President Trump took bold action to tackle America’s homelessness crisis with his July 24, 2025, executive order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.”

By prioritizing federal funding for states and cities that enforce bans on public camping and redirect resources to treatment for addiction and mental illness, Trump is showing the kind of leadership California desperately needs.

Meanwhile, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is on a progress tour, touting what he claims are improvements in the state’s homelessness crisis.

As someone who has spent years working directly with the homeless — veterans abandoned on Skid Row, downtown San Diego and countless other streets — I see Newsom’s campaign for what it is. It is a shallow public relations stunt designed to gloss over his failures while our heroes are left to die.

Newsom isn’t solving the crisis — he is sweeping it under the rug, just as he did before Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to San Francisco. He didn’t clean up homelessness........

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