Gavin Newsom - Governor of California | SRS #218
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None of the United States' eighteen intelligence agencies said Iran had enriched uranium at the facilities that were bombed.
Ibogaine cures an opioid condition in 12 hours.
Washington state can take a child from a parent who opposes gender-affirming care.
Children at a school in Tennessee, possibly in Cookeville, were defecating in a kitty litter box.
California accounts for 18 percent of the world's research and development.
Speaker Johnson's district has six times the murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's district.
California’s higher education master plan created the community college, California State University, and University of California systems.
All nine counties where Gavin Newsom rolled out California’s civil service reform were counties that voted for Trump.
During the early COVID-19 pandemic, Florida shut down bars and restaurants before California did.
During COVID-19, Florida had worse educational outcomes than California in three of four categories covering fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade reading and math.
California has turned over more than 11,000 people to ICE since Gavin Newsom became governor.
California receives $8.5 billion in state-level tax revenue each year from undocumented immigrants, according to the last Pew estimate.
Gavin Newsom vetoed two bills that would have prevented California from cooperating with ICE for more than 11,000 people.
Under Gavin Newsom’s career education plan, skills learned in the military automatically count as credits toward a degree.
California's population grew significantly in each of the last two years.
California's reduction in its gun death rate since the 1990s has led the nation.
Donald Trump's campaign made a big push to release the Epstein files.
Gavin Newsom invested almost $1.3 billion in migrant centers in Imperial, San Diego, and Riverside counties.
Fifty percent of the world’s AI researchers are Chinese.
California provided $83.1 billion more to the federal government than it received.
President Biden signed documents containing agreements related to fentanyl and precursor chemicals in the Bay Area a few weeks after Gavin Newsom's meeting with the Chinese ambassador.
Tim Cook called Donald Trump and obtained a tariff exemption for iPhones.
California's homeless count was 188,000 in 2004.
California had the highest minimum wage in the country under Gavin Newsom.
Gavin Newsom provided a $25 minimum wage in healthcare, the highest in the country.
The “big beautiful” bill will cause 3.4 million people in California to lose Medicaid.
The U.S. economy contracted in the first quarter of Donald Trump's current term.
The “big beautiful” bill adds three and a half trillion dollars of debt.
California's manufacturing sector is forty one percent larger than that of the next largest state.
During COVID-19, Florida’s GDP contracted more than California’s.
Donald Trump built only 85 new miles of border wall during his four years in office.
The 458 miles of border barrier Donald Trump cites include retrofits of existing fencing.
At a Trump-Putin press conference, Donald Trump took the side of Putin's intelligence over United States intelligence.
Gavin Newsom married 4,036 couples in San Francisco during the “winter of love” in 2004.
The Biden administration created 16.6 million jobs.
The last three Republican administrations before Donald Trump's current term created a combined 1.9 million jobs.
From 1989 until the year before Donald Trump's current term, 52 million jobs were created in the United States.
California's felony theft threshold is $950.
Forty states have higher felony theft thresholds than California.
California had 770 megawatts of installed battery capacity when Gavin Newsom became governor.
California removed four-year-degree requirements from hundreds of state government positions.
Eight of the ten states with the highest per-capita murder rates are red states.
During COVID-19, Florida had more per-capita deaths than California.
COVID-19 vaccination reduced the severity of symptoms and kept people out of emergency rooms.
The bombing of Iran seems to have delayed Iran's program.
The bombing of Iran certainly did not end Iran's program.
A bipartisan immigration bill supported by the Democratic Party included $650 million for a border wall.
Gavin Newsom has signed 42 CEQA reform bills.
Gavin Newsom provided a $20 minimum wage in fast food.
A lawsuit settlement required a state to provide gender-affirming care while Kamala Harris was attorney general.
The United States was producing 13.4 million barrels of oil per day under the Biden administration.
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein knew each other.
California has more Fortune 500 companies than any other U.S. state.
Gavin Newsom has sued a number of California cities over housing issues.
California has the highest homeless population in the United States.
Ronald Reagan signed California's environmental law CEQA.
Texas's felony theft threshold is $2,500.
Gavin Newsom extended the life of California's last remaining nuclear plant.
California's installed battery capacity grew to over 15,700 megawatts during Gavin Newsom's governorship.
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Gavin Newsom has been governor of California since 2019.
California has the fourth-largest economy in the world.
