In his latest burst of missing the forest for the trees, California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom boasted of his government’s efficiency while ripping the incoming Trump administration, pontificating, “We’ve been working, I dunno, before DOGE was DOGE.”
Newsom seemingly ignored that the purpose of DOGE is to reduce the cost of government to save taxpayers’ money.
“I dunno, this is like a promo project,” he said mockingly of DOGE, then bragged, “We’ve been doing civil service reform in this state; we’ve been consolidating job classifications; we’ve been updating job descriptions in this state, and we waived those requirements. And in fact, I think it was in August, earlier, in August, we came up with your shop. We’re gonna double that next year. In fact, by 32,000; it’ll be 62,000 positions we will have eliminated those barriers and that requirement. I’ve always…
