“Donald Trump’s puppet DOJ has no business screwing around with next month’s election,” Newsom posted on Friday in response to news theDOJ plans to send federal election watchers to California and New Jersey for their closely watched elections next month.

“Sending the feds into California polling places is a deliberate attempt to scare off voters and undermine a fair election. We will not back down. Californians decide our future — no one else.”

Many on social media, including DOJ Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, quickly pointed out that the Justice Department has a long history of sending election monitoring resources to areas that have a history of issues to ensure election laws are being followed.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom during a bill-signing event related to redrawing the state’s congressional maps Aug. 21, 2025. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

“Lol calm down bro,” Dhillonposted on X. “The@TheJusticeDept under Democrat administrations has sent in federal election observers for decades, and not once did we hear that this was voter intimidation from states such as California. Do you really want to go there? Isn’t transparency a good thing?”

Dr. Houman Hemmatiposted on X, “Hey @GavinNewsom WHY would any legitimate voter be “scared off” by having federal election observers? Most people think legitimate voters would be more likely to vote because they’d trust the process.

“But clearly you’re afraid of something. I wonder what that is…”

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican candidate for governor in California to replace the term-limited Newsom, wrote on X, “Gavin sure seems worried about people seeing how he’s handling elections.”

The Republican parties in both California and New Jersey requested the federal observers as California votes on a ballot measure aimed at redrawing the state’s congressional map in favor of Democrats to counter states like Texas that have redrawn its map favoring Republicans. New Jersey votes in a highly watched gubernatorial election.

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Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon arrives for a news conference at the Justice Department Sept. 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The Department of Justice sent election monitors to California twice during the Biden administration, during the2022 general election and the2024 general election.

“This is not a federal election,” Newsom’s press officeposted on X. “The US DOJ has no business or basis to interfere with this election. This is solely about whether California amends our state constitution.

“This administration has made no secret of its goal to undermine free and fair elections. Deploying these federal forces appears to be an intimidation tactic meant for one thing: suppress the vote.”

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Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in San Francisco Aug. 7, 2025.  (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The Biden Justice Department sent election resources to several non-federal elections as well, includingAlaska municipal elections in October 2023, aNew Jersey off-year general election in 2023 and aMississippi off-year general in 2023.

Fox News Digital reached out to Newsom’s office for comment.

“In recent elections, we have received reports of irregularities in these counties that we fear will undermine either the willingness of voters to participate in the election or their confidence in the announced results of the election,” California GOP Chairwoman Corrin Rankin wrote in a letter to Dhillon on Monday.

The New Jersey GOP sent a similar letter about Passaic County, which is heavily Latino and once favored Democrats but voted for Trump in 2024.

The state GOP alleged a “long and sordid history” of vote-by-mail fraud.

Democrats in both states have pushed back against the decision.

New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin called the move “highly inappropriate” and said the DOJ “has not even attempted to identify a legitimate basis for its actions.”

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Voters make selections at their voting booths inside an early voting site. (Melissa Sue Gerrits)

Los Angeles County Clerk Dean Logan said election observers are standard practice across the country and that the county, with 5.8 million registered voters, is continuously updating and verifying its voter records.

“Voters can have confidence their ballot is handled securely and counted accurately,” he said.

During the 2024 election, multiple Republican-led states pushed back on the Biden administration’s efforts to send federal resources to monitor elections, arguing the state measures in place were satisfactory.

Election monitors are lawyers who work for the Justice Department, including in the civil rights division and U.S. attorney’s offices across the country. They are not law enforcement officers or federal agents.

For decades, the Justice Department’s civil rights division has sent attorneys and staff members to monitor polling places across the country in both federal and non-federal elections. The monitors are tasked with ensuring compliance with federal voting rights laws.

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division enforces a number of statutes protecting the right to vote. That includes the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits intimidation and threats against those who are casting ballots or counting votes. And it includes the Americans with Disabilities Act, which mandates that election officials ensure people with disabilities have the full and equal opportunity to vote.

Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson and The Associated Press contributed to this report

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During his interview with “Triggernometry” hosts Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin, Rogan said many of the societal norms and public policies during the pandemic now feel like a far-left fever dream compared to today.

