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California's Homelessness Crisis
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| The mother load, though, may be in California. | ||
| And if that is true, much of the credit will belong to my next guest, Benny Johnson, host of the Benny Show. | ||
| Benny, great to see you. | ||
| When did you realize that California was worse than Minnesota? | ||
| Yes, so California is the fraud capital of the world. | ||
| And here's how you know. | ||
| Let's go ahead and look at just one program in California that the state budget, which is enormous, is supposed to solve. | ||
| The homelessness crisis. | ||
| Now, you can travel to any city in California and you will find tent cities, broken down RVs, people living on the street, people defecating on the street, people behaving in dangerous ways towards children and towards families and towards the taxpaying citizens of California. | ||
| You shouldn't allow that in America. | ||
| California knows that this is a problem. | ||
| Gavin Newsom knows this is a problem and they spent $24 billion on homelessness in California over the last few years. | ||
| Brian, that's $160,000 per homeless person spent by the state of California. | ||
| Now, where I'm from, in Iowa, $160,000 will buy you a home. | ||
| You could just buy a home for every homeless person. | ||
| This is what California has done. | ||
| Now, what happened in the course of spending that enormous amount? | ||
| Has homelessness gotten better or worse in California? | ||
| In fact, homelessness, the rate of homelessness, has grown by 30,000 people. | ||
| It's skyrocketed. | ||
| Travel any street, go anywhere, but I would advise you, Brian, to go ahead and look right here at the map of Gavin Newsom's city. | ||
| This is San Francisco's public defecation map. | ||
| This is what one of America's once greatest and most beautiful cities, one of the most prosperous and richest cities, has been turned into. | ||
| This is the public defecation map of homeless people inside of downtown San Francisco. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi's house is on that map. | ||
| Gavin Newsom's office is on that map. | ||
| And Gavin Newsom oversaw that city. | ||
| So he knows damn well that this money is being wasted and wasted egregiously and criminally. | ||
| And we put this full screen up so people can see it and we went over it so you could take that in if you're watching at home. | ||
| But I want to move on. | ||
| I know you're getting to the bottom of this because it angers him and it angers his staff. | ||
| They are furious with you and you're going there to confront this. | ||
| Yes, they're furious because it's indefensible what they've done in the Palisades as well. | ||
| And the most important thing to do there is just like what was done by Nick Shirley in Minneapolis is simply go and turn on the camera. | ||
| It's self-evident. | ||
| Have there been any homes built? | ||
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No. | |
| Gavin Newsom promised to rebuild the homes. | ||
| Gavin Newsom promised that these people who lost 7,000 homes approximately in the Palisades had their lives destroyed, had their family memories torched to ashes. | ||
| Most people in America know somebody who's been affected by these fires that he would cut the red tape, that he would cut the penalties, cut the fees, and that they'd get to rebuilding. | ||
| Has there been a single shovel overturned in the Palisades? | ||
| And again, you can just go there and turn on the cameras. | ||
| If you turn on the cameras and knock on a Somali daycare and ask, can I enroll my child? | ||
| You'll be met with screaming and someone calling the cops and a door slammed in your face. | ||
| If you go to California and turn on the cameras and just film the streets of downtown LA or San Francisco or any city, you will see the egregious homeless problem. | ||
| They spent $24 billion. | ||
| No homes have been built and no homeless people have been saved. | ||
| So Benny, we know this too. | ||
| On a policy, he was just insane. | ||
| He was saying to everybody there illegally, you get free health care. | ||
| He single-handedly destroyed the state health care system. | ||
| He's backed off of that since. | ||
| But yet people, he gave a state of the state address as if he was a returning war hero. | ||
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Why don't people hold him accountable? | |
| He was a terrible mayor. | ||
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In terms of results, he's been a terrible governor. | |
| How does he get a pass on this? | ||
| He won't actually, no one even holds him accountable in the Pacific Palisade situation, yet no one's got permits. | ||
| Yeah, that's completely correct. | ||
| It's because, Brian, I believe that many of the elections in California are also fraudulent. | ||
| There are so many loopholes in the system, but here's the big one. | ||
| They don't allow voter ID. | ||
| They're being sued right now by the Trump administration because they refuse to turn over their voter rolls. | ||
| How many criminal aliens are voting? | ||
| The tune of $31 billion went to criminal aliens in the form of welfare or other services by California. | ||
| And so how many of these people are actually electing the individuals like Gavin Newsom in a massive payout? | ||
| It's going to be like the Somali fraud in Minneapolis when you actually look into it and investigate. | ||
| And again, it is simply self-evident. | ||
