction-in-force,” says Robert Kelchen, who studies higher education finance at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/11/nx-s1-5324746/trump-education-department-layoffs-closure-reorganization\">initiated the termination\u003c/a> of more than 1,300 department employees in a massive reduction-in-force that, when coupled with the hundreds of workers who have left voluntarily, has left the department at roughly half its previous staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge recently ordered the administration to reinstate those fired workers — a decision \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/06/nx-s1-5425431/trump-scotus-education-department-injunction\">now being considered by the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This [bill] is the most substantial set of changes to higher education policy since at least 1992,” Kelchen says. “And it is hard to think about how the Department of Education can do all the data work behind it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Potential winners and losers\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s difficult to assess a policy built on data that doesn’t exist, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.aei.org/education/how-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-would-hold-colleges-accountable-for-outcomes/\">AEI’s Cooper has tried\u003c/a> using what’s available. He found that for-profit undergraduate programs and private, nonprofit graduate programs are likely to be hit hardest by these cost-sharing penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three schools on tap to pay the largest penalties, by Cooper’s calculations, would be: 1. Strayer University (for-profit), 2. University of Phoenix (for-profit) and 3. University of Southern California, or USC (private nonprofit).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If USC surprises you, it’s not because of their undergraduate programs, says Cooper. In 2019–’20, students in the school’s \u003cem>graduate\u003c/em> programs took on $533 million in debt, an enormous sum ranking it third in the nation that year in graduate school debt, \u003ca href=\"https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2021/11/01/usc_exemplifies_the_hypocrisy_of_demands_for_student_loan_relief_110665.html\">according to Cooper.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side, the 10 schools that stand to benefit most from PROMISE Grants, rewarding schools that give low-income students the most bang for their buck, include six public universities in the California state system (Long Beach, Fullerton, Northridge, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Pomona) and three public universities in Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are two states which are known for keeping public college tuition really low,” says Cooper. “These are also schools that tend to enroll fairly sizable, low-income student populations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper says many community colleges would also likely benefit from this system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of holding schools accountable for pushing unmanageable debts onto students isn’t new, though past efforts led by the Obama and Biden administrations focused largely on for-profit colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this proposal, Kelchen says, “the Republican mantra is ‘accountability for everyone.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its fate now depends on the Senate, where lawmakers recently released \u003ca href=\"https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/25-06-10_help_section_by_section_finalpdf.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their own, very different version\u003c/a> of a college accountability plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The U.S. Army \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/g-s1-70085/trump-birthday-dc-military-parade-history\">celebrated its 250th anniversary\u003c/a> on Saturday with a massive military parade that overtook the streets and skies of Washington, D.C., and included thousands of service members participating in the big-budget spectacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also celebrating on Saturday is President Trump, whose 79th birthday corresponds with the Army anniversary, and who has long dreamed of holding such a display of America’s military might. A parade of this magnitude is unusual during times of peace and has stirred up controversy for what opponents view as a politicization of the nation’s armed forces and a break from U.S. democratic norms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Trump and first lady Melania Trump took to the viewing stands at the start of the main event, a group of individuals wearing “250 special guest” badges began singing “Happy Birthday” to the president. Others chanted “USA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kicking off the parade, parachutists from the Army’s Golden Knights team drifted onto the National Mall from the gloomy Washington sky as Trump and hundreds of thousands of spectators watched from below. The Army said it expected around 200,000 attendees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands across the country spent the day participating in demonstrations against the parade and Trump’s broader political agenda, including fallout from mass immigration raids in Los Angeles that led Trump to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/nx-s1-5429752/trump-newsom-california-national-guard-ice-immigration\">send in both California’s National Guard, against state officials’ request, and the Marines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12044426 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-11-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group No Kings — a coalition of more than 200 organizations — arranged \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/14/nx-s1-5432708/no-kings-protests-military-parade\">some 2,000 protests\u003c/a> nationwide against what they described as a “costly, wasteful, and un-American birthday parade in Washington.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for commemorating the milestone Army anniversary have been in place for at least a year — long before Trump had secured a second term. But the parade feature was added in recent months, ballooning the budget by tens of millions and leaving planners for both the city and military scrambling to prepare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parade is part of a larger \u003ca href=\"https://www.army.mil/1775/events.html\">slate of events\u003c/a>, all taking place around the National Mall. Beginning at 11 a.m. ET, the Army hosted a public festival with military demonstrations and live music. The parade march, which started just after 6 p.m. is expected to end around 8 p.m., and the evening will be capped off with a fireworks display in front of the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Presidential wishlist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump has been asking for such a parade since 2017, after he saw a military demonstration in France for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/07/14/537291290/trump-joins-french-president-macron-for-bastille-day-celebration-in-paris\">Bastille Day\u003c/a>. At the time, officials were able to keep the notion at bay, citing the questionable optics of a peacetime demonstration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump join French leaders, including President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron, to watch the Bastille Day military parade on July 14, 2017. \u003ccite>(AFP Contributor/AFP via Getty Images/AFP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in his second term, the Army’s birthday presented an opportunity for Trump to have the parade he’d long wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking last week at Fort Bragg, Trump said the parade was going to mark a “big day in Washington, D.C.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know a lot of people said we don’t want to do that. I said, ‘yeah we do, we want to show off a little bit,'” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the parade was announced, there has been sharp criticism, particularly from Democratic lawmakers who call the showcase self-indulgent and a misuse of public funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To use the military in this manner when Donald Trump is slashing veterans’ benefits to aggrandize himself, to communicate to the country his control over the military, is just another shameful act of this administration,” said Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other critics have said it’s a display of military force typically associated with autocratic governments in places like Russia or North Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a vulgar display,” Democratic Gov. 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Such presentations are usually reserved for the families of fallen soldiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Military equipment has been arriving in D.C. for days\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Heavy military equipment began rolling into the city days ahead of the Saturday event, coming in by freight or carried through city streets on large, flat-bed trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/USArmy/status/1932528204054421850\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peirce Economakis was bartending on Tuesday evening in Shaw — a residential neighborhood in the city — when he said the main road nearby was suddenly closed off by police around 8 p.m. as truck after truck loaded with military machinery such as tanks and armored cars drove through. He says the whole scene probably lasted about 30 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s surreal. 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But even that move was seen as controversial, says Joshua Zeitz, a historian and contributing editor for \u003cem>Politico \u003c/em>magazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our country was born of a very particular opposition to state power, state authority, to standing armies which could enforce that type of authority and power,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5418453/critics-say-trumps-planned-military-parade-will-send-the-wrong-message\">he told NPR’s\u003cem> All Things Considered\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> saying that it’s important to view this parade in context with other moves Trump has made to expand the authority and the power of the presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s really reinventing the presidency as something that doesn’t resemble what it has traditionally in American history, and the military parade is part of that,” Zeitz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Matthew Frakes, a historian of American military history and assistant professor at the Ohio State University, points out America does have a history of smaller military parades — like local Independence Day or Veterans Day celebrations, for example. He said the key with this parade will be to see how much of it focuses on history versus a show of America’s military prowess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In democracies, military parades are meant to commemorate, whereas in authoritarian regimes they’re meant to intimidate. And so you can think of, you know, the Soviet Union or more recently in China or North Korea,” Frakes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-4.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A US Army soldier walks past a Bradley fighting vehicle staged in West Potomac Park ahead of an upcoming military parade commemorating the Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday, June 11, 2025, in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Anti-Trump protests held nationwide\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ahead of the weekend events, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/14/nx-s1-5432708/no-kings-protests-military-parade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">organizations across the country protested\u003c/a> against the parade, which has been criticized as a vanity project for the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group No Kings, which has organized past protests against Trump, planned to host events in more than 1,800 \u003ca href=\"https://www.nokings.org/#map\">cities across the country\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On June 14 — Flag Day — President Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday,” No Kings said in a statement on their website. “A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said that in order to pull attention away from the display of military grandeur, No Kings would specifically not demonstrate in Washington on Saturday, and instead hosted their largest demonstration in Philadelphia — the city known as the birthplace of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Philadelphia event was attended by tens of thousands of demonstrators, and police said the protest was peaceful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrations in other cities carried on throughout the afternoon. But No Kings called for the cancellation of all remaining events in the state of Minnesota “out of an abundance of caution” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/14/nx-s1-5433645/minnesota-state-legislators-lawmaker-shootings\">following the targeted shootings\u003c/a> of two Democratic lawmakers at their homes in Minnesota. State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed at their home; state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were shot and wounded at their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, as of Friday afternoon, the National Parks Service had approved a protest permit for just one demonstration related to the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday evening, U.S. Capitol Police arrested 60 protesters, some of whom pushed down barriers and ran toward the steps of the Capitol Rotunda. All 60, police said, will be charged with unlawful demonstration and crossing a police line and some will also be charged with assault on a police officer and resisting arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump had vowed to take action against demonstrators at Saturday’s events. 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It’s a little depressing,” he said. “I think a lot of people forget that people actually live here and it’s not, you know, some sort of playground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone, however, was against having a military display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Davis, a 30-year Army serviceman and employee of the Pentagon, said that he felt the 250-year anniversary of the military branch called for something big.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I welcome it, and the reason I say that is the last time we’ve had a military parade of any sorts, I recall, is the Gulf War,” Davis said. “So, it’s been a long time and what better way to celebrate it than the 250th?