Politics

Leaders of California’s three coastal conservation agencies are calling the Trump Administration’s proposed budget a threat to the state’s environmental and economic future, and urged California's congressional delegation to push back against deep cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Amid a worsening housing and homelessness crisis, President Trump's proposed $6 billion cut to the Department of Housing and Urban Development comes at an inopportune time for the Golden State.

Immigration agents have been put on notice by California's Supreme Court Chief Justice for “stalking undocumented immigrants” at courthouses, and using courthouses as "bait."

President Trump traveled to Detroit today to announce that his administration was shelving the Obama administration's aggressive fuel-economy standards for cars—standards that California has been relying on to spur the production and sale of energy-efficient, electric and hybrid cars, thus reducing greenhouse gases.

A federal judge in Hawaii just blocked what President Trump called a "watered-down version" of his travel ban, prompting the President to assail the ruling as unprecedented judicial overreach that "makes us look weak."

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As news hit this week that the Congressional Budget Office estimated the GOP's Trumpcare proposal would leave millions without health care, California Democrats denounced it in what is becoming a Sacramento reflex.

Just as the Trump Administration is proposing significant cuts to federal agencies that employ climate scientists , a California official is planting himself outside federal agencies this week—hoping to poach skittish federal researchers.

California has joined several other states in a lawsuit challenging Trump's revised travel ban.