California's Congress members' plans for Trump's State of the Union address
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Senate and the House of Representatives’ approach to President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night are as varied as their politics and their districts.Before the speech, Sen.Adam Schiff described Trump as an out-of-control and corrupt president who has ignored pressing issues such as climate change in order to enrich himself and punish his political enemies, including by turning the U.S.
Department of Justice and the rest of the federal government into a “personal fiefdom,” unbound by the law.“From the birth of our nation, our founders were obsessed with preventing tyranny and the emergence of another king, another despot.They created checks and balances, separation of powers, an independent judiciary.
They understood that the greatest threat to liberty wasn’t foreign invasion, it was the concentration of power in the hands of one person or faction,” Schiff said on the floor of the U.S.Senate.
“This president has systematically dismantled these safeguards in his second term.”Schiff is among the Democrats boycotting the speech.Other Californians include Reps.
Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach), Sara Jacobs (D-San Diego), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Los Angeles) and Julia Brownley (D-Westlake Village).Sen.Alex Padilla, the son of immigrants who was tackled in Los Angeles last year when he attempted to ask Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a question during the immigration raids, will deliver a Spanish-language response after Trump’s address on television and online.California has the largest congressional delegation in the nation, so its elected officials frequently have an outsized presence in the nation’s capital.
An especially memorable moment was when then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) ripped up a copy of Trump’s speech after the 2020 State of the ...