California Homelessness Crisis: Gavin Newsom Tries to Shift Blame

Confronting yet another calamitous state budget deficit, California Governor Gavin Newsom took time last week to blast the real public enemies: Donald Trump and someone called Amy Bublak.

You know Trump. His tariffs have indeed produced volatility in the stock market, but not so much that they have affected the state’s notoriously market-sensitive high-income taxpayers. But Newsom — conflating what is with what may be — declared last week that the president’s “weak and reckless” tariffs have deprived the state of $16 billion in revenue. Working to establish his moderate bona fides in advance of a 2028 run for the White House, he has said that grappling with the budget crisis proves he’s a moderate. “I’ve been, always, a hardheaded pragmatist,” he told reporters.

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Will Swaim

Will Swaim is the CEO of the California Policy Center and, with David L. Bahnsen, a co-host of National Review’s Radio Free California podcast.

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Confronting yet another calamitous state budget deficit, California Governor Gavin Newsom took time last week to blast the real public enemies: Donald Trump and someone called Amy Bublak.

You know Trump. His tariffs have indeed produced volatility in the stock market, but not so much that they have affected the state’s notoriously market-sensitive high-income taxpayers. But Newsom — conflating what is with what may be — declared last week that the president’s “weak and reckless” tariffs have deprived the state of $16 billion in revenue. Working to establish his moderate bona fides in advance of a 2028 run for the White House, he has said that grappling with the budget crisis proves he’s a moderate. “I’ve been, always, a hardheaded pragmatist,” he told reporters.