Lindsey Holden

20 hours ago | politico.com | Lindsey Holden

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas is continuing his affordability focus by supporting a group of housing bills and creating subcommittees to work on child care, transportation and other costs. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP ROB THE BUILDER: Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas is throwing his weight behind a slate of housing affordability legislation — including some hotly contested fast-tracking bills — and taking a wait-and-see approach to others.

1 day ago | politico.com | Jeremy B. White |Dustin Gardiner |Lindsey Holden

California lawmakers are fighting over housing policies that proponents say are needed to increase the state's housing supply more quickly. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP HOUSING STALEMATE: Nothing unites — and divides — California Democrats quite like housing. Everyone agrees homes and rent are too expensive. (Indeed, housing and homelessness were resoundingly the top issues for California voters in a recent POLITICO poll).

6 days ago | politico.com | Lindsey Holden

California lawmakers will return from spring break to legislative crunch time. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP BACK TO BUSINESS: California lawmakers are coming back to Sacramento for a breakneck week of work. The Legislature’s return from spring break will kick off a monthlong race to the Senate and Assembly deadline to move bills out of their houses of origin. A flurry of high-profile legislation will be vetted for the first time in committee hearings starting on Tuesday. Gov.

1 week ago | politico.com | Blake Jones |Lindsey Holden

GOING NUTS: A denim-clad Gavin Newsom spent his morning at an almond farm in the Turlock area offering one of his sharpest broadsides against Donald Trump’s tariffs, casting them as “one of the most self-destructive things that we’ve experienced in modern American history.”He and Attorney General Rob Bonta’s newly announced lawsuit against the import taxes, he said, was necessary to mitigate economic carnage on California’s marquee tech and farming industries.

1 week ago | politico.com | Lindsey Holden

Many California voters surveyed in a POLITICO-UC Berkeley Citrin Center poll don't have confidence that Sacramento leaders can tackle the state's challenges. | Juliana Yamada/AP NOT THRILLED: California voters don’t have much faith in their leaders’ ability to tackle big challenges and believe the state’s best days are in the past. Policy influencers in the state have a slightly rosier outlook.