| Just like if you turned on a camera, cameras are, of course, Gavin Newsom's major enemy. | ||
| When Gavin Newsom was locking down the entire state during COVID, he was at the French laundry dining with all of his friends. | ||
| So Benny, if he really wanted to get to the bottom of fraud, he should welcome Betty Johnson landing at LAX and grabbing his phone and his camera and exposing it for him because he doesn't like fraud, but he doesn't really mean a word in which he said. | ||
| I hope you would come back and share with our audience what you find. | ||
| Yes, that's a promise. | ||
| Betty Johnson, thanks so much, and we'll be checking out your podcast like most of America does. | ||
| Thanks so much, Ben. | ||
| In recent years, our people have faced some of our toughest challenges. | ||
| And I've been inspired by the courage and resilience of Californians. | ||
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Health workers, teachers, parents, and kids. | |
| You came together. | ||
| And now you're coming back stronger than ever. | ||
| As your governor, I promise you, whatever challenges come our way, I will always lead the California way. | ||
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Gavin Newsom, courage through crisis. | |
| It is Tuesday, January 13th, 2026, and we are going to roast Gavin Newsome as we head to California today to expose the massive fraud. | ||
| Newsom is panicking and crashing out as we ratio him on X and make his life a living hell. | ||
| Just he's made the lives of Californians a living hell, literally delivering hell on earth to places like the Palisades. | ||
| And somebody who's going to talk to us about it is the great governor, a fellow governor in the United States of America of an actual booming state, a state that is heading all in the right direction, not the wrong direction. | ||
| Arkansas Governor Sarah Sanders will be joining the show live today. | ||
| My name is Benny Johnson, and this is the Benny Show. | ||
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| All right, we are heading out to California on the heels of Gavin Newsome making a complete ass of himself on social media. | ||
| It's been really fun. | ||
| We've been in a bit of a battle here, and Gavin keeps claiming that everything's going fine in California. | ||
| Well, I guess we'll see. | ||
| The feds don't think so. | ||
| Federal prosecutor warns that arrests are coming after massive fraud found in California. | ||
| Homeless services, we just followed the money. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Well, what does the money exactly say? | ||
| Well, the money says that there's been $24 billion spent on homelessness in California. | ||
| And there's 180,000 approximately homeless people in California. | ||
| That's $170,000 per homeless person. | ||
| Yikes. | ||
| First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Alessai told the Post that the federal agencies have uncovered wrongdoing at a staggering scale and blasted Democrats' colossal failures for letting corruption fester for years in the homeless industrial complex in LA. | ||
| We followed the money and we quickly uncovered massive amounts of fraud, said the U.S. attorney. | ||
| What's going to happen next? | ||
| Recent indictments of housing executives Cody Holmes and Stephen Taylor were just the tip of the iceberg. | ||
| The duo faces accusations that they pocketed state funds for homeless housing, prosecutors said, it's just the beginning to scratch the surface. | ||
| We have dozens of other investigations ongoing, expect to bring more charges this year and perhaps even this month. | ||
| Holmes, former executive at Shangri-Law Industries, embezzled $2 million from a homeless housing program created during the pandemic and then used the proceeds for luxury purchases for himself and his girlfriends. | ||
| Don't worry. | ||
| Don't worry. | ||
| These people are just living on the street. | ||
| Scroll on down. | ||
| This is what your average California street looks like. | ||
| And this is what the streets look like in Los Angeles and Skid Row. | ||
| We're going to be going there. | ||
| And all you got to do is put $170,000 up on every single person's head there. | ||
| Ka-ching. | ||
| That's what the state has spent on this. | ||
| This is the results of what the state has spent. | ||
| They've also built skyscrapers for homeless people. | ||
| They've built entire complexes for homeless people. | ||
| They have giant parking lots that get millions of dollars and do nothing. | ||
| We're going to expose all of it. | ||
| And it looks like the federal government is looking to potentially put a lot more people in prison. | ||
| Let me explain how this works. | ||
| This photo right here, I don't know if you can zoom in, but this photo right here is the last thing you want to see on your street. | ||
| But Californians see it all the time. | ||
| They see it everywhere under every underpass, overpass, in every field, in every ditch, on every street. | ||
| It looks like this. | ||
| This is blight. | ||
| This is third world criminal blight. | ||
| Nobody wants to see it. | ||
| Everybody thinks it's bad, except for the people profiting from it. | ||
| And the people profiting from it want more of this so that they get more money. | ||
| You see, if they solve the problem, the money goes away. | ||
| So you have to not solve the problem because otherwise all those billions will stop flowing. | ||
| It's like shutting down the fake smally daycare. | ||
| So this is how the grift works. | ||
| Gavin Newsom's in on the grift. | ||