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said that protests against the event cast a pall on what he thought should be a celebratory occasion, but he said he understood people’s First Amendment rights to speak out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they have their own agenda,” Davis said. “But you know, hey, we go to war and defend the nation’s rights for the citizens to do things like that, so more power to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Significant street closures have been in effect around the city since Thursday, and Reagan National Airport has said it will close for several hours, potentially disrupting flights on Saturday to accommodate the military flyover safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has also been bracing for potential damage to its streets by installing steel plates along the parade route. 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Mayor Mariel Bowser has expressed concern that heavy machinery and tanks could rip up roads and require millions of dollars to repair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-3.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The US Capitol is seen through security fencing, set up on the National Mall, during preparations for an upcoming military parade commemorating the Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday, Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Rod Lamkey, Jr./AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The country has not had a major military parade like the one planned for this weekend during times of peace in a very long time, although presidents such as John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower did have some troops marching with military equipment for their inaugurations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last major military parade was in 1991, also in D.C., to celebrate the end of the Gulf War and commemorate fallen soldiers from that conflict. But even that move was seen as controversial, says Joshua Zeitz, a historian and contributing editor for \u003cem>Politico \u003c/em>magazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our country was born of a very particular opposition to state power, state authority, to standing armies which could enforce that type of authority and power,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5418453/critics-say-trumps-planned-military-parade-will-send-the-wrong-message\">he told NPR’s\u003cem> All Things Considered\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> saying that it’s important to view this parade in context with other moves Trump has made to expand the authority and the power of the presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s really reinventing the presidency as something that doesn’t resemble what it has traditionally in American history, and the military parade is part of that,” Zeitz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Matthew Frakes, a historian of American military history and assistant professor at the Ohio State University, points out America does have a history of smaller military parades — like local Independence Day or Veterans Day celebrations, for example. He said the key with this parade will be to see how much of it focuses on history versus a show of America’s military prowess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In democracies, military parades are meant to commemorate, whereas in authoritarian regimes they’re meant to intimidate. And so you can think of, you know, the Soviet Union or more recently in China or North Korea,” Frakes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-4.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A US Army soldier walks past a Bradley fighting vehicle staged in West Potomac Park ahead of an upcoming military parade commemorating the Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday, June 11, 2025, in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Anti-Trump protests held nationwide\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ahead of the weekend events, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/14/nx-s1-5432708/no-kings-protests-military-parade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">organizations across the country protested\u003c/a> against the parade, which has been criticized as a vanity project for the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group No Kings, which has organized past protests against Trump, planned to host events in more than 1,800 \u003ca href=\"https://www.nokings.org/#map\">cities across the country\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On June 14 — Flag Day — President Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday,” No Kings said in a statement on their website. “A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said that in order to pull attention away from the display of military grandeur, No Kings would specifically not demonstrate in Washington on Saturday, and instead hosted their largest demonstration in Philadelphia — the city known as the birthplace of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Philadelphia event was attended by tens of thousands of demonstrators, and police said the protest was peaceful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrations in other cities carried on throughout the afternoon. But No Kings called for the cancellation of all remaining events in the state of Minnesota “out of an abundance of caution” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/14/nx-s1-5433645/minnesota-state-legislators-lawmaker-shootings\">following the targeted shootings\u003c/a> of two Democratic lawmakers at their homes in Minnesota. State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed at their home; state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were shot and wounded at their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, as of Friday afternoon, the National Parks Service had approved a protest permit for just one demonstration related to the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday evening, U.S. Capitol Police arrested 60 protesters, some of whom pushed down barriers and ran toward the steps of the Capitol Rotunda. All 60, police said, will be charged with unlawful demonstration and crossing a police line and some will also be charged with assault on a police officer and resisting arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump had vowed to take action against demonstrators at Saturday’s events. The president is already facing sharp blowback for his decision to deploy the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/09/nx-s1-5427233/trump-guard-deployment-unprecedented-los-angeles-william-enyart\">military to Los Angeles\u003c/a> amid protests against ICE immigration raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 6 p.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people flooded streets across the Bay Area Saturday as part of a national day of action against President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of No Kings protests took place around the region in multiple cities including Oakland, San José, Palo Alto, Berkeley, Santa Rosa, Alameda, Fremont and Vallejo. They coincided with a military parade in Washington D.C. and Trump’s 79th birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a protest to reject authoritarian rule and the idea that any one person including President Trump is above the people,” said Liliana Soroceanu an organizer with Indivisible San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands marched from Dolores Park to Civic Center in San Francisco, with protesters densely spanning the entire 1.5-mile path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044521 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"831\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED-2000x665.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED-1536x511.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED-2048x681.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowds gather in Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco for the ‘No Kings’ protest that coincides with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044428\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of people demonstrate as part of the during the ‘No Kings’ protest in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michelle Espinoza, a San Francisco resident, is a daughter of immigrants from Mexico. She said she was at the protests to show her support for her friends and family and those who were not able to join out of fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does make me feel better to see that there’s all of these people who are coming to support, not just the Latino community but all people affected by this administration,” Espinoza said. “It brings a kind of hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-01-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-01-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march down Dolores Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044461\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march down Market Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria Alvarez, who protested in San José, said she feels outraged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This president needs to get put in check,” said Alvarez, the daughter of an immigrant. “All kinds of people are getting oppressed and it’s not acceptable at all. I’m just here out of rage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marta Guerrero and her daughter Karina Soto, both of whom are educators, said they were at the protest in San José to support democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know what this country can be, the promise of this country,” said Soto. “We have to fight for it, because I had no idea how quickly it could be taken away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044457\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniella coats herself in a Mexican flag to protest the Trump administration during the ‘No Kings’ protest in San José on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044473 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-2000x666.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-2048x682.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors dressed as battered and imprisoned versions of Lady Liberty (left) and Mo Little Dove (right) join other protestors in a demonstration outside of the Old County Courthouse in San Jose during a No Kings Day protest on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044458\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officers from the Santa Clara Sheriff’s Department on duty at the ‘No Kings’ protest in San José. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sara Moiseff, who’s transgender, also took part in the demonstrations in San José, taking aim at the federal government’s immigration enforcement via deportations .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transgender people are one of the most highly ostracized and persecuted minorities in this country, and they continue to receive only more pushback, more hatred, more discrimination,” Moiseff said. “I want to be a part of the fight against oppressive forces in the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044452\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors gather in St. James Park during the ‘No Kings’ protest in San José . \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044454\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Komar holds up a homemade sign in San José. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a rally in Oakland, which organizers say drew an estimated 10,000 demonstrators, Denise Martin emphasized immigration rights and gay rights as key motivators for coming out to protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are the people and we want to be heard,” Martin said. “Our freedom is important to all of us, and the Constitution. … Nobody’s above the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving a speech at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland Councilmember Carroll Fife said she hadn’t seen such a big crowd in 30 years. She told the crowd that the police chief warned her and other elected officials about coming out today in the wake of the shootings in Minnesota where a Democratic state legislator and her husband were killed and another was injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044478\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland mayor Barbara Lee speaks to a crowd of protesters at the ‘No Kings’ protest in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044480 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of protesters march in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because elected officials are being targeted, because the way that our undocumented citizens are being targeted, makes me want to stand even taller and stronger,” said Fife. “Undocumented immigrants bring trillions of dollars that they will not see a benefit from, and they still work hard for our country. That is the most patriotic thing they could do. We are patriots and we are not ceding ground to the right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congresswoman Lateefah Simon praised what she called “the most diverse congressional district in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We smell the stench of fascism,” said Simon. “Let me say this to the president of the United States: you don’t get to storm the Capitol, lie to our people, defund the future, and then return four years later, demanding a crown. We say: Hell no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Konani Chinn, 20, described the crowd of thousands gathered in Oakland as “super powerful” and praised everyone who came out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a lot of effort for everyone to come out here, especially like I mean this protest is mostly older white people who are privileged. … Protests that I’ve been to personally in the past few years have been a lot of young people, more like marginalized people who are actively being affected. I think it’s really amazing that all these people are coming out regardless of their connection to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-24-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An inflatable Trump chicken is displayed at Frank H. Ogawa plaza in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044522\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"831\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED-2000x665.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED-1536x511.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED-2048x681.