Gavin Newsom Vetoes Outrageous Bill That Would Have Given Housing Loans to Illegal Immigrants

 

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) had a moment of sanity on Friday when he vetoed an outrageous bill that would have provided loans of up to $150,000 to illegal immigrants who were first time homeowners. As Sarah covered last week, the bill known as AB 1840 passed the state legislature and made it to Newsom's desk. 

Although Newsom had until September 30 to sign the bill, he returned it without his signature weeks before the deadline, on September 6. 

BREAKING: Gov. Gavin Newsom VETOES AB 1840, which would have allowed undocumented people to apply for the state’s first-time home buyer’s assistance program.

His veto message basically says lawmakers tried to expand eligibility to a program with no money. pic.twitter.com/g2ouabtsh2

— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) September 6, 2024

"This bill seeks to prohibit the disqualification of applicants from one of California Housing Finance Agency's (CalHFA) home purchase assistance programs based solely on their immigration status," Newsom wrote. 

Newsom's veto does not appear raise issue with rewarding illegal immigration, but rather speaks to another issue: the state budget. "Given the finite funding available for CalHFA programs, expanding program eligibility must be carefully considered within the broader context of the annual state budget to ensure we manage our resources effectively," he continued in his veto letter. "For this reason, I am unable to sign this bill."

As Sarah also pointed out, California faces a budget deficit of $68 billion. The veto is currently a trending topic over X, with many users highlighting how Newsom focused on the cost involved.

Good decision, bad reason for @GavinNewsom . He cites budgetary constraints, not the unethical concept of incentivizing and rewarding those who break the law, all while ignoring the struggles of US citizens.#California #FactsMatter @realDonaldTrump @KamalaHarris @GOP @DNC… https://t.co/8pYLPH47qM

— Alex Villanueva (@AlexVilanueva33) September 6, 2024

A Fox News report from Friday about the veto included some rather outrageous but also particularly telling comments from Democrats in support of the bill and how they look to reward illegal immigrants:

However, Democratic lawmakers in the state have defended the legislation, arguing that it is simply designed to give illegal immigrants the same benefits afforded to everyone else in the state.

"It isn’t given out willy nilly to just anybody," Democratic Assemblymember Eloise Gómez Reyes said during a June hearing on the bill.

By giving illegal immigrants "the same benefits afforded to everyone else," when they shouldn't be in the country in the first place, is very much incentivizing illegal immigration though. If someone who lacks legal status is receiving such a loan, that seems to be the very definition of those loans being "given out willy nilly."

The Media Lies Add Up

 

The public is exhausted after a decade of chronic untruth from the left-wing and its media.

The 2016 presidential campaign will be long remembered for the false allegation that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to warp the election.

Citing the bogus “Steele dossier,” loser Hillary Clinton and other Democrat grandees claimed that the victorious Trump was an “illegitimate” president.

Almost immediately, the left and media then pushed for the appointment of special prosecutor Robert Mueller. He assembled a “dream team” of partisan prosecutors to prove Trump-Russian collusion.

Some 22 months later, Mueller found no evidence that Trump improperly won the 2016 election with help from any colluding Russians.

More hysteria followed when Trump was impeached in December 2019.

The left claimed he had pressured the Ukrainian government to look into the family of Joe Biden (then a potential 2020 election opponent) for its corruption with Ukrainian oligarchs — as a condition for releasing military aid designated to Kyiv.

Yet Hunter Biden was paid nearly $1 million a year by a Ukrainian energy company to enlist his father, Vice President Joe Biden, for quid pro quo services.

In turn, Joe Biden later bragged that he had pressured Ukraine to fire its prosecutor, Victor Shokin, who happened to be looking too closely into the various shady schemes of the Biden family.

The deceptions and lies continued.

On the eve of the first 2020 debate, Biden aide and now Secretary of State Antony Blinken helped to round up “51 former intelligence authorities” to claim falsely that Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop — full of incriminating evidence of felonious Biden family behavior — was fabricated by the Russians.

Yet the FBI already had the laptop and had authenticated it as genuine.

