An escalating clash pits a Republican president looking to fulfill his mass deportation goals against a Democratic governor with White House aspirations hoping to mobilize opposition.

"It clearly will not end here, other states will be next, democracy is next," the California governor says in a speech Tuesday night

Arnold Schwarzenegger chalked up California Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D) suggestion that California could withhold federal taxes to meaningless "rhetoric." The post Arnold Schwarzenegger Dumps on Gavin Newsom’s Wild ‘No Taxes’ Idea in Mud-Slinging Fest With Trump first appeared on Mediaite.

California Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta outlined their lawsuit against Donald Trump and his order the federalize the National Guard, now in Los Angeles to respond to protests of the administration’s ICE raids.

Gavin Newsom won praise on Wednesday for his speech Tuesday night seen by a national audience, something many Democrats saw as a shot across the bow to President Donald Trump that they can fight Trump -- and one that sparked new talk of Newsom as the party's standard-bearer in 2028.

Demonstrations against the Trump administration’s immigration policies are expected in cities around the country Wednesday — including Los Angeles, where President Donald Trump has deployed Marines and National Guard forces over the objections of California Gov.

Accusing him of “turning the military against American citizens," California Governor Newsom moved to stop President Trump from using the military to quell the anti-ICE riots in L.A.

But Newsom said there was no such call. "There was no call. Not even a voicemail," he tweeted after Trump spoke at an Oval Office news conference. "Americans should be alarmed tha