California faces a new multimillion-dollar deficit despite its enormous state budget. Newsom is disqualified from the presidential race.

 

Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, whose district includes the city of Los Angeles, said during an interview on NewsNation on Friday that she is not “playing politics” with the destructive wildfires ravaging the region by calling for higher taxes on “the rich.”

In an interview with host Chris Cuomo, Waters, herself a billionaire, made the excuse that “services cost money” in response to the resources needed to fight the fires, even though residents of her city and the state of California already pay some of the highest taxes in the country.

“I don't like the blame game. “I don't like to talk about whether Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is trying to protect himself and run for president, none of that,” Waters told Cuomo.

"The first thing we have to understand is that services cost money, and we should be willing to have the richest people in this country, the richest 1% that are protected, make sure that they pay their fair taxes so that we can have the money to provide the services," he said.