California Governor Gavin Newsom has just signed the latest yearly budget.
It is $321 billion dollars…up from $201 billion in 2018-2019; the last year before he took office. That’s a 60% increase, even as California’s population has declined, not grown.
And why did this happen? I’ll let Governor Newsom tell you…or, more exactly, try to convince you that it was…:
“Largely due to the federal government’s sweeping tariff policy, the 2025 May Revision forecast of the California economy projects a period of below-trend growth and rising unemployment (‘growth recession’) and a General Fund revenue forecast downgrade by $5.2 billion in fiscal years 2023-24 through 2025-26”
Yep, it was Trump. Damn those tariffs. You know, the ones that were going to crash the stock market and boom up inflation.
Oh wait? What’s that you say? The Dow went from 43,487.83 the day Trump took office to it’s current 44,094.77, the NADAQ and S&P500 are at all-time highs, and inflation dropped from 3.0% to 2.4%?
Well, so what??!! Newsom said it was Trump. And you don’t argue with Governor Guy Smiley…er, Gavin Newsom. He has a perpetual smile and his hair is gorgeous.
And there’s more. From Kenneth Schrupp’s article at usdollardefense.com:
While Newsom’s order blames the Trump administration for the state’s economic slowdown, federal data shows California lost a net 80,300 jobs in 2024, and had shed 173,000 private-sector jobs between January 2023 and December 2024, suggesting the state’s economic woes predated the Trump administration.
38.2% of Californians are so low-income they qualify for Medi-Cal, which has a monthly income threshold of $1,801, or $21,612, or about half of what one would make working at a fast-food restaurant full-time.
In March, nearly half of all new jobs were from the state’s In Home Supportive Services program, a welfare program by which disabled or elderly Medi-Cal beneficiaries use taxpayer money to employ household members for up to 70 hours a week for household tasks, including a boost for overtime pay.
Nearly three quarters of a million Californians are now classified as employed IHSS providers.
Hmmmm. Y’know, maybe you have a point. Maybe this isn’t the doing of Donald Trump. Maybe it’s that Governor Smiley Newsom’s policies are running the state into the ground, causing productive citizens to leave, while being replaced by lower end folk in need of government assistance…and just maybe a few illegal aliens here and there.
But if you ask Guy Gavin, it’s Trump.
And, yes, Newsom aspires to be our next President.
Just think; what he’s doing for California he can do for the rest of the country as well.
