The State of California, a Democratic bastion led by Governor Gavin Newsom, and the president of the United States, Donald Trump, maintain a constant confrontation relationship that goes beyond political differences.
Although protests against migratory raids have expressed this friction, which has moved to the streets, multiple issues have evidenced this clash of forces between the institutions of California and Trump since their return to the White House.
Los Angeles fires
As soon as six months have passed from the destructive fires that ravaged Los Angeles County in January, an issue that fueled the political battle regarding the management of environmental resources that could have avoided this catastrophe.
The president called Newsom “incompetent” and blamed him for the devastation of fires, in addition to threatening to cut federal funds in the face of forest management of the California authorities.
Even the president ordered to release billions of gallons of water from two reservoirs to the north of the state, which never reached the affected areas.
The Democrats, meanwhile, responded to the diatribe inviting Trump to assess the magnitude of Los Angeles’ fires before the concerns that cutting the drip of aid for the reconstruction of the affected areas.
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Electric vehicles
While the controversial migratory raids in California took place, Trump ended with a state rule that prohibited gasoline vehicles by 2035.
The golden state, one of the most progressive in environmental matters, held the authority to address under its own legal frameworks the standards of vehicle emissions, which have been stricter than the federals.
The blockade of the Republican president would end Newsom’s efforts to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles and boost green energies that reduce air pollution levels in cities such as Los Angeles.
Natural resources
Newsom and Trump also collide in the way of addressing the extraction of natural resources. The Federal Government seeks to expand oil and gas drilling by land, or relax fishing protections in protected areas of the Pacific, running with the rejection of California.
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The sanctuary cities
Another boiling point between one of the most progressive leaders of the US and the Republican president revolves around immigration policy, after California was positioned as a “sanctuary state”, which limits the cooperation of local forces with immigration agencies.
San Francisco being the city where the Sanctuary cities arose in the US and being California a state with a large immigrant population, the Trump administration has strongly criticized Newsom for allowing the use of this rule, which hinders the government its ability to make arrests against immigrants.
Greater intervention of federal forces
Linked to the previous point, while Trump is committed to a greater intervention of federal forces when he considers that states are not able to face an issue, California defends their autonomy and teeth with nails and teeth and the right to promulgate their laws and policies.
This was the case of the protests, although the friction point was in Trump’s decision to deploy the California National Guard to the streets, a movement that state authorities not only considered ‘illegal’, but also believe that he instigated fear and prompted protesters to respond to provocative acts.
State medical care to undocumented migrants
The California state medical care program (Medi-Cal) expands coverage to undocumented migrants, which has aroused the criticisms of the US government.
To this issue, Newsom bent its pulse last May and proposed to freeze the registration of undocumented people to save the State about 5.4 billion dollars in the face of fiscal uncertainty and Trump’s threats for suspending federal funds to the State.
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California has undertaken several legal battles against Trump about these issues, which will surely reach the Supreme Court.
With EFE information
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