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119th Congress

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June 7, 2025

The dissolution of the Donald Trump-Elon Musk marriage was enough, for a brief moment, to lift beleaguered California Democrats’ spirits.

Issues: Economy

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Friedman with Jewish Members of Congress in front of the Capital Jewish Museum.

June 6, 2025

A bipartisan group of 41 lawmakers wrote to the CEOs of Meta, TikTok and X on Friday urging them to take action in response to the spike in violent antisemitic content posted on their platforms following recent antisemitic attacks in Washington and Boulder, Colo.


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June 6, 2025

LOS ANGELES — Gavin Newsom wants to claim the role of Hollywood’s superhero. But California’s iconic industry is so battered that even its governor may not be able to save it.

Issues: Economy

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June 6, 2025

CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Trump administration’s threat to cancel federal funding for California on a large scale was branded “political extortion” by a California congressmember on Friday.

Issues: Congress

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June 6, 2025

SACRAMENTO — California officials were bracing Friday for a potential major escalation in President Donald Trump’s efforts to starve the state of federal funding, including possibly the elimination of grants for the University of California.

Issues: Economy

June 6, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, June 6, 2025, U.S. Representative Laura Friedman (CA-30) released the following statement on reporting that Trump is preparing to cut federal investments in California and make life more expensive for the hardworking Americans living there: 


June 6, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, June 6, 2025, U.S. Representative Laura Friedman (CA-30) released the following statement on reporting that Trump is preparing to cut federal investments in California and make life more expensive for the hardworking Americans living there: 

Issues: Congress

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June 5, 2025

To find one of the most dangerous efforts by President Donald Trump and Republican leaders in Congress to trample the power of judges who stand in their way, you have to dig more than 500 pages into what they have christened, without embarrassment, the One Big Beautiful Bill.

Issues: Congress

June 5, 2025

This was Manhattan back in the late 1980s, when pool was sexy again on the heels of The Color of Money and rooms were popping up all over the city.


June 4, 2025
  • $4 billion in federal funding could be pulled from California’s high-speed rail project within 37 days.

The Trump administration found “no viable path” forward to complete California’s high-speed rail project following a nearly four-month in