A View from DC: How California Leaders are Navigating the Trump Administration

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Trump has never hid his disdain for California. In his first hundred days in office, the President has gone on offense against the state on a number of key issues, from immigration to education. Scott Schafer and Marisa Lagos from KQED’s politics team are spending the week in D.C. talking with California’s elected officials. We check in about how state Democratic leaders are planning to counter Trump’s policies, how California Republicans are adjusting to the new order and who might emerge as the next voices of Democratic leadership. Guests: Scott Shafer, senior editor; co-host of Political Breakdown, KQED Marisa Lagos, politics correspondent; co-host of Political Breakdown, KQED Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.3	Democrats are mad.
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1:21.5	They are mad about Trump and almost as mad that Democrats haven't done more to stop his administration.
1:28.1	We check in with KQEDs, Mar Lagos and Scott Schaefer, who are in D.C. right now, talking
1:34.1	with California political leaders, and we ask a bigger question too, who will be in the next
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