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By Kevin Kiley – December 15, 2025
Today is the first day of the trial challenging Newsom’s Prop. 50 map, and something interesting has happened. Newsom is attempting to block the testimony of the guy who was paid $108,000 to draw the map for him. I wonder what he’s trying to hide.
Also interesting: it’s being reported that Newsom and Kamala Harris are now on a collision course, with both planning to run in 2028. As I told Newsmax, they actually already ran against each other in 2024; it’s just that Newsom’s delusional campaign ended before it even began.
Meanwhile, California is forcing Tahoe Truckee Unified youth sports to compete in CA instead of Nevada, despite this being impractical and unsafe for athletes whose seasons will move from Spring to Winter in a snowy area. The reason: Nevada doesn’t allow males in female sports.
I blasted Newsom on the House Floor for this insanity. I also countered his claim that California is a model of “efficiency,” by noting: $128 billion for a phantom bullet train, $24 billion in homeless spending “lost,” $32 billion in EDD fraud, $650 million on a canceled 911 system.
Yet, new data shows things are actually improving in SF and other parts of California. The reason is we keep beating Newsom. He opposed Prop. 36 and we passed it overwhelmingly. He asked for the Martin homelessness decision to be upheld and the Supreme Court overturned it.
In DC, a bill I sponsored to support homeschooling passed committee, and two bills I sponsored are heading to the President’s desk: one to support rural schools and the other to bring back whole milk at school lunch. I also sponsored a bill to ban stock trading by Members of Congress.
As I said on CNN, Congress has a 15 percent approval rating, and it’s well-earned. To become the People’s House again, we need to ban insider trading; end gerrymandering; pass timely budgets (or no pay); and pro-actively solve problems, not lurch from crisis to crisis.
Kevin Kiley is a California Congressman
