The Mayor of Los Angeles Talks ICE Raids, Homeless Crisis & The Palisades Fire | Karen Bass
In one of the most talked-about episodes in Échale Podcast history, host Jose Quintero sits down face to face with the Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass — the first woman and second Black person ever to hold this office. No scripts. No softballs. Just real questions that LA deserves answers to.
We go there. All of it. From the Palisades Fire and the Ghana trip, to the $17.8 million cut to the LA Fire Department budget, to the lawsuit from her own Fire Chief — Mayor Bass addresses the controversies head on. We also talk about what's actually working — homelessness numbers down for the first…
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