| And after Gavin Newsom's tenure, well, California has gained 30,000 more homeless people, the most in America, by far. | ||
| So we are planning on going here and showing you exactly what Gavin Newsom's California looks like. | ||
| Dude rode his bike through just a random street of LA and was able to show us precisely what was happening there. | ||
| This is Los Angeles. | ||
| Here's your city of angels. | ||
| This is just your average street out, street night out in Los Angeles. | ||
| You know, church looks like your block. | ||
| This is what Gavin Newsom has done. | ||
| They paid for this. | ||
| Many of these homeless people will tell you that they get free drugs, alcohol, they get free needles. | ||
| They get everything that would facilitate further homelessness. | ||
| Whatever it is to make sure that there's more of this, the state of California does. | ||
| And because they want to keep the bike going, they want to keep the money flowing. | ||
| You know, you see stuff like this in your neighborhood. | ||
| What wouldn't you pay to like stop it? | ||
| And this is what it looks like there in California. | ||
| So please pray for us as we head out to California. | ||
| Please pray for us as we continue to try and expose the billions of dollars that have been stolen. | ||
| Also unimaginable theft from the fire aid relief funds where virtually none of the $100 million went to pay for anybody's home or to support any of the victims. | ||
| This is what I mean by hell on earth. | ||
| There have been zero new homes built. | ||
| Okay, I think there's been seven out of 7,000 homes that have torched the ground of the Palisades, been seven homes built. | ||
| A massive history of fraud and federal investigations and a reckoning that California can no longer afford the legacy of Gavin Newsom. | ||
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Shopify's Christmas Ornaments Success
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| It will be this. | ||
| And will also be us getting us ratioing Gavin. | ||
| I mean, these, these are fun. | ||
| This is just a classic ratio right here. | ||
| So this is like, so Gavin Newsom's original tweet at me is like, hey, I don't want, you know, hey, I don't like you. | ||
| Like, you're stupid. | ||
| I don't like your face. | ||
| And talking with the legendary Daryl Issa there. | ||
| But you can see that this post does like no numbers, right? | ||
| You can see like, okay, got 142, 142 reposts, 2,000 likes. | ||
| And then we roast Gavin Newsome over it. | ||
| And how does it do? | ||
| 2,000 reposts, 11,000 likes. | ||
| Boom! | ||
| Goes the dynamite. | ||
| This is just what we've been doing. | ||
| We've been having a blast doing it. | ||
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Let's go. | |
| All right, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Sarah Huckabee Sanders live from Arkansas, the great state of Arkansas, and one of the greatest governors in America. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| The governor of Arkansas, Sarah Sanders, it is my great and distinguished honor to welcome you back to the program. | ||
| Everyone misses you at the podium at the White House. | ||
| So much fun. | ||
| But nonetheless, the people of Arkansas are very, very happy and lucky to have you there in this role. | ||
| What a run you've been on. | ||
| A generational run, the kids would call it. | ||
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Sarah. | |
| We're proud of what's happening here in Arkansas. | ||
| I love what I get to do. | ||
| Love being governor by state. | ||
| I don't know that there's that many people that miss me at the podium, though, Benny. | ||
| Certainly not the people in the room. | ||
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Changed Trajectories
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| But the good news is Caroline Lovitt is absolutely killing it. | ||
| She's doing an amazing job. | ||
| I love getting to watch her, and I love getting to watch her put those reporters in their place every single day. | ||
| And she's doing fantastic. | ||
| So I don't know that anybody misses me, but I certainly miss getting to work with some of the people that I had the privilege of serving with. | ||
| But being in my home state of Arkansas, seeing the amount of growth, seeing the momentum and the forward progress we're making here is something I'm really proud of and glad to be back on the show today. | ||
| Yeah, it is, again, just been quite a run. | ||
| And you wouldn't even recognize the White House press room anymore. | ||
| All your favorite nemesis, all of your favorite arch enemies have all been fired, right? | ||
| Like Jim Acosta has been fired. | ||
| PBS has been defunded, right? | ||
| There goes Yaminchi or whatever. | ||
| It's like all the, it'd be so boring for you, I think. | ||
| But you know, Donald Trump has ruined a lot of people's careers in the press. | ||
| And I don't know that anybody in America is sad to see them go. | ||
| So he certainly, I think, has changed the trajectory of a lot of people's careers that started out in journalism that were covering him. | ||
| Nobody could have taken on an institution like the media other than Donald Trump in the way that he did. | ||
| And I think he's forever changed the landscape. | ||
| And he's at least evened the playing field in a much bigger way by empowering conservative journalists, empowering conservative voices around the country, but also using his own microphone to tell his own story on a daily basis in a way that no president before him has ever done. | ||
