California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Tuesday said he’s still “stunned” by the eight senators who voted with Republicans to reopen the government, a deal his office previously called a “surrender.”

After holding a rally in Houston last week to tout California’s redistricting measure’s victory and criticize Texas Republicans’ own move to redrew district maps, Newsom attended the COP30 UN Climate Conference in Belém, Brazil. There, he told The Associated Press that at his “core, I’m stunned.”

“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,” the West Coast Democrat said.