Daily Business Report: Wednesday, June 11, 2025
We’re only just beginning to suffer the consequences of Biden’s disastrous open-border policies
By Victor David Hansen | New York Post
The spiteful open-borders legacy of Joe Biden will plague America for generations to come, long after the former president is a fading bad memory.
Somewhere between 10 million and 12 million foreign nationals are believed to have entered the United States illegally under his watch, to add to the existing 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens.
Almost all were unaudited.
They stormed the border for four years without background checks of the sort that American citizens must undergo to purchase a firearm or take out a loan.
Sen. Monique Limon Voted Unanimously By Democrats as Next Senate Leader
By Evan Symon | California Globe
The California Senate Democratic Caucus unanimously agreed on Monday that Senator Monique Limon (D-Santa Barbara) will replace Senator Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg) as Senate Pro Tempore in early 2026.
A graduate of both UC Berkeley and Columbia, Limon began her political career in the 2000’s, serving as a board member of the Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Education, as well as being on the Santa Barbara County Commission for Women. In 2016, she was elected to the state Assembly for the first time, taking over former Assemblyman Das Williams’ seat. Limon changed houses in 2020, defeating Republican Gary Michaels 64%-36% to take over the Senate seat formerly held by Hannah-Beth Jackson.
As Senator, Limon has been noted to be “opinionated” and “arrogant” on many issues. While she has pulled off some successes in the Senate, especially on environmental issues and bills that look to help mitigate wildfires, she has also seen more of her bills than usual for a Senator not be signed into law. Notable bills of hers that never became law include a commercial mail advertising opt-out bill in 2021 and a bill last year that would have made voter registration automatic at all DMVs in the state, which Governor Newsom wound up vetoing because of the high cost. In the past week before the decision by the Caucus, Limon has likewise come out against the military from coming into Los Angeles to help quell the anti-ICE riots.
Unions want to chip away at Jerry Brown’s pension law. He has something to say about that
By Adam Ashton | CalMatters
California public employee unions think their members are falling behind financially in retirement, and for the first time in recent memory they’re making a serious case to increase their pensions.
They proposed legislation this spring that would allow newly hired police and firefighters to retire two years earlier — at age 55 — and with a more generous pension formula, arguing that the nature of their work exposes them to hazards and takes a toll on their health.
The bill, carried by Democratic Assemblymember Tina McKinnor of Inglewood, also would lift a cap on how much California pensioners can earn in retirement, increasing it by almost $100,000 to match the federal limit of $280,000 a year. That change alone would cost government agencies and workers more than $300 million a year in new payroll expenses, according to a legislative analysis of the plan.
