With diminished clout, Californians in Congress struggle to counter Trump's agenda
Story by Seema Mehta, Faith E. Pinho • 14h
California — the self-proclaimed liberal resistance to President Trump’s policies — has long had an outsize voice in the nation’s politics.
But now, with the Republican back in the White House, many of the state's Democrats in Congress are bracing for another battle — to ensure robust wildfire recovery funding, safeguard former President Biden’s policies and advance their party’s broader social and fiscal ambitions in the nation’s deeply polarized capital.
“It gets harder, but it's still doable and necessary,” said Sen. Alex Padilla, noting that one of his first major bipartisan pieces of legislation after joining the Senate four years ago was to partner with Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), an effort that ultimately provided billions of dollars of federal funding to fix the nation’s electrical grid after ice storms decimated swaths of Texas. Padilla said he drew upon his experience having chaired a state legislative committee on energy.
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