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congresswoman Lateefah Simon (right) addresses hundreds of protesters at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protesters Mary Richardson, Joann George and Carol McCullough all came to the Oakland protest and expressed disgust and shame with their country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything that we had fought for is being taken away from us,” said McCullough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People really need to pay attention,” George added. “when their Medicaid stops and their Social Security gets affected, they will know what this man is about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robin Kettelle, who just turned 66, said at the rally in Oakland, “Enough is enough. I want to show the world that there is another set of beliefs that’s going on in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044479\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of protesters march at the ‘No Kings’ protest in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Planning for the national day of action began weeks ago to protest Trump’s military parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Soroceanu said Trump’s deployment of the California National Guard and U.S. Marines in Los Angeles added to the sense of urgency among organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s immigration raids in L.A. this month sparked large-scale protests throughout the region. Trump federalized the National Guard on June 7, deploying 2,000 Guard troops, and later 700 Marines, to respond to the protests. Gov. Gavin Newsom has challenged the move in court, arguing the administration violated the law by not coordinating the deployment with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044464 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-10-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march in front of City Hall in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This militarization of law enforcement, which is both illegal and inappropriate, has escalated events in L.A. Yesterday, they assaulted a U.S. senator. So this is all behavior of a fascist regime,” Soroceanu said, referring to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043957/california-sen-alex-padilla-forced-to-ground-handcuffed-by-agents-at-dhs-briefing\">an incident Thursday\u003c/a> when California Sen. Alex Padilla was removed from a press conference with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and forced to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police arrested more than 200 people in the hours following demonstrations on June 8 and 9, accusing some of vandalizing businesses or throwing objects at police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soroceanu and other organizers urged attendees to remain peaceful and nonviolent at Saturday’s protests, but local and state officials said they prepared for massive turnout and the possibility of clashes between protesters and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044463 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-09-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drake Housman, 9, chants alongside other rally-goers in the No Kings protest in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier Saturday, dozens of demonstrators and immigration lawyers gathered on Tehama Street in San Francisco, after they said immigrants received text messages from Immigration and Customs Enforcement telling them to “check-in” there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expect they were planning detentions at check-ins,” said Sanika Mahajan, director of Community Engagement and Organizing at Mission Action, an immigrant advocacy group in San Francisco’s Mission District. “[ICE] have had to change tactics because of the people that have been showing up in large numbers to try to stop detentions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camille Taiara, a volunteer with the National Lawyers Guild, said the doors to the offices were closed and that people who had shown up for the check-in didn’t know what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044456\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doddie the dog sports a taco costume during a ‘No Kings’ protest in San José. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The people who are reporting here all have immigration cases with the court, so they’re trying to do the right thing,” said Taiara. “They say these people are criminals … but there’s no due process and it’s been shown that the vast majority of people they are grabbing and detaining and sending God-knows-where have no criminal records.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, it’s state terror,” Taiara added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044451\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young dancers perform outside of the Old County Courthouse in San José. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. Newsom announced Friday that the California Highway Patrol and the state’s Office of Emergency Services would pre-deploy personnel to cities across the state ahead of the No Kings protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has zero tolerance for those who plan to take advantage of peaceful demonstrations with violence,” Newsom said. “We’re pre-deploying resources to maintain safety — and we will prosecute those who break the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom added that all eight of CHP’s Special Response Teams, consisting of 700 officers, were staged throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie also announced Friday that he was activating the emergency operations center, where several city agencies, including law enforcement and emergency services, would be coordinating the city’s response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044467 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-13-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters cheer from their car as protesters march down Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie was flanked by the police chief, the sheriff, the district attorney and the head of the department of emergency management, many of whom stressed that law enforcement will arrest anybody who breaks the law.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Juan Carlos Lara, Attila Pelit, Sara Hossaini, Vanessa Rancaño and Brian Krans contributed to this story, which will be updated throughout the day.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a protest to reject authoritarian rule and the idea that any one person including President Trump is above the people,” said Liliana Soroceanu an organizer with Indivisible San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands marched from Dolores Park to Civic Center in San Francisco, with protesters densely spanning the entire 1.5-mile path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044521 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"831\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED-2000x665.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED-1536x511.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-01-KQED-2048x681.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowds gather in Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco for the ‘No Kings’ protest that coincides with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044428\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of people demonstrate as part of the during the ‘No Kings’ protest in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michelle Espinoza, a San Francisco resident, is a daughter of immigrants from Mexico. She said she was at the protests to show her support for her friends and family and those who were not able to join out of fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does make me feel better to see that there’s all of these people who are coming to support, not just the Latino community but all people affected by this administration,” Espinoza said. “It brings a kind of hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-01-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-01-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march down Dolores Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044461\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march down Market Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria Alvarez, who protested in San José, said she feels outraged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This president needs to get put in check,” said Alvarez, the daughter of an immigrant. “All kinds of people are getting oppressed and it’s not acceptable at all. I’m just here out of rage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marta Guerrero and her daughter Karina Soto, both of whom are educators, said they were at the protest in San José to support democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know what this country can be, the promise of this country,” said Soto. “We have to fight for it, because I had no idea how quickly it could be taken away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044457\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniella coats herself in a Mexican flag to protest the Trump administration during the ‘No Kings’ protest in San José on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044473 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-2000x666.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/3333/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1-2048x682.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors dressed as battered and imprisoned versions of Lady Liberty (left) and Mo Little Dove (right) join other protestors in a demonstration outside of the Old County Courthouse in San Jose during a No Kings Day protest on June 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044458\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officers from the Santa Clara Sheriff’s Department on duty at the ‘No Kings’ protest in San José. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sara Moiseff, who’s transgender, also took part in the demonstrations in San José, taking aim at the federal government’s immigration enforcement via deportations .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transgender people are one of the most highly ostracized and persecuted minorities in this country, and they continue to receive only more pushback, more hatred, more discrimination,” Moiseff said. “I want to be a part of the fight against oppressive forces in the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044452\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors gather in St. James Park during the ‘No Kings’ protest in San José . \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044454\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SAN-JOSE-AC-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Komar holds up a homemade sign in San José. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a rally in Oakland, which organizers say drew an estimated 10,000 demonstrators, Denise Martin emphasized immigration rights and gay rights as key motivators for coming out to protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are the people and we want to be heard,” Martin said. “Our freedom is important to all of us, and the Constitution. … Nobody’s above the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving a speech at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland Councilmember Carroll Fife said she hadn’t seen such a big crowd in 30 years. She told the crowd that the police chief warned her and other elected officials about coming out today in the wake of the shootings in Minnesota where a Democratic state legislator and her husband were killed and another was injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044478\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland mayor Barbara Lee speaks to a crowd of protesters at the ‘No Kings’ protest in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044480 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of protesters march in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because elected officials are being targeted, because the way that our undocumented citizens are being targeted, makes me want to stand even taller and stronger,” said Fife. “Undocumented immigrants bring trillions of dollars that they will not see a benefit from, and they still work hard for our country. That is the most patriotic thing they could do. We are patriots and we are not ceding ground to the right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congresswoman Lateefah Simon praised what she called “the most diverse congressional district in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We smell the stench of fascism,” said Simon. “Let me say this to the president of the United States: you don’t get to storm the Capitol, lie to our people, defund the future, and then return four years later, demanding a crown. We say: Hell no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Konani Chinn, 20, described the crowd of thousands gathered in Oakland as “super powerful” and praised everyone who came out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a lot of effort for everyone to come out here, especially like I mean this protest is mostly older white people who are privileged. … Protests that I’ve been to personally in the past few years have been a lot of young people, more like marginalized people who are actively being affected. I think it’s really amazing that all these people are coming out regardless of their connection to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-24-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An inflatable Trump chicken is displayed at Frank H. Ogawa plaza in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044522\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"831\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED-2000x665.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED-1536x511.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-DIPTYCH-02-KQED-2048x681.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congresswoman Lateefah Simon (right) addresses hundreds of protesters at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protesters Mary Richardson, Joann George and Carol McCullough all came to the Oakland protest and expressed disgust and shame with their country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything that we had fought for is being taken away from us,” said McCullough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People really need to pay attention,” George added. “when their Medicaid stops and their Social Security gets affected, they will know what this man is about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robin Kettelle, who just turned 66, said at the rally in Oakland, “Enough is enough. I want to show the world that there is another set of beliefs that’s going on in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044479\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250614_NOKINGSOAKLAND_GC-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of protesters march at the ‘No Kings’ protest in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Planning for the national day of action began weeks ago to protest Trump’s military parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Soroceanu said Trump’s deployment of the California National Guard and U.S. Marines in Los Angeles added to the sense of urgency among organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s immigration raids in L.A. this month sparked large-scale protests throughout the region. Trump federalized the National Guard on June 7, deploying 2,000 Guard troops, and later 700 Marines, to respond to the protests. Gov. Gavin Newsom has challenged the move in court, arguing the administration violated the law by not coordinating the deployment with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044464 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250614-NO-KINGS-SF-MD-10-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march in front of City Hall in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This militarization of law enforcement, which is both illegal and inappropriate, has escalated events in L.A. Yesterday, they assaulted a U.S. senator. So this is all behavior of a fascist regime,” Soroceanu said, referring to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043957/california-sen-alex-padilla-forced-to-ground-handcuffed-by-agents-at-dhs-briefing\">an incident Thursday\u003c/a> when California Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>The House of Representatives narrowly approved legislation Thursday to claw back two years of federal funding for public media outlets. President Trump, who has attacked the mainstream media more broadly, has accused NPR and PBS of bias against conservative viewpoints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure passed largely along party lines, 214 to 212.