California v. Trump: 66 lawsuits, $25 million and counting | Kabateck & Karnikian: Off the Record, Ep. 5

California has spent $25 million suing the Trump administration, and Attorney General Rob Bonta is asking for more. Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian walk through what that money has bought: 66 lawsuits filed since January 2025, an 80% success rate on preliminary relief, more than 35 injunctions, and somewhere between $108 and $188 billion in federal funding preserved for the state. They cover the wins that have stuck, from blocking the National Guard federalization to stepping into antitrust enforcement on the Ticketmaster case, the brewing fight over the FDA's reversal on flavored vaping after Reynolds Tobacco's $5 million donation to Trump, and why California now leads every state in the country in suits against the administration. Bonta wants more lawyers and a bigger budget. The hosts make the case for why the math actually works.

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