Transportation Update- May 2025

Transportation Update

Cities Are Buying EVs in Bulk for Government Fleets: City governments are adopting electric vehicles faster than individual car…

Will Electric Vehicle Mandate Be A Roadblock To Safe Commutes For California Farmworkers?: As part of its ambitious goals to slash emissions and achieve carbon neutrality by 2045…

U.S. Study Establishes the Cost Benefits of Electric School Buses: A new study found that replacing a seven year-old diesel school bus with electric would result in $84,200…

California

CHAY: Oakland Becomes First District Nationwide With 100% Electric School Buses: Last month Oakland became the first school district nationwide to have a fully electric fleet of school..

Track California Wildfires: In a fast-changing natural world, there are some things California fire officials can reliably count on: the unpredictability of climate-driven wildfires..

California Gas Prices Could Spike 50 Cents Under Climate Offset Idea: California’s already high gas prices could see an additional spike of almost 50 cents…

Weekly Update- 5/19/2025

Weekly Update 05/19/2025

California: 

Gavin Newsom moves housing construction: California Governor Gavin Newsom has intensified efforts to address the state's housing crisis by bypassing stalled legislation and incorporating pro-development…

Newsom doubles down on encampments: Governor Gavin Newsom is urging California cities and counties to adopt a model ordinance banning homeless encampments…

Trump moves to halt $70M for California internet, computer access programs: The U.S. Commerce Department has canceled a $70 million federal grant to expand internet access in California…

Education: 

‘A true game changer:’ unprecedented school choice tax credit in GOP bill: A proposed $5 billion federal tax credit seeks to expand private school choice nationwide…

RFK Jr says HHS will ‘preserve’ Head Start: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Congress that the Trump administration will preserve funding for Head Start in fiscal year 2026…

Administration defunds a program to help launch teacher apprenticeships: Trump has defunded the Educator Registered Apprenticeship Intermediary program, which supported…

Boys outperform girls in middle school STEM, study finds: A new study finds that boys are outperforming girls in middle school math and science, reversing gains made by 2019…

Exclusive data highlights paradox: as enrollment falls, fewer schools close: Despite reports of school closures from declining enrollment, national data show fewer schools…

Weekly Update-5/12/2025

Weekly Update 5/12/25

President and Administration 

Federal judge temporarily halts Trump's sweeping government overhaul: A federal judge in San Francisco has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's executive order…

Cities: Judge blocks Trump admin from pulling San Francisco housing funds over anti-DEI rules: A U.S. District Court judge issued a temporary restraining order…

Federal judge blocks Education Department from cutting off school pandemic aid in 16 states and DC: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from halting COVID-19…

Trump team faces key legal decision that could put mental-health parity in peril: The Trump administration faces a May 12 deadline to decide whether to defend Biden-era regulation…


Even with DOGE cuts, the U.S. has spent $166 billion more than last year: Despite Trump and the U.S. DOGE Service actions to shrink government programs and the federal workforce, the U.S…

Trump administration cut more than $1.8 billion in NIH grants: In a sweeping move to cut federal spending, the administration terminated $1.81 billion in National Institutes of Health (NIH)…

California

LFCV, LHE: Newsom warns city that resisted $1 for homeless shelter: ‘Do your job’: California Governor Gavin Newsom criticized Turlock city officials for refusing to allocate $1 and a letter…

Education 

Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA)

The Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA) is expected to be included in the upcoming House and Ways Means tax package. It could create a 100 percent federal tax credit…

SCOTUS to rule in case that could upend enforcement of disabled students’ rights: The Supreme Court is weighing a case that could make it harder for students with disabilities to…

BGCPR, Vimenti, Hayward, LVJUSD, GUSD: Senate approves repeal of E-rate Wi-Fi hotspots for schools, libraries: The Senate voted to overturn a Federal Communications Commission (FCC)…

Weekly Update-5/5/2025

Weekly Update 5/5/25

White House Fiscal Year 2026 Discretionary Budget

The Trump Administration’s FY2026 “skinny” Budget proposes sweeping changes in discretionary federal spending, anchored by a sharp 22.6 percent reduction…

To reiterate, these are only proposals at this stage. Congress remains tasked with putting together and passing a budget and they will ultimately begin putting together the FY26 draft budget…

Key Budget Totals

  • Non-defense discretionary: $558 billion (22.6% decrease)…

Top Increases

  • Department of Defense (DoD): +$113 billion to strengthen military readiness, modernize nuclear deterrents, and invest in shipbuilding and sixth-generation fighter aircraft…

Major Cuts and Eliminations

  • Foreign Aid and International Programs: Over $20 billion…

President and Administration 

Sweeping cuts hit NEA after Trump administration calls to eliminate the agency: The Trump administration has begun canceling National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grants…

President Trump signs order seeking to end federal funding for NPR and PBS: President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order on Thursday (5/1) directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)…

Ed. Dept. Issued Non-Continuation Notices for $1B mental health program designed to thwart school shootings: The Trump administration is seeking to end a $1 billion…

Public Safety and Justice Update- 5/2/25

Public Safety & Justice Update 5/2/2025 Capitol Advocacy Partners 

Trump to 'Unleash' Local Police, Cautions Against Interfering with  ICE 

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on April 28 promising to "unleash high-impact local police forces" and to step up law…

Schiff, Murphy Reintroduce Assault Weapons Ban

Senator Adam Schiff joined Senator Chris Murphy and other Democrats on Wednesday (4/30) to reintroduce an assault weapons ban…

States Move to Outlaw ‘Glock Switches’

More states are enacting bans on “Glock switches,” also known as auto sears, devices about the size of a quarter that can turn semiautomatic firearms into fully automatic weapons…

When Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Came to an Immigrant Mayor’s City 

On Sunday (4/27), the Drug Enforcement Administration led a raid  that led to the arrests of more than 1,100 people. The raid,  conducted in Democratic Colorado…

Poll: Most Californians Want More Guns in Schools

A majority of Californians are broadly concerned about school shootings, and support schools hiring armed police officers as a means to prevent them…

California Dems’ Crime Problem is Coming From Inside the House
A few months into a legislative session that was supposed to be focused on tackling affordability and restoring voters’ confidence in their ability to address crime and homelessness…