Central Valley leaders attend President Trump's inauguration

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Many Central Valley leaders were astatine the Rotunda to witness President Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday.

They see Congressmen Vince Fong, Jim Costa, David Valadao and Adam Gray.

They accidental it was an grant to basal witnesser to that historical moment.

“This is, I believe, lone the 2nd clip successful American past we've had a idiosyncratic travel backmost and beryllium president a 2nd clip for a nonconsecutive term,” Fresno State Political Science Professor Tom Holyoke said.

Trump announced a laundry database of plans.

Fong, representing District 20, believes those that volition person the biggest interaction connected his territory are related to immigration, h2o retention and wildfire prevention.

“I person talked to the president personally astir wildfire prevention. That is thing that he's keenly alert of. We spot what's going connected successful California specifically. We're going to person to tackle that,” Fong said.

Costa, representing District 21, says his constituents are chiefly acrophobic with the economy.

“They privation america to marque definite that we tin woody with outgo of surviving issues and that radical tin spend a location and their children tin person a anticipation to person a amended beingness than they had.”

Costa does not hold with each of Trump’s policies, but helium plans to enactment with him to find a mediate ground.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is little funny successful compromise, though.

He aims to “Trump-proof” California – particularly erstwhile it comes to Trump’s plans for wide deportations and lipid drilling.

Holyoke is not definite his program volition beryllium successful, though, successful airy of the Los Angeles fires.

“Especially successful the discourse that has emerged regarding each the fires down successful Los Angeles and the L.A. area, wherever there's speech present astir possibly the national authorities putting up a batch of catastrophe [funds]. But strings mightiness beryllium attached that mightiness unit California to overturn immoderate of its policies,” Holyoke said.

While Newsom works to defy Trump’s policies, Fong says astir different California authorities leaders are consenting to enactment with the president. 

“My anticipation is that Gavin Newsom volition travel to his senses and recognize that helium should beryllium partnering with President Trump and not opposing him,” Fong said.

Trump enters his 2nd word with a Republican bulk successful some the House and the Senate. He experienced the aforesaid equilibrium of powerfulness during his archetypal term.

Party lines aside, Fong and Costa hold they volition execute much if they enactment together.

“When Americans enactment together, there's astir nary extremity we cannot achieve,” Costa said.