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr4ih/pdf/BILLS-119hr4ih.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>legislation\u003c/u>\u003c/a> is the first request by the Trump administration for Congress to take back money it already has approved through annual spending bills. The bill reflects a list of cuts totaling $9.4 billion that were requested by the Office of Management and Budget. The bulk of the cuts — $8.3 billion — are to foreign aid programs addressing global public health, international disaster assistance and hunger relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remainder would \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/03/nx-s1-5418080/pbs-npr-trump-rescission-public-broadcasting\">\u003cu>slash $1.1 billion\u003c/u>\u003c/a> for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which allocates nearly all of the funds to local stations, for the next two fiscal years. By law, that money is supposed to be approved in advance as part of an effort to insulate public broadcasting from political influence over fleeting issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Majority Leader Steve Scalise formally introduced the legislation last week, saying it “codifies President Trump’s cuts to wasteful foreign aid initiatives within the State Department and USAID, as well as woke public broadcasting, including NPR and PBS, at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is a business the federal government shouldn’t even be in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Heated partisan debate before the vote\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Republicans attacked the programs they targeted for cuts in speeches Thursday before the vote. “Don’t spend money on stupid things and don’t subsidize biased media,” Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats defended public broadcasting as providing essential services. They cited the need for local information during natural disasters and balanced news coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“NPR and PBS are targeted here today precisely because they are so good at delivering the truth,” Texas Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett said. He pointed to Trump’s social media attacks on the outlets, saying, “Trump doesn’t want a country of engaged, informed Americans. He prefers those who salute on command.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12038576 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2206434879-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who has accused Republicans of rubber stamping Trump’s agenda despite their own misgivings, held up a doll of Elmo, the Sesame Street character, on the House floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The letter of the day is ‘C’. How appropriate because this bill is cruel, and it cuts children’s programs all across the country,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a handful of Congressional Republicans have expressed support for their local public radio and television stations, there is intense pressure on them to side with the president. Heritage Action, a grassroots conservative group, designated the vote on the rescissions bill as the first “key vote” included on their scorecard tracking lawmakers’ voting records this session of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Trump’s supporters have been frustrated that Congress has not moved sooner to officially back the cuts recommended or put into motion already by the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE, launched by Elon Musk. Musk initially vowed to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, then scaled back to $1 trillion. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/30/nx-s1-5415641/musk-leaves-doge-what-comes-next\">\u003cu>actual amount\u003c/u>\u003c/a> so far has been a small fraction of the trillion promised. But Musk’s imprint slimming down or gutting some federal agencies has already reverberated in fallout in the U.S. and around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk’s recent departure from the administration and high profile public feud with the president haven’t affected the plans of top GOP leaders on Capitol Hill to schedule votes to formally wipe out spending for the targeted agencies and programs. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he expected additional votes on rescissions requests based on DOGE’s efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the heads of both NPR and PBS testified before a House oversight panel in March, the speaker argued in a statement on social media that NPR and PBS “have consistently and knowingly betrayed the public trust. Instead of fair and balanced reporting, they routinely ignore facts to advance a far left agenda.” He added, “The American people support the free press, but will not be forced to fund a biased political outlet with taxpayer funds.” This is in alignment with criticism from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Conservative views on public media have changed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two former Republican lawmakers say that the GOP sentiment toward public broadcasting has shifted over time — from frequently backing public broadcasting to being skeptical of it, to viewing it as a hostile force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always supported PBS on the rationale that ‘just because Barnes and Nobles sold books didn’t mean public libraries were no longer needed’,” former Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, who served from 1997 to 2009, tells NPR. “But even in those days, I would admonish my friends in PBS to strive for better political balance. This, they haven’t done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith says he gave the same advice after later becoming chief of the National Association of Broadcasters, a trade group to which PBS and NPR do not belong. “Given the size of the public debt and PBS’s ability to find other financing and sell advertising, well, they’ve left themselves vulnerable,” Smith says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former U.S. Rep. Charles Bass came to office with former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s big Republican wave. Bass went on to represent New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District for 14 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The debate over whether to fund public television or public radio networks is more divisive than it was,” Bass says. “By that process, it is likely to be more imperiled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To some extent it’s influenced by the perception that it’s more liberal than it actually is,” Bass says. “There is a bent to it, but it’s not as significant as the commercial networks — Fox and MSNBC on either end and CNN in the middle. They really are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bass says public broadcasting stands apart for avoiding commercial priorities. But, he says, technological changes in how people consume media have raised valid questions about the need for federal subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that the shift in formats from music to all news and public affairs talk by many NPR member stations increased content that has proved controversial and attracted scrutiny by critics, especially on the right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet he also says the lines have hardened within Republican ranks toward public broadcasting as cultural warfare has become increasingly important to the party faithful: first with Gingrich, then with the Tea Party, and now MAGA Republicans with Trump at the lead, each of which have sought to present public media as unworthy of taxpayer dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would be pondering this seriously. I wouldn’t be a lock-step supporter or opponent of public radio or television funding,” Bass says. “That’s true even though I probably listen to [New Hampshire Public Radio] as a news source more than any other source of news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>History of public media funding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Congress created CPB, a private nonprofit entity, in 1967. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the law making CPB the entity to oversee federal grants to more than 300 public television stations and more than 1,000 public radio stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early years, there were questions about the federal role for CPB. In 1969, Fred Rogers, the host of the popular children’s show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7ljRr0AA\">\u003cu>testified\u003c/u>\u003c/a> about the benefit of continued federal funding. His defense of CPB was credited with changing the mind of a key senator, John Pastore, D-R.I., who had pressed Rogers on the value of public television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers described themes in his half-hour program addressing children’s feelings and offering ways to handle them. He told the congressional panel, “I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable we will have done a great service for mental health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers from both parties frequently appear on their local public stations for interviews. They participate in debates hosted by local stations during House and Senate campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for decades, Republicans in Congress have vowed to defund public media outlets. In 1994, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/1994/12/gingrich-wants-to-zero-out-federal-funding-to-cpb/\">\u003cu>argued\u003c/u>\u003c/a> for zeroing out CPB’s budget. That didn’t advance, but in more recent years Republicans have included provisions in annual spending bills to strip all federal money for NPR and PBS. But these have failed to be included in final versions of government funding bills enacted by presidents of both parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the GOP-controlled House \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/03/17/134629713/house-votes-to-cut-nprs-federal-funds\">\u003cu>approved a bill\u003c/u>\u003c/a> to bar NPR from receiving any additional federal funding, but that measure failed to advance in the Senate. Seven House Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll192.xml\">\u003cu>voted against\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that bill, including then-Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy, who now serves as Trump’s transportation secretary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently during years of divided government, GOP leaders had to rely on Democrats to approve must-pass funding bills to avoid shutdowns. The debate over the issue of federal funding for public media became more of a backburner issue. CPB received $535 million for 2025. The spending bill approved with bipartisan votes in the House and Senate and signed by Trump in March approved the same level for the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two months later, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384790/trump-orders-end-to-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs\">\u003cu>issued an executive order\u003c/u>\u003c/a> to block funding for NPR and PBS. And this first effort by the Office of Management and Budget to ask Congress to rescind federal money lumped in public media with foreign aid — two areas the GOP base frequently holds up as priorities Washington needs to scale back or eliminate altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Concern for rural areas\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In advance of the vote, the two House co-chairs of the Public Broadcasting Caucus, Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev, and Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., released a statement urging the Trump administration to “reconsider” clawing back money for CPB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They touted public media’s role in communicating during emergencies and its news coverage, and pointed out that rural areas are “particularly vulnerable” if funding is cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public broadcasting represents less than 0.01% of the federal budget, yet its impact reaches every congressional district,” the two noted. “Cutting this funding will not meaningfully reduce the deficit, but it will dismantle a trusted source of information for millions of Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldman told NPR that Trump’s role in pushing this issue is “100%” making this a tough vote for GOP lawmakers to break with the president. “I think if they looked at the merits of it they would recognize it’s essential funding — and public media, independent journalism plays an essential role.” He added that Trump’s issue is “effectively that independent media that exposes facts that may look unfavorable to him is therefore somehow biased, but the First Amendment protects freedom of the press specifically because the press is an essential form of accountability in our democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans have defended their own local public television and radio stations and expressed a willingness to work with Democrats to avoid cuts that would force them to scale back coverage or staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alabama GOP Rep. Robert Aderholt, pressed by Colorado Democratic Rep. Joe Neguse in a hearing on the bill on Tuesday, said Alabama Public Television “has not been subject to these woke policies that some of these other states have,” and suggested he could join a bipartisan effort to continue grants to local stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Aderholt noted “NPR is in a different category” and said most GOP lawmakers have had concerns about the outlet for some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public television and radio stations have mounted a grassroots lobbying effort to urge lawmakers to oppose the package. The Protect My Public Media campaign says more than 2 million messages have been sent to House and Senate offices. “This support is driven by the deep connections Americans have to their local public media stations and the essential services stations provide to their communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rescissions package now moves to the Senate. Under the rules, it needs a simple majority to pass and must be approved within 45 days of the president sending the request to Capitol Hill. That means if the Senate fails to pass the bill by mid-July, the administration would be required to release the $9.4 billion in funding for the foreign aid programs and CPB. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has indicated the Senate would take up the rescissions request soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Disclosure: This story was reported and written by NPR Congressional Correspondent Deirdre Walsh and Media Correspondent David Folkenflik. It was edited by Deputy Business Editor Emily Kopp, Managing Editor Vickie Walton-James and Managing Editor Gerry Holmes. Under NPR’s protocol for reporting on itself, no corporate official or news executive reviewed this story before it was posted publicly.