Valuetainment - ＂We Fixed It WITHOUT $24 Billion＂ - Democrat Governor CALLS OUT Newsom's Homeless CRISIS

00:00:00.000 When it comes on to homelessness, okay, crime, you'll typically hear Baltimore being the top five.

00:00:06.300 At one point, it was one, two, three, five.

00:00:08.980 Now, some people even say six, seven, maybe.

00:00:10.940 It's dropping, right?

00:00:12.080 It's dropping.

00:00:13.900 Homelessness in California, this next phase, if you choose to go through it on the national stage as a president,

00:00:20.700 Newsom's going to be one of your opponents if you choose to go on the national stage.

00:00:24.860 And Katie Porter was asked, what grade do you give Gavin Newsom

00:00:31.000 on the way he's handled homelessness?

00:00:32.920 Because, you know, he was given $24 billion.

00:00:36.200 Taxpayers gave it to him.

00:00:37.780 $85,000 per homeless person.

00:00:39.500 I think the number of the math's been done.

00:00:41.620 And she was asked, what would you give, you know, Newsom on homelessness?

00:00:47.320 And she said, I'm a tough teacher, but I would give him a B, right?

00:00:51.840 I would give him a B.

00:00:52.520 I don't know how you would answer this I don't even know if it's a fair question to ask you

00:00:57.880 but you know on the national stage you're a governor you run a state Newsom runs a state

00:01:03.200 he's a governor you've been able to fix the state he hasn't been able to fix the state a lot of

00:01:08.540 people say California is worse than it was the day he got elected the fifth year today you know he

00:01:16.060 lost a trillion dollars of wealth during COVID he just lost another trillion dollars mishandling

00:01:22.400 the, you know, wealth tax, and we just saw the story, they got the 1.55 million votes

00:01:27.380 to be able to put it on the ballot, so most likely it's going to pass.

00:01:30.620 Who's not going to vote? There's only, you know, 100 and something, 200 billionaires

00:01:34.440 in the state of California. Of course, the rest are going to say, this is just to punish the 200

00:01:38.320 people? Tax the hell out of them. Let's do the tax 5%.

00:01:40.780 What do you think has happened in the state of California with the way Gavin Newsom's led

00:01:46.200 versus the way you've led? Well, honestly, I can tell you about

00:01:50.520 what we've done in maryland and why you're gonna play it safe well no and honestly this is not a

00:01:55.760 play safe because i i have not spent time digging into you're about to be the vice chair you're

00:02:01.520 you're gonna be the chair to go you can't give me that answer you're well you're leading all of

00:02:06.020 these guys so you got and you know why why because i think we follow best practices and i think we've

00:02:11.140 got some really interesting best practices that i think maryland can share with other people

00:02:14.340 and some things that we've learned from other from other states and i can tell you about some

00:02:17.740 of those things as well. Okay, so let me ask the question in a different way. You were given $24

00:02:21.280 billion to fix homelessness in the state of Maryland. What would you have done? Well, I can

00:02:25.760 tell you what we did to help fix homelessness without $24 billion. Please, even better. You

00:02:29.500 know, the first thing that you got to do, you have to focus on the acute problem and making sure that

00:02:34.760 housing has to become, you know, has to become an issue. You have to make sure that people are not

00:02:40.740 becoming homeless in the first place, which deals with the issue of housing insecurity, which means

00:02:44.720 that we need to build more housing, right? We have to build more affordable options and affordable

00:02:48.480 housing for people. It's one of the big reasons why I've been very aggressive when it comes to

00:02:52.260 housing in my state, because I don't think the way you deal with housing and the rising cost of

00:02:57.600 housing is by capping the cost. I think you have to build more housing. And so what we've done,

00:03:03.820 for example, in Maryland, where I said, who's the largest landowner in the state of Maryland? Well,

00:03:08.140 the answer is the state of Maryland. And I get that 70% of my state is either waterlined or

00:03:12.560 water locked you can't build everywhere but in the places that you can build you need to build

00:03:16.700 and you need to make it faster cut the red tape cut all the regulations and all the permitting

00:03:21.380 processes and everyone who wants to slow this process up and say on things like transit-oriented

00:03:25.740 development and density bonuses get that stuff done and build more housing and actually i passed

00:03:30.160 legislation that says particularly around around transit trains buses etc if it is state-owned land

00:03:35.760 i want to build housing on it right because that's going to increase more inventory for people and

00:03:40.320 Inventory of all types, affordable housing and a whole bunch of variety of different types of housing.

00:03:44.180 Come up with better ways of supporting your renter so you're not having more people fall into homelessness.

00:03:48.680 And if people fall into homelessness, make sure it is temporary and make sure you can have more supports for them

00:03:54.460 so people don't have this revolving door when it comes to homelessness, and particularly for children.

00:03:59.440 Because one of the biggest challenges you have for a child is if a child has to move around multiple times during a school year,

00:04:04.760 that child is not going to learn.

00:04:06.760 And that child is not going to have a real chance of long-term academic success.

00:04:10.320 And so we've actually been really successful in driving down homelessness in our state.

00:04:15.160 $24 billion.

00:04:16.100 Without needing $24 billion.

00:04:17.100 So if you were given $24 billion, what would you have done?

00:04:19.220 Would you have done taxpayers?

00:04:20.100 We don't need it.

00:04:20.540 Take the money back.

00:04:21.600 Well, I would say give me what you need to be able to solve a problem.

00:04:25.940 And it's funny because that's very much the way I think about budgeting, period.

00:04:29.880 And it's the same way when I think about taxes, right?

00:04:32.880 I think there are people who think about taxes like it's an ideology, right?

00:04:37.160 Taxes are not an ideology.

00:04:38.940 They're a tactic.

00:04:40.320 What do you need in order to get done?

00:04:43.360 And then let's focus on actually being able to make targeted investments.

00:04:46.160 In our state, for example, you know, the four years that I've been the governor,

00:04:49.820 do you know we have actually had a general fund in our state, the fund that, you know, that fund services?

00:04:55.340 You know I've actually decreased the general fund every single year?

00:04:58.860 First time this has happened in decades where the Maryland governor for four straight years has actually decreased the size of the budget.

00:05:05.160 Because I said, tell me what works and fund that.

00:05:07.600 Tell me what doesn't work.

00:05:08.620 Every year you're loaded?

00:05:09.540 it every single year i've been the governor look it up dude that's every year i've been the governor

00:05:15.200 we've lowered the general fund in the state of maryland look it up and but it's because i don't

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Valuetainment - May 05, 2026

＂We Fixed It WITHOUT $24 Billion＂ - Democrat Governor CALLS OUT Newsom's Homeless CRISIS

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