“I was just talking to a buddy of mine who’s fleeing LA, and he was like, ‘I can’t anymore. I tried. I just f—ing, I hung in there. I can’t do it anymore.’ He’s like, ‘Everybody went crazy.’ It’s like, there’s something that happened because of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests and the riots,” Rogan, an ex-Californian and frequent critic of its leaders, recalled on his podcast.

“Like, whatever the temperature of society was, it is like it hit societal global warming where it’s like ‘It’s time to investigate Greenland,” Rogan said. “It’s time to move north. Like, this is a bad climate now. This sucks.’”

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Podcaster Joe Rogan argued that President Donald Trump becoming a successful governor of California would be one of the most humorous twists in American history. (Getty Images)

Kisin agreed, arguing the exodus of people from California speaks volumes.

“LA is a perfect example of this because we talk about this all the time. You get out of the airport at LAX. You feel that LA sun on your skin, and you just go, ‘This is paradise,’” Kisin said. “And they f—ed it up so bad that people will literally pack up and leave paradise.”

“What Donald Trump should do, is, when he leaves office, run for governor of California,” Rogan said, laughing. “And just take over California and fix it.”

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Russian-British comedian and podcaster Konstantin Kisin argued that California is a paradise that has been squandered by poor leadership. (Screenshot/Youtube/OxfordUnion)

Rogan went on to say it would be “one of the funniest moments in American history” if Trump actually ran.

“It would be hilarious if he did. It would be one of the funniest things of all time if an 82-year-old man steps into the office of governor of California,” Rogan said before imitating Trump: “‘We’re going to fix everything. We’ve got a problem with water. I know how to get the water.’

“It would be f—ing hilarious.”

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Newsom said the move affirms the state’s continued commitment to abortion access for women in the Golden State amid efforts by President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans to shut down Planned Parenthood.

“California is a reproductive freedom state, and this latest investment continues to show our belief in protecting access to essential health care in times of distress,” Newsom said in a statement on Thursday. “Trump’s efforts to defund Planned Parenthood put all our communities at risk as people seek basic health care from these community providers.”

State lawmakers will also address the issue when the legislature reconvenes in January.

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California officials are giving Planned Parenthood $140 million to keep 109 clinics open. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

Planned Parenthood had announced it would eliminate primary care at clinics in Orange and San Bernardino counties starting in December. Five other clinics in the Bay Area, Santa Cruz and Central Valley, also shuttered in recent months over federal efforts to defund the organization.

Dr. Janet Jacobson, medical director of the Orange and San Bernardino counties clinics, told CalMatters the federal actions are “destroying our primary care program.”

“It’s inhumane to take away people’s health care,” Jacobson said. “Folks that have Medi-Cal should be able to see the provider of their choice for primary care.”

Planned Parenthood needs about $27 million a month to operate all its local facilities, Jodi Hicks, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, told CalMatters.

“The Planned Parenthood affiliates in California are grateful to Governor Newsom and our allies in the Legislature for taking this necessary step to keep Planned Parenthood health centers open and able to provide critical services as they weather the impacts of the federal defund,” Hicks said in a statement.

California is the fourth state to allocate public funds to support Planned Parenthood, joining Washington, Colorado and New Mexico. Lawmakers in Oregon and New York are also considering giving public money to the organization.

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California is the fourth state to allocate public funds to support Planned Parenthood. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Republicans in the nation’s capital and across the country have targeted Planned Parenthood over abortion services. Trump’s spending bill signed over the summer prohibited Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid money for its services, including abortions, mammograms, pap smears, birth control and sexually transmitted infection testing.

Facilities in GOP-led states with abortion restrictions have also been forced to cease the procedures following the 2022 Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe V. Wade and returned the power to make laws regarding abortion back to the states.

Planned Parenthood facilities have been shuttering in various states across the country, including California and New York. Planned Parenthood Mar Monte — which operates 30 health centers along the California coast, Central Valley and Nevada — shuttered five health centers in July after Trump blocked Planned Parenthood’s funding.

