By Hayley Smith Days after the Trump administration made headlines for canceling nearly $8 billion in clean energy projects across 16 blue states, the Department of Energy is considering terminating an additional 300 projects totaling more than $15.8 billion, according...

By Alise Maripuu U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla announced plans on Thursday to introduce a bill aimed at setting up more protections from the purging of voter rolls as the federal government seeks to collect personal voter information from dozens of...

By Amy Larson Several Democratic senators are pushing for a bill that would protect unpaid federal workers and their families from foreclosures, evictions, and loan defaults during the government shutdown. U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) joined U.S. Senator Brian Schatz...

By Anita Chabria California Sen. Alex Padilla is among the highest-ranking Latinos in U.S. politics today, but it took a pair of handcuffs to make him famous. How’s that for a comment on America 2025? Padilla, you may remember, was...

By Lulu Garcia-Navarro In June, Alex Padilla, the senior senator from California, found himself at the center of a defining moment in President Trump’s second term. Protests against Trump’s immigration policies had broken out on the streets of Los Angeles,...

By Hayley Smith The Trump administration this week escalated its efforts against renewable energy when it announced the cancellation of $7.56 billion in funding for projects in 16 states, including California. The U.S. Department of Energy said the 223 canceled...