California lawmakers have postponed a special session in the ‘Trump testimonial’ region, due to wildfires

California lawmakers, on Monday, postponed a special legislative session scheduled for Tuesday to “prove Trump” in the Golden State before the inauguration of President-elect Trump, due to the wildfires that devastated the Los Angeles region.

A member of the budget office of the California Assembly told Fox News Digital that the hearing has been postponed due to the fire, adding that the chairman of the committee, Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, cannot attend the session because he represents the areas destroyed by the wild infernos.

When asked when the session would be rescheduled before Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, the budget office said the new date is “up in the air.”

While the session was adjourned, lawmakers, on Friday, amended the law.

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KCRA in Sacramento reported that lawmakers have added a proposal for a new website to track pending lawsuits between the state and the Trump administration, additional legislation on spending $25 million for the California Department of Justice to fight legal battles, and a proposal for $25 million in job grants. legal and immigration support. Proposals were added to the special session bills, ABX1-1 and ABX1-2.

This news comes a few days after a KCRA reporter pressed the Democratic Speaker of the California Assembly, Robert Rivas, if it was the right time to have a legislative session on the allocation of anti-Trump funds in a way that lawmakers can do without a special session.

Rivas dismissed the question, saying he was there to fix wildfires.

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Water is being dropped by helicopter on the Kenneth Fire in the West Hills section of Los Angeles, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Ethan Swope/AP)

“This is a historic, historical wildfire,” he told a reporter. “This is a historic event. These wildfires, as I said, will probably be some of the worst wildfires and disasters in the history of the country and the country.”

But the reporter continued, he said, “while these wildfires happened, and while people were trying to understand what was happening and worried about disaster relief, worried about the ability to get homeowners insurance, your chamber gave a special legislative session to prepare for Donald Trump the way you already can without a special legislative session, now is the right time for that?”

Once again, Rivas focused on restoring the wildfire and did not answer the reporter’s question.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom and President-elect Trump have clashed on a variety of issues, including immigration. (Getty/AP)

Rivas’ office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for more information about the postponement of the special session.

Shortly after Trump’s election victory, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a special session to strengthen the federal legal fund in the case of attacks on the Trump administration. Trump responded to Newsom after the announcement, saying on his Truth Social account, “He’s using the term ‘Trump-Proof’ as a way to stop all the BIG things that can be done to ‘Make California Great Again,’ but. I just won it in a landslide.”

Between 2017 and 2021, the California Department of Justice led 122 lawsuits against Trump administration policies, spending $42 million on prosecutions. Newsom’s office said at one point, the federal government was ordered to return nearly $60 million in public safety grants to California.

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While California filed more than 100 lawsuits against the Trump administration, Trump only sued the state in four cases. In 2018, Trump’s DOJ filed a lawsuit over three California state laws that prohibit federal immigration enforcement. That same year, Trump sued California over its state-level net neutrality law.

Jamie Joseph of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.