SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is averaging about a lawsuit a week against the federal government ever since President Donald Trump took office six months ago, work that has cost state taxpayers about $5 million so far.
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Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday announced the state’s 35th lawsuit against the Trump administration, which was filed in an attempt to protect the sensitive and personal information of low-income people who receive government benefits for groceries.
In a news conference alongside the Democratic attorneys general of New York and Michigan, Bonta said, “President Trump made promises to the American people, and now he’s breaking them.”
Earlier this year, the California Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom set aside $25 million for Bonta to take on the Trump administration in court. Bonta told reporters he has so far used $5 million of that and expects to use more funds from that account soon.
Bonta said he’ll request to draw down a figure in the “multiple millions,” but his office as of Monday night did not provide a specific number just yet.
Part of the legislation that set the money aside requires the attorney general to maintain a website to track the status of those lawsuits. The attorney general’s office has been using this website to do so. The office has split the court battles into categories from voting rights to LGBTQ issues, immigration, education and more.
The answer to this is WAY TOO MUCH.
What has been the cost benefit ratio (how many did Calif. lose in the long run?)??????
How many of the 10’s of millions could the state have spent on needed highway and freeway repair???
But then again the Democrats have never really cared about wasting taxpayer money on tilting at windmills.
Still voting D???? Chuckle … why?
And yet that orange felon spent $45 mil on a birthday parade and $11 mil to play golf in Scotland just to name a few. That was all paid for by “we the people”.
Just think if he spent that money on more important things like repairing or replacing the decaying federal highway bridges and overpasses. But it is no secret that the right’s motto is “me me me”.
If you are still voting R then YOU are the problem, idiots
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