| And I don't know that anybody will ever be able to match or even come close to doing what he's done and changing the dynamic as much as he has. | ||
| And certainly that's a positive thing for conservatives around the country and for policy around the globe. | ||
| It's just unbelievably altering what he's been able to accomplish and what he's been able to do. | ||
| No one's a better spokesperson than the president. | ||
| I hosted my mom and dad for dinner the other night, and they were like, why do we really need green land? | ||
| Like, there's a little TikTok of Trump explaining it like perfectly in 60 seconds. | ||
| I was like, listen to this. | ||
| And it just says like a C-SPAN TikTok, but it was like, it rings like a bell. | ||
| And they're both like, oh, oh, that makes a ton of, wow. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| We shouldn't have Russia or China owning one of the largest land masses on our border. | ||
| Like, that's a good idea. | ||
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Tax Frauds Exposed
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| That's a good idea. | ||
| Like, it's perfect. | ||
| Anyway, okay, that's, I mean, okay. | ||
| So, so let's talk. | ||
| Let's talk. | ||
| Let's talk about independent journalism to that effect. | ||
| Because we could go on with Donald Trump stories and talk about Trump and the threat. | ||
| I mean, I don't know. | ||
| We should, maybe we should just load up a million clips of Donald Trump roasting the press. | ||
| He clearly learned a little bit from you, Sarah. | ||
| I think I learned it from him. | ||
| It's the other way around. | ||
| The question on the table, the question on the table is: how valuable is independent journalism today? | ||
| We saw what happened in Minnesota with an independent journalist going out and just asking questions. | ||
| We're heading to California, actually, this week to do the exact same in California. | ||
| We might be the only people in history, Sarah, to actually be heading to California. | ||
| Because as you can see here, it is the number one outbound for all U-Hauls in America. | ||
| This is the 10th straight year that U-Haul has said everyone is leaving California. | ||
| No one is coming to California. | ||
| And according to recent data, the release from your office, those U-Hauls are heading to Arkansas. | ||
| Is that correct? | ||
| You know, they are. | ||
| For the second year in a row, Arkansas is the number one state in the country for inbound migration. | ||
| We have been a great beneficiary of a lot of people that are fleeing California because it's too expensive, too liberal, too controlling, too regulated. | ||
| And they're coming to Arkansas because they want an environment where they get to make their own decisions about how they're going to raise their kids, how they're going to run their businesses. | ||
| And they want the freedom to do that. | ||
| They can find that here in Arkansas. | ||
| We just like to remind them not to forget why they left California in the first place when they get here. | ||
| We don't want them changing what makes Arkansas so incredible and so special. | ||
| We're kind of glad that the governor there is doing such a bad job because so many companies and families are fleeing to Arkansas because they want a better life and they know that they can have that there. | ||
| It is sad to see, though, a beautiful state with amazing potential and great history and culture, such as California, fall the way that it has over the course of the last decade. | ||
| To your point, 10 years in a row, people are fleeing the state. | ||
| That's not a good thing for America, but it has been a good thing for Arkansas because we're continuing to grow while California is continuing to decline. | ||
| So I don't want you to beat up on Gavin too much, Sarah, because he is ranking. | ||
| I'll save it for you. | ||
| He is ranking number one in so many important things. | ||
| And we have a list here for you, not to put you on the spot, all right? | ||
| I know Jim Acosta, but get a load of this list of Gavin's great accomplishments. | ||
| Number one in homelessness, number one in poverty, number one in retail crime, number one in gas prices, number one in unemployment. | ||
| By the way, gas prices like $2 more than any other state in the gallon, in the $2 more per gallon than any other state in the union. | ||
| Number one in unemployment, housing costs, water bills, anti-business regulations, income tax, gas act, and budget deficit. | ||
| So he is number one, Sarah, in many of these things. | ||
| He is, but unfortunately, it's all the places you don't want to be number one. | ||
| You know, it is unbelievable what he's been able to accomplish in such a short amount of time to absolutely decimate the state of California in the way that he's done. | ||
| That actually does take remarkable skill. | ||
| So maybe we should congratulate him on destroying one of the largest economies and states in the country in such a short period. | ||
| How is the economy doing in Arkansas? | ||
| I mean, obviously, many of those issues right there, the reason why that goes viral, that's just us. | ||
| Can you put that up one more time? | ||
| It just makes me so happy. | ||
| It's like my neck, my side job, my side gig, I'm moonlight as like the guy who just ratios Gavin Newsom every single day. | ||
| This is us responding to him. | ||
| I don't know why he keeps responding. | ||
