Padilla pushes back in shutdown fight, warns of soaring healthcare premiums
California Senator Alex Padilla is one of the highest Latins in US politics, but He took a pair of handcuffs to make him famous.
How about a comment on America 2025?
As you may recall, at a press conference held in Los Angeles in June, Padilla was attacked and handcuffed by federal officials after trying to ask a question to the internal security tsar Kristi Noem when the national guards appeared on our streets for the first time in our streets. Noem later claimed that Padilla “threw” to him using the classic Trump technique in the form of deleting reality by accusing, especially when it comes to brunette people.
Padilla told me: “From the first day of this administration, I have tried to tell the truth to power” and if you fight this situation, “if there are no choice but to start to pay attention to … This may be useful, because the general people know that this is wrong.”
USA Av. General Pam Bondi re -evaluated the incident in which the Padilla tried to question him during the congress hearing on Tuesday and expressed his concerns about the arming of the Ministry of Justice. Bondi refused to answer multiple questions, and instead applied to Noem’s defense.
Bondi, “I find it interesting to ask for order in this process,” he said. “When you attacked Minister Noem at a press conference in California, there was absolutely no order, right?”
Again there is no storm, no moves, there is not even misleading. In fact, if there is something to say about Padilla, he is a man who loves order. A MIT -trained engineer is known for his boring calm in the best ways. If he is sweetened with compassion and common sense, who wouldn’t want his politics to be a little boring today?
Being calm does not mean lack of faith. As the closure of the government approached the end of the first week, the Padilla allocated a few minutes to give me information about why the Democrats should not step back and why it would not step back – whether the subject is a health care, immigration or the conflict of the two at the center of this closure.
Republicans want voters, unquarrified immigrants organize parties in our emergency services and believe that they pushed US citizens on the sidewalk while collecting free services. In fact, there is not much good data about how many of the emergency departments are related to undocumented people, because doctors focus on saving life rather than checking the immigration situation. However, a study in Texas found this: Approximately 2 %of all hospital visits in the three -month period Included people without documents. This is a state with many documents, so accept it as much as it – it is not in trouble.
Padilla and Democrats want to focus on a real crisis; If the congress does not maintain subsidies of Obama period, which makes the premiums affordable, low and medium -income people’s health care premiums will increase in the coming weeks. Padilla wants voters to understand how grave it is.
“This is not a concern about what could happen next year … This is a concern at the moment,” Padilla said to me.
“Open records are opening,” he said. “People determine their premiums and now they have to make a choice on where they will register for health services and the cost, and therefore this issue needs to be handled immediately.”
If you think this is a partisan demonstration, the extreme right-wing Maga Amigo girl representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Agree as Padilla. That’s when you realize that things get strange.
“Even a single republican in the leadership did not talk to us about it, or it did not offer a plan to help Americans to cope with the double of health insurance premiums !!!” Greene wrote on social mediaHe’s leaving his party.
This is the only thing Padilla and Greene can agree on. Padilla was the son of immigrants who met in Los Angeles and later obtained legal status. He was born in Southern California, and at a time when Trump wanted the Supreme Court to end it, he made the essence of his innate right to citizenship. His story is not just a story of immigrant, but a California story, and that doesn’t come out of his mind.
Recently asked if he regretted him Fight with Biden Management On the proposed migration reform, which is not a citizen of immigrants, especially Dreamers and others in the United States for decades. Would it be better to sell them, to leave them in uncertainty, but to correct the limit without giving Trump’s abuse?
Padilla said to me, “Of course no.” Padilla said he kept his place in the face of the attack instead of shrinking.
California, in fact, one of the few states that provide health care to people without document, but the budget deficits forced Governor Gavin Newsom to shrink this plan.
No federal dollars are used for this undocumented health services; This is only the money of the state. Padilla supports this.
“There are some states that choose to use the state financing to provide this care, and I agree with it, because in terms of public health, it is not much smarter to help prevent people from getting sick or to treat people early, to manage health services through emergency services.”
Padilla, the workers deemed necessary during the coronavirus epidemic, the food at the tables, the delivery and the young people and the elderly workers now “Trump’s mass deportation agenda to become the primary target”, he said. In other words, this is cruelty, whether in the vein of the health problem or in the vein of the disagreement of ICE and other federal institutions. irony. “
The Trump administration accidentally raised Padilla’s profile, but it was an unexpected consequence of the newly discovered fame: Frequent speculation was made that he could be a candidate for the governor when he left the post in 2026.
Padilla said that he did not make a decision on this and did not make any announcements right now.
Instead, in the hope of seizing the control of at least one wing of the Congress, the California proposal, which will make cheating on election maps in a way that will create five more democratic chairs in the midterm elections, focuses on helping to pass the 50; He says this effort is “critical to restrain the administration that has been out of control”.
