"Pam Bondi will reopen Alcatraz the same day Trump lets her release the Epstein files. So, never," Izzy Gardon, Newsom's director of communications, told SFGATE. The high-profile visit comes two months after President Donald Trump floated the idea of reopening the long-shuttered penitentiary as a maximum-security prison.

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday vowed to fight the "illegal" move by President Donald Trump's administration to cancel some $4 billion in federal grants for the state's ambitious but much-delayed high-speed rail project.

California is suing the Trump administration for cutting funding for the state’s controversial high-speed rail project, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) announced Thursday. On Wednesday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the administration was pulling $4 billion in funding for the project after it ran far over schedule and over budget.