San Leandro City Council
January 13, 2025

San Leandro
Federal Affairs Briefing
January 13, 2025
Trump-Vance Administration
• President-elect Donald Trump
• Vice President-elect JD Vance
• Certification: January 6, 2025
• Inauguration Day: January 20, 2025
• Trump-Vance Administration will assume office with a
Republican “trifecta” across Executive & Legislative Branches • Cabinet nominees to be considered by the Senate
• First 100 days ends April 30, 2025
119th Session of Congress
• Historically slim margins in the House & Senate
• Senate: 53 Republicans, 47 Democrats
• Majority Leader John Thune
• GOP lacks filibuster-proof majority of 60 seats
• House: 219 Republicans, 215 Democrats, 1 current vacancy • Speaker Mike Johnson
• Two more GOP departures should leave 217-215 majority • Bay Area Delegation
• Welcoming Senator Schiff and Representative Simon
Legislative Priorities
• House adopted Rules Package outlines 12 priority bills • Immigration enforcement, sanctuary jurisdictions, Title IX, & proof of US citizenship for voter registration
• Debt Ceiling and Deficit Reduction
• Current Continuing Resolution Expires March 14, 2025
• Resolution on FY 2025 Budget
• Work Begins on FY 2026 Spending Bills
• Expiring Authorizations
• Congressional Review Act
Budget Reconciliation
• Reconciliation process will be used by GOP lawmakers to advance Trump-Vance priorities with a simple majority
• “Byrd Rule” requires that legislative provisions produce changes to spending or revenue receipts with a budgetary impact that is not “merely incidental” to the proposed policy change
• Senate Parliamentarian will scrub merely incidental provisions in “Byrd Bath”
Budget Reconciliation
• $5 trillion package targeted for April/May consideration • National Security
• Immigration enforcement & border security
• Energy security
• Economic Policy
• Extension/expansion of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 • Exclusion of tips and adjustment of SALT cap likely in • Opportunity for housing tax credits
• Risk for clean energy tax credits
• Tariffs as revenue source
Executive Actions
• Repeal Biden-era regulations
• Immigration
• Climate & Environmental Justice
• DEI Initiatives
• Pursue a deregulatory agenda across the whole of government • DOGE advisors to offer recommendations to:
• rescind burdensome regulations;
• find efficiencies by reforming administrative process and reducing personnel; and • realize cost savings to taxpayers
Immigration Policy
• Rescinding Biden-era enforcement priorities and expanding powers of CBP and ICE to detain and deport undocumented individuals • Terminating legal status by ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations or programs like CHNV parole, Operation Allies Welcome, etc. • Restricting lawful immigration and capping refugee admissions • Conducting raids, deputizing local law enforcement using 287(g) agreements, and increasing expedited removals
• Restricting public assistance to individuals or mixed-status families • Restricting sanctuary jurisdictions’ eligibility for federal funding Infrastructure Programs
• Federal budget funded by Continuing Resolution through 3/14 • Biden Administration executed majority of grant funding authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act to support climate resiliency, but cities may engage grantees for resources • Trump-Vance Administration will administer final rounds of programs authorized by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law • Few adjustments to federal grants available for local projects, such as Shoreline Project
• Consider potential investments in the City’s Opportunity Zone Thank You
• Thank you for your public service and willingness to engage at the federal level
• My colleagues and I appreciate your ongoing partnership and your time and attention to these developments
• We look forward to supporting the City’s federal priorities in 2025 and continued collaboration in hopes of securing good outcomes for your constituents
Jen Covino, President
Covino Smith & Simon
Direct: 617-869-0193
[email protected]