Jeremy B. White
@JeremyBWhite
Senior California politics+policy reporter for POLITICO. Friend to cats; lover of words, Nationals, my daughter, and @JanelleBitker. Chisme: [email protected]
I spent time with Javier Diaz Santana, who is deaf and unable to speak. He was working at a car wash when ICE raided it. Diaz is a DACA recipient, allowing him to live and work in the U.S., but ICE arrested him and held him for weeks in El Paso. latimes.com/california/sto…
Yup - I refuse to support anyone who is corrupt, Democrat or Republican. That shouldnt be controversial, and voters agree. David Valadao has proven he lacks the courage to lead in this moment. He voted to slash Medicaid — the healthcare 68% of this district relies on — then…
Jasmeet Bains, a highly-touted Dem recruit against Valadao, suggests in a launch interview that she voted for him in 2020 - she "wasn't going to vote for TJ Cox," the Dem who lost that year, bc of corruption allegations.
Shutting down the House to hide the Epstein files is a betrayal of people who simply want the truth. This is why people are so cynical about Washington.
Breaking News: Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut down the House until September to block a vote on calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. nyti.ms/4nZtblR
Breaking: Federal judges in the district of New Jersey have rejected Alina Habba's effort to extend her appointment as interim U.S. attorney.
Interesting data point in this piece about California hemorrhaging Congressional seats--within the state, the more Democratic the district, the more people leaving. sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…
GOP megabill’s final score: $3.4T in red ink and 10 million kicked off health insurance, CBO says ow.ly/ufyG106gsSx
Scoop: A WSJ reporter was slated to be part of the travel pool this weekend when Trump travels to Scotland. After the paper's Epstein story last week, the WH booted them from the pool. w/ @iriesentner politico.com/news/2025/07/2…
ICYMI: @MayorOfLA Bass was in serious political peril after wildfires. But the federal deployment that’s rocked LA may have also sealed Bass re-election bid, as @melmason reports: politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
NEW: How the California Environmental Quality Act went from a green landmark to a housing bogeyman, culminating in @GavinNewsom pushing through changes that had eluded governors for decades. CEQA's story is also a story of changing California politics: politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
👀👀California Republican leader @J_GallagherAD3 was deemed not Trumpy enough to get a USATTY appointment, @jonesblakej scoops yet another instance of MAGA fidelity clashing w California electability: politico.com/newsletters/ca…
New: Today was a wild day at City Hall as lawmakers tried to untangle one of the latest SF nonprofit scandals. They were left in frustration. sfstandard.com/2025/07/17/san…
"No one's paying attention. The No. 1 thing in Sacramento is affordability, and $300 million just went poof." @debra_kahn banger on rhetoric and reality in California's gas price wars: politico.com/news/magazine/…
In response to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA): Canceling these grants without cause isn’t just wrong, it’s illegal. These are legally binding agreements, and the Authority has met every obligation, as confirmed by repeated federal reviews, as recently as Feb. 2025. 1/2
“They gave Disneyland tickets to the people who worked in the (Los Angeles) wildfires,” one soldier said. With troops aiding ICE, “Nobody’s handing out Disneyland tickets now.” nytimes.com/2025/07/16/us/…
Read @JeremyBWhite and @nicholaswu12 on Newsom's latest obsession, which is reverberating on the Hill and in Sacramento ... politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
NEW: "Crazy hill to die on" OR "The kind of thing (Democrats) are looking for" @GavinNewsom plan to respond to Texas gerrymander by throwing California's house maps -- legally novel, politically uncertain -- has jolted the blue bastion politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
There are no “independent” or NPP members. So, more appropriately, Republicans are normally about 38% of the vote (in statewide constitutional offices and presidential elections).