Trump and Newsom each found political support for their showdown over immigration enforcement, but experts see risks for each.

The California governor has clashed with Trump in recent days over the president's deployment of the National Guard to quell protests in Los Angeles.

Over the years, Trump has threatened to intercede in the state’s long-running homeless crisis, vowed to withhold federal wildfire aid as political leverage in a dispute over water rights, called on police to shoot people robbing stores and warned residents “your children are in danger” because of illegal immigration.

Newsom criticized Trump's deportation agenda after the president acknowledged it was harming farms and hotels, saying the policy of targeting working families is both harmful and ineffective.

California Governor Gavin Newsom delivered a statewide address in the wake of immigration operations that sparked days of protest in Los Angeles and the deployment of hundreds of National Guard and U.

The White House stepped up its criticism of Calfornia Gov. Gavin Newsom after the Demorcat attacked President Donald Trump in a nationally televised speech.

President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said he would arrest anyone who obstructs immigration enforcement, including elected officials.

The deployment of the National Guard catapulted Gov. Gavin Newsom to the front lines of a Democratic resistance against Trump that he has been reluctant to embrace.

Gavin Newsom filed an emergency request in federal court Tuesday to block the Trump administration from using the National Guard and Marines to assist with immigration raids in Los Angeles. Newsom’s move comes after President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of roughly 4,

In early June 2025, amid protests aimed at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Los Angeles, a photograph claimed to show California Gov. Gavin Newsom's wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom,