26 posts from Saturday, August 30, 2025

We knew that something was going wrong with the homeless system in Los Angeles. So in May of last year, we had an audit. The court made this audit report public, and it really is damning. It shows the city and LASA are in complete disarray in terms of how they are managing the homeless services in Los Angeles. The auditors had such a difficult time getting information. They couldn't even figure out the total budget. They estimated that the amount of services that they were able to really review was about $2.3 billion. There's more, but they can't find it. They would ask about the city of Los Angeles budget and who they contract with, and all of those pointed to LASA, the Homelessness Coordinator for the region. The city has no real way to determine how much money they spend on homelessness services. And LASA has no way of holding a lot of these non-profit. They contract where accountable. Sometimes LASA pays for services without even contract. And these contracts aren't even detailed in terms of what the service was provided and for how many people. They have really poor financial oversight, and at the end of the day, they can't determine whether or not the services are being provided. If they're being provided more than once and billed more than once, the city is paying for empty beds. When people are going homeless on the streets, it really is a problem.

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And as we commemorate Labor Day this year, we finally have a president who fights and delivers for the American worker every single day. President Trump believes that American workers are the heart and soul of our economy and our national identity, which is why he's championed an agenda that puts them first always. For decades, the hardworking men and women of our country who built the greatest nation in world history were sold out by selfish, greedy, short-sighted globalists who put our country on a path to economic and cultural ruin. They hollowed out our factories in towns and betrayed the American working class by shipping jobs overseas and importing millions of low-wage migrants to replace American workers. Under President Trump, this national disgrace is over. American workers are, once again, being put at the center of national trade policy and the dignity of American labor is being defended. As a result, President Trump has already brought in nearly $10 trillion in new private and foreign investments so that the top businesses in the world can create high-paying jobs in America and hire American workers to fill them. In fact, since President Trump took office, the economy has added more than half a million new jobs to the workforce. In a stark reversal from the Biden administration, all of that job creation has been driven by private sector growth and all employment gains have gone to native-born Americans. Wages for blue-collar workers are now rising at the fastest rate in the past 60 years. And the average American worker has already seen a $500 wage increase this year alone. Thanks to the largest middle tax cuts ever signed into law by President Trump with no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, Americans in all 50 states will keep more of their hard-earned money. The average American taxpayer will see a tax cut of nearly $4,000 because of these pro-growth provisions, according to analysis from the Nonpartisan Tax Foundation.

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