A police officer was gunned down by an AK-47 in Bayview Hunters Point in San Francisco.
States with the most comprehensive gun safety reforms have lower gun death rates than states with weaker gun laws.
California has one of the lowest gun death rates in America.
California's gun death rate has fallen significantly since the 1990s.
There is no other country in the world that has the kind of gun violence found in the United States.
Suicide rates in the United States are very high because of easy access to guns.
California exempts law enforcement from its gun safety laws in the vast majority of cases.
Gavin Newsom put two gun safety laws on the ballot in California.
Gavin Newsom's gun safety legislation overwhelmingly passed in California.
Gavin Newsom put an initiative to legalize adult-use cannabis in California on the ballot.
California formed a West Coast alliance with two other states to independently review CDC recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gavin Newsom convened international COVID-19 experts at Sunnylands, California, a couple of years before the interview to begin reviewing California’s pandemic response.
California’s COVID-19 stay-at-home order was imposed statewide.
Gavin Newsom banned Skittles a couple of years before the interview.
Gavin Newsom said COVID-19 restrictions were devastating for children’s mental health.
Operation Warp Speed saved lives through vaccines.
COVID-19 tests produced a lot of false-positive results.
Vaccines have saved millions and millions of lives.
Nancy Pelosi visited a hair salon without a mask while California had a mask requirement.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, California lifted county restrictions on the capacity of restaurants, bars and hotels as the percentage of positive tests declined.
Gavin Newsom’s Napa businesses were subject to COVID-19 closures and reopenings like other businesses in the region.
Gavin Newsom attended a birthday dinner at an open restaurant during the COVID-19 pandemic despite advising against large group dinners.
Leon Panetta served as CIA director.
Leon Panetta served as secretary of defense.
Leon Panetta served as chief of staff.
Gavin Newsom sent a field hospital after the October 7 attack.
Children in Gaza were starving.
The last numbers Shawn Ryan saw put the death toll in Gaza at 40,000 people.
Gavin Newsom built more than twenty businesses across California.
Gavin Newsom's father served on a California Superior Court.
Gavin Newsom's father served on a California Court of Appeals.
Gavin Newsom's father taught English at Stanford for a brief period before becoming a judge.
Gavin Newsom's father participated in paid LSD experiments at Stanford University.
Gavin Newsom's maternal grandfather was a prisoner of war in Corregidor.
Gavin Newsom deployed 394 National Guard personnel to the border.
California has the most illegal immigration of any U.S. state, with Texas next.
Thirty-nine percent of California's population is Latino.
Twenty-seven percent of California's population is foreign-born.
California is the largest agricultural state in the United States.
Fifty-seven percent of U.S. unicorn companies are in California.
Half of the U.S. unicorn companies in California are owned by immigrants.
Undocumented immigrants make up half of California's agricultural workforce.
Forty-one percent of California's construction workers are undocumented immigrants.
The secretary of agriculture said people on Medicaid could take jobs currently filled by migrants.
Trump federalized the National Guard over an objection before Gavin Newsom's visit to Oxnard, California.
Federal agents conducted immigration raids in fields in Ventura County.
Donald Trump said agricultural workers needed protection after immigration raids in Ventura County.
No one was arrested during the National Guard operation in MacArthur Park described by Gavin Newsom.
Four thousand National Guard personnel were deployed in an American city during the immigration enforcement operations Gavin Newsom described.
Ronald Reagan enacted an immigration amnesty measure in 1986.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is the largest corrections institution in the United States.
No governor coordinates with ICE at the state level over a larger group of dangerous and violent people than Gavin Newsom does.
Rudy Giuliani was one of the biggest proponents of sanctuary policy.
Rudy Giuliani said sanctuary policy led to more trust in law enforcement.
As mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom changed sanctuary policy to allow coordination with ICE upon arrest.
San Francisco reversed Gavin Newsom’s change to sanctuary policy after he left the mayor’s office.
A survey found that 69 percent of undocumented immigrants in California had lived in the state for over a decade.
California has more patents than any other U.S. state.
California has more engineers than any other U.S. state.
California has more researchers than any other U.S. state.
California has more Nobel laureates than any other U.S. state.
Texas received $71.1 billion more from the federal government than it provided.
Nine of the ten states most dependent on federal funding voted for Trump.
Blue counties account for 71 percent of U.S. GDP.
Nvidia reached a $4 trillion market capitalization.