| It's such, it's such, it's like shadow boxing. | ||
| It's so fun. | ||
| It's low-hanging fruit. | ||
| But we ratio him every day. | ||
| But, you know, so many of these things are economic on the list. | ||
| You know, a lot of it is just like, it's just so damn expensive. | ||
| And they're just taking the economics of every single state is really the reason why people, generally the reason why people move, other than the weather. | ||
| And so how are the economics of Arkansas doing? | ||
| Arkansas is absolutely booming. | ||
| In the last several years, we have been able to cut taxes not once, not twice, but three times, knocking 20% off of our state income tax, returning more than a billion dollars back to the pockets of our Kansans. | ||
| We've been able to eliminate the grocery tax there in our state. | ||
| We're number one in the country for cost of living. | ||
| And we've been in the top five for economic growth over the course of the last four quarters. | ||
| So while Arkansas is booming, it's one of the reasons that people are taking notice and we're attracting so many people from other parts where it's become too expensive. | ||
| It's become too burdensome and frankly just too difficult to run a business and raise a family. | ||
| They're looking for places to go and Arkansas is one of the top places that people are landing. | ||
| And it's because we have a strong economy and because we've made it easier for people, not harder for people to live in our state. | ||
| What are some of the growing businesses and industries in Arkansas? | ||
| You know, forgive me for my lack of knowledge. | ||
| I just, I'm not as familiar with what major industries are located in Arkansas. | ||
| Where have you seen the growth? | ||
| You know, you haven't been here in a while. | ||
| So I think this is a good opportunity that after you leave California and you see how bad it is, you should stop in Arkansas on your way back home and see the difference. | ||
| I think you'll be pleasantly surprised and love your time here as you have in the past. | ||
| But, you know, we have several industries that I think people associate Arkansas with. | ||
| Agriculture is huge in our state, but a couple that people don't automatically and instantly think of. | ||
| The steel industry is huge in Arkansas. | ||
| We now have the number one steel producing county of anywhere in America, beating out places like Pennsylvania and Ohio, seeing billion-dollar expansions over the course of the last couple of years, a growing, booming industry and something that, frankly, America desperately needs more of, not less of. | ||
| And we're glad that we're one of the states that's producing that aggressively. | ||
| The aerospace and defense industry, something that we're seeing this president take seriously, invest in, and really remind people how important peace through strength is by building up and supporting our military, supporting our Secretary of War and making sure America is prepared. | ||
| And Arkansas is playing a big part in that. | ||
| We now have over 150 companies in that space and it's our number one export. | ||
| So Arkansas, we like to say we're one of the arsenals of democracy and we're proud of the role that we get to play in supporting our country's defense, but also supporting our country's offense and the way that this president has leaned into and focused on. | ||
| Tourism has become a growing month after month industry for our state. | ||
| We welcomed over 50 million visitors to Arkansas last year alone. | ||
| And every month in the year of 2025, we saw our tourism numbers go up and break previous records. | ||
| So we're glad people are coming here to visit. | ||
| I think when they come, they like what they see and they're relocating and making Arkansas their permanent home. | ||
| This is something that you said in your last answer that really struck a nerve, the grocery tax. | ||
| So getting rid of taxes and eliminating them altogether is something that state governments can do if they want to do it. | ||
| A lot of people are poking around potentially getting rid of property taxes, other income taxes. | ||
| Can you talk to me about your approach with eliminating taxes in the state of Arkansas? | ||
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| We never want to tax productivity. | ||
| I've always thought that was a backwards way of looking at things. | ||
| We want more work, not less of it. | ||
| And the more that we tax it, the less of it you're going to get. | ||
| And so by phasing out our state income tax, which is something we've been working on, we've already knocked off 20% and are going to continue chipping away until we get it to zero. | ||
| That's been a big priority of my administration. | ||
| Also, removing the grocery tax, we want to make it easier for people to live, easier for people to make ends meet. | ||
| That's one of the most regressive taxes you can think of is the grocery tax and putting an extra barrier and an extra burden on a basic necessity that everybody needs. | ||
| And so by removing that, we continue to look for ways to support families here in our state, and it's working. | ||
| I think it's one of the many reasons that people that either live here or have a business here are happy in our state and more and more people are moving here. | ||
| I think one of the biggest mistakes that we're seeing is that instead of relieving burdens, states are adding to them. | ||
| We're also looking for ways we continue doing that. | ||
| And one of the best things we like to say, we were Doge before it was a thing. | ||