Mar Monte Chief of Staff Andrew Adams said the organization is working on ways to maintain its financial stability. Adams said the closures helped keep services at the organization’s other clinics until the end of the year but that it could be met with a “financial cliff” in the new year.

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Republicans in the nation’s capital and across the country have targeted Planned Parenthood over abortion services. (REUTERS/Gaelen Morse)

“We are planning for an environment where there is no federal funding,” Adams told CalMatters. “What that looks like is having to potentially charge patients some amount of money for services we provide.”

The organization has claimed that abortions make up only 3% of its services, but pro-life groups contend that the clinics’ closures in states with abortion bans prove that to be false.

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“If that were true, they wouldn’t be closing all these facilities in pro-life states where you can’t do abortions. So that’s hardly believable anymore in 2025,” 40 Days for Life CEO and founder Shawn Carney told Fox News Digital in August.

Newsom, California lawmakers and Planned Parenthood have spent much of the year searching for a solution to keep the organization afloat without federal dollars, according to CalMatters.

But with a multibillion-dollar state deficit, that has been a challenging goal.

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That truck driver is accused of causing a freeway crash that resulted in three fatalities on Tuesday in California.

Newsom is blaming the federal government for the crash, arguing its policies ultimately allowed the suspect to receive a license. Duffy rejected that claim.

The dispute comes as the transportation secretary threatens to withhold millions in federal highway funds from California and expands a federal review into how non-citizens acquire state-issued licenses.

WHITE HOUSE SAYS CALIFORNIA GRANTED LICENSE TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT TRUCKER CHARGED IN FATAL DUI CRASH

California Gov. Gavin Newsom during a bill signing Aug. 21 in Sacramento, Calif.  (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

“Had Gavin followed our rules per DOT, this guy would have never been on the road. Three more people would be alive,” Duffy said Friday on “America Reports.”

The deadly crash occurred Tuesday on a Southern California freeway. Jashanpreet Singh, a 21-year-old Indian national, allegedly drove a semitruck while under the influence, causing a multi-car pileup with three fatalities.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced potential funding cuts for several states accused of noncompliance with federal trucking safety standards during a news conference in Washington, D.C., Aug. 26. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

According to the Department of Transportation, California violated new federal rules by upgrading Singh’s non-domiciled CDL despite an emergency rule and compliance notice issued Sept. 26.

“If California had complied with the secretary’s emergency rule and prevented the upgrade of this individual’s driving privileges earlier this month, he would have never been able to get behind his big rig,” according to a department statement.

The rule was designed to restrict eligibility for noncitizen licenses and require states to verify applicants’ legal status.

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California first issued Singh his CDL in June but upgraded it in mid-October, weeks after the new federal restrictions took effect, according to the Department of Transportation.

Newsom’s press office called the crash “tragic” but accused the Trump administration of trying to score “political points.”

“This is tragic, and as with every tragedy over the last ten months, Secretary Noem has ordered Secretary Duffy to look for every opportunity to manipulate the facts to score cheap political points,” his office wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

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“The FEDERAL government approved and renewed this individual’s FEDERAL employment authorization multiple times – which allowed him to obtain a commercial driver’s license in accordance with FEDERAL law.”

Duffy didn’t accept the governor’s message.

Jashanpreet Singh, a 21-year-old Indian national, allegedly drove a big rig while under the influence, leading to a California crash that killed at least three people on Oct. 21. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

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“It’s nice to see Gavin tap-dance in a tweet, good for him,” he said.

“But the truth is we do set the guidelines by which licenses can be issued. We sent that guidance out. Gavin Newsom said, ‘I’m not going to follow it. I’m going to allow this foreigner to get an upgraded license.’ That was Gavin Newsom’s choice. The states issue commercial driver’s licenses. We give the guidance, they issue them.”

“California rules and regulations for commercial driver’s licensing are consistent with federal law,” Newsom’s office told Fox News Digital in part.

The California Transportation Agency posted on X: “MISINFORMATION ALERT: The state does not determine commercial driver’s license eligibility. The FEDERAL government approves and renews all FEDERAL employment authorization documents that allows individuals to work and obtain commercial driver’s licenses.”

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