California is emerging as the de facto policy think tank of the Biden-Harris administration and of a Congress soon to be under Democratic control. That’s rekindling past cliches about the state —, premier laboratory of democracy, land of big ideas — even as it struggles with surging COVID-19 infections, a safety net frayed by the pandemic’s toll, crushing housing costs and wildfires, all fueling an exodus of residents.
Other Californians will be doing the same from Biden’s Cabinet. Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra is nominated to run the massive Health and Human Services Department. The nominee for Treasury secretary, former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, is a professor at UC Berkeley, as is the nominee for Energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm. Longtime California resident Alejandro Mayorkas is the nominee to run the Department of Homeland Security.
Even some ideas that haven’t worked out so well in California are on the national agenda now. Biden is a fierce proponent of high-speed rail, as well as new protections for gig economy workers that California voters diluted in November. “This was a woman, salt of the earth, who always worked fingers to bone,” De León said. “Yet I am her IRA, I am her pension plan. Her story is not unique. You have millions of Californians and tens of millions of Americans who are retiring into poverty.” TheCalifornia’s plan to remove carbon-emitting power sources from its electricity grid entirely by 2045 also inspired the incoming administration.
Frightening
In case you haven’t noticed, people are leaving California in droves. Fleeing the state.
California:
I see. High taxes, overpriced homes, 12.8% of Californians below the poverty line... Way to go, Joe!
Because California is doing soooo great right now 🙄
Anyone who has visited LA (who isn't from there) would NEVER want any other parts of America to be like that. I've never felt more unsafe than when in DT LA, trash everywhere, so much homeless sadly, everything shut down, and not to mention is incredibly $$$
skarlamangla Oh God. No
Being from CA I vote a very emphatic NO, even HE-LL NO. CA shouldn’t be used as an example for anything but a “how to” on destroying a beautiful state. What CA does, I suggest to do the opposite. We are sadly a sh!tshow of what my beautiful state once was. But the weather’s nice.
FUCKING DOPE!!!!!
Oh great! Turn the ENTIRE country into a 3rd world SHT HOLE! Yeah, THAT is what we need.
California's unfunded pension liabilities are over 1.5 trillion. Yes, lets do it nationwide!!!
What that means ! every State can afford Wild fire or can grow Strawberries . But ! One thing is sure to have a good health & face the COVID19 after math . All State needs to focus on Agriculture & Farming .
It would be great! I ❤️ California!
No, no, no! California has been under lock-down since March 2020. Everything is closed! It's pitiful!
JaredHuffman Is the inability to cut EDD checks due to the “stumbles of being a first adopter”? How about red-tape and CEQA weaponization that has rendered housing unaffordable in a state with the 3rd largest land mass? High speed rail to nowhere? Sub-par K12? Poor roads?
kdeleon your Auto-IRA might be reasonable, but for the fact the state hasn’t even been able to manage public employee retirements. Instead of a sustainable plan, you have indebted future generations with massive unfunded liabilities. This is tantamount to fiscal child abuse.
The Dems have apparently learned NOTHING - it is exactly CA’s high-tax, low-service, unaffordable, sanctimonious virtue-signaling paradigm that led to Trump. Doubling down on that strategy courts civil war. CA is a wealthy “nation state” yet the highest functional poverty 18%
California ain’t it... people live on the street. People need mental health, support. Streets are dirty. Violence in the streets. Taxes....
He really is trying to be hated more then Trump isn’t he?
quote from article: 'all fueling an exodus of residents.'
Take it a step further Joey MAKE AMERICA MEXICO AGAIN
Cities of Homelessness Including hard working Americans n vets! Caravan after Caravan Natural and man made 🔥 Economy dismal Jobs Dismal Convicts released All the money going to Texas! GAVIN ? No Cops No Guns YEAH Just how disoriented is Joe ?
The.... MACA movement? 🤙🤟
The way you’ve written this title is quite obviousy a negative biased article. I’m sure you are a secret dissenter like the pro trump mouthpieces out there about what you dislike in diversity. Sadly you add to the divisiveness in our country
Please read the opinion before commenting on the headline for fvck sake
Too late you brought it to the sewer
California with its communist media and the huge population does have the greatest influence today and it is all bad. Riots, burning, looting, murder innocents and cops, starving people and USA kids living in streets. Pretty state, scum of the earth poltical people.
Seen alot of vids of this fondling and touching kids is he a NONCE!
Even I'm like no...let's not do that...I'd rather a healthy debate between the right and left mind over policy and then a commitment to each other, but right now radicalization has cut that off, but a single ideology as a govenoring body is awful when you look at both CA and FL.
Big plans for a dementia patient
Wtf? Hate and fear lingering. Trump was make America corrupt. Where was your outrage?
But yet we all voted for him?
'Again'? there was never a time in America when stepping in a pile of human feces on the street was ordinary. What are you talking about?
Too much corruption & waste. Thr bulket train is a fiasco
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