ICE is excluding transgender population statistics from its public reports, in violation of congressional mandate, and is also excluding data on people who may be susceptible to harm in the general population due to how others interpret or assume their sexual orientation or presentation.
The Trump administration is actively undermining the Emergency Housing Voucher program, which helps thousands of vulnerable Californians secure housing, in order to push them back onto the streets, and is also using bureaucratic means to punish organizations that serve marginalized communities.
The U.S. Department of Education is facing staff reductions, regulatory rollbacks, and a political agenda that is undermining its ability to enforce federal disability law, resulting in an estimated 1.8 million students with disabilities not receiving the services they are entitled to.
The Trump administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans based on a fabricated threat of Venezuelan government involvement in the Tren de Aragua criminal organization has been exposed by a declassified intelligence memo, raising concerns about the misuse of executive power and the erosion of democratic guardrails.
Most Americans want leaders to invest in crime prevention through mental health care, addiction treatment, and economic opportunities, rather than punitive policies, and the Trump administration’s cuts to these programs are unpopular.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has joined a bipartisan coalition of 40 attorneys general in urging Congressional leaders to fully fund the Legal Services Corporation, which provides essential legal services to low-income individuals across the United States.
Trump’s approval rating is down, but public opinion may not matter as much as it once did, due to voter suppression, gerrymandering, and the decay of institutional checks on executive power.
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