Sacramento, California (AP) – Gavin Newsom, Governor of California.
The democratic governor decided to send the letter to the state legislator instead of delivering it publicly. Newsom, which is seen as a potential presidential candidate for 2028, also published a shortened version of the annual report in its social media channels. The letter criticized the president and his politics to bring chaos and disorder to California without mentioning Trump by name.
“We are now nine months in a struggle for the protection of the values ​​that prefer to hold us and to preserve the economic and social foundation that we have built for California,” wrote Newsom. “We are faced with a federal administration based on incompetence and malicious ignorance that is looking for the death of independent thinking.”
Newsom has not kept a formal speech in a few years, a departure of decades of tradition.
The state was a battlefield for the Trump administration after its hardline immigration strategy had stimulated protests and the exploit of the National Guard and Marines. The federal government has also reduced the financing for the long-delayed high-speed rail project of the state, the first in the nation of the state to ban the sale of novel gas-powered cars and to sue the state because of its law that enables transgender girls to take part in girls sports teams.
California reacted 41 times with the insulation of the administration. At the beginning of this year, the legislature approved that the Ministry of Justice in California and other legal groups contributed 50 million US dollars to the protection of the progressive guidelines of the state. California also defends itself against Trump’s step, the financing to the University of California, Los Angeles, for allegations of violations of civil rights in connection with anti -Semitism and positive measures, said Newsoma.
“It would be a mistake to believe that California would crouch in the face of this rush,” said Newsom.
The letter also describes what newsoma described as the achievements of California. This shows the resilience and the rapid recovery efforts for the devastating forest fires in Los Angeles at the beginning of this year as well as other progress in technology, green energy and education in an economy that exceeds 4.1 trillion dollars. He also raised the voluntary power of the state of tens of thousands of teenage people and a tax credit program to bring Hollywood production back.
The Republicans of the States said that Newsoma had priority of his national profile instead of working on questions in California. James Gallagher, the Republican Chair of the State Assembly, referred to the persistent budget deficits of the state, the crisis of homelessness and the sky-high living costs in a social media post that reacts to Newsom’s letter.
Gallagher also criticized New House’s novel Congress Card to facilitate Democrats gain more seats and possibly gain control of the house before the 2026 Midterms. California’s step was to counteract a similar effort by GOP legislators in Trump’s urging in Texas.
“Stop seeing yourself up and actually doing the work of a governor,” he said in the video.
