“It’s an innovative and imaginative place that tends to set trends and blaze trails. “California has this mantle of leadership, but along with that can come the stumbles of being the first adopter,” said Rep. Biden is a fierce proponent of high-speed rail, as well as new protections for gig economy workers that California voters diluted in November. Also on the new White House agenda will be measures to ban mandatory arbitration clauses in employee contracts and a revival of a “Cash for Clunkers” program aimed at providing incentives to get polluting cars off the road - signature California policies.Įven some ideas that haven’t worked out so well in California are on the national agenda now. The incoming administration is embracing some of California’s most pioneering initiatives, such as programs for rapidly decarbonizing the electricity grid and tuition-free college, as well as more obscure, incremental policies. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
He continued to champion the cause while he and Harris were still rivals in the 2020 presidential race. He’s been pushing to nationalize some of the state’s pioneering efforts on climate action, workers’ rights, law enforcement and criminal justice, healthcare and economic empowerment since he was vice president in the Obama era. Longtime California resident Alejandro Mayorkas is the nominee to run the Department of Homeland Security.Īnd in Congress, of course, San Francisco Democrat Nancy Pelosi will be running point on the California agenda as House speaker. The nominee for Treasury secretary, former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, is a professor at UC Berkeley, as is the nominee for Energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm.
Xavier Becerra is nominated to run the massive Health and Human Services Department. Other Californians will be doing the same from Biden’s Cabinet. She’ll be sharing ideas, innovations and breakthroughs from California that might help solve problems on the national level.” “Kamala Harris will be in all the meetings and have the last word with the president after they are over. “California has never had a Democrat on a national ticket, much less a ticket that won,” said former Democratic Gov. Kamala Harris is about to become vice president. The revival in Washington of the California model of governance was cemented by Democrats’ recent recapture of the Senate majority, and comes after a Trump-era hiatus during which the state was road-testing ambitious new policies. There is no place the incoming administration is leaning on more heavily for inspiration in setting a progressive policy agenda. That’s rekindling past cliches about the state - incubator of innovation, premier laboratory of democracy, land of big ideas - even as it struggles with surging COVID-19 infections, a safety net frayed by the pandemic’s toll, crushing housing costs and wildfires, all fueling an exodus of residents. After four years of being relentlessly targeted by a Republican president who worked overtime to bait, punish and marginalize California and everything it represents, the state is suddenly center stage again in Washington’s policy arena.Ĭalifornia is emerging as the de facto policy think tank of the Biden-Harris administration and of a Congress soon to be under Democratic control.
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