President Donald Trump said California Gov. Gavin Newsom should visit Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" and "learn something" during his tour of the new migrant detention facility.

California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom took a page out of Donald Trump’s playbook late in June by approving an overhaul of his state’s costly and unnecessary environmental regulations. 

Newsom’s signature updated the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), a 1970s-era law that forces developers and homeowners to undergo an absurdly expensive and long environmental review before starting any building project. Among other things, the update streamlines the review process and exempts huge swaths of the state’s infrastructure construction from the ancient regulatory statutes.  

Critics and the homebuilding industry have long blamed this cumbersome policy for California’s long-running housing shortage, sky-high real estate prices, and even the state’s infamous homelessness problem. As a free-market economist, I applaud Newsom for defanging some of his state’s most burdensome measures – but he should go much further to a) help his constituents and b) shore up his national........

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