<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><body><div class="ydp9bed3fe0yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><div><div><a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-california-wall-funding-20190111-story.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="enhancr_card_8014941399">California water projects could be tapped to pay for Trump’s border wall</a><br></div><div><br></div><div id="ydp7b3880a0enhancr_card_8014941399" class="ydp7b3880a0yahoo-link-enhancr-card ydp7b3880a0ymail-preserve-class ydp7b3880a0ymail-preserve-style" style="max-width:400px;font-family:Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" data-url="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-california-wall-funding-20190111-story.html" data-type="YENHANCER" data-size="MEDIUM" contenteditable="false"><a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-california-wall-funding-20190111-story.html" style="text-decoration:none !important;color:#000 !important" class="ydp7b3880a0yahoo-enhancr-cardlink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><table border="0" class="ydp7b3880a0card-wrapper ydp7b3880a0yahoo-ignore-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width:400px"><tbody><tr><td width="400"><table border="0" class="ydp7b3880a0card ydp7b3880a0yahoo-ignore-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="max-width:400px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(224, 228, 233);border-radius:2px"><tbody><tr><td class="ydp7b3880a0card-primary-image-cell" background="https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/X.YfbB1OelQ1TJXdzwEODA--~A/Zmk9ZmlsbDt3PTQwMDtoPTIwMDthcHBpZD1pZXh0cmFjdA--/https://www.latimes.com/resizer/1PYPN2nqHXfU7zlbuZp5e_Ti1hU=/1200x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/MVVXNEI2HFAPBCWAHP2JQ5DYGE.jpg.cf.jpg" bgcolor="#000000" valign="top" height="175" style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">California water projects could be tapped to pay for Trump’s border wall</h2><p class="ydp7b3880a0card-richinfo-primary" style="font-size:12px;line-height:16px;margin:0 0 4px 0;color:#979ba7">Sarah D. Wire</p><p class="ydp7b3880a0card-description" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(151, 155, 167);">President Trump may try to use billions of dollars meant for projects in California and Puerto Rico if he uses e...</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><span><div class="ydpe0c43dafcard-content ydpe0c43dafalign-left" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><h1 class="ydpe0c43dafspaced ydpe0c43dafspaced-xl ydpe0c43dafspaced-top ydpe0c43dafspaced-bottom" style="margin: 32px 0px; font-family: FBKisDisplay; font-weight: 400; line-height: 48px; font-size: 44px;">California water projects could be tapped to pay for Trump’s border wall</h1></div><div class="ydpe0c43dafcard-footer ydpe0c43dafflex-container-row ydpe0c43dafflex-mobile-column ydpe0c43dafalign-items-center" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 12px 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpe0c43dafbyline-container ydpe0c43dafflex-container-row ydpe0c43dafalign-items-center" style="padding-right: 8px;"><div class="ydpe0c43dafhidden-mobile ydpe0c43dafspaced ydpe0c43dafspaced-right ydpe0c43dafspaced-sm" style="margin-right: 8px;"></div><div class="ydpe0c43dafbyline-timestamp-container ydpe0c43dafflex-container-row ydpe0c43dafflex-tablet-column ydpe0c43dafflex-mobile-column ydpe0c43dafalign-items-center"><div class="ydpe0c43dafbyline-wrapper" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="ydpe0c43dafbyline ydpe0c43dafbyline-article" style="font-family: Benton Bold; line-height: 12px; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 1px;">By <a class="ydpe0c43dafuppercase" href="https://www.latimes.com/la-bio-sarah-d-wire-staff.html#nt=byline" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; line-height: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-transform: uppercase;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="ydpe0c43dafuppercase">SARAH D. WIRE</span></a></span></div><span class="ydpe0c43dafspaced ydpe0c43dafspaced-right ydpe0c43dafspaced-md ydpe0c43dafhidden-mobile" style="margin-right: 16px;"></span><div class="ydpe0c43daftimestamp-wrapper ydpe0c43dafflex-container-row ydpe0c43dafalign-items-center ydpe0c43dafflex-mobile-column" style="line-height: normal;"><div><span class="ydpe0c43daftimestamp ydpe0c43daftimestamp-article" style="font-family: Benton Medium; line-height: 12px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: uppercase;">JAN 11, 2019</span></div></div></div></div></div></span></div><div><span><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p data-page="1" style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">Officials have given President Trump a plan to divert funds designated for Army Corps of Engineers projects in California and Puerto Rico to help pay for a wall along the southern border, a leading member of Congress said Thursday.</p></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">On his way to the Texas border Thursday, Trump was presented with 13 Army Corps of Engineers projects for which Congress has allocated money, but which have not yet been put under contract, according to Rep. John Garamendi (D-Walnut Grove).</p></div></div><div class="ydpa4aa08b9teads-adCall" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></div><div class="ydpa4aa08b9trb_ar_ora" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 400px; padding-top: 24px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9trb_ar_ora_w" style="position: relative; padding-top: 300px;"></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">Those funds potentially could be tapped for building a border barrier if Trump <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-border-visit-20190110-story.html" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">declares a national emergency, </a>which he said Thursday he is strongly inclined to do.</p></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">Members of Congress in both parties have said that would be an abuse of executive power, but many also have noted that a declaration would seem to make moot the issue at the center of the government-funding impasse that’s shuttered many federal agencies for three weeks — Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion to build a 234-mile stretch of wall.</p></div></div><div class="ydpa4aa08b9desktop-nativo ydpa4aa08b9mobile-yieldmo ydpa4aa08b9inline-ad" data-inline-ad-count="2" style="margin: 16px 0px 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span class="ydpa4aa08b9hidden-mobile"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9wrapper ydpa4aa08b9clearfix ydpa4aa08b9full ydpa4aa08b9pb-feature ydpa4aa08b9pb-layout-item ydpa4aa08b9pb-f-ads-nativo" data-pb-name="Nativo Ad" data-pb-curated="curated" id="ydpa4aa08b9fBxk311CNlyRer" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9hidden-mobile"><div id="ydpa4aa08b94585" data-nativo-id-desktop="1081114" class="ydpa4aa08b9desktop-nativo-ad ydpa4aa08b9trb_ar_nt"></div></div></div></span></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">Once the president got his money elsewhere, Congress could pass and he could sign legislation funding the quarter of the federal government for which spending hasn’t been approved for the remainder of this fiscal year, through Sept. 30.