California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) convened the state legislature for a special session on Monday designed to \u201cTrump-proof\u201d the state, including by passing $25 million for use in lawsuits against the incoming administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Breitbart News noted<\/a> after the election in November, Newsom announced the special session \u2014 not to deal with pressing problems facing the state, but rather for the political purpose of leading the so-called \u201cresistance\u201d (i.e. opposition) to President-elect Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump responded on Truth Social, saying Newsom was \u201cusing the term \u2018Trump-Proof\u2019 as a way of stopping all of the GREAT things that can be done to \u2018Make California Great Again\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Newsom boasted Monday that his administration, unlike that of his predecessor, Jerry Brown, would not simply react to Trump policies, but would go on the offensive against them. He claimed that the state had succeeded in the past at reversing many Trump policies at the \u201cagency level.\u201d (He may have been referring to Trump\u2019s decision to withhold<\/a> $1 billion in funding for the high-speed rail system California never built; President Joe Biden restored that funding.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The governor also claimed that no state leader had worked more closely with the Trump administration during the coronavirus pandemic, and that California had still managed to maintain its lawsuits against Trump, regardless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Though Democrats control supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature, the state shifted right in 2024, and nearly 40% of Californians voted for President-elect Trump rather than California\u2019s Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Newsom is thought to be posturing, in part, because he is among the presidential frontrunners for the Democratic Party in 2028. He declined to run as an alternative to President Joe Biden or Vice President Harris in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n