BELEM, Brazil (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday he’s stunned by eight senators’ decision to break with Democrats and end the government shutdown and warned they’re not alarmed enough about President Donald Trump’s political norm-shattering.

“I’m not coming in to punch anybody in the face, but I'm not pleased that, in the face of this invasive species that is Donald Trump, who’s completely changed the rules of the game, that we’re still playing by the old rules of the game,” Newsom told The Associated Press in an interview at the COP30 UN Climate Conference in Brazil. “And in my core, I'm stunned.”

Newsom was asked what he would say to the group of seven Democrats and one independent senator who joined with Republicans in the Senate late Monday to pass legislation to reopen

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