Gavin Newsom Defends California Amid Wildfires and High Cost of Living: ‘The Best Days Are in Front of Us, Not Behind Us’

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NEWSOM: “Let me just establish a couple of frames of reference. California is enjoying record surpluses as the federal government is enjoying record deficits. We are significantly outperforming the rest of the nation. Our domestic product meaning our economic growth, we’re the fifth largest economy in the world. 115 consecutive months of net job growth, remarkably, this fire season has been below average. We actually were able to suppress the vast majority of these fires and heroism up and down the state in ways that we haven’t in the past and we’ve pre-positioned more assets than we’ve ever had and the states are operating in extreme ways and we’ll tackle homelessness and 3.75 million and we put them in the budget to jump-start our efforts and we’re just getting started and the best days are in front of us and not behind us and don’t believe these headlines for the totality and tell the whole story of the state of California.”