Chris Ruffo

What he's done in California is a disaster on an unprecedented scale.

Let's talk about Medi-Cal, which is California's healthcare system for the poor.

During his time in office, Gavin Newsom has almost doubled public expenditure on Medi-Cal.

It's something now like $200 billion a year in public spending in California, which is bigger than the GDP of many, many countries around the world.

We know from government estimates that between 10% and 25% of Medi-Cal is lost to outright fraud.

Criminals who take that money and in many cases send it overseas.

And so you're asking, well, what interest does someone like Gavin Newsom or state Democrats have in allowing this to continue?

And that's where you get the indirect beneficiary.

One of the most powerful unions in California is of course, the Union of Healthcare Workers, which is trying to pass this

wealth tax, which has tens of thousands of members that benefit from the system being engorged with public funds.

And so in many ways, the unions see this as a form of corruption that simply expands the pie.

And then they get a cut of that.

They forward that cut, part of that cut to the Democrat politicians in the legislature, to the governor's reelection campaigns.

And all of this money, oftentimes at arm's length, not directly, but indirectly,

It really pays the bills and greases this corruption wheel.

I think what does have a chance to really damage him is if we can show definitively that what he's done in California is a disaster on an unprecedented scale.

And so my team right now is finishing a report which should come out in the coming weeks where we're tallying not just billions or tens of billions of dollars in fraud, but potentially hundreds of billions of dollars that has disappeared from the California state budget during Newsom's tenure.