Furious California Leaders Slam “Cruel, Unconstitutional” Trump Over Threat To Pull Federal Money
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Feb 6, 2017
In a narrative more befitting of kindergarten, and certainly not grown adults (politicans are exempt), one day after from Trump warned he would defund California if the state passed a bill to make itself a de facto “sanctuary state”, saying the state was “out of control”, furious state leaders have responded that, drumroll, they are not “out of control.”
Hoping to make their case stron, state politicans pointed at their balanced budget and high jobs numbers in the latest dustup between the populist Republican and the progressive state. Quoted by Reuters, the state’s top Democrats called Trump “cruel” and his proposals unconstitutional, after the businessman-turned-politician threatened to withhold federal funding from the most populous U.S. state if lawmakers passed a bill protecting undocumented immigrants. “President Trump’s threat to weaponize federal funding is not only unconstitutional but emblematic of the cruelty he seeks to impose on our most vulnerable communities,” state Senate Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, a Democrat from Los Angeles, said in a statement on Monday.
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