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    California’s Padilla personally warned Biden not to fold to GOP on immigration to aid Ukraine

    by Erin B. Logan, Courtney Subramanian, Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times Dec 15, 2023 5 minutes
    Alex Padilla speaks to reporters outside of the Oval Office after meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden on July 29, 2021 in Washington, DC.

    WASHINGTON — Sen. Alex Padilla approached President Joe Biden at a campaign fundraiser at a sprawling, multilevel mansion in the Pacific Palisades last weekend to offer a warning.

    Biden was at the palatial home of investors José Feliciano and Kwanza Jones to court donors and talk about his administration’s record, but Padilla pulled the president aside to discuss negotiations playing out behind the scenes in the Senate.

    Padilla was worried that Biden was about to set a harmful precedent. The White House, he knew, was considering agreeing to permanent immigration policy changes to win Senate Republicans’ support for roughly $110 billion in one-time aid to Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies.

    “The primary message I was seeking to convey is warning [Biden] that Republican senators were dragging him into territory that was harmful policy,” Padilla told The Times in a Thursday interview. Biden “was listening intently” and asked when Padilla was

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