Newsom Lets Loose On GOP Trashing Blue Cities: We Create '71% of the Country's GDP' [View all]

Source: MEDIAite

Jul 14th, 2025, 5:58 pm


California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) went to bat for the economic power of his state in a recent sitdown with podcaster Shawn Ryan, who is part of the so-called “manopshere” of new media.

“What separates our game from the game played elsewhere is innovation, entrepreneurialism, more patents, more engineers, more researchers, more Nobel laureates in my state than any other damn state, more Fortune 500 companies in my state than any other state. Look that up, because I know people are rolling their eyes and say, ‘No, it’s Texas.’ You’re wrong,” Newsom said.

“It’s true. I looked it up,” agreed Ryan, a former Navy SEAL turned popular podcast host. “And we’re, by the way, a donor state. We provided $83.1 billion more than we received from the federal government. Texas took $71.1 billion. I’m not saying that to bash Texas, but you know what? Pretty proud of my goddamn state,” Newsom added.

“I saw that too. Can you repeat those numbers?” Ryan followed up. “$83.1 billion. We provided more to the federal government than we received. The same year that Texas received $71.1 billion more than they provided to the federal government,” Newsom replied. “So you’re net positive,” Ryan noted. “Net positive. Nine out of ten of the donor states are Trump states, and I don’t mean that pejoratively: ‘Trump.’” Seven of the ten are Republican states, but nine out of the ten dependent states—welfare states—are Trump states.

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