Brandon Richards 🐻

WATER IN CALIFORNIA DOES NOT COME FROM THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

>> @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom to world leaders and billionaires at Davos: It’s time to buck up. Stop being complicit. Have a backbone. Trump will play you for fools.

It’s the “rule of Don,” not the rule of law. Trump is unhinged — and dangerous.

World leaders: Stop whispering in private and caving to him in public. Stand strong. Stand united!

Wake up!

Trump has tried to stoke a civil war in America

It is a disgrace what he’s doing in Minneapolis. It is a disgrace what he’s doing all across America. It is a disgrace what DHS is posting

It is a disgrace the white supremacy and grift the Trump admin is promoting

None of this can be normalized

NEW: It took a federal judge less than 24 hours to shut down Trump’s politically motivated child care cuts in California.

California’s spirit is being tested. We face an assault on our values unlike anything we have seen in our lifetimes.

The Federal Government's credo is fear — fear of the future, fear of the stranger, fear of change.

None of this is normal.

In California, we are NOT silent. We are NOT hunkering down. We are NOT retreating.

The biggest manufacturing economy — constructed here

The most productive agricultural economy — grown here

18 percent of the world’s R&D — invested here

1/2 of our nation’s unicorns, $1B startups — headquartered here

The happiest cities in America — right here

California simply has no peers.

Last year, CA launched Jobs First—our first concrete, bottom-up economic development effort. Built region by region, with input from 10K+ participants

Building on the success of these regional efforts, @governor.ca.gov will ask #CALeg to reauthorize our tax credit program for 5 more years

We set a goal together — producing 500,000 apprenticeships by 2029 — @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom is proud to announce today that we’ve surpassed that goal, adding 600,000 earn-and-learn opportunities, more than anywhere else in the country.

Unless Trump is finally delivering the federal aid survivors need to rebuild after the horrific fires — nearly a year after California first requested it — he should keep Los Angeles out of his mouth.

The facts!

Mila has spent nearly a year spreading the same misinformation.

False.

Sober and recovery housing is legal and supported in California, subject to basic housing and non-discrimination rules.

See guidance here:
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Sean, facts matter.

FALSE!

There is NO “lost” $24B for homelessness. All the money is accounted for. ANYONE can see how counties are using funds at Accountability.CA.Gov

The report found that not all state programs required locals to report, at the time, how $ improved outcomes. This was fixed by the Newsom Admin

Spare us the revisionist history. The FEDERAL CARES Act — signed by TRUMP — rushed unemployment programs without basic fraud safeguards, inviting international crime rings nationwide

CA and others warned him. He ignored it. CA stepped up, blocking $125B in fraud and arresting ~1K people

FALSE!

The Congressman is once again misleading people.

FACT: 31.4% of the ~potential~ applications were STOPPED because they were *flagged* as being fraudulent.

That means the system worked — stopping and preventing potential fraud.

Sloppy Scott, why you always lyinnnnnnn’?

There is no “$70 billion in fraud.” That’s a made up number, like your ratings.

The facts:
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FALSE! There is no “lost” $70B

The State Auditor’s “high-risk” list does NOT cite billions in current losses. It’s a report to flag programs for added oversight BEFORE potential fraud occurs

California PROSECUTES fraud — arresting 929 people and recovering $5.9 billion in unemployment fraud alone

>> @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom has been briefed on a commercial gas pipeline rupture along the Old Ridge Route in Castaic, CA. Cal OES is assisting with coordinating the response.

FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE JUNE, THERE ARE NO FEDERALIZED TROOPS DEPLOYED TO THE STREETS OF LOS ANGELES.

Thanks to the work of many, this clear authoritarian overstep by Trump has ended.

In 2004, @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom took a stand for marriage equality — long before it was politically convenient.

It’s about the rule of law, not the rule of Don.

It’s about accountability.

On Friday, @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom met with Republicans and Democrats in Congress to continue to advocate for LA fire recovery support from the federal government.

The Governor talked with @jackcocchiarella.bsky.social about that effort and the Trump Admin’s refusal to meet ⬇️

We’re not giving up. We have the backs of Californians who were devastated by the historic firestorm in Los Angeles earlier this year.

>>Speaker Johnson and Trump are playing politics with recovery funds — totally unprecedented.

There should be no room for politics when it comes to Americans recovering from natural disasters.

It is humiliating to see people sell out and sell our country out to appease the President — we’re supposed to represent something better.

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