Payback for Gavin Newsom’s Fiscal Folly

Representative Vince Fong is moving to rein in California profligacy and relieve business owners in the process.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at the Center for American Progress IDEAS Conference in Washington, D.C., May 19, 2026.

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Beset on all sides by regulators, highest-in-the-nation taxes, environmentalists, identitarians, and a political establishment committed to class war, California business owners may want to send thanks and a muffin basket to Representative Vince Fong.

Fong, a Bakersfield, Calif., Republican, has introduced HR 8892, the Creating Accountability in Loan Repayment Act. CAL Repayment (you get the acronymic joke) would require states with outstanding federal unemployment-insurance debt to use future flexible federal aid to repay those loans before spending the money elsewhere.

Will Swaim

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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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