? “WHERE DID THE $24 BILLION GO?”: Actor David Spade Calls Out California’s Homeless Audit Veto ?
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Actor David Spade is raising a massive red flag on California’s lack of transparency, calling it “frustrating” and “odd” that Governor Gavin Newsom continues to block audits of the state’s massive homelessness spending.
Despite spending nearly $24 billion on the crisis since 2018, California’s homeless population has actually increased by 32%.
David Spade: The same broader problem with people paying taxes in California when they’re building a hundred billion dollar train to the Sacramento-San Francisco area, that I don’t know if everyone’s clamoring for it, when you could take ten billion and probably fix a lot of problems in California. But they keep pushing this ten-year thing about the train.
That’s just one of the crazy things. The homeless, they lose 20 billion but they want more money for it. That’s why people get tired of paying tax and going, “What are you doing?” Gavin Newsom just vetoed a bill asking for an audit of where the money for homeless goes. He said, “Not a chance. You’re not going to see that.” That’s an odd move.
Host: Well, I don’t think anyone could disagree with this. There are states, I don’t have them offhand, who basically you go to their website, and they tell you where all the money’s going, line by line. Maybe it’s thousands of pages a year, but you can see where it’s going. So when there’s, he’s behind the curtain, “Don’t pay attention to Gavin Newsom,” you know, it’s a little bit frustrating.
David Spade: It’s just frustrating because you go, you can’t ask for more. I mean, if someone’s, if you’re in a household, and someone’s blowing all the money, you go, “What are you spending it on?” “Don’t worry about it. Just give us more money.” You go, “Well, I’d like to see some… something. And if it’s fixing homeless, great, but don’t just take it and then be like, homeless has gotten worse.” You go…
Host: It’s like, excuse me, Gavin Newsom, excuse me, um, could we ask where the 20 billion went?[/read]