Democrats are predictable these days: everything Donald Trump does or says is bad, period. Now that the president has announced his $300 million White House ballroom project, people like California Gov. Gavin Newsom are confused, even though taxpayers won't pay a penny for a much-needed upgrade that will serve America for decades. “This is a vulgar display,” he argues, that defines a “wreckball presidency!”
Governor Gavin Newsom told ABC News: @JohnCarl that he hopes the next Democratic president will reverse President Trump's White House renovation, calling it a “vulgar display” and “symbolism of weakness masquerading as strength.” pic.twitter.com/elIuvGBM8H
— ABC News (@ABC) October 30, 2025
But Newsom should be reminded of the old adage, “People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones,” as a massive Capitol renovation project is underway in Sacramento, literally right in his backyard. When questions are asked, no one seems to have the answers, and many of the participants are silenced by non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
This is the Gavin Newsom/California way of doing business.
KCRA 3 Political Director Ashley Zavala covered the Sacramento story, and what she learned is alarming and once again shows the hypocrisy of the funky-haired governor. While Trump has been brutally open about the ballroom project, Newsom clams up and gets irritated when anyone dares to ask.”Only What the hell is going on?“
Gov. Gavin Newsom has vowed to push state lawmakers leading the California Capitol addition project toward greater transparency in how they use taxpayer money.
The documents show Newsom's office has a larger role in the project than the governor suggested earlier this week.
It has been at least three years since project leaders in the California Legislature provided an update on the estimated cost of the taxpayer-funded office building that will be used by the governor and state lawmakers. At last check it was expected to be worth more than $1.1 billion.
Three years?! And this guy is telling you that Trump is corrupt?
Look at the arrogant disdain he has for Zavala when she tries to get answers. He pretends to be stupid, blames everything on other people, and at one point switches to Joe Biden's creepy whispers. And what the hell is he doing with his gestures?! Tim “Jazz Hands” Waltz will be furious with envy:
Newsom keeps a very close eye on the White House ballroom. However, he claims to be unaware of the State Capitol, located a block from his office, where an extravagant “remodel” is costing taxpayers at least $1.2 billion – and lawmakers refuse to say how much the costs have risen. https://t.co/V1BgXkywhU
— Kevin Kiley (@KevinKileyCA) October 30, 2025
While he discusses the future of the White House Ballroom and its wealth, take a look at what's in store for the Golden State Capitol complex:
The project's leaders, also known as the Joint Rules Committee, have not provided information on how they are spending the funds; only supporting information that was leaked to KCRA 3, including millions spent on Italian stoneworkand the decision on add a hallway system that only legislators can use to avoid the public and media.. The Legislature also continues to withhold documents requested by KCRA 3 that could shed light on the cost of the project.
It is true that Newsom is not the direct leader of the project, but the facts show that he is not just the bystander he pretends to be. In fact, his inner circle is deeply involved; they just seem to have taken silence (code of silence).
Documents provided to KCRA 3 show Newsom's chief operating officer served on a three-person executive committee that is expected to meet regularly and vote on final decisions on the project behind closed doors. The committee includes Newsom's current director of operations Miroslava de la O, Democratic Assemblywoman Blanca Pacheco and Democratic Sen. John Laird.
Wait, so your COO is on the project's executive committee, but you know next to nothing, Newsome? How convenient.
New: At the California State Capitol Annex, Gov. Newsom said that “as a taxpayer” he “would like to know” about spending that is being hidden from the public.
It turns out that his office's director of operations sits on a committee that meets regularly and makes final decisions on the project in private. pic.twitter.com/4S8uZ5na7r
— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) October 30, 2025
Much of the Byzantine job oversight system was put in place before Newsom's term, but he has been in office since early 2019, and he and the Democrats have complete one-party democratic rule over the state. If you had a real say in where up to one billion taxpayer dollars are going, Mr. Newsom, I'm sure you could find out in the time it takes to read this article.
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Here is a damning statement from Public Accountability for Our Capitol political action committee member Lurie Stetson:
When asked if she was convinced the governor didn't know how much the building cost, Stetson said, “I don't know if the governor knows that or not. His employees can. Whether his staff informed him of this, we have been trying to contact the governor for the past five years and have never heard back from him.”
Don't worry, give me five more, maybe he'll call. Oh, and guess what else? Mr. “I don't know anything” seems to know something after all:
Newsom approved legislation to allocate funds for the project. In 2024, he also signed a bill exempting the new building from the California Environmental Quality Act to end litigation that had been holding it back.
Notice that when progressives are in power, the environment is everything when it comes to your car, your stove, your washing machine, not their pet billion dollar projects.
Zavala has and continues to do yeoman's work here because she is one of the few journalists in Sacramento willing to ask Newsom real questions and try to pin him down on his slippery, gesticulating answers. For a governor to protest against a free ballroom while this secrecy-shrouded, taxpayer-funded temple of progressivism is being built right next to his office is the epitome of chutzpah, but we've unfortunately become accustomed to it here.
If the building – if it were ever completed – were a metaphor for the governor and his policies, I would expect it to be brilliant from afar, extremely tacky when viewed up close, and built to the shoddiest standards they can get away with.
I'm guessing if you throw a rock at it… it will break.
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