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Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has made it no secret that he wants to run for president. And he doesn’t have much to base his presidential bid around except his management (or mismanagement) of the state. Unless he wants to go back and cite his tenure running San Francisco.
So what does California looks like post-Newsom? Apart from crime, homelessness, affordability and a thousand other problems, let’s just look at the state’s post-Newsom deficits.
California faces an estimated $3 billion shortfall in the upcoming budget year, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced Friday.
Those are the numbers from Newsom’s office. What are the real numbers?
The estimate from the Newsom administration is much lower than the $18 billion shortfall for the 2026-27 budget year projected by the Legislative Analyst’s Office, which develops budget estimates for the California Legislature.
And even Newsom admits that what’s coming will be even worse.
But the Newsom administration still projects the budget deficit will grow significantly in the next budget year to $22 billion.
All of this is just hypothetical. Newsom and the legislature have dramatically different estimates of revenues, but both are spending insane amounts of money.
Newsom’s proposed 2026-27 budget will total $349 billion with a $248 billion general fund
California’s 2019 budget was $215 billion. That was Newsom’s first year in office. Its 2011 budget was $98 billion. In 15 years, California’s budget has more than tripled. Spending has increased by $135 billion since Newsom took office.
That’s what Newsom did in one state. Imagine that nationwide.
They could cancel the train to Nowhere.
That train never made sense, even on the first day it was proposed I felt it was a mistake.
It’s the money laundering train that will never appear and was never intended to appear.
Guresome NewScum is as much a criminal as Tampon Tim Walz-ing with the devil in the pale moonlight
The fraud in California is worse than Minnesota.
It seems the democrats keep coming up with a new version of Slick Willie. .And the dead will rise and vote
him in!
Newsom is the ideal democrat presidential candidate for the 2028 presidential election. He’s the white Barack Obama, a big spender, a smooth liar, a coward at heart and he slicks his hair back.
Newscum is Clinton, Obama and Biden rolled into one. If you’re a democrat, what’s not to like about him?
The slick punk proves that a leftist Democrat is always (and only) generous with other people’s money.
A budget based on fraudulent numbers issued by a thieving, utterly corrupt communist ruled Governor. The true numbers would probably reveal a budget with a deficit two or three times higher than what the soulless Newsome is currently claiming. Always try to look at the eyes of these communist death democrats when they speak. As the saying goes the eyes are the windows into a person’s soul and looking into Newsome’s eyes is like gazing into bottomless pools of evil.
Gayvin Newscum talks a good game until you really listen to what he’s saying: bullshit and nonsense. Now we’ve got a dumbass named Tom Styer who wants to put California in an even deeper hole by using tax money to build a million homes. WTF!!! Republican Steve Hilton is the one with abundant brains and good economic sense. Let’s hope he gets elected and not those idiotic Marxist Dems.
Governor Nuisance has become even more of a total Dunderhead Moonbeam Brown was
A $Billion here, a $Billion there……….Meh.
Why not FINANCIALLY Bankrupt? The CA Gov’t is already MORALLY and POLITICALLY Bankrupt!
Thank you, Mr. Greenfield. Always thoughtful and enlightening commentary.
I would submit the notion that governments at every level are never in any sort of ‘deficit’.
The use of the word “deficit” is a devious contrivance. Of course, governments want every excuse to impose still more taxation. The more left leaning the better.
My suggested (urged) replacement words to describe differences between tax revenue and spending are ‘surplus’ or ‘overspending’.
Imagine that. Governments should set priorities within their budgets. Always.
No one is taxed too little. Governments spend too much.
With all the billionaires leaving the state I predict it will increase even more.
Is that all must not be spending enough money on idiotic stuff
Before I ex-fil’d CA, we passed a proposition requiring the gov to submit a balanced budget, and making it illegal for the leg to accept an un-balanced budget, I guess the legislature is a sanctuary from that law, too?