The FBI was also actively enlisting Silicon Valley social media companies to suppress accurate news accounts of the laptop’s embarrassing contents — ostensibly to aid the Biden campaign.

The signees of the false letter included former intelligence kingpins such as Leon Panetta, James Clapper, and John Brennan. None has ever apologized for deliberating lying to the country in a (successful) attempt to help alter an election.

During the summer of 2021, top military officials, at least publicly, parroted the Biden administration’s lie that it was safe to abruptly withdraw all troops from Afghanistan.

The Biden plan was to take political credit for ending the two-decade-long war on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the American invasion of Afghanistan.

Yet many intelligence officials in and outside the Pentagon had warned both Biden and the Pentagon top brass that any such reckless and total withdrawal would collapse Afghanistan.

They rightly advised that sudden flight would give terrorists a windfall of equipment and infrastructure.

But they were ignored, and during the subsequent Biden misadventure, 13 American Marines were needlessly killed.

After the greatest military humiliation in a half-century, Biden and many in the media lied that the mission was nevertheless a successful withdrawal.

But that was not all. For the first time in history, a presidential candidate, Donald Trump, was subjected to numerous criminal and civil suits in an election year.

Yet the federal prosecutor, Jack Smith, met with Biden officials. A high-ranking Biden Justice federal attorney joined the New York municipal prosecution. The Georgia prosecutor met stealthily with Biden’s legal counsel. And a major Biden donor funded the civil suit.

The once collusion-hungry media ignored all such lawfare and rank collusion.

During the 2020 Democratic primaries, the general election, and throughout the first three years of the Biden administration, it was evident that Joe Biden was physically and mentally incapable of serving as president.

Yet his aides and the media all misled the American people. They insisted that Biden was vigorous and sharp.

Then, suddenly, in June 2024, within a 24-hour period, these same insiders declared Biden unfit to continue as the Democratic nominee.

Their new problem with Biden was not just his long-standing embarrassing dementia. Rather bad polls increasingly warned that voters no longer believed their lies and thus would likely not reelect Biden but would instead punish most Democrats in the upcoming 2024 election.

So, a new media narrative arose: the once-hale Biden was forced to resign as the Democratic nominee. His once widely caricatured vice president, Kamala Harris, was coronated as his replacement candidate just as abruptly as his replacement candidate by an equally suddenly gushing and colluding media.

In sum, for some nine years, the media and the left have successfully fed the country a succession of rank deceptions and conspiracies.

They did so because they proclaimed Trump too dangerous to be president, and therefore, any means they employed to stop him were to be justified. And they are doing so for a third time in 2024.

As they continue, they have all but destroyed democracy, ruined the reputation of the media, alienated the public — and embarrassed their country before the world.

This Is Why Democrats Won’t Let Harris Or Walz Do Any Real Interviews

 

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz can’t avoid the debates without looking like they’re deliberately avoiding them – which means Kamala will be there Tuesday – but they can avoid being asked any serious questions, and they will. You’d think that would be political suicide, and it certainly won’t help them in the election. Still, the old saying about being silent and leaving people to think you might be an idiot or opening your mouth and confirming their suspicions is doubly true with this ticket. 

The heavy lifting the Democratic Party media did in 2020 was unprecedented, but it’s also nothing compared to what will be needed this year. Not because Donald Trump is so wildly popular, neither ticket has a majority favorability rating, but because Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are uniquely awful candidates and, honestly, people.

There’s a reason they speak in platitudes and fortune cookie slogans, and it’s not because they are desperate to find new ways to convey to voters their policy ideas. They are the equivalent of used car salesmen who are just shy of their boat payment in commissions this month, and they see you walk on their lot. You’re the mark.

The limited interviews they’ve given thus far have been devoid of substance or follow-ups, the two things that make interviews have any value whatsoever. CNN simply plowed through topics, limited by time to the point of worthlessness, which was the purpose of making it so short.

Kamala interviewed with someone called “Angel Baby,” which I doubt is the name on the birth certificate. The middle-aged Spanish language radio host in Arizona was tough enough to make CNN’s Dana Bash a grand inquisitor. To say it was worth less than zero would be an insult to the book.

