Mayor Karen Bass

Official account for the 43rd Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass.

[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

The President of the United States suggested that a foreign government attack Los Angeles. His statements against our city are dangerous and could potentially compromise our safety. 

The role of a president is to protect the country, not to actively threaten it and encourage attacks on American lives. 

In the face of irresponsible threats, as Angelenos, we know how to stand together and protect our city.

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Trump on Iran: Let 'em take out Los Angeles and San Diego, it's a small price to pay

[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

I appreciate @CAgovernor signing this critical legislation that Assemblymember Mark González, Senator María Elena Durazo, and I worked on and got across the finish line to help the people of Boyle Heights and East L.A. These pieces of legislation ensure cold storage companies take responsibility for the impacts of their operations, provide critical protections for residents in the event of an emergency, and allow cities and counties to impose higher fines when the health and safety of communities are threatened. I will continue doing everything in my authority to connect residents to critical assistance and to demand the answers and accountability this community deserves.

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[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

Let's be clear about what's happening: the Trump Administration is trying to create confusion and discourage people from exercising their right to vote. It's undemocratic and un-American. 

Generations of Americans have marched, organized, and lost their lives to secure the right to vote. Throughout our history, when that right has been challenged, Americans have answered by fighting for it. 

We are lucky in California that every registered voter will be mailed a ballot during the first week of October, and they don't have to leave their home to return it. Every ballot can be handed to your letter carrier at the door – no postage is necessary – at any ballot drop box, or at any Vote Center in L.A. County.

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[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

Yom Kippur is a time for humility, reflection, and repentance. It is also a day of hope. Through our prayers and actions, we can strengthen our relationships with one another and move closer to the values we share.

May this sacred day remind us of our common humanity and our responsibility to one another.

To Angelenos observing Yom Kippur, I wish you a meaningful fast and a year of peace, healing, and hope.

G’mar Chatimah Tovah.

[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

This is an historic day for Hollywood. I want to thank Governor Newsom for continuing to be a champion of LA's entertainment industry and joining us in our work to ensure that Los Angeles remains the entertainment capital of the world. I have spent my career fighting for the entertainment industry, including as Speaker of the State Assembly where I oversaw the passage of the inaugural Film and TV Tax Credit Program.

For too long, hardworking Angelenos suffered from inaction from City Hall and Sacramento to protect our local entertainment jobs. These jobs do more than pay the bills — they put food on the table for families, support local businesses, and train our future creative workforce. I’m proud we’re setting a new direction by working alongside industry leaders to cut filming fees locally, expand State-level incentives, and work aggressively to bring protections back to Los Angeles.

I will always fight for our unparalleled creative workforce and to ensure that Los Angeles remains the home of Hollywood.

These two bills not only strengthen the State’s current Film and TV tax credit, which we fought to double to a historic $750 million, but also create a new incentive to protect and support the thousands of post-production workers across our state and city.

I want to thank Senator Ben Allen, Assemblymember Rick Zbur, and Assemblymember Nick Schultz for championing these pieces of legislation and working with my office to ensure these bills became law.

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[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

Los Angeles has been tested by this administration time and time again, and we have stood strong. A federal judge has once again sided with Los Angeles and taken action to severely limit when federal immigration agents can make warrantless arrests in Southern California.

For more than a year, families across our city have lived with the fear that a trip to work, a walk down the street, or a goodbye in the morning could end with a loved one being taken away.

Today’s ruling is an important protection against the warrantless arrests that have racially targeted Angelenos and terrorized communities. I want to thank the Los Angeles Worker Center Network, the United Farm Workers, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, and the brave Angelenos who originally filed this lawsuit, which the City of Los Angeles joined, leading a coalition of more than 20 local governments across Southern California.

The Constitution applies in Los Angeles, just as it does everywhere in America. We will always stand with our immigrant communities and defend their rights.

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[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

This is a tragic night for Los Angeles. My thoughts are with those impacted by the bus collision and the helicopter crash, and with the entire NBC4 family who lost members of their team while they were doing their jobs.

I’m deeply grateful to our firefighters, paramedics, and police officers who responded immediately to two incredibly difficult scenes to save lives and render aid.

The NTSB will be leading the investigation. Right now, our focus is on the victims, their families and loved ones, and supporting everyone impacted by these tragedies.

