In the fiery Senate confirmation hearing, Sen. Alex Padilla expressed outrage over Pam Bondi’s bold assertion that she ‘won’t be bullied,’ accusing her of failing to provide answers on key issues. Padilla criticised the weaponization of the Department of Justice,

A day after President Donald Trump claimed to have used the U.S. military and emergency powers to pump more water from Northern California to Southern California, federal officials have yet to provide details or explain the action.

U.S. Senator Alex Padilla Questions Defense Secretary Hegseth on Trump’s Purported Military Action to “Turn On” California Water

President Donald Trump said on social media that the military had intervened to secure California water supplies.

California Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla said he will attend the 47th presidential inauguration on Monday in which President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn into office for his second term. “I do plan to be there. Of course,” he told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl.

With little power in Republican-led Washington, D.C., California Democrats struggle to mount a countereffort to President Trump's agenda.

California Sen. Alex Padilla introduced several bills to increase firefighter pay, expand FEMA funding and include affordable housing as part of disaster response.

Padilla and Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., are members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which held a confirmation hearing on Bondi Wednesday. The hearings continue Thursday. Republicans control 53 of the Senate’s 100 seats, and GOP committee members praised Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, throughout the hearing.

Calif., pressed President-elect Trump's pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, on Wednesday about birthright citizenship, which Trump has suggested he would end. Sen. Padilla joins Morning Joe to discuss his thoughts from Bondi's hearing.

Fresno government and nonprofit agencies are scrambling to understand what a Trump order freezing federal funds means for grant money.

The bipartisan legislation, which passed unanimously (21-0) out of the Senate Judiciary Committee last year, would expand access to federal support for the families of firefighters and other first responders who pass away or become permanently disabled from service-related cancers.

On the first week of Donald Trump's second presidency, we report from Washington, D.C., and the frontlines of fire damage in California.