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who has accused Republicans of rubber stamping Trump’s agenda despite their own misgivings, held up a doll of Elmo, the Sesame Street character, on the House floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The letter of the day is ‘C’. How appropriate because this bill is cruel, and it cuts children’s programs all across the country,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a handful of Congressional Republicans have expressed support for their local public radio and television stations, there is intense pressure on them to side with the president. Heritage Action, a grassroots conservative group, designated the vote on the rescissions bill as the first “key vote” included on their scorecard tracking lawmakers’ voting records this session of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Trump’s supporters have been frustrated that Congress has not moved sooner to officially back the cuts recommended or put into motion already by the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE, launched by Elon Musk. Musk initially vowed to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, then scaled back to $1 trillion. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/30/nx-s1-5415641/musk-leaves-doge-what-comes-next\">\u003cu>actual amount\u003c/u>\u003c/a> so far has been a small fraction of the trillion promised. But Musk’s imprint slimming down or gutting some federal agencies has already reverberated in fallout in the U.S. and around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk’s recent departure from the administration and high profile public feud with the president haven’t affected the plans of top GOP leaders on Capitol Hill to schedule votes to formally wipe out spending for the targeted agencies and programs. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he expected additional votes on rescissions requests based on DOGE’s efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the heads of both NPR and PBS testified before a House oversight panel in March, the speaker argued in a statement on social media that NPR and PBS “have consistently and knowingly betrayed the public trust. Instead of fair and balanced reporting, they routinely ignore facts to advance a far left agenda.” He added, “The American people support the free press, but will not be forced to fund a biased political outlet with taxpayer funds.” This is in alignment with criticism from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Conservative views on public media have changed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two former Republican lawmakers say that the GOP sentiment toward public broadcasting has shifted over time — from frequently backing public broadcasting to being skeptical of it, to viewing it as a hostile force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always supported PBS on the rationale that ‘just because Barnes and Nobles sold books didn’t mean public libraries were no longer needed’,” former Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, who served from 1997 to 2009, tells NPR. “But even in those days, I would admonish my friends in PBS to strive for better political balance. This, they haven’t done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith says he gave the same advice after later becoming chief of the National Association of Broadcasters, a trade group to which PBS and NPR do not belong. “Given the size of the public debt and PBS’s ability to find other financing and sell advertising, well, they’ve left themselves vulnerable,” Smith says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former U.S. Rep. Charles Bass came to office with former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s big Republican wave. Bass went on to represent New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District for 14 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The debate over whether to fund public television or public radio networks is more divisive than it was,” Bass says. “By that process, it is likely to be more imperiled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To some extent it’s influenced by the perception that it’s more liberal than it actually is,” Bass says. “There is a bent to it, but it’s not as significant as the commercial networks — Fox and MSNBC on either end and CNN in the middle. They really are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bass says public broadcasting stands apart for avoiding commercial priorities. But, he says, technological changes in how people consume media have raised valid questions about the need for federal subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that the shift in formats from music to all news and public affairs talk by many NPR member stations increased content that has proved controversial and attracted scrutiny by critics, especially on the right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet he also says the lines have hardened within Republican ranks toward public broadcasting as cultural warfare has become increasingly important to the party faithful: first with Gingrich, then with the Tea Party, and now MAGA Republicans with Trump at the lead, each of which have sought to present public media as unworthy of taxpayer dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would be pondering this seriously. I wouldn’t be a lock-step supporter or opponent of public radio or television funding,” Bass says. “That’s true even though I probably listen to [New Hampshire Public Radio] as a news source more than any other source of news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>History of public media funding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Congress created CPB, a private nonprofit entity, in 1967. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the law making CPB the entity to oversee federal grants to more than 300 public television stations and more than 1,000 public radio stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early years, there were questions about the federal role for CPB. In 1969, Fred Rogers, the host of the popular children’s show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7ljRr0AA\">\u003cu>testified\u003c/u>\u003c/a> about the benefit of continued federal funding. His defense of CPB was credited with changing the mind of a key senator, John Pastore, D-R.I., who had pressed Rogers on the value of public television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers described themes in his half-hour program addressing children’s feelings and offering ways to handle them. He told the congressional panel, “I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable we will have done a great service for mental health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers from both parties frequently appear on their local public stations for interviews. They participate in debates hosted by local stations during House and Senate campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for decades, Republicans in Congress have vowed to defund public media outlets. In 1994, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/1994/12/gingrich-wants-to-zero-out-federal-funding-to-cpb/\">\u003cu>argued\u003c/u>\u003c/a> for zeroing out CPB’s budget. That didn’t advance, but in more recent years Republicans have included provisions in annual spending bills to strip all federal money for NPR and PBS. But these have failed to be included in final versions of government funding bills enacted by presidents of both parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the GOP-controlled House \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/03/17/134629713/house-votes-to-cut-nprs-federal-funds\">\u003cu>approved a bill\u003c/u>\u003c/a> to bar NPR from receiving any additional federal funding, but that measure failed to advance in the Senate. Seven House Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll192.xml\">\u003cu>voted against\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that bill, including then-Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy, who now serves as Trump’s transportation secretary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently during years of divided government, GOP leaders had to rely on Democrats to approve must-pass funding bills to avoid shutdowns. 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Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., released a statement urging the Trump administration to “reconsider” clawing back money for CPB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They touted public media’s role in communicating during emergencies and its news coverage, and pointed out that rural areas are “particularly vulnerable” if funding is cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public broadcasting represents less than 0.01% of the federal budget, yet its impact reaches every congressional district,” the two noted. “Cutting this funding will not meaningfully reduce the deficit, but it will dismantle a trusted source of information for millions of Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldman told NPR that Trump’s role in pushing this issue is “100%” making this a tough vote for GOP lawmakers to break with the president. “I think if they looked at the merits of it they would recognize it’s essential funding — and public media, independent journalism plays an essential role.” He added that Trump’s issue is “effectively that independent media that exposes facts that may look unfavorable to him is therefore somehow biased, but the First Amendment protects freedom of the press specifically because the press is an essential form of accountability in our democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans have defended their own local public television and radio stations and expressed a willingness to work with Democrats to avoid cuts that would force them to scale back coverage or staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alabama GOP Rep. Robert Aderholt, pressed by Colorado Democratic Rep. Joe Neguse in a hearing on the bill on Tuesday, said Alabama Public Television “has not been subject to these woke policies that some of these other states have,” and suggested he could join a bipartisan effort to continue grants to local stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Aderholt noted “NPR is in a different category” and said most GOP lawmakers have had concerns about the outlet for some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public television and radio stations have mounted a grassroots lobbying effort to urge lawmakers to oppose the package. The Protect My Public Media campaign says more than 2 million messages have been sent to House and Senate offices. “This support is driven by the deep connections Americans have to their local public media stations and the essential services stations provide to their communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rescissions package now moves to the Senate. Under the rules, it needs a simple majority to pass and must be approved within 45 days of the president sending the request to Capitol Hill. That means if the Senate fails to pass the bill by mid-July, the administration would be required to release the $9.4 billion in funding for the foreign aid programs and CPB. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has indicated the Senate would take up the rescissions request soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Disclosure: This story was reported and written by NPR Congressional Correspondent Deirdre Walsh and Media Correspondent David Folkenflik. It was edited by Deputy Business Editor Emily Kopp, Managing Editor Vickie Walton-James and Managing Editor Gerry Holmes. Under NPR’s protocol for reporting on itself, no corporate official or news executive reviewed this story before it was posted publicly.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Abrego Garcia was arrested on March 12 on his way home from work in Baltimore. He was deported a few days later, along with more than 230 other immigrants, and housed at CECOT. By April 20, according to court documents, Abrego Garcia was moved to a lower security Salvadoran prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration was quick to admit that it had deported Abrego Garcia due to an “administrative error.” Abrego Garcia, who had arrived unlawfully in the U.S., when he was a teenager, had received protection from removal to El Salvador in 2019 by an immigration judge. That protection, known as withholding of removal, had never been challenged by government officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland has overseen the months-long legal case over the deportation of Abrego Garcia. Xinis, an Obama-appointed judge, last month ordered the government to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return. 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Musk did not provide any evidence of this, and Musk has in the past accused people of sex crimes without evidence. The White House had no immediate comment on Musk’s post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public feud seemed to drive a stake through what had been a big-money political bromance. Musk, who spent close to $300 million to elect Trump and became one of his closest advisers before leaving the administration last week, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1930685402631053403\">suggested it was time to start a new political party\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump was asked about Musk’s criticism of the megabill at the White House\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The sniping was sparked by comments Trump made in the Oval Office earlier in the day when asked about Musk’s criticism of the tax and spending bill. Trump said he was surprised that Musk had been scorching the package, but said he thought Musk was wrong and conflicted in his criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12037319 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2207057172-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s worn that hat, ‘Trump was right about everything’ — and I am right about the great big, beautiful, bill,” Trump said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Musk “knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody” and “never had a problem until right after he left.” On X, Musk quickly countered, claiming “this bill was never shown to me even once.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk, who for months led the administration’s government-slashing unit, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/03/nx-s1-5422350/elon-musk-trump-reconciliation-bill\">called the bill “pork-filled” and a “disgusting abomination.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the entire history of civilization, there has never been legislation that both big and beautiful,” Musk posted Thursday. “Everyone knows this! Either you get a big and ugly bill or a slim and beautiful bill. Slim and beautiful is the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said he thought Musk was upset because \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/03/nx-s1-5414604/ev-tax-credits-republican-bill\">the bill proposes to cut subsidies for electric vehicles\u003c/a>, a policy that would affect his company Tesla, and because Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/01/nx-s1-5419455/trump-withdraws-nasa-nominee-musk\">pulled his nominee for NASA\u003c/a> on Saturday. That pick, Jared Isaacman, had been recommended by Musk, and the nomination had cleared committee and was awaiting Senate confirmation. Isaacman is a friend of Musk, and his online payment company, Shift 4, has financial ties to SpaceX. On Thursday, Trump suggested he didn’t think the relationship “was appropriate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that Musk had only had positive things to say upon \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/30/nx-s1-5415641/musk-leaves-doge-what-comes-next\">leaving the Oval Office last week\u003c/a>. “You saw a man who was very happy when he stood behind the Oval desk. And even with the black eye — I said, ‘You want a little makeup? We’ll get you there to make up,’ but he said, ‘No, I don’t think so.’ Which is interesting and very nice. He wants to be who he is,” Trump said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said he thought that Musk missed being part of the action at the White House, and said he was similar to other former staffers who leave to become critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They leave, and they wake up in the morning, and the glamor is gone. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Congress moves forward with a controversial \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/upshot/medicaid-republicans-work-requirement.html\">proposal to require people to report work hours\u003c/a> to keep Medicaid, more than a million of California’s poorest residents could lose their health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget bill that the U.S. House advanced last week includes a requirement that certain adults — largely those under 65 without children or a disability — meet work reporting rules. In California, about a third of them could lose their health coverage, according to an analysis by the research group Urban Institute. Based on 2026 enrollment projections, that’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/research/publication/expanding-federal-work-requirements-medicaid-expansion-coverage-age-64-would\">between 1.2 and 1.4 million\u003c/a> Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Congress looks at Medicaid for ways to help offset the cost of extending President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, imposing work requirements has increasingly been deemed as one of the most feasible and significant cost-savings actions. House Speaker Mike Johnson \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-johnson-house-speaker-trump-bill-medicaid-work-requirements/\">told CBS that work requirements\u003c/a> have a “moral component” and that people who don’t work are “defrauding the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But health policy researchers and advocates point to New Hampshire and Arkansas, where state-imposed work requirements failed in recent years. Their \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00538\">policies didn’t actually boost employment\u003c/a>; they did, however, leave thousands of eligible people without health insurance within a matter of months. Both states have since canceled their work policies. Georgia is the only state that currently has work requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide and in California, about two-thirds of Medicaid enrollees work, according to the health research firm KFF. Another 29% care for children, attend school or have a disability that would exempt them. But health advocates say the additional red tape to prove employment could be so cumbersome that many eligible people would fall out of the health insurance program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You might say you’re combating waste, fraud and abuse,” said Katherine Hempstead, a senior policy officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a nonprofit health advocacy organization that funds policy research. But “the way you’re going to save money is by people inadvertently or accidentally losing their coverage. The program saves money through mistakes. And that’s not a good way to run social insurance or to run policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medi-Cal — the California version of Medicaid — provides health insurance to almost 15 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diana Alfaro, associate executive director of Central City Neighborhood Partners, a nonprofit that helps people enroll in public benefits and services, says some of her low-income clients in Los Angeles who rely on Medi-Cal are employed — but not always in “typical” paying jobs. They are housekeepers, gardeners, construction workers and others who don’t have a regular paycheck or a single employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/052825_WorkRequirements_JC_CM_16-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A person with long, wavy dark hair smiles while leaning on a podium decorated with various organizational logos. They wear a navy blouse with white trim and black pants, standing against a bright blue background. The overall mood is confident and welcoming.\">\u003cfigcaption>Diana Alfaro, shown at the Central City Neighborhood Partners office in Los Angeles, worries about people who will have trouble documenting work requirements if Congress’ proposal is enacted. Many are housekeepers, gardeners or others without a single employer and pay stubs. \u003cem>Jill Connelly for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, it’s unclear exactly what documentation enrollees would need to show if a work requirement is enacted. But Alfaro is concerned that it could be especially challenging for people whose schedules fluctuate or who are paid in cash and don’t receive a pay stub that shows their hours worked. Some enrollees use a copy of their taxes, a letter from their employer or in some cases self-attestation to verify income eligibility when first applying for Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of them are doing those jobs of gardening or being a nanny or a housekeeper, and so they’re already going to have a hard time getting a letter that certifies the amount of hours that they’re doing if this were to pass,” Alfaro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>House proposal requires 80 hours a month of work or school\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The work requirement proposal is part of President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” which the U.S. House passed last week and is now in the hands of the Senate. All nine of California’s House Republicans voted in favor of the bill, while all Democrats voted against it.[aside postID=news_12039465 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg']The current version requires certain adults to log at least 80 hours a month of “community engagement,” which could be employment, school or volunteer work. As proposed, the rule would pertain specifically to adults ages 19 to 64 who qualify for Medicaid as part of an expansion under the Affordable Care Act. Pregnant women, parents and caregivers of young children, and people with mental and physical disabilities would be exempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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David Valadao, a California Republican who represents portions of the San Joaquin Valley that have some of the highest Medicaid enrollment, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBNAOogpqGs\">told ABC’s Bakersfield affiliate\u003c/a> that work requirements are a fair ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those who are able-bodied with no dependents and you choose not to try to make that effort to go get a job, go to school or volunteer, do something in your community, yeah you’re probably going to be affected by this, but the average person who is working really hard to provide for their family thinks that’s the right thing to do,” Valadao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rep. Laura Friedman, a California Democrat representing Los Angeles, said it is the responsibility of the government to help people stay safe and healthy, but work requirements would do the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want to make it so hard for you and your family to access care with these onerous work requirements that you say ‘I’m not even going to bother, I’ll just try not to get sick,’” Friedman said during a press conference this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman said the proposed cuts and requirements in the House bill would lead to more uncompensated care costs for clinics and hospitals, which ultimately could lead to reduced services for entire communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/052825_WorkRequirements_JC_CM_02-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Two people sit across from each other at a white table in a brightly lit community center. One person, wearing a blue blazer, types on a laptop and speaks while holding a pen. The other person listens attentively, seated with hands on the table. Papers, folders, and a red wallet are spread out between them. The background includes folding chairs, a table with flowers, and yellow walls.\">\u003cfigcaption>Health navigator Elba Medina, right, works with Carmen Umana to apply for Medi-Cal. \u003cem>Jill Connelly for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As currently drafted in the House bill, work requirements would kick in on Dec. 31, 2026. States would have the option to start earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the work rules, the House budget bill proposes several other changes, including requiring these enrollees to verify their income every six months, rather than once a year. 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Like many populists, Trump wants to “Make America Great Again” and champions nostalgia about a past golden age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said he wants to remind Americans of “our extraordinary heritage, consistent progress toward becoming a more perfect Union, and unmatched record of advancing liberty, prosperity, and human flourishing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many historians are sounding an alarm and say the president is going too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics worry that the executive actions taken together, for instance, would minimize or even erase achievements by women and minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Organization of American Historians says that under the Trump administration, institutions such as museums and historic parks are now “\u003ca href=\"https://www.oah.org/2025/03/31/statement-on-executive-order-restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">under assault\u003c/a>.” The 6,000-member group calls the president’s order “a disturbing attack on core institutions and the public presentation of history, and indeed on historians and history itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s allies defend his executive actions, saying they’re meant to correct what conservatives see as attempts to skew history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Trump continues to fulfill his promise in restoring truth and common sense to the United States and its institutions,” White House Spokesman Davis Ingle said in a statement to NPR. “President Trump is ensuring that we are celebrating true American history and ingenuity instead of corrupting it in the name of left-wing ideology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041448\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041448\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1259\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-800x630.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-1020x803.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-1536x1209.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cadets training to join the first black combat unit in the US Army Air Corps are seen with an instructor in Tuskegee, Ala., on Sept. 5, 1942. \u003ccite>(AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here’s a sampling of Trump’s actions, and what critics and supporters say about the battle over how the country’s cultural and historical heritage should be presented.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Executive actions and orders related to history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul class=\"edTag\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">Restoring Truth And Sanity To American History\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nThe\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342914/smithsonian-president-trump-executive-order\"> March 27 executive order\u003c/a> calls for the removal of “divisive, race-centered ideology” at the Smithsonian Institution, and instructs the Interior secretary to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5343613/trump-executive-order-smithsonian-monuments\">revoke recent changes to landmarks and monuments\u003c/a> if they’re found to “perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/improving-education-outcomes-by-empowering-parents-states-and-communities/\">Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nThe March 20 executive order seeks to shut down the Department of Education. It also \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/03/nx-s1-5350978/trump-administration-warns-schools-about-dei-programs\">calls for withholding federal money\u003c/a> from programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion or “promoting gender ideology.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/\">Continuing The Reduction Of The Federal Bureaucracy\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nThe March 14 presidential action seeks to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which sends federal money to\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5364825/small-and-rural-libraries-are-feeling-the-cuts-from-president-trumps-executive-order\"> libraries and museums\u003c/a>, and six other agencies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-americas-fighting-force/\">Restoring America’s Fighting Force\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nThe Jan. 27 action abolishes DEI programs and initiatives in the military, long seen as a pioneer in America’s push toward racial equality. The Trump administration later \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5334461/pentagon-black-veterans-navajo-code-talkers-website-diversity\">reverses a purge of Pentagon webpages\u003c/a> featuring notable female and minority veterans.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\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>\u003cbr>\nThe Jan. 29 action revives Trump’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/17/914127266/trump-announces-patriotic-education-commission-a-largely-political-move\"> 2020 call for “patriotic education.”\u003c/a> It accuses schools of indoctrinating children in anti-American ideologies, citing gender policies and stating that “demanding acquiescence to ‘White Privilege’ or ‘unconscious bias,’ actually promotes racial discrimination and undermines national unity.