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The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 since 2009. That's unacceptable.
In California, we're about growing the economy and wages for working people:
💵 $16.90 minimum wage
💵 $25 minimum wage for health care workers
💵 $20 minimum wage for fast food workers
In California, we're about growing the economy and wages for working people:
💵 $16.90 minimum wage
💵 $25 minimum wage for health care workers
💵 $20 minimum wage for fast food workers
January 2, 2026 at 7:34 PM
The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 since 2009. That's unacceptable.
In California, we're about growing the economy and wages for working people:
💵 $16.90 minimum wage
💵 $25 minimum wage for health care workers
💵 $20 minimum wage for fast food workers
In California, we're about growing the economy and wages for working people:
💵 $16.90 minimum wage
💵 $25 minimum wage for health care workers
💵 $20 minimum wage for fast food workers
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Anyone living on the coasts knows our seas are rising. But I’m glad we still have incredible scientists to tell us the whole story—even as the Trump administration runs and hides from reality.
December 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Anyone living on the coasts knows our seas are rising. But I’m glad we still have incredible scientists to tell us the whole story—even as the Trump administration runs and hides from reality.
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Congress set aside contingency funds specifically for SNAP food benefits during government shutdowns.
California won't sit by while the Trump Administration ignores yet another law.
California won't sit by while the Trump Administration ignores yet another law.
October 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Congress set aside contingency funds specifically for SNAP food benefits during government shutdowns.
California won't sit by while the Trump Administration ignores yet another law.
California won't sit by while the Trump Administration ignores yet another law.
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Donald Trump and his lapdog GOP Congress are so against lowering health care costs that they're instead shutting down the federal government.
Food assistance thrown into jeopardy. Troops going without pay. Essential services shuttered.
This is how MAGA treats our country.
Food assistance thrown into jeopardy. Troops going without pay. Essential services shuttered.
This is how MAGA treats our country.
September 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Donald Trump and his lapdog GOP Congress are so against lowering health care costs that they're instead shutting down the federal government.
Food assistance thrown into jeopardy. Troops going without pay. Essential services shuttered.
This is how MAGA treats our country.
Food assistance thrown into jeopardy. Troops going without pay. Essential services shuttered.
This is how MAGA treats our country.
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The new laws I just enacted are a direct response to Trump's lawless immigration raids and arrests in California.
California is fighting to end this chaos by:
💥 Requiring schools and public hospitals to limit access and implement privacy protocols to protect against Trump’s immigration chaos.
California is fighting to end this chaos by:
💥 Requiring schools and public hospitals to limit access and implement privacy protocols to protect against Trump’s immigration chaos.
September 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The new laws I just enacted are a direct response to Trump's lawless immigration raids and arrests in California.
California is fighting to end this chaos by:
💥 Requiring schools and public hospitals to limit access and implement privacy protocols to protect against Trump’s immigration chaos.
California is fighting to end this chaos by:
💥 Requiring schools and public hospitals to limit access and implement privacy protocols to protect against Trump’s immigration chaos.
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Dabo is going to combust at some point this year isn't he?
September 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Dabo is going to combust at some point this year isn't he?
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California Governor Newsom trolled President Donald Trump with new MAGA-like merch that takes aim at a red hat the Republican was recently spotted wearing.
Gavin Newsom trolls Donald Trump as he teases new MAGA-inspired red hat merch
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August 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
California Governor Newsom trolled President Donald Trump with new MAGA-like merch that takes aim at a red hat the Republican was recently spotted wearing.
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ah the small government libertarian utopia realized
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
www.nytimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
ah the small government libertarian utopia realized
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule barring medical debt from appearing on credit reports. Now, the agency is siding with the credit industry groups suing to have the rule vacated.
The CFPB wanted medical debt to be left off credit reports. That's changed under Trump
Under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule barring medical debt from appearing on credit reports. Now, the agency is siding with the credit industry grou...
www.npr.org
May 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule barring medical debt from appearing on credit reports. Now, the agency is siding with the credit industry groups suing to have the rule vacated.
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🚨 The House could vote on a Continuing Resolution (CR) as soon as TUESDAY!