Then there is Tim Walz. The stolen valor college mascot who dances around a stage like a coked-out Muppet seems incapable of having a serious conversation. More importantly, the unvetted Fraudie Murphy not only can’t act like a normal human being for a few consecutive seconds, he can’t string together a coherent thought. 

Part of it is that Kamala Harris has, at one point in the last 4 years, been on every side of all the issues. It must be hard to keep up and articulate a vision for someone how has none, but listening to Walz talk makes you realize he wants to hide him own opinions too.

He gave an interview to an NPR station in central Michigan in which he said exactly nothing. At least nothing coherent. 

To show what kind of pandering, lying frauds Democrats are, Walz kept claiming he and Harris would do things to lower property taxes. The federal government has no say over property taxes, but he claimed that building more houses and more federal spending on education would lower them, and just their general state of the economy in their fantasy land would too. 

Never, in all of property tax history, have any of those things happened, but Timmy just casually dropped that they would throughout the interview. It being conducted by a public radio station meant there was exactly zero engagement or asks for clarity. The “journalist” had their list of 6 questions on 6 different topics and literally nothing said was going to prevent him from asking all 6. It really was one of the most awful examples of an interview I’ve ever heard, check it out, it’s only 8 minutes long.

On each topic, Walz used a lot of words to say nothing. Listening to it and you might be confused into thinking he has some idea of what he’s saying, but when you read it you realize he’s simply that kid writing every buzzword he can think of in answer to an essay question hoping to get at least partial credit. 

Here’s his answer on the idea that a Harris/Walz administration could build 3 million houses –  2055 per day – over 4 years. See if anything he says in there makes sense.

Walz said:

“Yeah. And I think when we talk about this one, and I know this for a fact that that my home, my first home I bought, the only home I bought, was using the GI Bill. And what the GI Bill does on that was is it gives you…you don’t have to have a down payment on it. And what we know is that housing is foundational to everything. It’s foundational to a family stability, it’s foundational school achievement and we know that it’s the path to generational wealth, and we know that the supplies are too short right now.”

“We know that it’s a little too difficult to build in some areas and those are things that of course state and local regulations are going to have to work with. But this idea of giving a tax credit on the front end, the same thing with like small businesses, you start people out with this, it gives them the foundation to get in. That foundation allows them to build on it, and what we end up seeing is we see wealthier communities with more money invested back into them. We see a broader tax base, which means lower property taxes for everybody. And so that dream of owning a home. We can do this. What we don’t need is, we don’t need large venture capitalists buying up large stocks of homes and then jacking the prices up on them. That is not what we need and that’s what we’ve seen in many areas.”

“So, I think this plan gets more at that ability to get people in, and look, folks will pay their own way. You’re still going to have to pay your mortgage. You’re still going to have to make your way, but that coupled with an opportunity economy with a middle class is making a living wage, making a housing wage, has healthcare, and now has a home. We see all kinds of positive things happen when we do that.”

Forget the lies; assume it’s all true. Does it make sense? Does it sound like someone who knows what they’re talking about?

The Left-Wing Industrial Complex can’t allow these people near anyone who might know what they’re talking about or demand a coherent answer. They can only appeal to dumb people who are ready to believe the idea that there is some quick and easy fix for every problem. Still, these Democrats – who are currently in power and could implement them right now – will only clearly articulate them if they win in November. Otherwise, they’ll take their “solutions” to the grave. 

Let’s send them to their political grave so they can take their ideas with them. That way, we don’t have to suffer through the horror of what would inevitably be a deeper hole than we’re already in as Kamala cackles and Tim flails around while insisting we can dig our way out of it if we just dig harder.

House Committee Subpoenas Walz in COVID Fraud Scheme Investigation

 

The GOP-led Committee on Education & The Workforce issued a subpoena to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday for records related to the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country.

“As the chief executive and the highest ranking official in the state of Minnesota, you are responsible for the MDE [Minnesota Department of Education] and its administration of FCNPs [Federal Child Nutrition Programs],” Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said to Walz in a cover letter accompanying the subpoena. “Statements in the press by you and your representatives indicate that you and other executive officers were involved, or had knowledge of, MDE’s administration of the FCNP and responsibilities and actions regarding the massive fraud.”

