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Gavin Newsom: “Program passing is not problem solving.”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

What Democrats Can Learn From Michigan | Gretchen Whitmer

Published August 13, 2026 | Video Starts at 21:16

Yep. What and why is kind of easy. Yep. It's the how. Right. And also, and as a governor, I know you can appreciate this Program passing is not problem solving. Minute we sign a piece of legislation, everyone then moves on legislature. Meanwhile, we got to deliver. Right. We got to implement. Right. That's hard. (21:16–21:19)

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Asserts that passing legislation does not equate to solving problems.

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