| We started an initiative called Arkansas Forward. | ||
| And within its first year, we were able to identify and pass on about $300 million in savings. | ||
| Some of the, here's a great example of government exploding and putting that burden on taxpayers and wasting their money. | ||
| But we identified hundreds of phone and fax lines. | ||
| Yes, that's right, fax lines. | ||
| Nobody's used a fax line in decades, but yet we were still paying subscriptions and contracts for these phone and fax lines. | ||
| By eliminating ones that weren't being used, we're now saving the state north of a million dollars a year. | ||
| By looking for those inefficiencies and adding modernization, we're able to remove a lot of those expensive costs and pass that savings to the taxpayer through tax cuts. | ||
| Instead of making it harder, we're making it easier. | ||
| Property taxes. | ||
| That's been a big issue down here in Florida. | ||
| Property taxes, something that could go away in Arkansas? | ||
| Our focus has been on the income tax. | ||
| We already have the lowest cost of living anywhere in the country. | ||
| We're number one for that. | ||
| And so our focus has really been heavily leaning into the income tax and trying to eliminate that. | ||
| You know, there's always a push for eliminating every different tax that's out there. | ||
| But I really feel like our focus has been rightfully in moving to zero when it comes to the income tax and not putting a burden on productivity. | ||
| And so that's going to continue to be our focus under my administration. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So you talk about Doge. | ||
| Would your Doge have your Arkansas Forward? | ||
| Would they have found a bunch of fake Somali daycares or would your government have given them billions of dollars? | ||
| Arkansas's entire state budget is less than Minnesota and California have wasted on fraud in the last year. | ||
| And so it is unbelievable what's happening in some of these blue states and the way that they've wasted money and that nobody seems to have known about it until independent journalists, as you mentioned, have gone out and not only found it, but highlighted it for the rest of the country to see. | ||
| I know you're headed to California later this week. | ||
| And I think what you will find is going to truly shock the country, the amount of waste. | ||
| I think there are already estimates of something about $70 billion that are just lost, unaccounted for. | ||
| I mean, our entire state budget is $6 billion. | ||
| And so the fact that they've lost $70,000, I wish they had lost it in Arkansas, though. | ||
| But, you know, $18 billion to build a new train system, and yet they have nothing to show for it. | ||
| They paid $18 billion to think about something. | ||
| And so I hope that you will be able to really expose and highlight the level of fraud that's taking place in that state and wake up a lot of the people that have wasted so many tax dollars and so many federal tax dollars that have gone there that simply are unaccounted for. | ||
| Yeah, we've been working with some great researchers there and some whistleblowers, and we're really excited to tell these stories. | ||
| And I think it's going to be biblical. | ||
| But what you're seeing and have seen in Minneapolis and in Minnesota has sort of been the appetizer for this. | ||
| And it's disgusted so many Americans because, you know, it really is all of our tax money. | ||
| A lot of this money are federal dollars that are going through HHS or DHS or the Department of Agriculture or labor. | ||
| And these dollars are winding up in the hands of Somali fraudsters and being shipped back to Boko Haram to go commit Islamic jihad or terrorism, potentially against Americans. | ||
| And so it is the single greatest insult. | ||
| As a fellow governor, what is your message to Tim Walz, who, according to all available reports, had got to have known that this was going on? | ||
| I mean, it's hard to imagine that that level of fraud and abuse was taking place and that no one was paying attention to it. | ||
| But I think he's made the right thing and right decision for the state and for the country to withdraw and remove himself from that race because he's clearly not capable of running his state. | ||
| What I find really interesting is that you have a guy that went from being on the ticket to help lead the country to having to announce that he's not even running for reelection all in a matter of months. | ||
| I mean, it is really a remarkable story. | ||
| And I'm thankful that there are people that are working hard and that have exposed that. | ||
| So I'm glad that you're taking it to another state and checking into what's happening in California. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, Tom Emmer, who is a pretty prominent and most powerful member of the Minnesota delegation, Congress says that Tim Walz may leave office in handcuffs. | ||
| You know, as a fellow governor, what do you think of that? | ||
| Well, we've certainly seen that happen in Arkansas before, but I'm glad I'm not on that list. | ||
| I'm proud of what we've been able to accomplish here in my state. | ||
| And, you know, we're going to continue to invest in things that matter, continue to look for ways that we can eliminate burdens, continue to make life more affordable and make Arkansas the best place in the country to live, to work, and to raise your family. | ||
| I think we're on track to continue doing great things for our state. | ||
