Newsom meets with Biden as part of effort to 'Trump-proof' California

WASHINGTON (KGO) -- California Governor Gavin Newsom met with President Joe Biden and different White House leaders connected Tuesday during a travel to item his "key priorities" successful an effort to Trump-proof the authorities earlier the president-elect takes bureau connected January 20.

In the last months of the Biden-Harris administration, the Democratic politician is seeking national waiver extensions and different monetary assistance earlier President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated. Trump has already slammed these efforts and is nary alien to threatening to withhold backing successful retaliation to California.

Despite this, Newsom has vowed to marque his authorities the wide foil to blimpish policies coming retired of Trump's Oval Office, particularly erstwhile it comes to policies related to clime change, termination rights, and LGBTQ+ protections. The authorities filed much than 100 lawsuits against Trump during his archetypal term.

This is each connected apical of the special legislative session helium already called successful December. Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta accidental the authorities is acceptable to situation the caller president aft Trump has promised to instrumentality enactment with wide deportations of undocumented immigrants. He has besides talked astir abortion, clime policies, and weapon control.

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"My occupation is not to aftermath up each azygous time and get a crowbar and effort to enactment it successful the spokes of the instrumentality of the Trump administration," Newsom said successful a virtual property league connected November 8. "That said, I'm not naive either, and we're pragmatic and we volition basal firm."

Menlo College governmental idiosyncratic Melissa Michelson said Americans tin expect dozens of lawsuits from bluish states against the Trump administration, but this is not an abnormal practice.

"This is federalism and it is 1 of the systems that the founding fathers enactment into spot to support america from the tyranny of the majority, that neither the authorities authorities oregon the national authorities should beryllium all-powerful," Michelson said. "There should beryllium pushback betwixt the 2 and that changeless warring - whether it's a Republican oregon a Democrat successful the White House. That's each portion of the system. The lawsuits and the warring is really the design, to dilatory things down."

Michelson said this is truthful citizens don't acquisition argumentation whiplash each clip a caller medication oregon enactment takes power.

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"[The founders] were precise disquieted astir stability," she said. "What would they experienced earlier the the law translation of 1787 was that laws were changing excessively accelerated and that was precise confusing and destabilizing for Americans. And truthful the thought that laws are successful place, they're hard to alteration that there's a batch of stickiness successful the strategy and a batch of those roadblocks and checks and balances that's each to marque our lives better."

What's adjacent successful Newsom's DC trip?

On Wednesday, Newsom volition be the California authorities delegation's luncheon connected the Hill, sources told ABC News.

Newsom's bureau said his Washington travel is simply a continuation of a "long-standing partnership" betwixt the politician and Biden.

"Governor Newsom volition advocator for cardinal priorities to beforehand the wellness and well-being of each Californians - including catastrophe funding, the support of authorities wellness attraction initiatives aimed astatine improving entree to wellness and intelligence wellness attraction for Californians, and important clime waivers," his bureau said successful a statement.

Prior to his Tuesday gathering with the president, Newsom met separately with Biden's counsellor Steve Ricchetti.