</p></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">Yet White House officials on Friday could not say whether Trump would do so. On Saturday, the shutdown will be in its 22nd day, making it the longest ever.</p></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">Administration officials on Thursday confirmed that they were looking at a range of government accounts that Trump potentially could tap into, but would not comment specifically on which projects were being eyed.</p></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">Garamendi, however, who serves on the House committee that oversees water projects, said he had been told that a series of specific California projects were targeted, some of which are in his congressional district north and west of Sacramento. He would not say who provided the information.</p></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">“Word came to us” that Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, the commanding general of the Army Corps of Engineers “accompanied the president to Texas to specifically discuss projects that could be reprogrammed to provide $5 billion for Trump's wall,” Garamendi said. “I know that these projects were identified. I do know that these projects were presented to him.”</p></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">“I am very comfortable in saying these were the projects that were discussed to be presented to the president,” he said.</p></div></div><div data-type="interstitial_link" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9card-pull-center ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; border-top-width: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><span class="ydpa4aa08b9roadblock"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-pol-essential-washington-updates-2018-htmlstory.html" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(80, 172, 205); font-size: 19px; font-weight: 400;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The latest from Washington »</a></span></span></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">Trump has been considering an emergency declaration as a way around the current standoff in which a large part of the federal government has been closed for three weeks in a fight over how much — if any — money Trump should get for his long-promised wall at the southern border.</p></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">Trump says a <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-oval-wall-20190108-story.html" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wall is needed to solve what he calls a “crisis”</a> at the border. Democrats say it would be costly and ineffective. <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-congress-shutdown-20190109-story.html" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Negotiations to resolve the shutdown broke down</a> earlier this week.</p></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">Some administration officials believe existing laws would give Trump authority to move funds from other projects to the border wall if he declares an emergency. Doing that would allow him to sign the bills needed to reopen government agencies while still saying that he is seeking to build the wall.</p></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">Democrats have said they will challenge any such move in court. Whether Trump will take that step remains uncertain; several of his advisors and Republican members of Congress have cautioned against it, fearing that he would lose in court or that the attempt to use emergency powers would set a precedent that a future Democratic president could use to bypass Congress.</p></div></div><div data-type="interstitial_link" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><span class="ydpa4aa08b9roadblock"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/visuals/la-fg-pictures-in-the-news-photogallery.html" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(80, 172, 205); font-size: 19px; font-weight: 400;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pictures in the News | Friday Jan. 11, 2019 »</a></span></span></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">Several of the projects Garamendi said were identified have been in the works for years if not decades, and some are in their final stages.</p></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">The projects include raising the height of Folsom Dam on the American River in Northern California, protecting Lake Isabella in Kern County from leaking as a result of earthquakes, enlarging the Tule River and Lake Success in the Central Valley and building shoreline protections in South San Francisco.</p></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">Together the California projects total $2.46 billion. The projects identified in Puerto Rico total $2.5 billion, Garamendi said.</p></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">“Each of these flood-control projects are specifically designed to save the lives of millions of Americans,” Garamendi said. “If it’s not done this year, or next year, will it make a difference? Maybe not, or maybe it will make all the difference.”</p></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">Californians in Congress from both parties said Thursday they’d oppose taking the funds from the state projects.</p></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">“It’s a declaration of war on Californians if he were to do that,” said Rep. Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael).</p></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) said he was concerned about taking money from projects in Puerto Rico, which was recently hit by a disastrous hurricane, or from flood control in California, and that any move needs careful consideration.</p></div></div><div data-type="text" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9collection-item" style="line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px 24px 0px;"><p style="line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;">“Let’s do a cease-fire on this stuff — have everyone turn off their Twitter for seven days,” LaMalfa said.</p></div></div><div data-type="interstitial_link" class="ydpa4aa08b9card ydpa4aa08b9card-pull-center ydpa4aa08b9collection-item ydpa4aa08b9card-border-bottom ydpa4aa08b9card-border-bottom-thick ydpa4aa08b9card-border-bottom-dark" style="border-width: 24px 4px 4px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydpa4aa08b9card-content" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; padding: 24px;"><span class="ydpa4aa08b9roadblock"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://www.latimes.com/la-bio-sarah-d-wire-staff.html" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(80, 172, 205); font-size: 19px; font-weight: 400;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">More stories from Sarah D. 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