California Gov. Gavin Newsom Makes Desperate Bid for Relevancy and Money
Newsom is suing Trump over tariffs, asking for massive loans to cover the healthcare costs for illegal aliens, and trying to woo Canadians to tour the state.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has been making a desperate bid for both money and relevance before he is term-limited and out of office just ahead of the next presidential cycle. The state is looking at a $68 billion deficit.
To begin with, Newsom has filed a landmark lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration, challenging Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs on imports without congressional approval. This legal action marks the first time a state has directly contested the federal government’s use of emergency powers to enact tariffs.
The legal action argues that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act that Trump cited to impose tariffs does not grant the president the ability to unilaterally adopt tariffs on goods imported to the U.S. The suit from California is the first challenge from any state against Trump’s trade policy.
“No state is poised to lose more than the state of California,” Newsom said about Trump’s tariffs. “That’s why we’re asserting ourselves on behalf of 40 million Americans.”
The case marks the first time Newsom has taken a lead role in any of the now 15 lawsuits that California has filed against the current Trump administration, signaling a deviation from his more reserved approach to the president during Trump’s second term. Until now, state Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta has acted as the face of California’s legal battles against the federal government, while Newsom has generally maintained a distance from the back-and-forth court tussles.
BREAKING: Gavin Newsom is suing the Trump Admin over tariffs. He claims the tariffs are “unlawful” and are “wreaking chaos.”
Newsom just asked for a $2.8 billion bailout for Medicaid for illegals and California is facing a homeless crisis.
Meanwhile this is what he’s focusing… pic.twitter.com/81jkQLt752
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 16, 2025
Next, Newsom has recently sought billions of dollars in loans to address a significant budget shortfall in the state’s Medi-Cal program, California’s Medicaid healthcare initiative for low-income residents.
By “low-income residents,” we mean illegal aliens. California was the first state in the U.S. to offer comprehensive, state-funded health insurance (Medi-Cal) to all eligible undocumented immigrants, regardless of age. This expansion, which took full effect on January 1, 2024, makes undocumented adults ages 26 to 49 eligible for Medi-Cal.
Now, Newsom hopes the rest of the nation will pick up the tab.
Liberal Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a $2.8 billion bailout Monday to close the state’s bloated deficit in California’s Medicaid program, which surpassed projections due to the program’s expansion last year to include illegal immigrants.
The move, confirmed by Newsom’s office to Fox News Digital Monday afternoon, comes after the Democratic governor asked lawmakers last month for a $3.4 billion loan from the state’s general fund to cover some $6.2 billion in outstanding costs for Medi-Cal, one of the state’s primary healthcare programs that takes both federal and state taxpayer dollars. The additional funds will help keep the program running through June for some 15 million Californians, including noncitizens.
Newsom and CA Democrats have made Medi-Cal “insolvent” by giving out free illegal immigrant healthcare — and are asking for a loan of $6.2 billion to cover the cost! I joined KUSI to call on them to immediately cancel the handouts! pic.twitter.com/hnKTZrEkaS
— Carl DeMaio (@carldemaio) March 23, 2025
And, as a finale, Newsom has launched a high-profile campaign encouraging Canadian tourists to return to California, directly addressing the sharp decline in Canadian visitors amid rising political and economic tensions between the U.S. and our northern neighbor.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, in a video this week, is urging the two million Canadians who visited last year to look past U.S. President Donald Trump and return to enjoy the Golden State’s wine, sun and surf.
Newsom, without calling out Trump by name, says Canadians should not let a dust-up with Washington stop them from renewing their love affair with his coastal paradise.
“Sure, you-know-who is trying to stir things up back in D.C., but don’t let that ruin your beach plans,” Newsom says in the video, which is part of a $5.2-million US advertising effort to lure Canucks back over the border.
The comments to this video feature the homelessness, drug abuse, and rampant crime that has tarnished the image of the Golden State.
Hollywood, California
The intersection of Gavin Newsom’s booming tourism and $24 BILLION homeless solution.
