In Unhinged Rant, Gavin Newsom Essentially Admits He's at Fault for Homeless Crisis in CA

Over the last year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been increasingly critical of how cities and counties in his state address homelessness, and his outburst Wednesday afternoon during a press conference announcing May revisions to his proposed state budget is the capper.

As activist Kevin Dalton described, Newsom "went on a completely unhinged rant wondering how politicians get reelected that leave homeless people out on the street to die."

Newsom, who famously proclaimed in 2008 as Mayor of San Francisco that he had a 10-year plan to end homelessness in the city, now presides over the state where half of the nation's homeless live. He's repeatedly said that "fixing" homelessness is his number one goal, yet the problem is increasing by every metric: number of people on the streets, deaths of homeless people, violent crimes committed by the homeless, fires started by the homeless, et cetera, et cetera. And, the state can't account for $24 billion in homeless funding.

It's time for the Gov. "Jim Cramer" of homelessness to step aside because he's clearly not equipped. Of course, he doesn't think so. He thinks he can just gesticulate wildly and utter mild curse words while clearly agitated and the problem will just be fixed.

Maybe that's the way it works when he yells at/gaslights people in his office or in his personal life, but that's not how it works in real life.

Instead, he calls on county and city leaders around the state to get out of his way. To the tape:

Gavin Newsom just went on a completely unhinged rant wondering how politicians get reelected that leave homeless people out on the street to die. pic.twitter.com/xkLBEZaLGW
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) May 14, 2025

Here are a few choice quotes from the one minute, 50 second rant.

"As a taxpayer, not just Governor. I'm not interested in funding failure anymore. I'm not. I won't. Time to do your job. People are dying on their watch, dying on their watch. I don't know -- how do people get reelected? Look at these encampments. They're a disgrace. They've been there years and years and years and years. I've heard that same rhetoric for years. People are dying. Kids are being born."

It's almost as if he hasn't been either Governor or Lieutenant Governor since 2012. He's admitting that these encampments have been there for years and years and years and nothing has happened. Where does he think elected officials get money to deal with homelessness, crime and justice, and addiction?

And in the same exact press conference, Newsom announced that this budget - which is short by the same exact amount the state spent on healthcare for illegal aliens, while ignoring the homeless, coincidentally - is not going to fund the things contained in Proposition 36. Prop 36, you'll recall, is the public safety initiative voters overwhelmingly approved in November, and one requirement is that criminals with an addiction problem get treatment as part of their sentencing. We all know that addiction is one of the main drivers of homelessness, and court-mandated treatment is a huge tool. Yet, Newsom isn't funding it? It's madness.

He continued:

"I met a young man, literally was out there doing project homeless connect, reaching out near the 405 freeway. I found out the next day he was dead. In this -- the name of compassion. I could have helped them that night. I felt like a fraud. I felt like I let him down."

All I can say is, sir, you are a fraud.

He continued, becoming visibly agitated and adding in some curse words:

"There's no compassion in denying what the hell's going on the streets and sidewalks. They need to step up. Enough of the rhetoric. I'm serious. Enough of the rhetoric. People are dying in this state. It is a disgrace. It is one of the principal reasons people are so angry. They don't trust politicians. They don't like what they see."

Ahh, now we know what the issue is. Well, we knew all along, but he confirmed it. His polls and focus groups show that voters are angry and don't trust politicians so he's changing his persona, or attempting to.

"I'm sorry to get so intense about it. It's a moral issue. They need to do their job. And if they can't do it, let me know. Just say, "We give up," and then we'll intervene. We'll come up with different strategies and different approaches, but I'm sick and tired of all the barriers and all the BS."

Why in the world would he think that he can clean it up? He's failed spectacularly for 20 years.

For at least a decade many of us in California have made Newsom's current argument - that compassion isn't allowing people who are clearly unable to handle their basic survival needs to die on the street. It's like allowing your grandma who has Alzheimer's to live alone because you respect her "freedom." Nope, that will just lead to grandma hurting herself and possibly others. Just like what's been happening in California and now across the country, too.

FLASHBACK TO 2019: Government "Caring" Kills: LA's Homeless Are Dying on the Streets in Record Numbers

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Here's a montage of Gavin Newsom vowing to "solve" homelessness, from 2008 through today.

The only thing scarier than this montage of Gavin Newsom vowing to solve homelessness over the past 2 decades is when you realize that the $24 BILLION he evaporated is just from the last 5 years… pic.twitter.com/MCbc46lHaK
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) November 25, 2024