California Governor Plans to Veto ‘Trump Insurance’ Bill
- Lawmakers had approved the regulations bill early Saturday
- Bill doesn’t give state ‘new authority’ to push back: Newsom
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California Governor Gavin Newsom plans to veto a bill approved by the Democrat-controlled legislature that sought to preserve federal environmental and worker safety standards in the face of any Trump administration rollbacks.
Under SB 1, if federal officials weaken certain regulations in effect the day before Donald Trump took office, the state’s agencies would have to maintain the protections to be at least on par with the original standards. The bill, which lawmakers had passed early Saturday, also allows citizens to sue over rollbacks under certain circumstances.