[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

I’m on scene in Chatsworth receiving updates from LAFD and our public safety officials. I’m grateful to the first responders working through an incredibly difficult situation tonight. My thoughts are with everyone impacted by these tragedies, including the entire NBC4 family.

[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

I’m grateful to the City teams who responded so quickly. Please stay clear of the area as public safety officials remain on scene.

[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

I’m absolutely devastated by the loss of life in Chatsworth tonight. My heart is with the families and loved ones of those we lost in the tragic bus collision and helicopter crash.

[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

Los Angeles would not be Los Angeles without our Latino communities.

This Latino Heritage Month, we celebrate the culture, families, traditions, and generations that have shaped our city and continue to move it forward.

Unidos en fortaleza. Together in strength.

[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

Los Ángeles no sería Los Ángeles sin nuestras comunidades latinas.

Este Mes de la Herencia Latina, celebramos la cultura, las familias, las tradiciones y las generaciones que han dado forma a nuestra ciudad y que continúan impulsándola hacia adelante.

[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

Tonight, the Emmys are celebrating some of television’s biggest names. I’m also thinking about the thousands of names you may never hear.

The writers, editors, camera crews, costume designers, set builders, makeup artists, drivers, and countless other workers across Los Angeles whose talent brings every production to life.

Los Angeles will keep fighting to make sure the people who make this industry possible can build their careers and their futures right here at home.

Congratulations to tonight’s nominees and winners, and to everyone behind the scenes who makes Hollywood possible. 🏆

[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

I was honored to join today’s Mexican Independence Day Parade in East L.A., which is the oldest and largest Hispanic parade in the U.S. For 80 years, this parade has honored our Mexican history and the contributions that Mexican-Americans make to LA every day.

Now to the Lucas Museum neighborhood preview ceremony!

[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

Forward progress on the Getty Fire has been stopped, and all evacuation warnings have been lifted. Thank you to the brave men and women of the LAFD for their swift response to keep Angelenos safe. LAFD remains on the ground.

[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

I’ve spoken with Chief Moore, and LAFD personnel are on the scene responding to a roughly 5-acre brush fire in Bel Air near the Getty Center. LAFD ground crews and helicopters are working to suppress and contain the fire.

An evacuation warning has been issued for the following zones: https://t.co/aA30BySbRh

LAPD is prepared to assist the LAFD if any evacuations become necessary. Anyone in the area should prepare to evacuate should conditions worsen. Please stay vigilant and follow all instructions from first responders.

[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

For more than a generation, Salvadoran Angelenos have been an essential part of the heart and soul of Los Angeles. From Westlake and Pico-Union to the San Fernando Valley and South Los Angeles, Salvadoran families have raised children, built businesses, paid taxes, strengthened our neighborhoods, and helped power our economy.

They have not simply built lives in Los Angeles, they have helped build Los Angeles itself.

That is why ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is not simply unjust, it is an attack on families, working people, students and the communities that make this city what it is.

California is home to roughly 55,000 Salvadoran TPS beneficiaries, including thousands here in Los Angeles. Stripping away their legal status and work authorization puts their livelihoods, homes, businesses, and futures at risk.

Parents could be separated from their American-born children, workers could lose their jobs, and families that have contributed to our communities for decades could be plunged into fear and uncertainty.

There was no crisis requiring this decision. There was a choice, and the administration chose disruption over stability, fear over certainty, and politics over people.

The consequences will ripple across Los Angeles and Southern California, including our hospitals, restaurants, construction sites, small businesses, and service industries.

Congress must act now. People who have lived, worked, raised families, and contributed to this country for decades deserve more than temporary protection that can be used as a political bargaining chip. 

They deserve a permanent path to citizenship.

Los Angeles will not stand by while our neighbors are pushed into the shadows. Salvadoran Angelenos are not outsiders to this city. They are Los Angeles. And when their families are threatened, our city stands with them. We will stand with them in this fight, and we will not let them face it alone.

[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

Islamophobia has no place in Los Angeles. I am horrified by the appalling rhetoric from Mosab Hassan Yousef at an event in Los Angeles this past weekend. The City of Los Angeles stands firmly with its Muslim community and fully condemns these vile remarks.

We are a strong city – and we are strongest when we stand in solidarity against hate, together.