| And we're going to lean into implementing conservative policy and conservative principle here in Arkansas. | ||
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| And what is your passing comment to your other fellow governor, Gavin Newsom, who everybody believes is priming a run for 2028 and the presidential race a guy with an ego like that and that kind of that level of narcissism is obviously this is what he's going to want to do. | ||
| He'll be facing Kamala Harris. | ||
| I mean, thank you. | ||
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| The content gods smile on us, memes, everything. | ||
| We just can't wait. | ||
| But nonetheless, like he is also, he is one of your fellow, you know, governors, 50 of you. | ||
| What's your take on how he's managed California and how does that set him up? | ||
| I mean, I think he's got to get his own state in order before he asks the country for a promotion. | ||
| He needs to put his head down and help write the ship in California before he moves beyond that. | ||
| And I think if he's looking for a blueprint on how to do things right, there are plenty Republican governors that will be happy to help walk them through what we've been able to do in our states, why they're continuing to do well, and maybe he can take some of our ideas and implement them in his own state. | ||
| Yeah, I don't think so. | ||
| He's planning on taxing unrealized gains for billionaires. | ||
| And like straight up Marxist confiscation of wealth is what they're doing. | ||
| I mean, it's like, I mean, it's unspeakable. | ||
| This is why there's such an outflow of really smart tech and probably plenty of out. | ||
| There's a lot of defense contractors in defense business in California. | ||
| I bet some of them are moving to Arkansas. | ||
| A lot of different companies, very diverse portfolio of companies moving into our state. | ||
| I like to tell them we're open for business. | ||
| We've got everything that you need to really grow and be successful right here in our state. | ||
| And we'll be happy to welcome you if you're looking for a new place to call home. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Education really suffering in California. | ||
| Apparently half the college applications are fake because then they just get federal dollars based on the number of applications. | ||
| That's another scandal that we look forward to covering. | ||
| But how's education doing in Arkansas? | ||
| You know, Arkansas has, frankly, before I came into office, this was an area where we really struggled. | ||
| It's why I made improving education in our state my number one priority upon taking the oath and stepping into this role. | ||
| And over the last three years, we have seen significant progress. | ||
| We've removed things like indoctrination and CRT. | ||
| We've gone from being at the very bottom of the pack when it comes to starting teacher pay, going from 48th in the country to top five overnight. | ||
| We've given our teachers merit-based bonuses. | ||
| Last year, we were able to award over 4,000 educators with up to $10,000 in bonuses based off of the critical needs that we saw. | ||
| We've invested in literacy, hiring north of 120 literacy coaches and deploying them to some of our hardest and struggling schools and students and really providing them additional resources that they needed. | ||
| We've also opened up universal school choice, making sure that parents are empowered to make the best decision possible about how and where their kids can best learn. | ||
| And we've seen tremendous success of what we're doing on education over the course of the last couple of years. | ||
| And we're just getting started. | ||
| I think it will be certainly one of the most important things and one of the lasting legacies of this administration is what we've been able to accomplish on education and the way that we have flipped the script, going from being at the bottom to really showing what a total focus on education can do for a state, but really do for individual students. | ||
| And that's something I'm extremely proud of. | ||
| So there's no quality leering in Arkansas. | ||
| No, we're on the right track. | ||
| And if you look at like the nation's report cards over last year, Arkansas was one of the few states that saw growth in every area that we've been tested. | ||
| So we're, I think, putting our focus and our emphasis in all the right places, and we're seeing positive results because of that. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| The quality leadering center can stay in Minneapolis. | ||
| You can keep it. | ||
| Learning. | ||
| We definitely don't want that here. | ||
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| Okay. | ||
| If you don't mind, let's zoom out nationally just very quickly because Trump's moving. | ||
| Look at the way Trump's moving in 2026, man. | ||
| This is quite the year. | ||
| I've never seen a year like this. | ||
| It's been blistering, probably even for you watching. | ||
| And you used to be at the center of the center in this administration. | ||
| Your thoughts on Trump's actions, Venezuela, that was pretty remarkable. | ||
| And then activities towards Greenland and Cuba and Iran. | ||
| It looks like the man's just remaking the world in the form of America first. | ||
| You know, I didn't think that President Trump could top 2025 and all of the things that he did. | ||
| You know, people always joke, there's the speed of government, there's the speed of business, and now there's the speed of Trump. | ||
