Millions of Americans, including in California, are set to lose their benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) starting Nov. 1 if a federal government budget deal is not reached.

The redistricting plan puts California voters at the center of a national tug-of-war over political boundaries. In Northern California, it would unite inland and coastal communities, but some worry this would silence rural voices.

The impact of California’s newly approved Proposition 50 is already being felt across the country, as Democrats celebrate decisive wins and Republicans prepare legal challenges. And in one California city,

California voters have passed Proposition 50 by a comfortable margin, codifying a freshly-gerrymandered congressional map for the rest of the decade.The passage of this new map — which is designed to protect a slew of vulnerable Democrats and will cost Republicans three to five seats in 2026 — is the most consequential development to date in the mid-decade redistricting wars due to the sheer number of seats that it impacts.

Calvert has survived previous redistricting rounds, including in 2021, when the overwhelmingly liberal Palm Springs — the first city in the nation to elect an all-LGBTQ+ city council — was added to his district and the Republican-heavy Temecula was taken out.

In Northern California, the new boundaries dramatically reconfigure the 1st, 2nd and 4th congressional districts — forcing current Democratic representatives to introduce themselves to unfamiliar,

See maps of how Texas, California, Missouri, North Carolina and Utah's redistricting push could play out, based on the 2024 election results.

In a landslide election, California voters approved Proposition 50, a ballot measure that reconfigures the state’s U.S. House map temporarily in response to Republican gerrymandering efforts in other states.