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Dems jockeying for Newsom endorsement give passing grades on issue that ignited ‘poop map’ crisis
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None of the Democratic candidates running to replace outgoing California Governor Gavin Newsom gave him below a B-minus grade on combating homelessness, a moment that Republicans sharing the debate stage on Wednesday evening called a laughable evaluation of the state’s problem.
«My goodness, of course it’s an F,» Republican candidate Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host, said.
«It shames our state, the situation with homelessness. We have about 10% of the U.S. population, around 50% of the country’s homeless.»
The moment forced the four Democratic candidates to weigh in on efforts to unwind a crisis that has only worsened in recent years despite billions in funding. It also highlighted a reluctance among Democrats to critique Newsom, who has yet to make an endorsement in the race.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom pictured alongside a homeless encampment (Ronaldo Bolaños/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images; Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
«I’m a notoriously tough grader, but I would probably give him a B on homelessness,» Katie Porter, a former Democratic congresswoman, said.
«I don’t think this has been an easy problem to solve, but I do give him a lot of credit for calling attention to the problem.»
Tom Steyer, a billionaire businessman-turned candidate, put Newsom’s performance in the same ballpark.
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«So, I’d give the governor a B-minus on this,» Steyer said.
But one other Democrat, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, made the case that the grade was too low, citing Newsom’s «effort.»
«I would say that the governor has made efforts. We’ve seen him come down to Los Angeles, actually go out and try to clean some of these streets. On effort, I would give him an A,» Becerra said.
Matt Mahan, Xavier Becerra, Chad Bianco, Steve Hilton, Tom Steyer and Katie Porter appear during a gubernatorial debate at KRON Studios in San Francisco Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (Jason Henry/Nexstar/Bloomberg – Pool/Getty Images)
California reported 161,400 people had experienced homelessness on any given night in 2024, according to the California State Senate Housing Committee.
The numbers are higher than when Newsom took office in January 2019.
That year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development put California’s homeless population at 108,400 — 32% less than levels in 2024.
The persistently high rates have thwarted billions in funding to bring the numbers down. California has spent roughly $20 billion on homeless initiatives from 2019 to 2025, according to the California Budget and Policy Center, a left-leaning think tank.
In a 2023 debate with Newsom on Fox News’ «Hannity,» Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis illustrated the acuteness of the homelessness problem by holding up a map of San Francisco, detailing over 270,000 reported instances of feces found on the streets of the city, which was dubbed the «poop map» on social media.
To Republican candidate Chad Bianco, Riverside County’s sheriff, it’s clear the problem has nothing to do with money.
«It is an absolute dismal failure, and anyone that says it’s not is fooling themselves — or trying to fool voters,» Bianco said.
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A trashed punching bag is left at a homeless encampment is seen on the side of the CA-101 highway in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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«We are not dealing with homeless, so stop calling it homeless. It has nothing to do with homes. These people are suffering from drug and alcohol abuse and mental illness.»
California will hold its gubernatorial primary June 2. The top two candidates will advance to the general election Nov. 3, according to the California Secretary of State.
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FIRST ON FOX: SPLC’s legal woes grow as Jim Jordan fires latest salvo at left-wing group
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FIRST ON FOX: The House Judiciary Committee escalated scrutiny of the Southern Poverty Law Center on Thursday, demanding documents from the nonprofit after a federal indictment alleged the group funneled millions in donor funds to extremist organizations.
Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote in a letter first obtained by Fox News Digital to SPLC President Bryan Fair that the GOP-led committee was investigating any coordination between the SPLC and the Biden Department of Justice and FBI, both of which had used the left-wing nonprofit as a resource.
Jordan demanded a slate of documents from the SPLC by April 30, a request that comes after his Republican counterparts in the Senate also ramped up scrutiny of the SPLC and after acting Attorney General Todd Blanche hinted at more possible indictments related to the group.
The intensifying investigations into the SPLC, expanding from the DOJ to Congress, come after Jordan’s committee previously investigated the group, saying it was known for «maligning several mainstream conservative and religious organizations as ‘hate groups,’» such as Moms for Liberty and Turning Point USA, and that the Biden DOJ improperly used it for civil rights enforcement.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a committee session. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)
«Publicly available documents revealed how the Justice Department partnered closely with the SPLC during the Biden-Harris Administration, including scheduling regular meetings, giving the SPLC early access to federal law-enforcement data, and allowing SPLC employees to train federal prosecutors,» Jordan wrote. «The new information about the SPLC alleged in the indictment only raises further questions.»
Jordan also noted that a controversial internal memo originating from the FBI Richmond Field Office during Director Christopher Wray’s tenure, which framed so-called radical-traditionalist Catholics as a group of people more prone to violent crime, used the SPLC as a source for its findings. The memo surfaced in 2023, with Wray later retracting it and saying it was an «appalling» breach of religious freedom.
Jordan’s letter pointed out that the Richmond memo was among more than a dozen FBI documents that used the SPLC as a resource.
The DOJ on Tuesday charged the SPLC with several counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank and conspiracy to commit money laundering, alleging the group defrauded donors for more than a decade.
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche spoke during a press conference alongside FBI Director Kash Patel at the Department of Justice April 21, 2026, in Washington, D.C., about the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center on charges related to money laundering. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Prosecutors said the nonprofit, which promotes its efforts to fight White supremacy, misled donors by using shell companies to mask how donor funds were used. More than $3 million was paid through the shell companies to informants who participated in activities involving the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement, among others, prosecutors alleged.