Congress must take advantage of this must-pass CR to install necessary, enforceable guardrails on DOGE and regain their constitutional power of the purse.
Call your Reps 👉 5calls.org/issue/cr-con...
Congress must take advantage of this must-pass CR to install necessary, enforceable guardrails on DOGE and regain their constitutional power of the purse.
Call your Reps 👉 5calls.org/issue/cr-con...
No Federal Funding CR Without DOGE Guardrails ⭑ 5 Calls
Funding for the federal government is set to expire on Friday, March 14th, setting up a tight deadline for Congress to pass a Continuing Resolution …
5calls.org
March 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
🚨 The House could vote on a Continuing Resolution (CR) as soon as TUESDAY!
Congress must take advantage of this must-pass CR to install necessary, enforceable guardrails on DOGE and regain their constitutional power of the purse.
Call your Reps 👉 5calls.org/issue/cr-con...
Congress must take advantage of this must-pass CR to install necessary, enforceable guardrails on DOGE and regain their constitutional power of the purse.
Call your Reps 👉 5calls.org/issue/cr-con...
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NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.
March 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.
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Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to cut 84% of staff at the office that funds the U.S.'s disaster recovery, raising questions about how the country will rebuild from hurricanes, wildfires and other calamities made worse by climate change.
Trump Team Plans Cuts at HUD Office That Funds Disaster Recovery
Staff at the office, a branch of the U.S. housing department that Congress uses to address the worst catastrophes, would be reduced by 84 percent.
www.nytimes.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to cut 84% of staff at the office that funds the U.S.'s disaster recovery, raising questions about how the country will rebuild from hurricanes, wildfires and other calamities made worse by climate change.
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On Tuesday, Senate Democrats will investigate the Trump-Musk attack on American consumers.
I'm inviting Elon Musk. He owes the American people answers on why he’s trying to shut down the financial cop on the beat that prevents big corporations from cheating Americans.
I'm inviting Elon Musk. He owes the American people answers on why he’s trying to shut down the financial cop on the beat that prevents big corporations from cheating Americans.
February 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
On Tuesday, Senate Democrats will investigate the Trump-Musk attack on American consumers.
I'm inviting Elon Musk. He owes the American people answers on why he’s trying to shut down the financial cop on the beat that prevents big corporations from cheating Americans.
I'm inviting Elon Musk. He owes the American people answers on why he’s trying to shut down the financial cop on the beat that prevents big corporations from cheating Americans.
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Egg prices are up 53%.
February 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Egg prices are up 53%.
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Instead of cutting costs for working families, Donald Trump is slashing the federal investments that fund their lifesaving care, fuel their local economy, and lower their health care costs.
It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.
It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
Researchers say it would hurt facilities that work on medical issues such as cancer research and heart disease. Elon Musk contends the old policy was ‘a ripoff.’
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Instead of cutting costs for working families, Donald Trump is slashing the federal investments that fund their lifesaving care, fuel their local economy, and lower their health care costs.
It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.
It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.
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Several Democratic lawmakers were denied entry to the U.S. Department of Education on Friday. It was the fourth agency this week that federal employees blocked congressional Democrats from entering.
Democratic Lawmakers Denied Entry to the Department of Education
It was the fourth agency this week that federal employees blocked congressional Democrats from entering amid a push to shutter government agencies and dramatically cut the federal work force.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Several Democratic lawmakers were denied entry to the U.S. Department of Education on Friday. It was the fourth agency this week that federal employees blocked congressional Democrats from entering.
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Musk's latest power grab: your Medicare benefits.
Elon - you're looking in the wrong place. Private insurers in Medicare Advantage overcharged taxpayers by at least $83 billion in 2024 alone.
Elon - you're looking in the wrong place. Private insurers in Medicare Advantage overcharged taxpayers by at least $83 billion in 2024 alone.
Exclusive | DOGE Aides Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems for Fraud
Elon Musk’s allies have been on site at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offices this week.
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Musk's latest power grab: your Medicare benefits.
Elon - you're looking in the wrong place. Private insurers in Medicare Advantage overcharged taxpayers by at least $83 billion in 2024 alone.
