California Gov. Gavin Newsom sat down with The Associated Press at COP30 in Brazil to talk about the Senate vote to end the government shutdown and US President Donald Trump’s health.

 

“I'm really more alarmed than it appears the eight members of my party are in the United States Senate. I'm much more alarmed about the future of our country and the world we're trying to build than they are, and that's why I'm here. Not just identifying a problem, but iterating and trying to solve it,” Newsom said.

 

The California governor also said that Trump isn’t given the same critical treatment about his health that former President Joe Biden received.

 

“I think we grade him on the curve in ways we didn't the prior president. So, I am challenging, again, that notion as sort of a lazy punditry, an unwillingness I think called balls and strikes because we tend to excuse, it connects to the social media, we tend excuse his behavior in remarkable ways where we would never excuse other behavior along those same lines,” Newsom said.