Ready to book your next vacation?
pic.twitter.com/FFZ3lMPolp— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) April 15, 2025
I suspect that these will not be the last, sad attempts for Newsom to bitterly cling to the power and prestige he has enjoyed over his entire career. I suspect his career will go just about as far at this point as the bullet train to nowhere has gone.
One last note of caution:
My fellow Californians: If you continue to mindlessly elect Democrats, then mindless Democrats will continue to be in charge of this state. https://t.co/YvHFm2HVAV
— Leslie Eastman ☥ (@Mutnodjmet) April 17, 2025
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“Please save me from myself!”
This reminds me of an old canard commies used to use.
“The only reason communism filed is because the West refused to fund it!”
“failed”
We wanted to give it a try here before it is finally gone.
So Newsom is going to rinse off and try to be a moderate Dem?
There’s no such thing as a moderate Dem. They’ll turn on you as soon as they get power again.
Probably so.
They do this ALL THE TIME.
It worked with Biden, one of the most disgusting, racist, leftist pieces of crap in the party with a clear record of DECADES of leftist nonsense.
It worked with Manchin, who was never the deciding vote in Republian’s favor EVER, they just used him as cover for stuff others didn’t really want to vote for.
It’s worked with Fetterman, who says some really based things on all the right TV shows and Twitter before voting lockstep with Democrats.
Right before the DEI nonsense really kicked into high gear literally everything with Kamala Harris was bragging about the FIRST INDIAN AMERICAN XXX. Then she magically became black.
Magic Indian doesn’t have the same ring as Magic Negro,
Newsom is suing Trump to stop him from using a power that is rooted in two laws, (Trading with the Enemy Act & the International Emergency Economic Powers Act) BOTH of which were passed by a Democrat-controlled House & Democrat-controlled Senate and signed into law by Democrat presidents (Wilson & Carter) in 1917 and 1977, respectively. Reasonable people can debate if it was was wise for Congress to cede this kind of unilateral authority to the Executive (I think it was NOT.
The Founders clearly intended revenue bills/actions to originate in the House). But, Trump is simply wielding the power that Democrats demanded the Executive have.
I should add that a third law – The Trade Expansion Act – that I believe Trump may have cited in his authority to impose tariffs on specific commodities, like Aluminum and lumber, was ALSO enacted by a Democrat-controlled House & Senate and signed into law by a Democrat president, John F Kennedy in 1962.
As someone who hasn’t been able to flee the communist dystopia of Calizuela yet, I say don’t give one cent to bail out the regime here. The pain has to be brought home to wake voters up (and we need to destroy the jungle primary system and mail-in voting while bringing back paper ballots)
Hey, I can dream, right?
as they brag how great they are…our economy is superior etc etc
yeah..b/c just like europe you are on welfare and abuse the tax payers while going to the french laundry while others were held captive in their homes by government troops
Trump likely does not have the authority to enact tariffs. They are taxes, they were the primary means of raising revenue prior to the income tax, and the Constitution gives Congress that power. There is no emergency, that is overused.
That said, will congress take back its authority? Probably not. Dems are in disarray and couldn’t agree the sun was up. Does California have standing? Probably under the Student Loans cases, it does. What a mess.
The Congressional Research Service has a lengthy paper on the history of these emergency economic powers laws that Trump is using to enact these tariffs. It’s very detailed. The tl;dr is that while Trump is the first president to exercise this authority in this broad manner, there are several other examples of presidents using the power in more limited ways. Nixon did it in 1971 and was sued. That case – United States v. Yoshida Int’l, Inc., 526 F.2d 560, 584 (C.C.P.A. 1975) – was heard in two federal courts – US Customs & Patent Court and US Court of Customs and Patent Appeals – which have since been shuttered and incorporated into the District and Circuit Court systems. The appeals Court essentially says that while it may not have been wise for Congress to cede this authority, ceding the authority is ‘constitutional.’ In that opinion, the door is left open to challenging the president’s declaration of an ’emergency, which is required under these laws (and something Trump has done). In that specific case, they found the declaration was appropriate. But, I guess it’s possible a Court looking at this fact pattern may find Trump’s declaration was not. This would be one way for progressives to keep the law intact and instead, foreclose Trump from asserting its power by having a District Court find that we’re not really in an emergency.