Elon - you're looking in the wrong place. Private insurers in Medicare Advantage overcharged taxpayers by at least $83 billion in 2024 alone.
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Trump 2.0 has already laid waste to democratic norms, precedents and even some laws. Paralyzed by the breadth of disruption, many of the president's demoralized critics have been left sputtering: "He can't do that."
And yet he is.
And yet he is.
Trump busts guardrails of the presidency with lightning speed
Trump 2.0 has already laid waste to democratic norms, precedents and even some laws.
www.axios.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Trump 2.0 has already laid waste to democratic norms, precedents and even some laws. Paralyzed by the breadth of disruption, many of the president's demoralized critics have been left sputtering: "He can't do that."
And yet he is.
And yet he is.
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Day One has turned into Day Seven, and those eggs are getting even more expensive. cnn.it/4h8W4s4
January 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Day One has turned into Day Seven, and those eggs are getting even more expensive. cnn.it/4h8W4s4
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Donald Trump made a lot of promises when he was running to lower costs for families. What did he talk about on Day One? Next to nothing on lowering costs.
January 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Donald Trump made a lot of promises when he was running to lower costs for families. What did he talk about on Day One? Next to nothing on lowering costs.
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On January 6, 2021
Donald Trump attempted a coup
He lied about the election
Ginned up a “fake electors” scheme
Tried to coerce election officials into saying he won
Threatened his own VP
And dispatched MAGA thugs to attack the Capitol
140 Capitol Police were maimed
Several died
Never
Forget
Donald Trump attempted a coup
He lied about the election
Ginned up a “fake electors” scheme
Tried to coerce election officials into saying he won
Threatened his own VP
And dispatched MAGA thugs to attack the Capitol
140 Capitol Police were maimed
Several died
Never
Forget
January 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
On January 6, 2021
Donald Trump attempted a coup
He lied about the election
Ginned up a “fake electors” scheme
Tried to coerce election officials into saying he won
Threatened his own VP
And dispatched MAGA thugs to attack the Capitol
140 Capitol Police were maimed
Several died
Never
Forget
Donald Trump attempted a coup
He lied about the election
Ginned up a “fake electors” scheme
Tried to coerce election officials into saying he won
Threatened his own VP
And dispatched MAGA thugs to attack the Capitol
140 Capitol Police were maimed
Several died
Never
Forget
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President Joe Biden is expected to permanently ban future offshore oil and gas development in parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a way that could be difficult for the incoming Trump administration to undo
Biden plans to ban some offshore drilling in a way Trump would struggle to undo | CNN Business
President Joe Biden is expected to permanently ban future offshore oil and gas development in parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a way that could be especially difficult for the incoming Trum...
www.cnn.com
January 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
President Joe Biden is expected to permanently ban future offshore oil and gas development in parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a way that could be difficult for the incoming Trump administration to undo
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The Biden administration, in a final push to shore up the nation’s pandemic preparedness infrastructure before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, announced that it is committing an additional $306 million toward efforts to ward off a potential outbreak of bird flu in humans.
Biden Officials Prepare for Potential Bird Flu Outbreak With Added Money
The administration is committing an additional $306 million toward battling the virus, and will distribute the money before President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office.
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The Biden administration, in a final push to shore up the nation’s pandemic preparedness infrastructure before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, announced that it is committing an additional $306 million toward efforts to ward off a potential outbreak of bird flu in humans.
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The House Ethics Committee released a 37-page report into Matt Gaetz, the Republican of Florida, and allegations that he engaged in an array of illegal and untoward conduct, including having sex with a 17-year-old girl. Here are the key takeaways.
Takeaways from the Matt Gaetz Ethics Report
A 37-page report detailed the findings from a yearslong investigation into allegations that Mr. Gaetz engaged in a range of illegal conduct. He has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2024 at 8:36 PM
The House Ethics Committee released a 37-page report into Matt Gaetz, the Republican of Florida, and allegations that he engaged in an array of illegal and untoward conduct, including having sex with a 17-year-old girl. Here are the key takeaways.