In 2022, a U.S. attorney charged 70 individuals associated with Minnesota-based Feeding Our Future (FOF) for their alleged roles in defrauding the USDA of over $250 million in taxpayer funds—money intended to feed hungry children. To date, five individuals have been convicted of fraud that the assistant U.S. attorney on the case called “not just criminal, [but] depraved and brazen.” Charges include federal programs bribery, wire fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering. While dozens are still awaiting trial, questions remain regarding the role of the Minnesota Department of Education’s (MDE) administration of the Federal Child Nutrition Programs and its oversight of FOF. 
 
After MDE, under Governor Walz, failed to respond to previous attempts by the Committee to garner information necessary to uncover how the Governor and the USDA allowed such fraud to occur, the Committee today is proceeding with a subpoena to compel responses. (Committee on Education and the Workforce)

The Committee said subpoenas were also sent to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its Office of Inspector General.

🚨 Tim Walz’s admin. subpoenaed by @virginiafoxx related to the “largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the nation.”

How much did the governor know about the criminal activity that stole $250 million in taxpayer funds intended to feed children in need?

More⬇️https://t.co/rTJ9NbwKd8 pic.twitter.com/Ebrpe4dZMV— House Committee on Education & the Workforce (@EdWorkforceCmte) September 4, 2024

Biden Reveals What the Woefully Misnamed Inflation Reduction Act Is Really About

 

With his term ending in a matter of months, President Joe Biden is still trotted out on occasion to give remarks. As he continues to be less and less with it, Biden has also made some curious admissions, including when it comes to the woefully misnamed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), over two years after he signed it into law.

Speaking in Westby, Wisconsin on Thursday, Biden made quite the declaration. “I’m proud to announce that my–my investments–that through my investments, the most significant climate change law ever,” accurately pointing out how the IRA is more so about climate alarmism. He also reminded that the bill came with a $369 billion price tag.

“It’s called the–we–we should have named it what it was, but it–but any rate,” Biden trailed off to laughter from the audience. 

Joe Biden just STRAIGHT UP ADMITTED that the Inflation Reduction Act was a TOTAL SCAM that had NOTHING to do with reducing inflation!

Does Kamala Harris agree with this?

“We should’ve named it what it was!” pic.twitter.com/2WL7N1exN2— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 5, 2024

It’s not only telling that Biden said the quiet part out loud about the IRA, which is that it didn’t even have the proper name, but that he couldn’t bring himself to say the actual name of the bill. He started to do so, but was ultimately unable to complete the thought. Is it because the president doesn’t even know the name of a supposedly signature piece of legislation? Even if he did, it’s still concerning that he couldn’t get the words out. 

Vice President Kamala Harris, in her interview from CNN last Thursday, spoke about the IRA in terms of prioritizing climate change, as Monica Crawley reminded when sharing a clip of Biden’s remarks from this week. 

Kamala admitted in her CNN interview that the “Inflation Reduction Act” was a scam to force through climate communism, aka the Green New Deal.

Here’s Biden today admitting the same.

Trillions spent, setting off massive inflation, all on a lie.

pic.twitter.com/K2ktEHBypc— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) September 5, 2024

CNN’s Dana Bash presses Harris on why she flip-flopped on fracking: pic.twitter.com/jhjQGqIQaQ— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 30, 2024

Prices have certainly gone up during the Biden-Harris administration, which Harris is currently a part of as the sitting vice president, yet she still talks about how she’ll handle inflation if she’s elected president. Inflation rates are particularly high compared not only to the Trump administration, but the past several presidential administrations going back to Lyndon B. Johnson.

As Harris herself acknowledged in that CNN interview, she also cast the tiebreaking vote for the IRA back in August 2022, making her pledge to combat inflation even more nonsensical. 

Harris is still trying to gaslight voters into thinking Bidenomics is working and blames Trump’s “mismanagement” of the pandemic for Americans’ current struggles.

CNN’s Dana Bash: “One of your campaign themes is ‘We’re not going back.’ But I wonder what you say to voters who do… pic.twitter.com/ydd1541ops— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 30, 2024