Dr. Drew Pinsky criticized Senate impeachment manager Adam Schiff for being “asleep at the wheel” when it comes to California’s homeless crisis.
“I live in Adam Schiff’s district. He’s asleep at the wheel here,” Pinsky said during a Fox News interview while discussing the conditions in California and how to combat them.
“My God, if coronavirus were killing three people a day in our country, do you not think people would be in absolute outrage and panic?” he asked. “But for some reason, this mental health crisis that is homelessness, because people have mental illness and are living on our streets, somehow we step over them, and they die right in front of us.”
The homeless crisis Pinsky referenced continues to get worse despite the fact that California is one of the highest-taxed and biggest-spending states in the country.
The homeless population in California increased by 16.4% from 2018 to 2019, and 53% of all recorded homeless people in America lived in the Golden State as of January 2019, according to HUD. The poverty rate in California is one of the highest in the nation, and census figures show about 1 in 6 residents live in poverty.
Pinsky recently teased the idea of running for Schiff’s seat in Congress representing suburbs in northern Los Angeles.
“I wake up every day and drive through this town, and I am morally moved where I feel like I have to do something,” the Pasadena, California, native said earlier this month. “We have people literally dying in our streets.”
Pinsky told Fox & Friends that he is “categorically not running” for the seat.
