Newsom meets with Trump Hollywood ambassador Jon Voight

Published June 6, 2025 1:03pm ET



Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) met with actor Jon Voight, President Donald Trump‘s Hollywood ambassador, on Thursday to discuss ways to revitalize the state’s fizzling film industry.

Ideas included a combination of federal tax credits and state tax code changes that would incentivize production companies, which have increasingly been moving their operations to other states and overseas, to come back to California, Politico reported. 

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