Newsom tries to bribe recall voters with Biden’s help

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With a recall election soon to be underway in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Joe Biden have come up with a solution: Just bribe state residents.

That is, effectively, what Newsom has moved forward with this week. The governor has proposed giving two-thirds of the state’s residents $600 as part of a stimulus check program. This is made possible, in part, because of Biden’s stimulus that will send about $26 billion to California, which is looking at a budget surplus of more than $75 billion.

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