Newsom Tries To Tamp Down Reports He Is Lukewarm on Reparations Proposal

The minority leader of the California assembly, James Gallagher, tells the Sun that Newsom has backed himself into a corner.

Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group via AP, file
Governor Newsom at Palo Alto January 26, 2022. Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group via AP, file

Governor Newsom is hitting back at critics who say his evasive answers about a reparations task force’s proposal to hand out billions of dollars to Black residents in California signal a lack of support even as the Golden State prepares for its most difficult fiscal challenge since the Great Recession. 

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