Elon Musk moved his company’s research and development headquarters back to California.
The market capitalization of BYD exceeds that of all American automobile manufacturers combined.
The first sister-city relationship between the United States and China was established in San Francisco.
Fentanyl was disproportionately impacting U.S. border states, including California.
Gavin Newsom officially invited President Xi to the APEC summit hosted in California.
None of the small businesses in South Carolina that Gavin Newsom met with received tariff exemptions.
The CEO of X resigned.
San Francisco made investments to prepare for the APEC international conference.
Gavin Newsom has sued a number of California cities over homelessness issues.
California's population is larger than the combined populations of 21 states.
California has the highest housing costs in the United States.
Gavin Newsom said he would not approve a California budget unless the housing bills passed.
Use of CEQA to hold up projects for years has significantly slowed housing construction in California.
Gavin Newsom issued an executive order suspending California's Coastal Act.
Gavin Newsom issued an executive order suspending CEQA.
Elon Musk sued the California Coastal Commission over some SpaceX flights.
California passed what Gavin Newsom described as the largest mental health bond in American history.
California allocated $3.3 billion from its mental health bond within one year.
California changed its rules to enable the siting of more than 20,000 new mental health housing units.
California's mental health bond allocated $1 billion for veterans.
Texas's high-speed rail project was four times over budget.
Texas's high-speed rail project did not lay any track.
California's high-speed rail project had built 50 structures.
California's high-speed rail project has procured 2,270 parcels.
The first phase of California's high-speed rail project is 119 miles long.
Street homelessness in San Francisco declined 33% while Gavin Newsom was mayor.
San Francisco's Care Not Cash program replaced cash payments to county welfare recipients with housing and guaranteed services.
Gavin Newsom filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a decision that limited encampment cleanups.
More than 2,000 people have participated in California's Care Court system.
California's mental health housing bond is worth $6.38 billion.
The state of California had not invested any money in homelessness programs when Gavin Newsom became governor.
Stanford studies found that black spots in the brains of people with traumatic brain injuries disappear with ibogaine use.
Ibogaine replenishes brain receptors that cause opioid cravings.
Two thirds of red states have a $7.25 minimum wage.
Two thirds of fast-food workers are not teenagers anymore.
Gavin Newsom was appointed chair of San Francisco’s parking and traffic commission.
The vast majority of kindergarten teachers are women.
The vast majority of elementary school teachers are women.
The vast majority of middle school teachers are women.
Incest is the number one searched category of pornography.
Companies are suing California over child privacy laws passed under Gavin Newsom.
Couples came to San Francisco from 46 states to marry during the 2004 “winter of love.”
Couples came to San Francisco from six countries to marry during the 2004 “winter of love.”
Donald Trump said he had no problem with Caitlyn Jenner using a same-sex restroom when he was running for president.
A Republican governor of Utah said, “Never so much attention been focused on so few people,” about trans issues.
California’s law governing trans athletes was signed by the governor preceding Gavin Newsom in 2013 or 2014.
Two efforts to change California’s law governing trans athletes failed to get out of committee after Gavin Newsom said the situation was unfair.
California’s governor cannot change state law without the legislature’s consent.
The California Interscholastic Federation adopted a compromise allowing two medals in a competition involving a trans athlete.
Support for marriage equality is declining.
Trans people showed their breasts at a party on the White House lawn.
An undocumented incarcerated person received the gender-affirming care discussed in the lawsuit settlement involving Kamala Harris.
The brain is not fully developed until age 26 or later.
Donald Trump said children go to school as boys and come home that afternoon as girls.
Children at a school in Tennessee, possibly in Cookeville, were arriving at school in a kennel.
The Trump administration is looking to withhold congressionally appropriated funding from California over trans sports.
California's state constitution is longer than the U.S. Constitution.
Donald Trump imposed a 50% tariff on copper.
The United States has a trade surplus with Brazil.
There were two vague trade deals in the ninety days following Donald Trump's promise of ninety deals in ninety days.
The U.S. economy grew 2.4% in the year before Donald Trump's current term.
Almost 50 million of the 52 million U.S. jobs created from 1989 until the year before Donald Trump's current term were created under Democratic administrations.
U.S. trade and port activity has declined significantly during Donald Trump's current term.
The United States surpassed its pre-pandemic employment level eighteen months after the pandemic began.
The United States reached its lowest uninsured rate in history during the Biden administration.
