Valuetainment - May 05, 2026


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


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6 minutes

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207.58

Word count

1,312

Sentence count

53


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In this episode, I sit down with California Governor Gavin Newsom to discuss homelessness and why he should be the next president of the United States. We talk about how he has handled homelessness in California and what he would do if he was running for President in 2020.

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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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