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Wednesday, February 5, 2025 7:49PM
Gov. Newsom volition conscionable with Pres. Trump successful Washington, D.C. arsenic helium works to unafraid much national assistance for Southern California's wildfire betterment efforts.
WASHINGTON -- Gov. Gavin Newsom is acceptable to conscionable with President Donald Trump astatine the White House connected Wednesday afternoon, a spokesperson with the governor's squad says.
The politician flew to the nation's superior connected Tuesday to conscionable with national leaders arsenic helium continues to unafraid much national assistance for Southern California's betterment efforts from past month's devastating wildfires.
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Newsom volition beryllium the archetypal Democrat to person an Oval Office sit-down since Trump was inaugurated. His bureau said helium volition besides beryllium gathering with members of Congress from some parties.
It comes astir 2 weeks aft the president toured the harm successful Los Angeles, wherever Newsom and Trump had a cordial speech connected the tarmac upon the president's arrival.
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"We're looking to get thing completed, and the mode you get it completed is to enactment together. He's the politician of the state, and we're going to get it completed," Trump said connected Jan. 24 successful Los Angeles. "They're going to request a batch of national help. We're going to instrumentality attraction of things."
The affable exchanges marked a alteration successful the 2 leaders' intermittent relationship. Prior to the president's January sojourn to the Golden State, Newsom said helium had not spoken to Trump since helium near bureau aft his archetypal word successful 2021.
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It remains unclear if Trump volition inactive enactment conditions connected national catastrophe alleviation for California. He and different apical Republican Congressional leaders person said they volition connect conditions to national catastrophe relief, seeking changes to the state's h2o policies and wood management.
The Democratic governor, who has statesmanlike aspirations himself, was 1 of the starring voices of "resistance" to Trump's archetypal administration. While the president has signed a barrage of enforcement orders fueling absorption from the left, Newsom has not been arsenic vocal this time.
At the aforesaid time, the governor's Washington travel comes connected the heels of the authorities legislature signing disconnected connected $50 cardinal for expected ineligible battles with Trump's administration, a bundle of bills Newsom is expected to motion erstwhile helium returns to California.
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