The United States reached its lowest Black unemployment rate in history during the Biden administration.
The United States reached its lowest unemployment rate for women in history during the Biden administration.
South Carolina's governor said in a state-of-the-state address that an electric-vehicle company was making a $2 billion investment in South Carolina because of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Donald Trump said he would end the war in Ukraine before taking office.
There have been hundreds of arrests connected to the Los Angeles protests over immigration enforcement.
The National Guard had not been deployed when Donald Trump said it had resolved the Los Angeles protests.
California has 616 local law-enforcement agencies.
Gavin Newsom was the first mayor in San Francisco history to meet minimum police staffing levels.
California has filed more than 27 lawsuits against Donald Trump during his current term.
Donald Trump sent the National Guard to Los Angeles without giving Gavin Newsom advance notice.
Donald Trump took hundreds of National Guard members away from vegetation and forest-management work in California ahead of wildfire season.
Gavin Newsom deployed 2,500 National Guard members during the Los Angeles fires.
Gavin Newsom pre-deployed 110 fire engines before the Los Angeles fires occurred.
There were no arrests in MacArthur Park during the National Guard operation there on the six-month anniversary of the Los Angeles fires.
The debris removal following the Los Angeles fires was the fastest in U.S. history.
Gavin Newsom sent search-and-rescue teams to Texas on a Friday morning in response to the flooding there.
Fifty-seven percent of California's forests are federally owned.
Three percent of California's forests are state-owned.
California has spent $2 billion on forest management.
California has increased its investment in vegetation and forest management tenfold since Gavin Newsom became governor.
Gavin Newsom's first executive order as California governor concerned vegetation and forest management.
Donald Trump cut the U.S. Forest Service workforce during his current term.
The Camp Fire, California's deadliest wildfire, started on federal land.
Donald Trump wants to eliminate FEMA.
Western regions are getting hotter.
Western regions are getting drier.
California has the largest aerial firefighting fleet in the world.
Gavin Newsom doubled California's CAL FIRE budget.
Most of the multiple Los Angeles fires Gavin Newsom described started on federal property.
The Los Angeles fires Gavin Newsom described had winds that reached 100 miles per hour.
Helicopters fighting the Los Angeles fires Gavin Newsom described had to be grounded because of the winds.
Gavin Newsom has six million Trump supporters in California.
Six million people is more than the population of South Carolina.
Of 616 local law enforcement agencies, Gavin Newsom thinks six in California had budget adjustments.
All six California law enforcement agencies Gavin Newsom said had budget adjustments significantly increased their budgets within 12 months.
Gavin Newsom added a thousand California Highway Patrol personnel.
California has the tenth-toughest felony theft threshold in the United States.
Gavin Newsom put together a package of twelve bills addressing retail theft.
An initiative addressing retail theft did not change California's $950 felony theft threshold.
China accounts for 21 percent of the world's research and development.
Germany accounts for 22 percent of the world's research and development.
California has more venture capital than any other place.
California has more patents than any other place.
California is a majority-minority state.
Gavin Newsom put forward a $180 billion, ten-year infrastructure investment plan for California.
Gavin Newsom doubled California's film tax credit.
California's tax policy provided Elon Musk with billions and billions of dollars in subsidies.
Tesla was losing money while making money reselling tax credits.
California's last remaining nuclear plant provided almost 9.5 percent of the state's baseload electricity.
California has the second-largest amount of installed battery capacity of any jurisdiction in the world, after China.
The majority of solar panels are produced in China.
The majority of windmills are produced in China.
California is the largest manufacturing state in the United States.
California has the highest tax rate.
About 80 percent of Californians pay average taxes.
Forty percent of Californians pay lower taxes than they would in Texas and Florida.
Texas and Florida tax their lowest-wage earners more than California taxes its highest-wage earners.
California has the largest service corps in America.
California's service corps is bigger than the Peace Corps.
California offers a $10,000 college grant in exchange for 450 hours of community service.
The University of California system has ten campuses.
Gavin Newsom rolled out California’s civil service reform in nine counties.
Ten thousand people worked on Gavin Newsom’s career education plan.
Roger Ailes hired Gavin Newsom’s ex-wife to work at Fox.
Gavin Newsom’s ex-wife had been appointed as an ambassador when Newsom spoke with Trump in the Oval Office.
Kim Jong Un has a new resort in North Korea.