«The SPLC’s paid informants … engaged in the active promotion of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website,» prosecutors wrote, noting one informant allegedly went so far as to help plan the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
«Congress has an important interest in protecting Americans from extremist violence and criminal activity,» Jordan wrote in his letter. «The Committee on the Judiciary has been conducting oversight of the Biden-Harris Administration’s close coordination with the SPLC on federal civil rights matters.»
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Neo-Nazis, the alt-right and White supremacists take part in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. (Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday set its sights on a woman previously affiliated with the SPLC who was a federal judge and Biden appointee serving a lifetime appointment on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
«Every individual associated with SPLC should have to answer for what they knew about the organization’s extremist ties, and when,» committee Republicans wrote in a statement on X.
«That includes Nancy Abudu, SPLC’s former litigation director who Biden appointed as a lifetime judge on the 11th Circuit.»
Just before the DOJ announced charges, Fair said in a public statement that the federal investigation was political rather than sincere.
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«They have made no secret of who they want to protect and who they want to destroy,» Fair said, noting the group no longer works with paid informants but adding they had «risked their lives» to infiltrate extremist groups.
Fox News Digital reached out to the SPLC and Abudu’s chambers for comment.
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La «batalla por el estrecho de Ormuz»: Donald Trump dice que lo cerró herméticamente, pero Irán se atribuye su control
Al cierre de febrero de este año el Sistema de Ahorro y Capitalización de Pensiones de los Servidores Públicos (SIACAP) ha captado desde el 2000 un monto total de $2,282.3 millones, de los cuales el 48.4% se ha pagado en prestaciones a los afiliados y beneficiarios.
Creado mediante la Ley 8 del 6 de febrero de 1997, el SIACAP tiene como objetivo otorgar beneficios adicionales a las pensiones de invalidez permanente, incapacidad permanente absoluta por riesgo profesional y de vejez que se concedan al servidor público de acuerdo con la Ley Orgánica de la Caja del Seguro Social.
La entidad inició operaciones en julio del 2000, con un patrimonio de $435.1 millones, y actualmente cuenta con 609,408 cuentahabientes, de los cuales 169,297son cotizantes activos.
A febrero de este año el patrimonio neto de los afiliados correspondió a $1,043.9 millones, con un rendimiento en el mes de 8.5%, de los cuales el 40% correspondió a aportes y el restante 60% a rendimientos.
Rolando Mejía, secretario ejecutivo del SIACAP, señaló que al cierre del 2025 el Sistema de Ahorro y Capitalización de Pensiones de los Servidores Públicos registró un monto un total de $1,024 millones, cifra que representa un crecimiento sostenido a lo largo del tiempo y confirma la confianza que los servidores públicos mantienen con la institución.
Con este rendimiento, el funcionario dijo que la institución ha demostrado una madurez financiera y un manejo responsable de los recursos de los servidores públicos, cuyo rendimiento alcanzó un 7.45% durante el periodo del 2025, reflejando la eficiencia de su estrategia en el manejo del portafolio de inversiones.
Explicó que este desempeño le permitió generar $71.0 millones, fortaleciendo la confianza de sus afiliados y consolidando un modelo sostenible para el futuro.
El sistema opera mediante cuentas individuales donde se registran las contribuciones obligatorias, voluntarias y especiales de cada afiliado, así como los bonos negociables y los réditos generados.
Los funcionarios aportan un porcentaje de su salario al SIACAP y el Estado contribuye adicionalmente con un 0.3% del salario devengado.
Los fondos depositados son administrados por entidades administradoras de inversión, encargadas de generar rentabilidad y hacer crecer los ahorros de los afiliados.
Esto permite que los funcionarios cuenten con un aporte complementario a su jubilación.
Las declaraciones de Mejía se dieron durante la sustentación ante la Comisión de Economía y Finanzas de la Asamblea Nacional de la memoria de gestión de esta entidad, correspondiente al 2024-2025.
En la jornada, la Superintendente del Mercado de Valores (SMV), Maruquel Murgas de González, hizo lo propio al sustenta que esta entidad financiera ha desempeñado un papel fundamental en el fortalecimiento del sistema financiero, fomentando la transparencia, confianza y preservación del mercado.
Durante el 2025 la entidad presentó su plan estratégico compuesto por una hoja de ruta que se estructura en cinco pilares fundamentales, que abarcan áreas esenciales para el desarrollo institucional y el adecuado cumplimiento de sus funciones, con el objetivo de posicionar a la Superintendencia como un referente regional en materia de regulación y supervisión del sector.
Los pilares, según Murgas de González, son: modernización del Mercado de Valores, sostenibilidad y responsabilidad, fortalecimiento institucional, protección al inversionista, posicionamiento y vínculos Internacionales.
Mientras, la hoja de ruta estratégica y operativa define las acciones, plazos y recursos necesarios para avanzar de manera ordenada y eficiente hacia el cumplimiento de las metas, y constituye la base de las iniciativas desarrolladas durante el período que comprende la memoria institucional.
“Hemos avanzado de forma sostenida en la ejecución de este plan orientado a la modernización del mercado de valores y al fortalecimiento de nuestros procesos internos”, manifestó Murgas de González en la memoria institucional noviembre 2024- octubre 2025.
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