Gavin Newsom squirms as he’s grilled over soaring cost of CA living

Gavin Newsom squirmed as he was grilled Sunday over the rocketing cost of living disaster battering California.

The governor tried to brush off NCS anchor Dana Bash’s fiery questions, shortly pivoting to progress within the tech and agriculture sectors.

Speaking from Nashville forward of the launch of his memoir “Young Man In A Hurry,” Newsom was pressed on households who had ditched the Golden State for Tennessee.

Bash mentioned: “California has the highest cost of living in the US, 11% above the national average. Families are leaving because they can’t afford rent, a home, or to raise a family.”

Newsom shot again with a special set of figures, boasting that California has climbed from the sixth- to fourth-largest economic system on this planet.

“We’ve had hundreds of thousands move into California in the last two, three years,” he mentioned. “We dominate in every key industry — AI, quantum, robotics. We dominate in [agriculture].”

Bash replied: “People are still struggling to afford things, like your mom was.”

While California has posted a modest rebound — rising for the third straight yr to about 40 million residents — the longer-term migration image stays stark.

Over the previous decade and a half, practically 10 million individuals have left the state for elsewhere within the US, whereas simply over seven million have moved in, leading to a internet home loss of roughly three million between 2010 and 2024, in keeping with the American Community Survey.

The numbers underscore the stress dealing with many households. California costs had been about 11% greater than the nationwide common in 2024, in keeping with the US Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Housing prices ran 53% above the US norm, whereas utilities had been 60% greater — second solely to Hawaii.

Bash’s remark about Newsom’s mom comes after the governor has been spinning sob stories about growing up penniless throughout a strife-filled childhood.

The memoir paints a portrait of younger Newsom so tight on money he needed to choose up a newspaper supply route and sweat out shifts as a busboy to chip in as his lately divorced mom “scrambled to keep the family afloat.”

But critics like Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton mentioned they had been drained of the claims of penny-pinching upbringing.

Hilton mentioned Newsom’s grandfather helped elect former Gov. Pat Brown and “the Newsom and Brown families have been trading political favors and lucrative business deals ever since.”

Rep. Nancy Pelosi was tied to the Newsoms when Gavin Newsom’s aunt married into the two-time House Speaker’s household, Hilton famous.

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