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-names-that-honor-american-greatness/\">Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTrump seeks to put his stamp on the map in this Jan. 20 action, calling for changing the name of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5269660/president-trump-promises-to-rename-the-mountain-denali-as-mount-mckinley\">Alaskan mountain known as Denali\u003c/a> back to its earlier name, Mount McKinley, and changing the Gulf of Mexico to\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/03/nx-s1-5281985/google-maps-gulf-of-mexico-america\"> the Gulf of America\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/celebrating-americas-250th-birthday/\">Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nThe action from Jan. 29 reinstates and expands Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/18/958079495/i-beg-your-garden-trump-adds-hero-names-to-statue-garden-unlikely-to-take-root\">2020 plan\u003c/a> to create a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5375767/trump-national-garden-of-american-heroes-statues\">National Garden of American Heroes\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-building-national-garden-american-heroes/\">original list\u003c/a> includes civil rights activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett and anti-abortion activist Nellie Gray, along with actor John Wayne and Oglala Lakota war strategist \u003ca href=\"https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2013-11-13/the-only-indian-chief-to-win-a-war-against-the-u-s-army\">Red Cloud\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Competing visions of how to view American history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s common for U.S. presidents to consider history as they take office — and to overturn their predecessors’ actions, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/14/997010619/biden-dissolves-controversial-trump-orders-on-race-and-culture\">Joe Biden did after Trump’s first term\u003c/a>. But historians say Trump is charting new territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than seeking to place himself in [history], he’s trying to transform it to fit him,” says Jefferson Cowie, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at Vanderbilt University. He calls Trump’s approach a “completely different kind of project” than previous presidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041449\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denali, the tallest mountain on the North American continent, is seen here looming behind a boat on the Susitna River near Talkeetna, Alaska, in June 2021. \u003ccite>(Mark Thiessen/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cowie says that Trump’s long-running slogan, “Make America Great Again,” points to how he wants to portray history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like a lot of populists, he works on nostalgia for a golden age,” the historian says. “This idea that somebody took your birthright and there’s some version of America we need to get back to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cowie says the president seems to invoke two different eras as touchstones: the golden age of American manufacturing, when work was stable and wages weren’t stagnant, and the 1950s, the pre-Civil Rights era of what Cowie describes as white, patriarchal households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approach hints at an essential divide in interpreting the story of the United States: Is America a country striving to return to former glory, or a nation on a continuous arc of self-improvement?[aside postID=forum_2010101909697 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/04/GettyImages-2207404060-smithsonian-1020x574.jpg']Those visions have always been competing, says Angela Diaz, an associate professor specializing in Civil War history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A large majority of Americans — for instance, women, people of color, the impoverished — did not, in fact, flourish during the so-called golden eras of the past, Diaz and other historians note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many groups, a return to the past would mean “erasing a lot of the legal, economic, political, technological, social progress that the country has made and calling all of that into question,” Diaz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz also says history should include more stories: “The more voices we have in our history, the fuller it is, the richer it is. And I would say the more accurate it is, in terms of its complexity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Organization of American Historians agrees. In its response to Trump’s order on American History, it warned that his action “proposes to rewrite history to reflect a glorified narrative that downplays or disappears elements of America’s history — slavery, segregation, discrimination, division — while suppressing the voices of historically excluded groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some instances, legal challenges have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5388902/library-funding-cuts-trump-injunction\">put some of the initiatives on hold\u003c/a> for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Conservatives applaud Trump’s moves\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Conservative groups have largely welcomed Trump’s push to influence history and culture. That includes the Heritage Foundation, creators of \u003ca href=\"https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project 2025\u003c/a>, which lays out how the president should combat what it calls “the totalitarian cult known today as ‘The Great Awokening.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Butcher, a Heritage Foundation\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>senior fellow focusing on education, praises Trump’s reinstatement of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/sites/ed/files/about/bdscomm/list/1776/final-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1776 Project\u003c/a> on U.S. history.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>The presidential advisory commission’s report was released in the final days of Trump’s first administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was seen as a counterpoint to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/914519531/creator-of-1619-project-on-trumps-patriotic-education\">1619 Project\u003c/a> by Nikole Hannah-Jones and \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>. The Pulitzer Prize-winning series’ goal was, in its own words, to reframe American history by “placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1776 Report lists what the advisory commission described as five “challenges to America’s principles”: slavery, progressivism, fascism, communism and “racism and identity politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that document helps to underlie the executive orders that have come” from the White House, Butcher says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041450\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1161\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-1020x740.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-1536x1115.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People attend the unveiling of a Confederate monument surrounded by U.S. and Confederate flags at Arlington Cemetery, Va., on June 4, 1914. \u003ccite>(Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the administration looks to prohibit DEI programs in schools, he adds, “it is with the understanding that those particular concepts are based on racial favoritism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butcher agrees that there is a tension between two fundamental approaches to history: one focusing on America’s ideals, and one focusing on the country’s failures to embody them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those two ideas are always going to be in competition in American life,” Butcher says. The country’s story includes the institution of slavery and the Jim Crow era, he explains, as well as the Constitution and the Declaration\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>of Independence and the notion of God-given individual rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Butcher’s view, the history of race in the U.S. has been portrayed recently in inaccurate or problematic ways, citing both \u003cem>The 1619 Project\u003c/em> and an influential essay, “\u003ca href=\"https://admin.artsci.washington.edu/sites/adming/files/unpacking-invisible-knapsack.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack\u003c/a>” by Peggy McIntosh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criticizing those works, Butcher argues that they’re based on the “idea that there are burdens that America will either never get around or that systemic racism can’t be resolved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t give students the chance to look back in American history and say these were, of course, imperfect people who were trying, in many cases, in key cases, to live up to America’s founding ideals,” Butcher says. “And I think that that’s the message that we need to be giving to the next generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Renaming places can unite people — if done correctly\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the U.S., recent pushes to transform how the past is remembered echo another large-scale attempt at revamping history: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.neh.gov/news/reconstruction-vs-redemption\">Redemption era\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the decades after the Civil War, white Southerners led a violent counteraction to Reconstruction and sought a return to the old order based on white supremacy. Statues and monuments sprang up to honor the Confederacy. Through at least the 1940s, U.S. military bases were named for Confederate leaders, \u003ca href=\"https://history.army.mil/Research/Frequently-Asked-Questions/Naming-of-US-Army-Posts/\">according to the U.S. Army\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1950s and ’60s, as tensions again rose over civil rights in the U.S., so did memorials to the Confederacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past decade, many monuments and memorials linked to white supremacy made headlines again. This time, they’ve been targeted for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/05/633952187/where-do-confederate-monuments-go-after-they-come-down\">removal\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/11/06/1211025633/the-last-army-base-named-for-a-confederate-general-is-now-called-fort-eisenhower\">renaming\u003c/a> during a national reckoning that grew after shocking events such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/06/08/481149042/how-a-shooting-changed-charlestons-oldest-black-church\">mass shooting that killed nine Black worshipers\u003c/a> at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/20/987777911/court-says-jury-has-reached-verdict-in-derek-chauvins-murder-trial\">the police killing of George Floyd\u003c/a> in Minneapolis in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar dynamic can be seen in other countries: In times of social and political upheaval, leaders seek to refocus the lens of history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political regimes seek “to represent and manipulate landscapes to promote their own ideological and political objectives,” says Martha Lungi Kabinde-Machate, who\u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03736245.2024.2418603\"> studies language and names\u003c/a> at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing things like street names, she says, helps politicians focus “on cleansing, restoring, and transforming memory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kabinde-Machate has analyzed what happened after the end of apartheid when South Africa renamed geographic markers like streets. The most successful efforts, she says, use eponyms “that unite people rather than names that cause divisions … These [uniting] names include athletes, poets, scholars, doctors, and musicians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, President Trump appears to be following this thinking: Many people to be featured in the “Garden of American Heroes” are from entertainment (Alex Trebek) and sports (Kobe Bryant). But his approach to military forts and historical markers is more divisive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/06/10/trump-opposes-changing-bases-named-for-confederate-generals/\">previously opposed a plan to rename U.S. bases\u003c/a> if their namesakes were Confederate figures. And in his second term, Trump’s defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has restored names such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.live5news.com/2025/03/03/pentagon-changes-name-georgia-army-base-back-fort-benning-dumping-fort-moore/\">Fort Benning\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293246/hegseth-fort-bragg-liberty-name\">Fort Bragg\u003c/a>. The Pentagon says those two installations now honor U.S. veterans with the same last names as Confederate officers. But as Hegseth announced the change to the now-former Fort Liberty in North Carolina, he stated, “That’s right: Bragg is back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such reversions raise a question: The Trump administration’s push to remake American history is stirring controversy, but what kind of lasting effects might it have?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as the data is not lost, it seems all reversible,” Vanderbilt’s Cowie says. “Especially since they’re executive orders, which you can immediately reverse with a new regime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Trump’s intent is to make changes that truly resonate and reflect America, Kabinde-Machate’s work suggests that the process should be transparent. The goal, she says, is that “everyone has a chance to participate and express their opinions on the process; the information should be made public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many historians are sounding an alarm and say the president is going too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics worry that the executive actions taken together, for instance, would minimize or even erase achievements by women and minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Organization of American Historians says that under the Trump administration, institutions such as museums and historic parks are now “\u003ca href=\"https://www.oah.org/2025/03/31/statement-on-executive-order-restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">under assault\u003c/a>.” The 6,000-member group calls the president’s order “a disturbing attack on core institutions and the public presentation of history, and indeed on historians and history itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s allies defend his executive actions, saying they’re meant to correct what conservatives see as attempts to skew history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Trump continues to fulfill his promise in restoring truth and common sense to the United States and its institutions,” White House Spokesman Davis Ingle said in a statement to NPR. “President Trump is ensuring that we are celebrating true American history and ingenuity instead of corrupting it in the name of left-wing ideology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041448\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041448\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1259\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-800x630.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-1020x803.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-160x126.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-11-1536x1209.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cadets training to join the first black combat unit in the US Army Air Corps are seen with an instructor in Tuskegee, Ala., on Sept. 5, 1942. \u003ccite>(AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here’s a sampling of Trump’s actions, and what critics and supporters say about the battle over how the country’s cultural and historical heritage should be presented.