Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) is ready to negotiate to implement facets of Republican priorities, a move that breaks with his home state’s fierce and public opposition to President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda.
California Democrats, led by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), set in motion costly efforts to resist Trump after he won a second term in November, vowing to spend an estimated $25 million in lawsuits to keep the president-elect’s policies from touching the Golden State.
However, Bera, a Sacramento Democrat, signaled he would not fall in line with his state’s anti-Trump battle plan during a NewsNation interview on Monday. Instead, he suggested voters had given Trump a decisive mandate to enact economic and immigration reforms that lawmakers, both Democratic and Republican, should “work together” to pass.
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