Kevin Kiley

BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY California has a $54 billion problem, and Gavin Newsom has a simple solution: Ask Nancy. The Governor is banking on Speaker Pelosi’s HEROES Act to avoid having to spend less. In a breezy five-paragraph letter to Pelosi, Newsom and the Western States Pact asked for exactly $1 trillion. Meanwhile, Gov. Newsom […]

*Sign up below for my latest updates from inside the Capitol. BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY “Taking away the lollipop.” That’s what California Lawmakers call it when they kill your job. On Thursday, a Senator used this phrase to infantilize Californians whose livelihoods were destroyed by Assembly Bill 5. When asked about the same bill, Gavin

*Sign up below for my latest updates from inside the State Capitol BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY Gavin Newsom’s $1 billion mask deal with BYD China is crumbling. As is the Governor’s credibility. FEDS CONTRADICT NEWSOM ON CERTIFICATION OF MASKS reads the front page headline in today’s Sacramento Bee. After the N-95 masks predictably failed a

BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY “Send us exactly $1 trillion. Don’t ask questions.” That’s Gavin Newsom and the Western States Pact’s modest request in a five-paragraph letter to Congress. It comes as California faces a $54 billion budget deficit, a number that would be a lot smaller if the state didn’t spend so much to begin

BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY “F— Elon Musk” – an actual tweet from one of California’s highest-ranking Legislators this weekend. After the tweet made national news for what an embarrassment our state government has become, Musk responded: “Message received.” It’s a message being received all across California right now – especially by small businesses that are

BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY Governor Newsom’s 38th Executive Order, requiring all-absentee voting in November’s Election, is a stunning abuse of power. Two bills currently in the Legislature propose this same policy. But the Governor rushed to enact it on his own so he could declare California the “first state in the nation” to go all-absentee.

BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY “I’m trying to save 40 million Californians.” So said Gavin Newsom on Late Night with Seth Meyers last week. This “I alone can fix it” mentality is straining our system of checks and balances. While the Legislature recessed for seven weeks, Gov. Newsom remade life in California. His 37 Executive Orders

BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY Tomorrow the State Assembly returns after a 50-day hiatus. On the day we left, I spoke about the Legislature’s important role managing the challenges ahead of us. The Assembly’s leadership, it turns out, had a different role in mind: None. The collapse of California government into one-man rule has been as

BY ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY On March 16, I gave a speech in the State Assembly asking that we put partisanship aside and trust our Governor’s leadership in a moment of crisis. In the weeks since, Governor Newsom has repeatedly abused that trust and put politics front and center. The Sacramento Bee just called him “Gov.

BY KEVIN KILEY Governor Newsom has named Tom Steyer, the former presidential candidate and hedge fund manager, to lead an 80-member Economic Recovery Commission. Notably absent from the Commission: small businesses. They’re outnumbered 10 to 1 by major company executives despite making up 99.2 percent of all California employers. Right now, small businesses are fighting