“ceding the authority” wont withstand modern separation of powers/nondelegation and major questions doctrines. There will be 7 probably 8 votes on the supreme court to make congress do its job and approve the tariffs.
I don’t know about that. This is involves foreign affairs, which are an ever evolving situation. SCOTUS may recognize that in this situation.
tarriffs are not foreign affairs. They are taxes and revenue. They are specifically mentioned in Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 (Taxing and Spending Clause): “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,”
It’s both foreign affairs and taxation. Its being taxation does not mean it is not also foreign affairs. By increasing tariffs on China more than other countries, Trump is fighting against China, and this is a mainstream interpretation of the game he’s playing now.
but authority was already ceded in 1971. These cases now are not identical, but no two cases are identical, so why wouldn’t the cession of authority still stand?
$2T annual Federal deficits at a peak economy is certainly an emergency and merits a heck of a lot more “taxes”. Of course, the problem is not really insufficient revenue but rampany overspending, which DOGE will help with. Also, I suspect that the tariff revenue is going to be used to keep Trump’s campaign promises to reduce taxes on tips, overtime, Social Security, etc. (Perhaps his $5M “Gold Card” will help on the deficit.)
Gavin is relevant as an example of how to destroy civilization, one state or if he had a chance, country at a time.
Gov newscum sold out to china long time ago.
I think State tax revenues have to increase a lot in order to pay for Medi-Cal. Being a woke sanctuary state has a pretty hefty price tag, but it will be the CA voters’ chance to signal their virtue to the unwoke.
Do California voters get a referendum on it? I know everything goes to referendum in California, which has almost saved the state except that courts have stepped in repeatedly to enforce wokeness when the voters tried to escape it. But a simple tax increase, that’s probably just the legislature, and they’ll vote somehow to balance the cash flows with taxes, bonds, whatever.
One look at the tent cities, the blown out budgets, the wildfire non response and non preparedness will let any reasonable and sane human being realize that the dullard Newsome can never be a POTUS.
He’s no worse than giggling Kamala who became angry Kamala for the presidential run. We dodged a bullet, but maybe she would have been Obama’s third term, so no worse than Obama.
Yep, we dodged a bullet. Trump pretty much dodged it for us.
In an effort to be progressive, Gov Newsom has mandated that homeowners install wheelchair ramps on all porches for disabled burglars.
Newscume has been and will always be irredemable scum along with his aunt grand booba Pelosi. The big one can’t hit soon enough breaking CA off and sinking it, Better yet let it float over and join China since they have similar politics.
If greasy, vile and incompetent Newsolini focused as much on governing his state, as he does on self-preening, self-promoting vanity stunts and strutting, Commiefornia might actually be a desirable place to live in and to work in.
I would love to watch someone plant their fist in Newscum face. Long overdue. He wasn’t showed in a locker enough times while he was in high school.
It has every possible natural advantage, except the beaches are too cold. Trump should forget about buying Greenland or Canada, let the state approach bankruptcy, then buy it as a national park. Then FedGov can make the rules there.
“a high-profile campaign encouraging Canadian tourists to return to California”
“Come visit California! It’s just like the North Cuba you already know and love,… but way better weather!”
and cold water, rocky beaches and much much higher prices. What’s not to love?
The Caribbean and Baja both have much better beaches with much warmer waters. In the US for that matter Florida is much better. California beaches are cold and difficult.
Newsom thought Biden or another Dem would win (maybe even himself) and California would get a full bailout with extra for DEI bonus points. LOL.
Oh and by the way we’re going to cut their money for their boondoggle LA to SF rail line. There’s an Amtrak anyway isn’t there.
They started out to build the hard part, up out of the San Gabriel Valley where Los Angeles, up to the high deserts, near where I-15 goes. They gave up and decided to do the easiest part first, on flat farmland. They couldn’t even get that done. Time to give up, or at least not throw more federal money at it.