Newsom says Trump has ‘relentless, unhinged California obsession’

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom , a Democrat, on Tuesday argued that President Donald Trump and his administration have a "relentless, unhinged California obsession."

In a letter to the state legislature, Newsom touted the state’s achievements through the State of the State tackle on its one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary of statehood. The governor additionally posted a clip of himself delivering a shortened model of the tackle on social media.

Newsom has not delivered a proper State of the State tackle the final three years, regardless of a long time of custom of doing simply that. He has as an alternative opted for letters and prerecorded movies.

"We at the moment are 9 months right into a battle to guard the values we maintain most pricey and to protect the financial and social basis we constructed for California," Newsom wrote. "We face a federal administration constructed on incompetence and malicious ignorance, one which seeks the demise of unbiased pondering."

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom argued that President Donald Trump and his administration have a "relentless, unhinged California obsession." (AP Picture/John Bazemore)

California has been a goal for the Trump administration over points resembling immigration, by which federal raids focusing on migrant staff over the summer time sparked protests towards arrests and deportations. Newsom butted heads with the administration over its transfer to deploy the Nationwide Guard and the Marines to the Los Angeles space to reply to the demonstrations and help immigration enforcement.

The federal authorities has additionally minimize funding for the state’s long-delayed high-speed rail venture, rolled again the state’s rule prohibiting the sale of latest gas-powered autos and sued the state over a legislation that permits transgender women to compete on sports activities groups matching their gender identification reasonably than their organic intercourse.

California, in the meantime, has filed 41 lawsuits towards the administration.

Earlier this 12 months, state lawmakers authorised giving $50 million to the state’s Division of Justice and different authorized teams to assist protect its progressive insurance policies.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has not delivered a proper State of the State tackle in just a few years. (Getty Pictures)

Newsom stated California is also challenging the president’s transfer to droop funding to the College of California, Los Angeles, over allegations of antisemitism on campus and affirmative motion.

"It could be a mistake to assume California is cowering within the face of this onslaught," Newsom stated.

The governor’s letter additionally detailed what he described because the state’s achievements, together with the state’s resiliency and fast restoration effort after the wildfires in Los Angeles earlier this 12 months, in addition to developments in tech, inexperienced power and schooling.

Newsom additionally lauded the state’s tens of hundreds of younger volunteers and a tax credit score program to deliver again Hollywood productions.

California has sued the Trump administration 41 instances. (Pool)

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State Republicans contended that Newsom, seen as a possible presidential candidate in 2028, is focusing extra on boosting his nationwide profile reasonably than on engaged on points within the Golden State, with James Gallagher, the GOP chief of the state Meeting, citing the state’s ongoing price range deficits, its homelessness disaster and excessive prices of dwelling.

"Cease refusing to indicate up and really do the work of being a governor," Gallagher stated in a video posted to social media.

Gallagher additionally criticized Newsom’s push for a U.S. Home redistricting plan to spice up Democrats and probably win management of the chamber forward of the 2026 midterms. The transfer by California lawmakers was carried out in response to an analogous Trump-endorsed effort by Republican lawmakers in Texas.