We’ve been watching Gavin Newsom run California like a man who’s never once looked at a priority list and thought, “Maybe I should start at the top.” Tent cities stretching from San Francisco to San Diego. Rolling blackouts every summer. Streets that smell like an open sewer. Schools that can’t teach kids to read. But sure — the one thing the Golden State apparently did have budget for was funding an NGO whose entire job was to bring HIV-positive migrants into the country. Because when your state is already a dumpster fire, why not add a public health crisis to the mix?
You really have to admire the efficiency here. Most politicians just accidentally create disasters. Newsom went out and funded one. With taxpayer money. On purpose. The man looked at California’s $68 billion budget deficit and said, “You know what we’re missing? A state-funded program to fly in people who need expensive, lifelong medical treatment that we can’t even provide to the citizens already sleeping on our sidewalks.” Give him credit — it takes a special kind of politician to find a problem nobody was asking about and throw money at it while ignoring every problem people are literally screaming about in his face.
Here’s what we know. Reports broke this week that Newsom’s administration funded a non-governmental organization specifically tasked with identifying and importing HIV-positive migrants. Not refugees fleeing war. Not skilled workers filling labor gaps. HIV-positive migrants. That was the mission statement. That was the line item. Someone in Sacramento sat down, wrote a grant proposal that said “we’d like money to bring HIV-positive people into California,” and someone else in Newsom’s government said, “Approved.”
Let’s put this in perspective for the folks in the back.
California has roughly 170,000 homeless people on any given night. That’s a quarter of the entire nation’s homeless population, living in one state. One state that has the fifth-largest economy in the world. One state that taxes its residents into oblivion and still can’t figure out how to build a shelter that doesn’t cost $700,000 per unit. Newsom launched Project Homekey with a $3.3 billion price tag and the homelessness numbers actually went up. He declared a “state of emergency” on homelessness in 2021 and five years later there are more tents, not fewer.
But importing a public health crisis? For that, the checkbook was wide open.
We’re not heartless. Nobody’s saying HIV-positive people don’t deserve compassion. What we are saying is that when your own house is on fire, you don’t go door-to-door down the street inviting people to come sit in your burning living room. You put out the fire first. That’s not cruelty. That’s common sense. Something that apparently doesn’t survive the trip across the California state line.
The cost angle alone should make every California taxpayer’s head explode. HIV treatment in the United States runs between $20,000 and $40,000 per year, per patient. That’s with insurance. Without insurance — which is what we’re talking about for migrants who just arrived — you’re looking at the state picking up the tab through Medi-Cal, which California expanded to cover undocumented immigrants because of course they did. So not only did Newsom fund the importation — he set up the system to fund the treatment too. It’s a closed loop of fiscal insanity.
And here’s the kicker — Newsom hasn’t even responded yet. The story broke and the Governor’s mansion went radio silent. No press conference. No carefully worded statement from a spokesperson. Nothing. The man who never misses a camera opportunity suddenly can’t find a microphone. Funny how that works. When he’s banning gas stoves and lecturing the rest of the country about “California values,” he’s everywhere. When someone asks him why he was funding an NGO to import a public health crisis, he’s a ghost.
This is what we keep trying to tell people about California governance. It’s not just incompetent. It’s inverted. The priorities aren’t just wrong — they’re upside down. The state has $68 billion in debt, crumbling infrastructure, an exodus of taxpayers fleeing to Texas and Florida, schools that rank 40th in the nation, and a power grid held together with duct tape and hope. And the governor’s signature initiative was spending money to bring in people who will immediately need the most expensive medical care the system provides.
Newsom wants to be president someday. He’s been running for the job since before Biden’s handlers stopped propping him up in front of cameras. He looks at the White House and sees his future. We look at California and see his résumé. And folks, the résumé says: “Successfully turned the richest state in America into a place people flee from, while spending taxpayer money on problems imported from other countries.”
That’s not a presidential platform. That’s an indictment.
The people of California deserve better. The taxpayers funding this circus deserve answers. And the rest of us deserve to know that this is what happens when you let progressive ideology replace basic governance — you get a state that can’t keep the lights on but can write a check to import a crisis.
Somewhere, a homeless veteran is sleeping under an overpass in Los Angeles tonight. And Gavin Newsom spent money that could’ve helped him on an NGO that was busy booking flights instead.
That’s California. That’s Newsom. And that’s exactly why we can never, ever let these people run the country.