| He was able to do so much and pack so many things into 2025. | ||
| And already less than a month into 2026, he is proving that he's not slowing down anytime soon. | ||
| And he's going to continue charging, you know, a thousand miles an hour, full steam ahead. | ||
| And I think he's been right to focus on a lot of the domestic issues and how to grow America and restabilize our country. | ||
| But now he's taking that global. | ||
| And who knows what he will take on and tackle and accomplish next. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Well, let's just talk really quickly about next. | ||
| It is going to be potentially Gavin Newsom running against what will absolutely be an AOC, right? | ||
| And I say someone from the Mamdani and socialist wing of the Democrat Party, like very committed Marxist wing. | ||
| There's like the closeted Marxists and there's the legitimate Marxists. | ||
| And what say you about that? | ||
| Where will you be when AOC runs for president? | ||
| What's your comment? | ||
| Supporting whoever is running against her. | ||
| I think that would be one of the most dangerous, awful things that could happen to our country. | ||
| And I only hope that they will nominate somebody like that to lead their ticket because there's no way that that type of person gets elected to be the leader of the free world. | ||
| American voters are far too smart. | ||
| And I hope that the Democrats will select somebody like that to represent them because anybody the Republicans put up against, I think, will dominate in an election and be able to carry on the good things that are happening under this administration with President Trump and Vice President Vance. | ||
| Sarah, it has been so remarkable working with you over these past few years. | ||
| It's been really neat to see the way that just God moves in people's lives and the purpose that he has called them to. | ||
| And it's just been really inspiring watching you as governor of Arkansas. | ||
| It's been fun because that's a state that I think a lot of people forgot about maybe, and they're not forgetting anything else. | ||
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| State where a lot of good things are happening. | ||
| I hope nobody's forgetting about Arkansas. | ||
| So if they have, we're going to work really hard to remind them what a great place this is. | ||
| Maybe it's because I follow your social media, but I've heard more about Arkansas over the last couple of years than I've ever had. | ||
| It's been really impressive. | ||
| So we hope that Gavin Newsom does not take your advice. | ||
| We hope he doesn't start following red state policies. | ||
| And we'll get up to Arkansas to see you soon. | ||
| I can't wait to be back. | ||
| Thanks so much. | ||
| And we look forward to welcoming you back anytime. | ||
| Godspeed, Governor. | ||
| You can follow Sarah Sanders right here. | ||
| 2.1 million patriots already follow. | ||
| Make sure that you are one of them. | ||
| Somebody keeping red state red as Sarah Sanders. | ||
| Godspeed. | ||
| Thanks, Benny. | ||
| As we are headed out to the Golden State, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know how much gold there is in Arkansas. | ||
| I know there's diamonds in Arkansas. | ||
| They have diamonds in Arkansas. | ||
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| All right. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Will anybody be charged for daycare fraud in Minnesota? | ||
| Let's check the polls with Polymarket. | ||
| I hope the answer is yes. | ||
| Please let the answer be yes. | ||
| Here. | ||
| Will anybody be charged for daycare fraud in Minnesota? | ||
| Oh, when will they be charged by? | ||
| By December 31st, 2026. | ||
| So by next year, there's an 83% chance. | ||
| By next June, there's a 77% chance. | ||
| And by the end of this month, there's a 17% chance. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So as they say, you know, and dumb and dumber. | ||
| So you're saying there's a chance. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Good. | ||
| Well, a boy can dream. | ||
| And this is exactly what we're going to be doing. | ||
| California dreaming. | ||
| Heading out here to California. | ||
| And we will leave you with a verse of the day from Deuteronomy 16, 20. | ||
| Follow justice and justice alone so that you may live and inherit the land the Lord your God is giving you. | ||
| Deuteronomy 16, 20. | ||
| Justice will give you the land. | ||
| Seek justice. | ||
| Seek criminal penalties. | ||
| Like for the fraudsters in Minnesota. | ||
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| Seek criminal penalties. | ||
| Make sure that you are delivering justice to evil people and using justice to protect good people. | ||
| And God will give you a land to inherit. | ||
| It's a good lesson for today. | ||
| The land that was given to the people running California has been abused and misused. | ||
| And so they may well lose that land. | ||
| If you know what I mean, California should go red. | ||
| And if they had fair elections, it would. | ||
| So again, a beautiful lesson for today from Deuteronomy, old school, old world. | ||
| And we'll be bringing that old school work ethic to California as we hit the bricks and uncover the megaton bomb of fraud. | ||
| Please say a prayer for us. | ||
| And we appreciate you and love you. | ||
| And we will see you on the other side. | ||
| It's your boy, Benny. | ||
| In the end, we win. | ||
| See you in California. | ||
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