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Executive actions and orders related to history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul class=\"edTag\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">Restoring Truth And Sanity To American History\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nThe\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342914/smithsonian-president-trump-executive-order\"> March 27 executive order\u003c/a> calls for the removal of “divisive, race-centered ideology” at the Smithsonian Institution, and instructs the Interior secretary to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5343613/trump-executive-order-smithsonian-monuments\">revoke recent changes to landmarks and monuments\u003c/a> if they’re found to “perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/improving-education-outcomes-by-empowering-parents-states-and-communities/\">Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nThe March 20 executive order seeks to shut down the Department of Education. It also \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/03/nx-s1-5350978/trump-administration-warns-schools-about-dei-programs\">calls for withholding federal money\u003c/a> from programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion or “promoting gender ideology.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/\">Continuing The Reduction Of The Federal Bureaucracy\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nThe March 14 presidential action seeks to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which sends federal money to\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5364825/small-and-rural-libraries-are-feeling-the-cuts-from-president-trumps-executive-order\"> libraries and museums\u003c/a>, and six other agencies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-americas-fighting-force/\">Restoring America’s Fighting Force\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nThe Jan. 27 action abolishes DEI programs and initiatives in the military, long seen as a pioneer in America’s push toward racial equality. The Trump administration later \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5334461/pentagon-black-veterans-navajo-code-talkers-website-diversity\">reverses a purge of Pentagon webpages\u003c/a> featuring notable female and minority veterans.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\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>\u003cbr>\nThe Jan. 29 action revives Trump’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/17/914127266/trump-announces-patriotic-education-commission-a-largely-political-move\"> 2020 call for “patriotic education.”\u003c/a> It accuses schools of indoctrinating children in anti-American ideologies, citing gender policies and stating that “demanding acquiescence to ‘White Privilege’ or ‘unconscious bias,’ actually promotes racial discrimination and undermines national unity.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-names-that-honor-american-greatness/\">Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTrump seeks to put his stamp on the map in this Jan. 20 action, calling for changing the name of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5269660/president-trump-promises-to-rename-the-mountain-denali-as-mount-mckinley\">Alaskan mountain known as Denali\u003c/a> back to its earlier name, Mount McKinley, and changing the Gulf of Mexico to\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/03/nx-s1-5281985/google-maps-gulf-of-mexico-america\"> the Gulf of America\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/celebrating-americas-250th-birthday/\">Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nThe action from Jan. 29 reinstates and expands Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/18/958079495/i-beg-your-garden-trump-adds-hero-names-to-statue-garden-unlikely-to-take-root\">2020 plan\u003c/a> to create a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5375767/trump-national-garden-of-american-heroes-statues\">National Garden of American Heroes\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-building-national-garden-american-heroes/\">original list\u003c/a> includes civil rights activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett and anti-abortion activist Nellie Gray, along with actor John Wayne and Oglala Lakota war strategist \u003ca href=\"https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2013-11-13/the-only-indian-chief-to-win-a-war-against-the-u-s-army\">Red Cloud\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Competing visions of how to view American history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s common for U.S. presidents to consider history as they take office — and to overturn their predecessors’ actions, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/14/997010619/biden-dissolves-controversial-trump-orders-on-race-and-culture\">Joe Biden did after Trump’s first term\u003c/a>. But historians say Trump is charting new territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than seeking to place himself in [history], he’s trying to transform it to fit him,” says Jefferson Cowie, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at Vanderbilt University. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Those visions have always been competing, says Angela Diaz, an associate professor specializing in Civil War history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A large majority of Americans — for instance, women, people of color, the impoverished — did not, in fact, flourish during the so-called golden eras of the past, Diaz and other historians note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many groups, a return to the past would mean “erasing a lot of the legal, economic, political, technological, social progress that the country has made and calling all of that into question,” Diaz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz also says history should include more stories: “The more voices we have in our history, the fuller it is, the richer it is. And I would say the more accurate it is, in terms of its complexity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Organization of American Historians agrees. In its response to Trump’s order on American History, it warned that his action “proposes to rewrite history to reflect a glorified narrative that downplays or disappears elements of America’s history — slavery, segregation, discrimination, division — while suppressing the voices of historically excluded groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some instances, legal challenges have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5388902/library-funding-cuts-trump-injunction\">put some of the initiatives on hold\u003c/a> for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Conservatives applaud Trump’s moves\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Conservative groups have largely welcomed Trump’s push to influence history and culture. That includes the Heritage Foundation, creators of \u003ca href=\"https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project 2025\u003c/a>, which lays out how the president should combat what it calls “the totalitarian cult known today as ‘The Great Awokening.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Butcher, a Heritage Foundation\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>senior fellow focusing on education, praises Trump’s reinstatement of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/sites/ed/files/about/bdscomm/list/1776/final-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1776 Project\u003c/a> on U.S. history.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>The presidential advisory commission’s report was released in the final days of Trump’s first administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was seen as a counterpoint to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/914519531/creator-of-1619-project-on-trumps-patriotic-education\">1619 Project\u003c/a> by Nikole Hannah-Jones and \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>. The Pulitzer Prize-winning series’ goal was, in its own words, to reframe American history by “placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1776 Report lists what the advisory commission described as five “challenges to America’s principles”: slavery, progressivism, fascism, communism and “racism and identity politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that document helps to underlie the executive orders that have come” from the White House, Butcher says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041450\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1161\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-1020x740.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-1536x1115.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People attend the unveiling of a Confederate monument surrounded by U.S. and Confederate flags at Arlington Cemetery, Va., on June 4, 1914. \u003ccite>(Library of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the administration looks to prohibit DEI programs in schools, he adds, “it is with the understanding that those particular concepts are based on racial favoritism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butcher agrees that there is a tension between two fundamental approaches to history: one focusing on America’s ideals, and one focusing on the country’s failures to embody them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those two ideas are always going to be in competition in American life,” Butcher says. The country’s story includes the institution of slavery and the Jim Crow era, he explains, as well as the Constitution and the Declaration\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>of Independence and the notion of God-given individual rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Butcher’s view, the history of race in the U.S. has been portrayed recently in inaccurate or problematic ways, citing both \u003cem>The 1619 Project\u003c/em> and an influential essay, “\u003ca href=\"https://admin.artsci.washington.edu/sites/adming/files/unpacking-invisible-knapsack.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack\u003c/a>” by Peggy McIntosh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criticizing those works, Butcher argues that they’re based on the “idea that there are burdens that America will either never get around or that systemic racism can’t be resolved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t give students the chance to look back in American history and say these were, of course, imperfect people who were trying, in many cases, in key cases, to live up to America’s founding ideals,” Butcher says. “And I think that that’s the message that we need to be giving to the next generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Renaming places can unite people — if done correctly\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the U.S., recent pushes to transform how the past is remembered echo another large-scale attempt at revamping history: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.neh.gov/news/reconstruction-vs-redemption\">Redemption era\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the decades after the Civil War, white Southerners led a violent counteraction to Reconstruction and sought a return to the old order based on white supremacy. Statues and monuments sprang up to honor the Confederacy. Through at least the 1940s, U.S. military bases were named for Confederate leaders, \u003ca href=\"https://history.army.mil/Research/Frequently-Asked-Questions/Naming-of-US-Army-Posts/\">according to the U.S. Army\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1950s and ’60s, as tensions again rose over civil rights in the U.S., so did memorials to the Confederacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past decade, many monuments and memorials linked to white supremacy made headlines again. This time, they’ve been targeted for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/05/633952187/where-do-confederate-monuments-go-after-they-come-down\">removal\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/11/06/1211025633/the-last-army-base-named-for-a-confederate-general-is-now-called-fort-eisenhower\">renaming\u003c/a> during a national reckoning that grew after shocking events such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/06/08/481149042/how-a-shooting-changed-charlestons-oldest-black-church\">mass shooting that killed nine Black worshipers\u003c/a> at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/20/987777911/court-says-jury-has-reached-verdict-in-derek-chauvins-murder-trial\">the police killing of George Floyd\u003c/a> in Minneapolis in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar dynamic can be seen in other countries: In times of social and political upheaval, leaders seek to refocus the lens of history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political regimes seek “to represent and manipulate landscapes to promote their own ideological and political objectives,” says Martha Lungi Kabinde-Machate, who\u003ca href=\"https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03736245.2024.2418603\"> studies language and names\u003c/a> at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing things like street names, she says, helps politicians focus “on cleansing, restoring, and transforming memory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kabinde-Machate has analyzed what happened after the end of apartheid when South Africa renamed geographic markers like streets. The most successful efforts, she says, use eponyms “that unite people rather than names that cause divisions … These [uniting] names include athletes, poets, scholars, doctors, and musicians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, President Trump appears to be following this thinking: Many people to be featured in the “Garden of American Heroes” are from entertainment (Alex Trebek) and sports (Kobe Bryant). But his approach to military forts and historical markers is more divisive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/06/10/trump-opposes-changing-bases-named-for-confederate-generals/\">previously opposed a plan to rename U.S. bases\u003c/a> if their namesakes were Confederate figures. And in his second term, Trump’s defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has restored names such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.live5news.com/2025/03/03/pentagon-changes-name-georgia-army-base-back-fort-benning-dumping-fort-moore/\">Fort Benning\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293246/hegseth-fort-bragg-liberty-name\">Fort Bragg\u003c/a>. The Pentagon says those two installations now honor U.S. veterans with the same last names as Confederate officers. But as Hegseth announced the change to the now-former Fort Liberty in North Carolina, he stated, “That’s right: Bragg is back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such reversions raise a question: The Trump administration’s push to remake American history is stirring controversy, but what kind of lasting effects might it have?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as the data is not lost, it seems all reversible,” Vanderbilt’s Cowie says. “Especially since they’re executive orders, which you can immediately reverse with a new regime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Trump’s intent is to make changes that truly resonate and reflect America, Kabinde-Machate’s work suggests that the process should be transparent. The goal, she says, is that “everyone has a chance to participate and express their opinions on the process; the information should be made public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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