The Democratic governor faces criticism from various sides and seeks to calm the waters a bit with the new budget
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California Governor Gavin Newsom began his third year in office facing crises in different areas of the social and economic life of the state , that he faces a movement seeking to remove him from the office, plus a growing homeless crisis, a scandalous EDD fraud and controversial photos in The French Laundry.
The main criticism facing the Democrat is his handling of the pandemic and restrictions , for many excessive, in commercial activities, which has generated a movement that is currently collecting 1.5 million signatures to try to revoke the mandate.
The president, who was previously mayor of San Francisco, has just presented an ambitious p summary that will allow you to face several of these fronts. In it he proposed a large budget to help small entrepreneurs and give cash to millions of people that do not qualify for federal aid from the second stimulus check approved by Congress.
But another crisis that has impacted Californians and generated criticism of the governor even among members of his own party, are the billions that the Employment Development Department (EDD) delivered through fraudulent applications of Unemployment Insurance.
Many criticize the Newsom administration’s management at the EDD because while it approved fraudulent applications, denied and delayed thousands of valid claims amid a major unemployment crisis. Some analysts estimate that fraud in California is more than $ 4, 000 millions of dollars.
But that’s not all, California faced in 2020 his worst year of fires foresters, creating chilling records for acres burned and fires recorded, something the governor has also been fired for, criticized for not improving preventive forestry preparation in forests , or at least near electrical distribution facilities, which generated several fires last year.
Finally, the high cost of housing and unemployment driven by the pandemic has millions of people on the brink of eviction , as hundreds of thousands of them s have failed to honor their payment commitments by losing their income due to the pandemic restrictions.
The situation threatens to further aggravate the already uncontrolled homeless crisis that fills the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco, although in the new budget presented for the third year of the governor’s mandate, income assistance is also contemplated.
Newsom was also heavily criticized after attending a dinner at Napa’s exclusive restaurant, The French Laundry in which was seen with several people, without a mask, celebrating a birthday indoors , in clear contradiction to the policies that he has promoted for much of 2020.
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