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Mark Schiefelbein/AP PhotoThe White House confirmed that President Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to impose an array of conditions for federal wildfire assistance, will meet with California’s governor. -
Donald Orr/OPBThreats of tariffs on major trading partners point to a chaotic global market for the foreseeable future.
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California’s estimated 100,000 undocumented college students are grappling with President Trump’s plans of mass deportations. Dream centers on many campuses are stepping in to provide guidance and meet the skyrocketing demand for legal services from students. -
The Trump administration cleared the way for immigration enforcement officers to enter schools in its first week. Now, California lawmakers are working on new state-level restrictions to prevent that. -
A directive to freeze federal aid was widely decried by Democrats, but there was little clarity on what it will actually do. -
Scrambling to respond to the Trump administration’s late Monday night directive to pause a wide, but as-yet-unspecified, swath of federal spending programs, California’s Democratic elected officials and agency heads offered two consistent responses today: -
One of President Trump’s first executive orders threatened to withhold federal funding from so-called sanctuary jurisdictions. California is one of them. -
The National Institutes of Health, a big funder of Oregon research studies, suddenly cancelled key funding meetings. -
President “Trump had a particularly significant impact on the 9th Circuit” in his first term, moving the reliably liberal appeals court to the right. That could influence abortion policy in the West. -
Oregon’s attorney general shares his concerns on the impact Trump’s policies could have on the stateOPB's Dave Miller spoke with Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield about the new administration’s crackdown on immigration, and what impacts the policies could have on the state. -
The president excluded Gov. Newsom from plans for his visit to fire-ravaged Los Angeles today, but the governor showed up on the tarmac anyway, and the two said they would cooperate. Trump’s growing list of demands — and threats to block federal aid — won’t make that easy. -
The president’s order has no immediate effect on offshore wind leases already authorized, including two large areas off California’s coast. But it sends a current of uncertainty through the fledgling renewable energy industry, which relies on federal and state support. -
The California Senate passed two bills Thursday to shore up funds for the state to sue the Trump administration. The Attorney General is already suing over a new immigration policy. -
The Pacific Northwest became fertile ground for groups bent on political violence during the first Trump administration.
