BEYOND PARODY: Gavin Newsom Spends $20 Million on Consulting Firm in Effort to Find Ways to Cut Waste
California Governor Gavin Newsom has reportedly spent upwards of $20 million on a consulting firm that was going to search for ways to cut government waste.
You could not make this up. This is the most Democrat government story ever.
Newsom could have just looked at his state on his own and picked out expensive programs that aren’t working and recommended that they be cut himself, but then he would have to own those decisions. Democrat base voters would then be likely to come after him for this and hold him accountable.
By burying this under a big expensive consulting firm, he can evade responsibility.
The New York Post reports:
Newsom spends $20M on consultants in struggling DOGE-inspired plan to cut waste
Gov. Gavin Newsom has paid upwards of $20 million to a consulting firm that employs his former cabinet secretary to eliminate wasteful spending — but the effort has come up well short of the goal as state lawmakers blasted the move.
Newsom — who signed an executive order to cut spending in the state, à la Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficienc is hitting roadblocks with the plan amid a multibillion-dollar state budget deficit.
California contracted with one of the world’s largest consulting firms, Boston Consulting Group, for up to $20 million in an effort to cut $2 billion in spending from the departments of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Social Services, and Health Care Services by the 2028-’29 fiscal year.
But the group — which hired former Newsom cabinet Secretary and Department of Finance Director Ana J. Matosantos — is now expected to only find $810 million in savings, according to legislative analysts.
That number may even go down later in May, analysts added, as indicated by the Newsom administration.
State lawmakers are scratching their heads over the miss.
“This whole Boston Consulting Group contract has me mystified,” Republican state Assemblymember Tom Lackey said during a Thursday legislative hearing, according to Politico.
Here are some Twitter/X reactions:
Spending 20 million to cut fraud sounds like fraud. https://t.co/nijg6T176T
— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) April 3, 2026
Lmfaoooo bro seeing his presidential chance slipping. https://t.co/WvqlQ90zdi
— WolfMan (@x_WolfMan_41) April 3, 2026
Another $20 mil down the toilet. https://t.co/SI1AVyvm7U
— Jeremy No Longer in PDX (@randomdudepdx) April 3, 2026
The call is coming from inside the house, Gav https://t.co/5SYRXs23ZE
— Chris Heatherly (@chrisheatherly) April 3, 2026
If Gavin Newsom really wants to cut wasteful spending, perhaps he could start by not paying consultants millions of dollars to tell him what should be cut. It’s a crazy idea that just might work.
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