Newsom Debunks Lies By Trump, Musk, And Cultists

From a new website launched by Gov. Gavin Newsom:

LIE – California Cut Firefighting Budgets

FACT: The number of CalFIRE personnel has nearly doubled since 2019 (from 5,829 to 10,741)

FACT: CalFIRE’s budget has nearly doubled since 2019 ($2 Billion to $3.8 Billion)

LIE – These Wildfires are Caused by California’s Mismanagement of Forest Lands

FACT: The budget for managing the forest (AKA “raking the forest”) is now TEN TIMES larger than it was when the Governor Newsom took office. It was a $200 million annual budget in 2018. The state has now invested $2 billion, in addition to the $200 million annually.

FACT: California dramatically ramped up state work to increase wildland and forest resilience, as well as adding unprecedented resources to support wildfire response. California officials treated more than 700,000 acres of land for wildfire resilience in 2023, and prescribed fires more than doubled between 2021 and 2023.

LIE – Governor Newsom is working with developers to change zoning in burned areas to allow “mass apartments”

LIE – California’s smelt fish policy led to the Southern California wildfires

This is an outlandish connection to make. The policy is not about water availability in Southern California.

Broadly, there is no water shortage in Southern California right now, despite Trump’s claims that he would open some imaginary spigot.

Orange County Water District, which supplies groundwater to the north half of the county, has enough supply to carry its 2.5 million customers through the worst of any potential droughts for 3 to 5 years.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California also has an abundance, with a record 3.8 million acre-feet of water in storage. That’s enough water to supply 40 million people for a year.

LIE – California Ran Out of Water and Reservoirs Are Empty

LIE: 60 fire trucks from the state of Oregon are being held up in Sacramento to for “emissions testing”

FACT: out-of-state fire trucks take part in 15 minute safety & equipment inspection to ensure no issues with the vehicle. At the time of the original post, the Oregon firefighting teams were already in the Los Angeles area battling the blazes.

Read the full debunking. There’s more. As you’ll see at the link, Newsom includes screenshots of lying posts by Libs Of TikTok, Dinesh D’Souza, and journalists quoting Trump.